Trying to listen to podcasts while running to make running less horribly boring 🙏🏽

I will never not be surprised by how long all research things take

Hei! Jeg ser etter norsktalere som vil gjøre et eksperiment 🔎. Du vil se bilder og norske ord og si om de er like eller ikke. Eksperimentet tar 10 minutter og du må gjøre det på PC/nettbrett. Velg ett eksperiment og del med andre nordmenn! 🔎 1: tinyurl.com/forsk1 🔎 2: tinyurl.com/forsk2 #norsk

library(ggplot2) ggplot() + geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+ geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+ annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) + ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+ theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint") #RStats #ggplot2

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some fonts really stress me out

The current government in Trinidad & Tobago is all in with the US on this

cleaning my code by breaking my code 😡

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

deadmau5 anonymisation is my fav

New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling.... Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼 #linguistics

🚀 My latest article, entitled "Discourse Markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) Dialogues and Their Translation into French: A Corpus-Based Study", has been recently published open access! 🌍 doi.org/10.3390/lang... 🧵 1/4

list of things that are fulfilling to me: lifting weights, looking at cats exist, bottle-feeding tiny baby puppies

I'm not learning important things in Norwegian class, like the vocabulary to respond to kind ladies who compliment my shoes (they're semi-chunky red patent square-toe loafers that deserve all the praise)

I feel like I should not apply to temporary positions that ask for way too many novel materials on principle

I'm just one year past my PhD and I already feel so tired when I think about applying for things

one of my fav things is when academics send me photos of their vacay, pets etc. in work e-mails

On Oct 23rd 2025 at 14:30 CET Marianthi Koraka (Georg-August-Universität ) will present on imperatives in German Sign Language and Greek Sign Language at the Silc Seminars. English-Norwegian SL interpreting available. E-mail me to get on the mailing list www.hvl.no/en/research/... #linguistics

I really want to like running but I really hate it

Back to the roots, both for me and for the field: there is still a lot to be said about 19th century creolistics and its fundamental coloniality. Proposals may cover any Creole language in the world; articles can be in various languages, including (and particularly welcome) in French-based Creoles.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features. Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

sometimes I enjoy writing dry ass formulaic prose

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

I've been scheduling little virtual 10 min-ish hellos with my buddies in other countries during our workdays and it's actually a very nice way to keep in casual contact

I really wish groups would stop using Facebook as their only means of sharing information

It's the #InternationalDayOfSignLanguages! The GIF below shows a commonly used international sign for 'sign language'. But is there only a single, universal sign language? Of course not, there are many! #Linguistics

Me trying to lure people into doing my experiment at Døves Kulturdager in Trondheim with stickers and candy. I also made my own stickers for the first time! The hands are meant to look like the Norwegian Sign Language sign for tegnsopråk (sign language)

I lost some code and I am very sad

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I’m so close to becoming a person who walks around with hot sauce

I think eating mushy foods with a fork helps me to not feel grossed out by said mushy food. As a tiny spoon believer i.e. someone who may be too picky about utensils, I should have thought to try this sooner!

A totally valid question I’ve been getting is “why Norway?” I guess it’s bcs Trinidad is so far from Norway, but it feels like a weird question to me bcs I don’t feel like I have a choice in where I live in trying to do academia

My poster today for signcafe

one of my biggest problems speaking Norwegian in the wild is my reaction time is sooooo slow

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

New people are signing our open letter almost everyday, and it is so heartening to see. Especially good to see familiar names sign. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨 The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 15 October 2025

I'm going to launch my lil experiment at the deaf culture days this weekend in Trondheim and I'm scared of something breaking and everything being ruined forever

best pie: strawberry-rhubarb best ice cream: salted licorice best donut: plain sugar best bar: Yogurette best cake: carrot best other: rasgulla, amaretti, macarón, so many!

does anyone have strong opinions about randomising vs. pseudorandomising stimuli? #linguistics

Our paper is finally out online! Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #linguistics

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

half of my job is making notes for my future self

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

Are you interested in trans issues and identify as trans? Do you want to help improve health care for trans people? Have you not received psychological therapy from a mental health professional? If so, please consider taking part in this research project tinyurl.com/4sw9mryy #TransResearch

I talked to an NTS signer today about changing the location of signs to make them phonologically wrong -- some of the ones we were thinking of articulating higher didn't have that effect bcs ofc people are used to some modifications bcs they're signing on video calls #linguistics

If you'd like to attend the Sign Language Contact Variation and Change conference on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 August (this week!) make sure you have registered here! The Zoom link (including interpretation into English) will be sent to those who have registered. sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...

Want to know more about the Family ASL project? Check out our new paper “Language and Cognitive Development in Bimodal Bilingual Deaf Children in Hearing Families: Three Case Studies.” It’s part of a special issue on Lang & Cog Dev in Deaf Children www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...