As I show in my new preprint, #Bayesian statistics is no longer just a niche tool. It’s becoming mainstream in linguistics research. A survey of journal articles shows a rapid rise in Bayesian regression over the past five years. Why? #Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics doi.org/10.48550/arX...

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Yikes. I forgot Academia.e d u is still at it!

I wish I didn’t like it lol.

Honoured to have given a plenary lecture at the #SLE2025 conference in Bordeaux! I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena. 📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here: #linguistics

Can a study rightfully state its “effect is found ACROSS LANGUAGES” when it’s only two (in this case English and another well-studied one)? What’s the minimum? Serious question. #langsky #linguistics

We don’t need AI to solve questions like these, just logical thinking and basic programming skills. Great article! www.bigeatersushi.com/stop-getting...

Guys, I can't explain it but I think #SquidGameSeason3 ends with Scarlett Johansson playing a Korean man #SquidGame

Kids these days have poor file naming habits.

Over het fenomeen van 'kirakira' namen kirakira キラキラ betekent 'glitteren' en is een #ideofoon. #ideophone www.hln.be/buitenland/j...

Some reflections about the AI hype cult. #linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...

📢 We’re pleased to announce IcoLL2026: Joint conference of IcoSem and ILL (21–23 Feb., Nagoya U., Japan). The conference will feature invited talks by Dr. Mutsumi Imai, Dr. Noburo Saji, Dr. Pamela Perniss, and Dr. Neil Cohn. We look forward to welcoming you to Nagoya! 🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4

If a #deathnote randomly fell into my lap, I wouldn’t tell anyone. But there would be signs 🤭

Djeez. Word volwassen, verwend nest.

Going through @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social’s new book The AI con. Despite the aggressive marketing here (big turnoff) I’m in chapter 3 and it might be the most timely book I read this year🫰Insightful throughout Will formulate my thoughts after another AI writing workshop 😮‍💨😮‍💨

Day 6 of yeeting apps that suck up my attention off my phone (instagram, facebook, Reddit) and the withdrawal signs are lessening. My phone has become boring. Obviously bluesky could stay, as it hasn’t turned into an ever updating slot machine (yet).

Remember how I was happy to announce two papers were available open access and online?! Well, I was wrong. There is another. On Friday we learned about our paper in English Language and Linguistics (next skeet) 1/3

Things I did not have on my May 2025 fortune telling bingo card: my mom excitedly telling me abt using ChatGPT for the 1st time in her life, and it's for tarot readings and astrology 🔮✨✨ So I also tried it. Good news everybody. Even 4.5 "does not have access to a good astrological API". We're safe.

One day you go to sleep wondering what all this stochastic "chance of P occurring", with P being the chance of an honest die, is all about. And then one day you wake up 20 years later, eagerly looking forward to continuing watching videos about statistics on youtube. What are the actual odds? 🤯🧮

Two papers of mine got published online this week. Celebratory blogpost with some random thoughts. I'll link the two papers (both open access) below www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0... Please read and cite <3

Grellig… I actually encountered the issue @dingemansemark.bsky.social mentioned about the bibliography being removed from the chapter in question. Super inconvenient OUP! And totally unreasonable to not give authors offprints without their begging for it.

I'm loving the hypocrisy of telling authors they can't share PDFs of their work with anyone and then sharing ALL that work with OpenAI without the authors' permission. Publishers need us more than we need them in this era...

I finished @zevhandel.bsky.social's Chinese characters across Asia (2025) and it was great. What I wrote on goodreads: This is a great and accessible introduction to how Chinese characters work, how it evolved, and how Korean/Japanese/Vietnamese/Zhuang made them work for themselves. 1/4

Seems like a cool development!

Het zou niet slecht zijn als meer wetenschappers een toegankelijke versie van hun eindrapport de wereld instuurden. Misschien een ideetje om dit ook in Vlaanderen aan te moedigen (maar niet te verplichten)? #FWO @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

📢 new publication alert Bilinguals’ advantages in executive function: Learning phonotactics and alternation Curious to see what those advantages are? Check out Sze et al. (2025), now out in Second Language Research. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (Sze, Yu, Do, Van Hoey & Yu 2025)

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

This morning's reading: @kjhealy.co 2017 "fuck nuance", which I was led to by revisiting @bodowinter.bsky.social 2019. I find it 1 all very American and all to throw out nuance in favor of abstraction 2 necessary to do so to arrive at better and more robust theories What should we omit today? 🤣

Time for the kick off event of #LILI, the Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute Inaugural talk by @asliozyurek.bsky.social who reminded us how multimodal language actually is and how we may expect an increasing shift towards multimodal media in the future 🙌🙌 #LILI_KUL

Got this really nice mail from my former student at HKU, Suya Liang, who just got accepted into a PhD program. #WinOfTheDay

i've written a blog post about why I think we should reject generative AI in the university: languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai

Linguistic examples should not just be translated but also be glossed. What makes a good gloss? In the ELSEA project we created a 10min knowledge clip explaining interlinear glossing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATS...

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Reviewing a paper that includes some linguistic experiment and rather than including “nationality” or “L1 language” or something akin in the demographics it lists “ethnicity” [black, asian, white…] which I find, uhm, strange…

I totally missed hearing about the updated version of Zotero (from 6 to 7) with a new icon and sleeker design. That is, until now. www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-7/

Periodic reminder that #Wales, #Wallonia, #Gaul ( #Gallia ) etc. all share the same #etymology And that horum omnium fortissimi sunt #Belgae 🇧🇪

One of the big culinary innovations in Belgium is that mainstream supermarkets now offer dumplings 🥟

Happy New Year 🎉🎊

This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Typologist: It’s my strategy for relativization.

Another time, a colloquium speaker explained what p values are to him (important info: Bill ... brought stats to the field, so ... he def knew what a p value was) Bill: I've heard of it

✨SLE workshop - "Isomorphism and Optionality in Language" With Cameron Morin, our workshop proposal for SLE 2025 has just been accepted! 📢 Submit your abstracts before January 15th. (Submission details: societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/thir...) 📜 Full workshop description:

I made a starter pack of Iconicity Researchers! Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added! go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC

Happy to have presented about the #PrincipleOfOptionality and #ProbabilisticCueing at the #CogLing days #BeNeCLA at the UAntwerpen and indeed keep the conversation going about isomorphism vs/with variationist approaches (@benoitleclercq.bsky.social and Morin) Work together w/ Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

“Mostly phonological” -> only phonological Which is one reason why pokemonastics, as it’s currently done, is not representative of how natural language works🤷‍♂️

I just realized I’ve been ending mails with “have a nice weekend” today. It’s Wednesday 🤦‍♂️

A student stayed after class to give me the most amazing gift basket of homemade goodies, including these magnets. I LOVE them. We could totally sell these as merch at NWAV, Sociolinguistics Symposium, etc.

De studenten van Kring Babylon (T&L) hebben een aantal woorden van ratings voorzien 🤣 Zeer accuraat.

My first ever journal paper! Terrified but so excited to see it in print. This is for the underdogs: Batanic langs & oblique case. Turns out the oblique does more and the locative does less than we think! Happy to bring Batanic to the fore of Austronesian linguistics! doi.org/10.1515/stuf... (DM 📄)