Come do a PhD with Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and myself at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, in collaboration with our colleague @matthuntgardner.bsky.social! Details in the link. Feel free to spread to interested parties. www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Back from Japan where I got to present at the Iconicity conference (#IcoLL) and the Hokkaido linguistics workshop (#Hokugen) You can read all about it here! www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2026-0...

Omgs @lingucat.bsky.social that’s very nice of you to say!! Hope I can see your slidecraft somewhere soon!!

Day three of #IcoLL In the blink of an eye it’s already over. Here’s Pamela Perniss during the final keynote.

Day two of #IcoLL. It follows a great first day. Today is cat day in Japan because it’s ninini ににに, reminiscent of the onomatopoeia for cat cry nyaaa にゃー

Opening of #IcoLL, *the* conference on iconicity in language and literature. Looking forward to sharing and learning much. And of course reconnecting with and meeting new scholars. And all of this in Nagoya, Japan! #ILL26 #IcoSem26 #IcoLL26

Huh? It's 2026 and I can't snap my line to a corner of a square in powerpoint? Make it make sense. #ppt #powerpoint #whatsthepoint Also, the world is quite dreary so find your pockets of goodness and cultivate them.

IPA is a magic spell that makes anyone who can read IPA make the noises with their mouth

This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents). uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...

It's here! Read my #AcademiaWrapped at your own peril! It's funny, I promise. #AcademiaWrapped2025 www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-1...

After passing through the focus group, here is the next exciting installment of my blog: Sunsets, spreadsheets, and languishing leaves. Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy! www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...

The real magic is ✨️regex✨️

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 🥟