I'm please to celebrate that legendry 0.3.0 has hit the streets on CRAN 🎉 Legendry is a ggplot2 extension that lets you draw more guides. Read about all the guide goodness in this minor update here: teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl... #rstats #ggplot2

Some reflections on frequently unasked questions about stochastic parrots (the phrase and the paper): medium.com/@emilymenonb...

Open access: Sign language ideologies in deaf education in Trinidad and Tobago @researchtmu.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl...

Twinned (or, sister) cities in this week's #TidyTuesday I did not know that most of them are fairly close to each other. However, some are so far away from each other that I'm assuming they were intentional antipodal links 🌎🌍🌏🏘🤝🏘 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #R4DS #ggplot2 #RStats #DataViz

And now the full 2026 proceedings have been published! www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/26....

Just weeks ago, our university informed us that they will move from our locally hosted lite version of Canvas to the premium cloud version next year. But now we may be the only university in Norway to not really be affected by recent events.

My current position will be coming to a close at the end of 2026, so I’m beginning to explore next steps. I’m a postdoctoral researcher at UCL working at the intersection of language, cognition, and multimodal communication. 1/4 👇

Is there an undergraduate textbook in sociolinguistics that does not assume any background in linguistics? Bonus if it is not anglo-centric or focused on British dialectology EXTRA bonus if it includes things like homework exercises. #linguistics

"anecdotal" is a word I think I've always said correctly out loud, but *never* managed to type correctly on a keyboard on the first try. anectodal, ancedotal, anectodla, ...

paper out, hope it's useful doi.org/10.1017/S009... #linguistics

😍 %notin% #RStats

3. You need a readership "theory of mind": what does your reader need to know to understand your point? What can you assume, given the journal and its mission? Are you presenting information and rolling out your argument in the way that a reader can follow and evaluate?

If you are doing any #quarto slidecrafting, i have been trying really hard to keep this page updated with everything I have done emilhvitfeldt.com/project/slid...

In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers. 🧵

And a very happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes to all who observe

The campus bookstore is changing owners, hence putting their entire stock on sale. I got this haul of #linguistics book for 18€ (original price was 500€).

💡New publication💡 In our new paper in Behavior Research Methods, we validated and demonstrated the utility of dynamic time warping (DTW) as an efficient, continuous measure of gesture form similarity. Read the full (open access!) paper here: 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN: {readelan} A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps? More info here: borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/

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I love how little code is needed to make this from a video, using MediaPipe pose estimation into #ggplot2 #ggforce and #gganimate

how I feel when open science initiatives choose to publish in Nature

OK so how long should one wait for a CRAN submission email confirmation before contacting their admin? #RStats Submitted with devtools::submit_cran() like 30 mins ago.

New Paper with Tongpan Rabo Fwangwar, titled "Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul". All tonally derived verbs in Mwaghavul have ideophonic bases and are derived through one of two lexically determined alternations. doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Why is working with XML in #RStats so hard 😭

Dance like someone's watching

1 million decimals of pi #TidyTuesday Polar coordinates of each digit as ordered tiles, digit value corresponding to color 🟡🌞 #R4DS #DataViz #ggplot2 Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

Sharing a PhD opportunity at Stockholm University for those interested in Romance languages and sociolinguistics. Great fit for scholars working at the intersection of linguistics and social analysis. #AcademicJobs #sociology linguistlist.org/issues/37/1161/?utm_source=dlv...

One of my favorite #linguistics conferences, the LREC sign language workshop, has just released their list of accepted papers to the 2026 edition: www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2026/pro... Image below shows the most frequent words in the paper titles.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The fee to publish an open access paper at Trends in Cognitive Science is now over $7,000. Seriously, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social ??? For a 4,000 word piece? Talk about a broken system.

Whoever designed the recommendation letter forms that make the assumption that I categorize my students into percentiles of how they rank among all students I've ever taught: I rank you in the bottom 1% of all survey designers.

Random walk #Rtistry with #ggplot2

Computational Papers (CPs) are always Annoying To Read (ATR) because of their Extensive Use of Abbreviations (EUA). After Some Time (AST) reading a CP, there are No Words (NW) left TR due to the EUA, and I Almost Give Up On Even Trying (IAGUOET) TR the CP because it is so ATR any text with EUA.

Going very minimal for this week's #TidyTuesday looking at judged likelihood of likelihood-expressing phrases in English. Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #R4DS #ggplot2 #DataViz

Big math the size of a small math

𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻: 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗪𝟮) An exciting opportunity for outstanding researchers ready to lead an independent research group and shape the future of multimodal language research. Learn more and apply here: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Teaching about distributions on your birthday and asking your students to (anonymously) guess your age as an in-class activity. Apparently I'm approximately this old:

Does anyone know a copy editor who specializes in editing phonetics and phonology paper? I need their service. I don't want to pay any company #linguistics #language #phonology

Signed language linguists, what sign do you use for argument when you’re talking about argument structure? There isn’t a specific sign in Norwegian SL, so would love your thoughts 🙏

What a year, huh? Captain, it's February

What a year, huh? Captain, it's February

Are there any best practices in #RStats package development for: (a) letting a file-reading function accept either a single file or directory input and reading iteratively/recursively in the latter? (b) writing a separate wrapper that reads files iteratively/recursively?

Are there any best practices in #RStats package development for: (a) letting a file-reading function accept either a single file or directory input and reading iteratively/recursively in the latter? (b) writing a separate wrapper that reads files iteratively/recursively?

|> as_tibble() #RStats

✅️ 🐋 have vowels ✅️ 🐣 have bouba/Kiki prefs ❓️ 🫎 pass Wug test ❓️ 🦙 do center embedding ❓️ 🐌 experience garden paths #linguistics

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How do sighs, gasps and laughter regulate the way we speak? Prof Richard Ogden has received AHRC and DFG funding for a new project, 'Brevit'. The team will use respiratory technology to analyse breathing behaviour in conversation. Read more: www.york.ac.uk/langu... #langsky