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...

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

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

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

👉 Optimality Theory 👉🥌 🇨🇦Optimality Theory🇨🇦 #linguistics

Sheep to people ratio in Aotearoa/NZ for #TidyTuesday 🐑:👤 🇳🇿🌿 #R4DS #DataViz #ggplot2 Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

Bauer, A. & Gipper, S. & Herrmann, T.-A. & Hosemann, J.. 2026. Rethinking linguistic feedback: A modality-agnostic and holistic approach to multimodal addressee signals in spoken and signed dyadic interaction. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–50. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...

Roses are red, violets are blue, I should stop writing T and just spell out TRUE #RStats

AI agent goes nuts on open source maintainer after having its pull request denied. This is a pretty insane story. Open source development as we've been used to for the last few decades is likely over. 1/ theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Teaching with a migraine = saying "microwave" instead of "microphone". Twice.

Have you ever wondered what "Creole onomastics" could be (about)? Probably you haven't - but we have, so here is an article. This will also be the introduction to a special issue of JPCL on names and naming. Some of the papers have been pre-published already, the full volume will be available soon.

2026 Winter Olympics for #TidyTuesday Which disciplines have the most medal events, and are they on ice or snow? 🧊❄️🏒⛷️🏂⛸️🛷 Weirdly tall plot for curling feel 🥌🎯 #R4DS #DataViz #ggplot2 Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

I feel like it's important to teach linguistic lore. My class on transcription and annotation tools includes a mention of the outrage sparked by the updated Praat logo 👄👂🏻

This chatgpt conversation could have been a lake

If you're a foreign professor in Sweden, the gov't will expel your children when they turn 18, even if you have permanent residency: sulf.se/nyhet/utvisn... via @sulf-union.bsky.social

Confs: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages at LREC 2026

using LLMs to write texts is so unfathomable to me bcs writing is sooo incredibly personal for me

All: Obituary for Charlotte Gooskens (1962-2026)

Just used `filter_out()` in #RStats #dplyr for the first time 🤯

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Almost as good as my rule of thumb: has anyone you know ever written anything in it you want to cite? If not, then it’s not the Journal for you.

dplyr 1.2.0 release notes: replace_values() , recode_values() , replace_when() , filter_out() cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #Rstats

Four years(!) after the chapter was originally written, the official publication is now live (pre-print has been out for some time though): doi.org/10.1093/oxfo... How can plurality be expressed with iconic forms across different modalities of human languaging? #linguistics

Our paper (w/ @bodowinter.bsky.social and @mperlman.bsky.social) is finally out, officially 🥳. In it, we set ourselves the lofty goal of defining iconicity, focusing on its subjectivity, context-dependence, and gradability. Let us know if you agree with our definition? 🤔 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

TL;DR: Stop saying that Welsh experienced a revival! If didn't. It was better than that. 10/10