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

Very late to one of the last #TidyTuesday of 2025: The Languages of the World (Glottolog) Looking at linguistic diversity 🌍🌎🌏 Used this dataset to try out a personal theme package. Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #ggplot2 #DataViz #R4DS

# pretty slick l <- c(mpg = "Miles per gallon", wt = "Weight (1,000 lbs)", `mpg/2` = "yes this works") ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) + labs(dictionary = l) ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + labs(dictionary = l) ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg/2)) + labs(dictionary = l)

Good news everyone, _Nature_ has published 66 Open Access articles to date in 2026! This means Springer-Nature has gobbled up USD$837,540 of science funding this year. I'm sure we couldn't think of anything better to do with that money. #OpenScience

the number of people i know -- all of whom should know better -- who are doing exactly this

How can we decolonise Corpus Linguistics? Please share any good papers or tasks for an MA class.

Approached in Norwegian in the street. 30 seconds into the Norwegian conversation: Me: Wait, are you Swedish? Them: Yes, I am. Me: Well, I am too. Them: Oh so we're just two Swedes pretending to be Norwegian. 🤷

And now a dozen of accounts have been created for the only purpose of defending the retracted article. If you’re not happy with that retraction, write to the editor of the journal, not me. But yes I think it should never have been published in the first place

Just published "Negation in the worlds languages" (3 vols) edited by Matti Miestamo & Ljuba Veselinova with Héloïse Calame. #rcg #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #multimodality #digitalhumanities

You can specify relative position in ggplot with I(x) I(y). E.g. annotate("text", x = I(.5), y = I(.5), label = "hello!") will place the text in the middle of the plot. This, combined with alignment arguments is like 87% of the magic for me.

In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...

👀 New blog post! 👀 Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈 Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi... #DataViz #RStats

Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do. Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess I have a few predictions... 1/n

About 6 months ago, I got so tired of getting mostly AI(-adjacent) papers in my Google Scholar Alerts for "sign language", so I added a new filter excluding a few keywords to get more relevant #linguistics papers. Now I checked the difference between the two alerts, and there's an obvious pattern.

Any tutorials or resources on how to manually draw spatial objects (e.g. sf lines or polygons) that aren't present in the available data? #RStats #RSpatial

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 51 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring The Languages of the World! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-12-23 🗞️ https://glottolog.org/#TidyTuesday #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

New, improved, typo-free meme. That's what I get for making a meme when I'm behind on sleep with a sick kiddo at home. 🫠

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲 Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner. 🔵 no manual coordinates 🔵 inherits theme styling 🔵 scales nicely when resizing

Or as I often say: Friends don't let friends use abbreviations!

In their article "Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu", Jacqueline Iseli and Rachel McKee describe the sociolinguistic context of deaf people in Vanuatu who have limited opportunities to socialise together, and document signs used by 19 deaf adults across the country nzlingsoc.org/journal_arti...

New paper on lexical variation in Swedish Sign Language with Swedish colleagues. Using a combo of elicitation (in-person), survey (online) & corpus data, we look at some changes in lexical choices over time & discuss methods for measuring variation of variation #linguistics doi.org/10.16995/glo...

Yesterday I got to give a guest lecture in Dr. Hannah Lutzenberger's methods class at the Humboldt University of Berlin. It was great and I finally got to make use of this little figure from the methods chapter in my dissertation! I forgot I like explaining things #linguistics

Far down in Saloni's post, an example worthy of becoming a standard reference argument against extending the y-axis to zero (or showing full range)

Highly recommended for all mentors and advisers who work with deaf students in graduate programs: academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

The {qatarcars} dataset for #TidyTuesday How do the sizes of different car types relate to the dimensions of a standard parking space? 🅿️🚗🅿️🚙🅿️🛻🅿️🚙 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #ggplot2 #RStats #DataViz

This might be for an extremely limited target group, but if you ever need to visualize landmarks/keypoints of Mediapipe or OpenFace computer vision models, I've created simple coordinate data files for plotting in a Github repo: github.com/borstell/com...

I've always liked making bubbles in generative art 🫧🎨 #rtistry #ggplot2

Aurélia Nanna Gassa Gonga will present at the Silc Seminars next week, Thursday Dec 11th, at 14:30 Norway time on her PhD research - "International Sign Interpreting: New Evidence for a Language-Like System" Find more information here: www.hvl.no/en/research/... #linguistics

Reminder that it's the season for the objectively best bun in the world, Swedish saffron buns. Recipe: borstell.github.io/misc/saffron/

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

🚨 #EnvisionBOX alert 🚨 We are pleased to announce a virtual EnvisionBox Community Meeting, designed to bring together researchers who work with computational tools for processing, annotation, and analysis of multimodal data available on the EnvisionBox platform (and beyond). #multimodality

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.