Calle Börstell
@cborstell.bsky.social
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Linguist at the University of Bergen 🇳🇴
#SignLanguages
,
#linguistics
,
#RStats
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#dataviz
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about 18 hours ago
Public service announcement: Tieu, Lyn & Vera, Gabriel Martínez. 2026. Passing the torch. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1). pp. 1–3. DOI:
doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Passing the torch
Johan Rooryck is stepping down as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, having served two consecutive terms as Editor-in-Chief for a total of 10 years. The members of the edi...
https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.30151
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There are six word sequences in Pope Leo's encyclical that could be read to the TMNT tune. Here are four of them. 🐢⚔️💢💥 Code:
github.com/borstell/tid...
#DataViz
#ggplot2
#TidyTuesday
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning
7 days ago
📢
#CallforPapers
out 🤩 🔗
uit.no/tavla/artikk...
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Conference on Language, Brain & Learning | UiT
The 1st International Conference on Language, Brain, and Learning: Effects of Multilingualism is dedicated to advancing integrative and interdisciplinary research on multilingualism.
https://uit.no/tavla/artikkel/931267/conference_on_language_brain_learning?p_document_id=931267
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Tiffany Timbers
14 days ago
In case you missed it last week,
@minecr.bsky.social
any my paper on "Ten simple rules for teaching data science" is now out in
@plos.org
Computational Biology:
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Ten simple rules for teaching data science
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014338
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Finding out how round my cat is using
#RStats
Spoiler: Extremely round
github.com/borstell/rou...
#DataBS
🐈⬛🐱⚫️🔘
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samuel mehr
12 days ago
Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!
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Petra Korlević
16 days ago
I do wonder if bumbles dream, because she does have this peculiar little leg twitch even when i was looking at her sleep on my hand
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What's in a name? Sometimes an indicator of where you're from! UK Baby Names for
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16 days ago
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I never got why people seemed to need so much storage on their phones. Then I got a cat.
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Michael Okun
21 days ago
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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Lol typologists so reluctant to citing sign language research that they when they do refer to sign language findings, the only reference is to a non-sign language paper mentioning sign language work
21 days ago
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Emil Hvitfeldt
22 days ago
If you want to keep updated with all the quarto work that I do, then the best place is properly this page on my website that I try to keep as up to date as I possibly can! It contains links to all my quarto repos, talks, themes, extensions, books and more
emilhvitfeldt.com/project/slid...
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22 days ago
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Getting nerd-sniped when you see an awful
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and you *have to* remake it
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Next week's
#TidyTuesday
on films based on video games 📽🎬🎮🕹📺 Maybe we've passed the peak of the 2010s?
#DataViz
#ggplot2
28 days ago
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Pride flags with
#ggplot2
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
github.com/borstell/pride
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Current
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pet peeve: Angled axis text, especially when the labels would clearly fit horizontally under the axis 📊
11 months ago
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CG Partridge
about 1 month ago
Hill I will die on: The default font size on all ggplot graphs is too small.
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What is the thing to do/eat/see if one has 24 hrs to spare in Edinburgh 🏴 and one has already done Holyrood on a previous visit?
about 1 month ago
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Aren't universities pretty amazing? I can literally walk to a nearby building and just ask a literal expert about a topic I know next to nothing about.
about 1 month ago
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Teun van den Brand
about 2 months ago
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
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Symbolic update – Blog | Teun van den Brand
The latest and greatest in guide fashion.
https://teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_blog/posts/2026-05-12-legendry-0-3-0/
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Emily M. Bender
about 2 months ago
Some reflections on frequently unasked questions about stochastic parrots (the phrase and the paper):
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
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Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions
It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11
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Kristin Snoddon (she/her)
about 2 months ago
Open access: Sign language ideologies in deaf education in Trinidad and Tobago
@researchtmu.bsky.social
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Sign language ideologies in deaf education in Trinidad and Tobago
Abstract. This paper, representing a multilingual Global South–Global North deaf research collaboration, reports and critically analyzes findings from inte
https://academic.oup.com/jdsde/article/doi/10.1093/jdsade/enag018/8675782
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Twinned (or, sister) cities in this week's
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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
about 2 months ago
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And now the full 2026 proceedings have been published!
www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/26....
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about 2 months ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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Greg Woodin
about 2 months ago
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 👇
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Christian DiCanio
2 months ago
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.
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"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, ...
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Kirby Conrod
2 months ago
paper out, hope it's useful
doi.org/10.1017/S009...
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Enhancing linguistic research through critical use of race and ethnicity information | Language | Cambridge Core
Enhancing linguistic research through critical use of race and ethnicity information
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0097850726000093
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2 months ago
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Diachronica journal
2 months ago
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?
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Emil Hvitfeldt
2 months ago
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...
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Olli Silvennoinen
3 months ago
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. 🧵
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ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage
Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/15/chatgpt-stylistic-quirk-its-not-x-its-y
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.
3 months ago
And a very happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes to all who observe
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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€).
3 months ago
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Sho Akamine
3 months ago
💡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...
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📦 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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3 months ago
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I love a progress bar |==========------|
3 months ago
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I love how little code is needed to make this from a video, using MediaPipe pose estimation into
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#ggforce
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3 months ago
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
3 months ago
how I feel when open science initiatives choose to publish in Nature
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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.
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Samuel Akinbo
3 months 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...
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Why is working with XML in
#RStats
so hard 😭
3 months ago
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Dance like someone's watching
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3 months ago
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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...
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