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...

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

📢 #CallforPapers out 🤩 🔗 uit.no/tavla/artikk...

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: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Finding out how round my cat is using #RStats Spoiler: Extremely round github.com/borstell/rou... #DataBS 🐈‍⬛🐱⚫️🔘

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!

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

What's in a name? Sometimes an indicator of where you're from! UK Baby Names for #TidyTuesday #DataViz #ggplot2

I never got why people seemed to need so much storage on their phones. Then I got a cat.

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. 👇

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

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... #quarto

Getting nerd-sniped when you see an awful #DataViz and you *have to* remake it

Next week's #TidyTuesday on films based on video games 📽🎬🎮🕹📺 Maybe we've passed the peak of the 2010s? #DataViz #ggplot2

Pride flags with #ggplot2 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ github.com/borstell/pride

Current #DataViz pet peeve: Angled axis text, especially when the labels would clearly fit horizontally under the axis 📊

Hill I will die on: The default font size on all ggplot graphs is too small.

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?

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.

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/

🥳 #RStats

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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...