Calle Börstell
@cborstell.bsky.social
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Linguist at the University of Bergen 🇳🇴
#SignLanguages
,
#linguistics
,
#RStats
&
#dataviz
Why is working with XML in
#RStats
so hard 😭
about 1 hour ago
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Dance like someone's watching
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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:
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Tyler Horan
9 days ago
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
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One of my favorite
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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.
10 days ago
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Darren Dahly
12 days ago
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....
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Jenny Saffran
12 days ago
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.
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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.
14 days ago
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Random walk
#Rtistry
with
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15 days ago
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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.
18 days ago
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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
19 days ago
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
19 days ago
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Big math the size of a small math
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21 days ago
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
21 days ago
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...
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Kieran Healy
25 days ago
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”:
socviz.co
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Data Visualization
A Practical Introduction
https://socviz.co
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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:
26 days ago
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Samuel Akinbo
27 days ago
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
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Brittany Arnold
27 days ago
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 🙏
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What a year, huh? Captain, it's February
about 1 month ago
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What a year, huh? Captain, it's February
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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?
about 1 month ago
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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?
about 1 month ago
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|> as_tibble()
#RStats
about 1 month ago
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✅️ 🐋 have vowels ✅️ 🐣 have bouba/Kiki prefs ❓️ 🫎 pass Wug test ❓️ 🦙 do center embedding ❓️ 🐌 experience garden paths
#linguistics
about 1 month ago
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David Barner
about 1 month ago
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/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2535585123
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Language and Linguistic Science @ UoY
about 1 month ago
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
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madeline odent
about 1 month ago
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
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👉 Optimality Theory 👉🥌 🇨🇦Optimality Theory🇨🇦
#linguistics
about 1 month ago
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Sheep to people ratio in Aotearoa/NZ for
#TidyTuesday
🐑:👤 🇳🇿🌿
#R4DS
#DataViz
#ggplot2
Code:
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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...
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Rethinking linguistic feedback: A modality-agnostic and holistic approach to multimodal addressee signals in spoken and signed dyadic interaction
In this paper, we investigate multimodal recipient feedback in casual dyadic conversation in four languages: German Sign Language, Russian Sign Language, spoken German, and spoken Russian. Taking a mo...
https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.18539
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Roses are red, violets are blue, I should stop writing T and just spell out TRUE
#RStats
about 1 month ago
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Claus Wilke
about 1 month ago
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-...
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
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Kate McKean
about 2 months ago
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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Teaching with a migraine = saying "microwave" instead of "microphone". Twice.
about 2 months ago
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Philipp Krämer
about 2 months ago
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.
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Creole onomastics
Abstract This article examines naming practices in creole languages and in scholarly discourse, addressing names in and for creole languages. It asks what constitutes a ‘creole name’, how the input la...
https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jpcl.26003.kra
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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 👄👂🏻
about 2 months ago
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Leon 🌟
about 2 months ago
This chatgpt conversation could have been a lake
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Erik Angner
about 2 months ago
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
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Utvisning av 18-åringar gör Sverige mindre attraktivt för toppforskare
Problemet att de som fyllt 18 år förväntas stå på egna ben och därmed utvisas även om deras föräldrar har …
https://sulf.se/nyhet/utvisning-av-18-aringar-gor-sverige-mindre-attraktivt-for-toppforskare/
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Linguist List
about 2 months ago
Confs: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages at LREC 2026
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Confs: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages at LREC 2026
Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/signlang2026/ Submissions are invited for a full day workshop on sign language resources and technologies, to take place on 16 May 2026 as a satellite event of LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. As in the previous four years, the workshop will be a hybrid event. During the past years, a number of large-scale sign language corpus projects have started. Some have already been completed, but many more projects are about to start. At the same
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Felicia Bisnath
about 2 months ago
using LLMs to write texts is so unfathomable to me bcs writing is sooo incredibly personal for me
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Linguist List
about 2 months ago
All: Obituary for Charlotte Gooskens (1962-2026)
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All: Obituary for Charlotte Gooskens (1962-2026)
[English below] Det er med tungt hjerte at vi deler at bautaen i forskning på språkforståelse, Charlotte Gooskens, gikk bort i helgen. Stille vann har dypest grunn sies det og Charlotte var aldri den som ropte høyest, men alltid den som kom med flest tilbakemeldinger. Vi som har haft lyckan att ha Charlotte som nära kollega har fått ovärderlig hjälp med allt vi har skrivit och allt vi har byggt. Med sin passion för forskning och sin outtömliga expertis inom fonetik, sociolingvistik, exper
http://dlvr.it/TQlzLp
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Just used `filter_out()` in
#RStats
#dplyr
for the first time 🤯
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about 2 months ago
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Davis Vaughan
about 2 months ago
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...
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dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
https://tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02/dplyr-1-2-0/
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Simon J. Greenhill
about 2 months ago
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.
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Stephen Turner
about 2 months ago
dplyr 1.2.0 release notes: replace_values() , recode_values() , replace_when() , filter_out()
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
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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
about 2 months ago
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Greg Woodin
about 2 months ago
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...
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Gareth Roberts
about 2 months ago
TL;DR: Stop saying that Welsh experienced a revival! If didn't. It was better than that. 10/10
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