A worthy mantra from Andrew: "[I] cannot LLM [my] way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability."

Taking to my vet just now I realized vets : pets :: linguists : languages. Vets often have lots of pets because they like pets and that’s why they became vets. But having a bunch of pets isn’t what makes you a vet.

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

*please share widely* My department (Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) is hiring a corpus linguist who conducts research on second languages. Great place to teach (2/2 load) and do research! See link for more details: go.hawaii.edu/mGc

New in corpus building tools: the NPR Corpus Builder, which lets you search NPR content and download pre-formatted files, ready to import into your choice of corpus analysis software. corpustools.prendrelangue.fr/nprcorpusbui... #linguistics

We’re excited to announce that the session catalog for posit::conf(2025) has launched! View 100+ talks, sort by day and type, and add favorites to your schedule: reg.rainfocus.com/flow/posit/p... Our Early Bird discount is still available. Get your ticket today! #RStats #Python #PositConf2025

The Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of Spoken American English (LANA-CASE) is featured in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @theguardian.com

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Excited that my article with Paula Winke has been published today in Studies in Second Language Acquisition! In this study we examined the relationship between non-language specialists' estimates of L2 language ability and perceived affect. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hey friends who work at SLACs and PUIs! I am on a working group to examine course releases and workloads. Would any of you be able to direct me to resources on how your institution measures workload and/or computes releases? Thanks!

Deadline extended until Jan 31!

Meet the Vocabulary List Generator (VLG), a free digital tool that can be easily used by practitioners and researchers to create vocabulary lists. The VLG takes into account frequency together with the latest dispersion measures. doi.org/10.1016/j.rm...

Daniel beat me to it, but yes, snow in Atlanta!!! 🙂

Bill Labov, an absolute titan of linguists, died yesterday at 97. He virtually invented the field of sociolinguistics, and then was its leading light for many decades.

Looking forward to this—and not having to travel for it!

🗣💬 Major update: the corpus collection tool BlueskyScraper now comes with a live stream module which lets you collect posts in real time, either randomly or through filters, then download the results as a file in the format of your choice. 🔗 Info: fmoncomble.github.io/blueskyscrap...

Every academic right now

📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025: uclouvain.be/en/research-...

Check out our latest blog post by @jesse-egbert.bsky.social titled "(Zipf's) Law and (Rank) Order". linguisticswithacorpus.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/z...

Optimist: glass half full Pessimist: glass half empty Corpus Linguist: Which word most frequently appears in the phrase "glass half *"?

Doing a Meta-Analysis? Visualize it with JASP. Our new release is coming soon.

I've created an Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies starter pack for new BlueSky users (I credit @danielrisbell.bsky.social for the idea). Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added to or removed from the list! go.bsky.app/VZPgwMD