Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Linguist: What even is a cup, exactly

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3w ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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I don’t have an answer but a colleague of mine showed me hallucinated (made up and undesirable) references that affected my work as it appeared at a conference presentation… No one is safe. And hey chat, wtf are Arne Van Hoey and Ma Ruiqi?

bastian bunzeck@bbunzeck.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Serious question: I found an ACL 2026 paper with clearly hallucinated references (my first name and those of two co-authors are wrong, and there are other refs that are also affected) — what should I do?

Deadline for Cogling Days 2026 at KU Leuven has been extended to 10 July. Instructions can be found in the call. We are particularly interested in presentations that deal with the role of MEANING in language variation and change. See you in December! linguistlist.org/issues/37/20...

LINGUIST List 37.2043 Confs: CogLing Days 2026 (Belgium)

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Thank you @emilymbender.bsky.social and Nanna Inie! So many great alts to anthropomorphism in this piece! buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Such a privilege to interview Kimi Akita for SKASE about his long career researching #ideophones! Kimi's conducted some of the most fascinating and insightful work in the field, which he continues to lead into exciting new directions. Ideophone enthusiasts, read here! www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL6...

Are things like “zombie Lingua” and Elsevier shunning still holding up in this day and age? #AskAcademia #AcademicChatter #linguistics #langsky @dingemansemark.bsky.social

@samueljbeer.bsky.social showed us the problems that even a single 107-word wordlist can bring , how to contextualize it, and how to recontextualize it. It’s worth it to halt and break your head for a while over a small detail like a punctuation mark. #dilegma3

Discussion on Legacy Materials 3 Group pic #DiLegMa3

I always try to wear my most ideophonic shirt when presenting about ideophones. By the way #DiLegMa3 is a great conference! Can’t wait what today brings but check out @samueljbeer.bsky.social ‘s overview for what the first day was all about.

SamuelJBeer@samueljbeer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@simazhi.bsky.social (Leuven) “Augmenting dictionaries and wordlists to compare the semantics of ideophone systems”. van Hoey presents the logistics of constructing a database of ideophones. #DiLegMa3 (1/2)

Plenair praatje van Jacqueline Klooster bij de #KZM (Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis) Ik heb haar boek over *Medusa* gelezen en vond het echt goed.

The gods of academic publishing have been kind to us with two recent publications (in Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads 2025 [2026]; and in Language Variation and Change 2026). Here is a short reflection about them. Let me know what you think! www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2026-0...

Come do a PhD with Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and myself at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, in collaboration with our colleague @matthuntgardner.bsky.social! Details in the link. Feel free to spread to interested parties. www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Predoctoral researcher: linguistics

The research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL) at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Leuven is looking to hire a salaried predoctoral researcher and PhD ...

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Back from Japan where I got to present at the Iconicity conference (#IcoLL) and the Hokkaido linguistics workshop (#Hokugen) You can read all about it here! www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2026-0...

Omgs @lingucat.bsky.social that’s very nice of you to say!! Hope I can see your slidecraft somewhere soon!!

Katja Politt@lingucat.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Prepping my class on linguistic extravagance for this upcoming term and I'm channeling my inner @simazhi.bsky.social for the intro slides

Day three of #IcoLL In the blink of an eye it’s already over. Here’s Pamela Perniss during the final keynote.

Day two of #IcoLL. It follows a great first day. Today is cat day in Japan because it’s ninini ににに, reminiscent of the onomatopoeia for cat cry nyaaa にゃー

Opening of #IcoLL, *the* conference on iconicity in language and literature. Looking forward to sharing and learning much. And of course reconnecting with and meeting new scholars. And all of this in Nagoya, Japan! #ILL26 #IcoSem26 #IcoLL26

Huh? It's 2026 and I can't snap my line to a corner of a square in powerpoint? Make it make sense. #ppt #powerpoint #whatsthepoint Also, the world is quite dreary so find your pockets of goodness and cultivate them.

IPA is a magic spell that makes anyone who can read IPA make the noises with their mouth

This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents). uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...

Mark Dingemanse@markdingemanse.net · 8mo ago

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...

It's here! Read my #AcademiaWrapped at your own peril! It's funny, I promise. #AcademiaWrapped2025 www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-1...

After passing through the focus group, here is the next exciting installment of my blog: Sunsets, spreadsheets, and languishing leaves. Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy! www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...

The real magic is ✨️regex✨️

As I show in my new preprint, #Bayesian statistics is no longer just a niche tool. It’s becoming mainstream in linguistics research. A survey of journal articles shows a rapid rise in Bayesian regression over the past five years. Why? #Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics doi.org/10.48550/arX...

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Yikes. I forgot Academia.e d u is still at it!

I wish I didn’t like it lol.

@gagechristian.bsky.social · last yr.

(u/vivshaw) #labubu #linguistics

Honoured to have given a plenary lecture at the #SLE2025 conference in Bordeaux! I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena. 📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here: #linguistics

Societas Linguistica Europaea - 58th Annual Meeting26-29 August 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne

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Can a study rightfully state its “effect is found ACROSS LANGUAGES” when it’s only two (in this case English and another well-studied one)? What’s the minimum? Serious question. #langsky #linguistics