It was an early morning start for me as a volunteer at the Music Summer School Festival in Norfolk as I was on breakfast duty. Now in the choir rehearsal: wish us luck for the Gloria from Bach’s Mass in F minor! mssf.org.uk #EarlyMusic

#FensterFreitag

Re: Out of office

Just submitted my first ever proper preprint to MetaArXiv! Now awaiting the moderator's approval... 🤞 #metascience #CorpusLinguistics

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll/116969830906196411 We had fun interpreting the output of a linear model predicting vocabulary knowledge and, afterwards, current and former students of my #Rstats class for #linguistics came to together for an end-of-semesteR picnic. The brief was to […]

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

Colleague: Last class of the semester for you too today, hey? Me: Yes, I can't wait!! Colleague: We're watching film. What fun thing are you doing with your class? Me: An introduction to multiple linear regression analysis! Colleague: 🥴 #Rstats #HigherEd

Colleague: Last class of the semester for you too today, hey? Me: Yes, I can't wait!! Colleague: We're watching film. What fun thing are you doing with your class? Me: An introduction to multiple linear regression analysis! Colleague: 🥴 #Rstats #HigherEd

Today feels like it should be a Friday.

#SilentSunday

I've done a lot of computational reproductions so I thought I'd seen it all, but this one is new: the OSF repository features a single Excel file which, to my surprise, does actually contain both the data and the code. The file has multiple tabs and some of […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

I’m on a regional train this morning and, for the first time in a long time while, nobody in my carriage is burried in their phone! Three people are staring out the window, two whilst drinking coffee, one is listening to something, another is writing on a spiral notepad, one is praying with […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll/116891447797820464 This evening in Cologne! 🎵🎵 #Koeln #Koln

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4w ago

Concert tip featuring yours truly: next Wed 15 July in Cologne with wonderful madrigals and lute songs by Claudio Monteverdi. Free entrance. #Köln #EarlyMusic

Either I am even more tired than I thought or this plot is not the best way to display this information... #dataviz

Today was the last session of my LLM seminar, officially scheduled for 12:00–17:30, but I announced ahead of time that we would finish at 5 pm and take the last hour of discussion outdoors with the option of grabbing a frozen yogurt as we relocate to the lawn. In the end, there was so much to […]

"Wir haben festgestellt, dass die letzte Zahlung für Ihr ChatGPT Plus-Abonnement nicht verarbeitet werden konnte. In den meisten Fällen liegt dies an der derzeit in Ihrem Konto hinterlegten Zahlungsmethode." Nice try, spammers, but I've never had a ChatGPT subscription of any kind! 😅

I only slightly misspelled "unsuspringsingly" and now my spellchecker is suggesting I write the opposite: "unsuspectingly". How rude!

Check out my new #DigitalHumanities collection: https://fedihum.org/collections/116890823163384266 Work in progress, because many relevant servers have apparently not updated to 4.6 yet. (As usual, our provider is incredibly fast! We're already on v4.6.3. Weingärtner-IT is highly recommended.)

Concert tip featuring yours truly: next Wed 15 July in Cologne with wonderful madrigals and lute songs by Claudio Monteverdi. Free entrance. #Köln #EarlyMusic

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll/116373326079021499 I am afraid that we have to cancel tomorrow's ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas session. This means that our next and final session this semester will be Thursday 16 July 16-17:30 CEST with guest speaker Onur Özsoy (IDSL1 & CRC1252 […]

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

We are delighted to announce the summer 2026 edition of ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas with tea-rrific guest speakers from as close as Cologne and as far as Brazil, bringing us new insights into how to improve the way we do research! ☀️ Find the full […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Yesterday afternoon I led a three-hour workshop on LLMs for my colleagues from the Department of Romance Studies. I have a lot of teaching experience in all kinds of contexts, but this was possibly the scariest experience so far: in a small room by 30°C […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

On Friday morning I taught a four-hour "Data Visualisation for Linguistics: The Grammar of Graphics" workshop as part of my M.A./M.Ed. seminar on "Data Analysis in R for the language sciences", which I opened up to all interested students and colleagues from […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Hello #ggplot2 #dataviz experts out there! I have created a map of Indonesia with some labels for a friend's publication (left), but she would ideally like the labels to be around the edges of the map (as in the second figure). I am currently using ggrepel […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

@vicgrinberg That's such a good point. We also know the famous saying "Trust is a fragile thing - hard to earn, easy to lose." Given trust is clearly such a valuable currency in all professional fields and our personal lives, it's so strange to see so many people gamble with it.

The results of the official student evaluation for my 'Introduction to Data Analysis in R for Linguistics and Language Education' course are in and they are really lovely. My favourite comment has to be: "Atmosphere in class is top notch". I agree, it's top notch and great fun to teach this […]

RE: https://mastodon.world/@OpenSexism/116848074881856737 Why am I not surprised by this finding? ⬇️ On the plus side, I did not manage to find the time or energy to reformat my CV nicely in time for yesterday's grant application. My collaborators have *much* prettier CVs, whereas mine is as […]

The @FORRT Replication Hub Showcase is TODAY 15–17:00 CEST. Drop in any time you like. At some point, yours truly will say a few words about @replicationresearch. Registration here […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Having now finally filled out all the sections and subsections of the grant application, my plan for the rest of the morning is to: 1. Hoover and prepare guest bedroom for next guest 2. Proofread and check PDF generated by grant agency 3. Play 20-minutes of music 4. Press the submit button 5 […]

RE: https://diaspodon.fr/@kyoku57/116839723935662665 A remarkable finding recently shook the French linguistics community (Dupire 2026). Follow-up experiments are required to determine whether this phenomenon generalises a) to other baked goods and b) to other written languages.

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Debugging in R Tuesday July 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) Join @PipingHotData and @yabellini - General coworking - Read up on debugging in R - Cowork independently on something related to R - Chat with Shannon and other attendees and […]

Went to the wonderful (and air-conditioned!) Arp museum today and learnt a few things: 1. Keep your dragon on a leash.