Norwegian uses "troll" for things that aren't actual trolls, e.g.: • korstroll/krosstroll 'starfish' (lit. cross troll) • rumpetroll 'tadpole' (lit. butt troll) • skrukketroll 'woodlouse' (lit. crease/crack troll) • trappetroll 'slinky' (lit. stair troll) #linguistics

new achievement unlocked: correctly identified a Danish accent in English. Telling Norwegian and Swedish English apart is still iffy though 😅

I try very hard to be generous when trying to describe and critique other researchers' work, but I guess everyone must think they're doing that too? 😰

I’ve been totally failing at my summer reading plans bcs I started to play Stardew Valley

I love to make generalisations about #linguistics, but the field is so diverse ughhhh

remind me to just finish the paper and not come back after idk 3 months ugh

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

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Just had a journal article published! Deaf liminality: a reckoning of DEAF-SAME academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl...

New chapter 🔓 w/ Matteo Radaelli: ‘Language and intelligence in minds and machines’, in Humanities Perspectives on AI (SUP). An introduction for first-year humanities students, built around a few less conventional ideas we think are needed to understand language AI 🧶👇 www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

Scandinavian University Press

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Giosuè Baggio@giosuebaggio.bsky.social · last mo.

’Humanities Perspectives on AI’ started as reading material for our first-year faculty-wide course on AI, now it’s a unique book available to everyone. Chapters on AI history, philosophy, ethics, language, media, art, literature etc. #AI #humanities #NTNU www.universitetsforlaget.no/humanities-p...

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

Last week I had an amazing time teaching a modality-critical take on sociolinguistics at the LOT Summer School in Linguistic at the University of Groningen. The students were wonderful, and RuG took care of the admin, so it was basically perfect teaching conditions! 🥰

Our new book on sign language linguistics (adapted from the 2007 Auslan linguistics book) isn't out until next month, but over 500 clips of BSL and ASL sign examples from the book can be downloaded now! Take a look at the resources section on the book's webpage. www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

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Discover Sign Language Linguistics, 1st Edition, Adam Schembri, HB ISBN: 9781107077140 on Cambridge Aspire website

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I am most Trinidadian when I'm writing applications and steupsing (sucking my teeth) in annoyance

sacrificing my cool ideas for accuracy 🙄🙄🙄

today's burn: "you're so bad at being an addressee!" #linguistics

paper out, hope it's useful doi.org/10.1017/S009... #linguistics

Are your students entering research culture without ever learning how peer review actually works? We'd love to help. We're offering free "Peer Review 101" virtual workshops for undergrad/grad seminars, tailored to Psych, Neuro, and related fields. Visit our website to learn more tinyurl.com/2ra56w72

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university cafeterias are a small miracle to me. What do you mean I can get cheap-ish food, that I don't have to cook, that's different every day, and it's also super easy to just eat a single portion of a vegetable

I started typing LinkedIn into my music app while looking for Linkin Park 💀

Prepositions in Norwegian are hard bcs prepositions, but I also seem to really struggle with the equivalents of expressions like English "however", "nevertheless", "furthermore", "despite", "in contrast to" etc. -- I can't ever remembers what the words for them are #linguistics

I'll be giving a talk on 4 May in Gothenburg on the Israeli practice of pinkwashing and intersectional Palestinian LGBTQ+ identities. You can sign up for either in-person or Zoom attendance here: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

One good thing about non-academic job application processes is they reject you fast

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

📦 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/

CRAN Updates@cranupdates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New on CRAN: readelan (0.1.0). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readelan

asking university presentation templates to be Less Ugly

Hey if you need something to do over this long weekend, have a go at my PhD student Anna-Merete’s survey. It’s sentences to rate, you just need to have any English variety as your first language, and it’ll take you 10–15 minutes. #linguistics docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Can You Say That?

The aim of this project is to investigate the (im)possibilities of sentence structure in English and Danish, and the differences between the two languages. By contributing, you help further our unders...

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Norwegian has effectively replaced all languages in my head apart from English

44.93/50! I always guess too light 🎨

William Ngiam | 严祥全@williamngiam.github.io · 4mo ago

Visual #workingmemory peeps, you're going to love this. This is super challenging - might give you pause on how we are measuring color memory... My color memory is a 40.4/50. Please do worse so I feel better. dialed.gg?c=3PCHDE

The mantra that AI is "just maths" not only ignores the materiality (humans have to mine rare earth minerals) but also the political & human harms like fascism and indentured labour. The idea that AI is detached ideas — and not stolen data & labour that runs on colonial lines — is harmful itself.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 4mo ago

They: "How can you possibly enforce an AI ban?" Us: "Do you drive through red if no-one looks?"