Tanja Säily
@tanjasaily.fi
Associate Professor in English Language, University of Helsinki. Corpus linguistics, digital humanities, historical sociolinguistics, linguistic productivity, English lexis & morphology. Also into tea, papercraft, speculative fiction. https://tanjasaily.fi
New PhD position in my group on Digital Forensic Linguistics! 🧑💻 If you think that's you, please contact me and/or apply! #linguistics #joboffer #phdPosition #phd https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/870a96abc9c1d265d30d96c359a15f0d1c02b97c0
PhD Candidate (65%, m/f/x) in Digital Forensic Linguistics
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Finnish version: Kaari Utrio Johanna Sinisalo Outi Pakkanen Siiri Enoranta Terhi Tarkiainen
Tanja Säily@tanjasaily.fi · 3w agoFive living writers that you've read five books by each? Aliette de Bodard, @aliettedebodard.com KJ Charles, @kjcharleswriter.com Naomi Novik, @naominovik.bsky.social Seanan McGuire, @seananmcguire.bsky.social T. Kingfisher, @tkingfisher.com
Five living writers that you've read five books by each? Aliette de Bodard, @aliettedebodard.com KJ Charles, @kjcharleswriter.com Naomi Novik, @naominovik.bsky.social Seanan McGuire, @seananmcguire.bsky.social T. Kingfisher, @tkingfisher.com
John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 4w agoFive living writers that you've read five books by each? Percival Everett Jo Walton Max Gladstone Martha Wells Stephen Graham Jones
The #ISLE Outreach Prize is open for submissions (until November 30)! Comes with a cash prize & other goodies. More info at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i... #EnglishLinguistics
#ISLE also just opened the call for the Teaching Innovation Prize (for teaching projects/resources/initiatives related to English linguistics). Also comes with a bit of cash and other goodies. Submission deadline: November 30. More info can be found here: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i...
@romancingthevote.com Auction: July 1 - July 5. Raising money for voting access, cuz voter suppression is BAD. Link for my Fox Girl Coloring sheet: www.32auctions.com/organization... #Vote #auction #illustration #coloringsheet #kidlitart
Floral Coloring Sheet - Fox Girl
Auction item 'Floral Coloring Sheet - Fox Girl' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Our research group at Aalto University is hiring 3 postdocs + 3 doctoral students to work on distributed quantum algorithms in projects funded by an ERC Advanced Grant and a QuantERA grant. Application deadline: July 31, 2026. Start date: October 2026–October 2027 (negotiable). Apply now!
We are happy to announce that the call for papers for #ICAME48 is now out! 📢📢📢The call for pre-conference workshops is already open, while the call for abstracts will open in October. More info on our website: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
Call for Papers | ICAME48 | University of Helsinki
The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin'. We invite all submissions on corpus-based approaches to English, and especially abstracts addressing the theme of the conference, such as submiss...
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Slides from our #ICEHL23 presentation on "Improving part-of-speech annotation for socially diverse historical corpora": tanjasaily.fi/talks/icehl2... #corpuslinguistics #postagging
Recent handbook articles relevant to #historicalsociolinguistics and #corpuslinguistics – if you need access to any of these, just let me know! (1/4)
New International Construction Grammar Association (ICGA)! icgaonline.wpcomstaging.com announced at ICCG14 thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social Sign up forms.gle/gXYDKC6xavkU... @alexbergs.bsky.social H Boas M Fried, @stefanhartmann.bsky.social Th Hoffmann F Masini B Nir @remivantrijp.bsky.social
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Researchers using corpus-based approaches to the study of English: Welcome to the ICAME48 conference in Helsinki in May 2027! Follow our BlueSky account @icame48.bsky.social and our website (see the link in comments) for updates. The CfP will soon be published. #ICAME48
Helsinki Society for Historical #Lexicography online lecture, 4 June: "Bringing slang into the academy: Issues in the making of the #Dictionary of Jamaican Slang" by Dr Joseph T. Farquharson and Dr Byron M. Jones (The University of the West Indies, Mona) blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc
Events | Suomen historiallisen leksikografian seura ry
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Slides for our #ICAME47 presentation on "Improving automated #transcription to compile large and diverse historical corpora": tanjasaily.fi/talks/icame4... #corpuslinguistics #htr
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Helsinki Society for Historical #Lexicography online lecture, 4 June: "Bringing slang into the academy: Issues in the making of the #Dictionary of Jamaican Slang" by Dr Joseph T. Farquharson and Dr Byron M. Jones (The University of the West Indies, Mona) blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc
Events | Suomen historiallisen leksikografian seura ry
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The MetaLing Corpus Project has been added to CoRD: varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora... #corpusresources
CoRD | MetaLing Corpus Project
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The LanCris conference has started! Our presentation tomorrow (with Terttu Nevalainen, Turo Vartiainen and Aatu Liimatta) deals with the acceleration of language change due to crises. blogs.helsinki.fi/languaging-c...
LanCris Conference – Languaging Crises
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Languaging Crises@languaging-crises.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt is the week of the LanCris Conference! We are very excited to hear about new research related to language and crises. #lancris2026 In addition to over 40 paper presentations, we will have four keynote speeches that look at languaging crises from four different perspectives:
Helsinki DH Seminar continues this Thursday with Yu Wu (UH) on "Beyond Text Reuse in 18th-century Reception: Evaluating Semantic Search through the Case of Locke”. For online participation and where to find us at Metsätalo, please visit: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h... All welcome!
Digital Humanities Research Seminar | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki
Information about Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar
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Digitaalinen itsenäisyys – Suomen seuraava kohtalonkysymys 🇫🇮 Suomi on riippuvainen yhdysvaltalaisista teknologiajäteistä. Riippuvuus ei lähitulevaisuudessa vähenny vaan syvenee. #DigitaalinenItsenäisyys #Suomi #Kansalaisaloite 1/
The SKY's graduate award 2025 is awarded to MA Jimena Jiménez Real from the University of Helsinki. The title of her thesis is Who led the semantic extension of the way-construction?: A corpus-based study of variation and change in the way construction in the 17th-19th centuries. Congratulations! ✨
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Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #multimodality #digitalhumanities
Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data
Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data
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Out now! Rutten's Historical Sociolinguistics | With detailed explanations of core concepts, this is the first introduction to historical sociolinguistics based on multiple languages. Find out more: ☑️ https://cup.org/4jg540r
This beautiful song is about the etymology of joulu, jul or yule. It’s in Finnish worth to listen even without understanding the lyrics. Joulu (sana germaanin) Joulu (the word of German) The music group is called Kärhämä.
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YouTube video by Kärhämä - Topic
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New volume "Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English", edited by Rhys Sandow & Natalie Braber, is out now. Great to work with @nelepoldvere.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy on "Lexico-grammatical variation in spoken British English corpora" using LLC-2 www.routledge.com/Sociolinguis...
It's happening! I'm about to defend my doctoral dissertation on the linguistics of email marketing! You can follow the stream here: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live... The puck drops at 13:15 Finnish time!
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I'm reading this now and it's perfection! If you want a taster, read The Tomato Thief: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-... My only problem is that after this one I'm all caught up with @tkingfisher.com books – what to do next? Do I go for the children's books written under her real name? Halp 🥺
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Dr Vinca, PhD@vincaminor42.bsky.social · 9mo agoBook 27: Jackalope Wives & Other Stories. The 2nd (and sadly last (for now)) anthology on the list. 100% bangers beginning to end. If you wanna introduce someone to Ursula’s writing but a novel is too much this is the choice. My number 1 gifted Ursula book
