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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I take serious issue with the @guardian's reporting on data showing increased cancer rates among young people "prompting warnings about lifestyle choices". It is completely inappropriate to suggest that cancer patients and survivors might have avoided their […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Screenshot from the Guardian website:

Headline: Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international research finds

Subtitle: Experts looking at UK, US and Dutch data found ‘significant increases’ in early onset cases of seven cancers, prompting warnings about lifestyle choices

Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent
Tue 6 Oct 2026 06.01 CEST

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Stunning concert of Italian music from the 13th century for the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis with the ensemble Micrologus. You can preorder the CD recording if you like. #EarlyMusic

Group of musicians playing early instruments in basilica

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Not a bad spot for an evening picnic before a concert of medieval music in the Basilica San Francesco, right? #EarlyMusic #Assisi

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

After an intense week of teaching at the University of Pescara, yesterday afternoon I took a short train ride to Ortona and rented a bicycle to try out the Via Verde Cicabile along the Costa dei Trabocchi. The trabocchi are ancient fishing structures typical […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Wide tarmac cycling path right along the coast

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

As my teaching mobility to Pescara is sponsored by the EU programme Erasmus+, this evening I walked a bit further to see Pescara’s Erasmus Beach for myself. The negative review is unwarranted: it’s actually very nice!

Google Map review of Erasmus Beach by matteo bianco who only gave one star a month ago: Even though I've been on this beach for more than 4 months and have taken all my exams, my university hasn't recognized my period... more Translated by Google • See original (Italian)

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Whenever I walk past a traditional pasticceria I feel it would be rude not to stop by. Especially as, in non-touristic cities in Italy, these short breaks hardly break the bank (here 3,20€).

A pot of tea, cup and saucer, slice of fresh lemon and a small choux bun filled with pistachio cream

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Today I survived four hours of teaching… in Spanish… in Italy (yes, the course organisers are really trying to mess with my brain!!) and so did all the students! 😊 To be fair, I did suffer from quite a few interferences from Italian, but my bilingual […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A tote bag from the university on a beach wuth evening light

An empty beach albeit folded parasols and deck chairs

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

It's a well-know fact that English native speakers have an unfair advantage in academia and I am well aware that I have very much benefited from this. This week I'm getting a taste of what it's like to work in an L2 (actually more like L3 for me) as I'm […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

First slide of a presentation that reads (in Spanish): De los corpus a ChatGPT: Una introducción a los modelos extensos de lenguaje (LLMs); BIP: Corpus lingüísticos para la adquisición, enseñanza y análisis del discurso en español; Pescara, septiembre 2026. Dr. Elen Le Foll. University of Cologne.

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

The train from Bologna to Pescara is mostly along the coast and I chose my seat wisely 😎

Sandy beach with a couple of small boats, blue sky

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Auf Bahnhofstafeln.de ist Verlass: The night train was at the announced platform and departed on time! I am sharing a very modern two-bed cabin with a lovely Erasmus student and we both had a lot of fun choosing our six breakfast items for tomorrow morning! Good night, everyone 🌙

Upper berth in modern sleep compartment of train

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Any ideas how these plots were produced? The method does not state how the analyses were conducted. Does anyone recognise the plots' theme as a programme's default?

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

On my way home after a fantastic week at the Tenth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology in Potsdam (vasishth.github.io/smlp2026) sandwiched between two days in Berlin. I spend time with dear friends from Potsdam and […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

My laptop with a textbook chapter about conditional probability on my lap on a sunny balcony next to a tea pot and large cup

Dale Barr giving his keynote and showing a slide with a large iceberg. It reads:

THE ICEBERG OF IRREPRODUCIBILITY
what you see...
ANALYSIS_FINAL.spo
ANALYSISIFINAL.SaV
DATA_FINAL.XLSX
...and what you don't see
DATA_FINAL1.xIsx
all_subjects_trials_oct_18.xlsx
Subjects_trials_aug_1.xlsx
Subject_data.xIsx
survey_monkey_2018_05_13.csv
etc.

Beautiful countryside around Potsdam, river, trees and shrubs

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

🚨 The deadline for abstract submission for the Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (sites.google.com/view/worela2) taking place on 8–9 July 2027 in Cologne has been extended to 15 September 2026 (final extension). 🚨 We invite […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

WoRela 2 Website
8-9 July 2027
Photo of nightscape of Cologne with the cathedral
University of Cologne, Germany
Building cumulative knowledge in the language sciences through
reproducible, robust, and replicable research findings
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

You‘ve heard of Bayesian statistics before, but are you familiar with Babelsbergian statistics? This new philosophy of statistics involves attending a statistics summer school in Potsdam and completing the assignments in Park Babelsberg overlooking the lake […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Laptop with Rstudio open on lawn next to beach like edge of a lake

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

You are cordially invited to take the Rorschach tree test. I suggest everyone put a content warning on their answers to make it more exciting!

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

And another wonderful week of music-making at the Music Summer School and Festival in Norfolk comes to an end: For me, Friday night always involves singing in the choir, accompanied by a baroque orchestra and with amazing soloists from I Fagiolini, followed […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Baroque orchestra and large choir in a church

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

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

Meal tickets and clicky counter on a table witha cup and saucer

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

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

Screenshot of submission confirmation for the article: A Scoping Review Of Open Science Practices In Corpus Linguistics Research
Pending: MetaArXiv uses pre-moderation. This preprint is not publicly available or searchable until approved by a moderator.
Authors: Elen Le Foll

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

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

Artwork by Allison Horst. Two blue dragons stand on scales next to a vertical yardstick showing one slightly taller than the other. Regression estimates are shown at the top as an equation: "weight (tons) = 2.4 + 0.3*height", with explanatory text reading "If all other variables are constant, we expect a 1 foot taller dragon to weight 0.3 tons more, on average." Source: https://allisonhorst.com/linear-regression-dragons.

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

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]

Data availability

All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper. The numeric data of this study are available at Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/f5wt8).
Code availability

The script for statistical analysis is available is available at Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/f5wt8), for purposes of reproducing or extending the analysis.

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

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]

Hausarbeit ex machina?

Workshop für Lehrende am Romanischen Seminar zum Umgang mit KI in Lehre und Prüfung

7. Juli 2026 (Teil 1)

Elen Le Foll

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

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]

Anything else you'd like to share?
4 responses
Thank you :)
Elen is the goat
you're very good at breaking down complex topics and making them easy to understand
I had a great time and loved the workshop very much!

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

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

Painting of two people, one of whom is a princess walking a dragon held by a golden leash.

Friedrich Sustris
HI. Georg und die Prinzessin (Allegorisches Verlöbnis), 1570-1600
St George and the Princess (Allegorical Betrothal), 1570-1600
Öl auf Kupfer / Oil on Copper
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
Sammlung Rau für UNICEF/Collection Rau for UNICEF

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

The temperature in my office has reached 30°C so I decided to take a break and get myself an ice cream. On the way down to the cafeteria, I checked my pigeon hole and found… Katja’s amazing gamified introduction to German syntax that I had the great pleasure of reviewing a while back! 🤩🤩🤩

Outdoor photo. Me holding an ice cream and a book festuring a red dragon on the cover. Book by Katja Politt Syntagma Ein Selbstlern- abenteuer Eine Einführung in die Syntax der deutschen Gegenwartssprache

Die Reise beginnt Es ist ein regnerischer Tag, wie er schlechter nicht sein könnte: Das Wetter ist zu mies, um draußen Dinge zu unternehmen, und nun ist auch noch das Internet ausge- fallen! Frustriert sitzt du auf dem Sofa und überlegst, wie du die Zeit totschlagen kannst, bis sich eine der beiden Situationen bessert. Mo- ment - totschlagen? Du hast da noch dieses Buch im Regal, das du immer mal lesen wolltest als Vorbereitung auf deinen Syntax-Kurs im nächsten Semester. Zugegeben, nach Lernen ist dir auch nicht wirklich zumute, aber wieso nicht einmal einen Blick hineinwerfen. Du fischst das Buch aus deinem Regal. Als du es abklopfst, löst sich etwas Staub von dem rotgoldenen Einband, auf dem ein stilisierter Drache abgebil- det ist. »Syntagma«, liest du den Titel vor. Du hast keine Ahnung, wer oder was das ist. Vielleicht der Name des Drachen auf dem Einband? Du schlägst das Buch auf und beginnst zu lesen ...

as a little . thanhs for all your süpport, enthusiasm & awesomeness !

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

My students did very well today, surviving a four-hour class on LLMs on a Friday afternoon by 35°C in this beautiful, but entirely unsuitable building! Perhaps the ice cream that I bought for the break helped? 😊

Modern looking building showing inside courtyard covered by a glads ceiling, palm trees

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

One of my favourite murals in Cologne was looking particularly special with tonight’s evening light! #Koeln

Photo of car park with marked spaces and of a large brick building in which the same white marking have been painted

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Let the weekend begin: Two days of late 16th and early 17th century music on historical instruments for children and adult amateurs in an old castle turned youth hostel! 🤗 #EarlyMusic

Photo of my feet in front of a castle surrounded by water

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Apart from my annoying questions in some of the Q&As, I believe that Natalia Levshina is the first to at least mention the environmental impact of LLMs at the #ICAME47. Thank you! 🙏

Slide showing CO2 footprint of various models. Large and thinking models consume more.

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

The theme of the #ICAME47 conference is “A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI” so there are lots of studies using LLMs, but also plenty of mentions of good-old BERT models (which are arguably often better at the kinds of classifying tasks that are […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Chris presenting his conclusion slide featuring the cartoon character Bert

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

I submitted a poster abstract to the #ICAME47 because I thought this would be the most low-key format to present work-in-progress, but then there were only four posters and we each got a four minutes after today‘s plenary in the large auditorium 😱Definitely […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Me in a pattern dress in front of my poster

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

I made it to the #ICAME47 conference in Koblenz and I have to say I’ve had less pleasant conference travel! 🚉🚲

Photo from train window showing large river and hills in the background

Folding bicycle next to large river. Blue sky.

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