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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 29/08/2026

I can hereby confirm Bielefeld does indeed exist

Hannover Bielefeld seat reservation sign in a DB ICE train

DB train display showing stops to Düsseldorf

Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof entrance hall. The centre of attention is the Dr Oetker sign at the top of the hall

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 24/08/2026

I correctly guessed which of the three theses I have to read was not written with the "help" of ChatGPT, and thus saved it for last. Finally, only human sentences. So freeing

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 30/07/2026

"zoek het op": Dutch is on its never-ending mission to conquer the world 😎

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 09/07/2026

I don't think this was supposed to happen

Jupyter notebook interface showing the result of a cell: a dataframe full of "ballekes" ("litlte balls" or "nothing" in Flemish)

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 13/05/2026

Inexcusable that Word doesn't just let you write Phoenician nowadays. No respect for the elderly

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 11/05/2026

Started addressing peer review for one of my agent-based models. The branch name stems from divine inspiration

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 29/04/2026

For reasons unknown to me I have been banned from our student/staff restaurant's website. Everyone else in the building can access the website just fine. No fries for me today :-(

alma.be

FORBIDDEN
You don't have permission to access this resource.

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 04/03/2026

Found an interesting journal article to read today, but it's in Swedish. I don't speak Swedish. Let's read it anyway and see what sticks :-)

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Something about LLM hype culture renders a man immune to the experience of embarrassment. If I couldn’t tell the difference between PhD-level scholarship and grammatical gibberish I simply would not announce that to a global audience.

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 28/01/2026

One of the perks of working in the realm of the Arts is that everyone there still values actual humans.

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 20/12/2025

For my linguistic map I need to add Brussels to Flanders. Don't tell our PM

R code suggesting a politically sensitive merger of Brussels and Flanders

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 01/12/2025

My students will be able to tell my practical driving exam is still top of mind

A PowerPoint slide with a white background. On the left are two funnels opposite each other. On the right, there is a one way street traffic sign with the caption "éénrichtingsverkeer", "one way traffic" in Dutch

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 18/11/2025

My students were having issues with the "improved" version of AntConc not recognising their regular expressions correctly. I spent some time building "ANTHEconc", and sure enough, it works.

antheconc interface. It shows a search bar, a case sensitive toggle, a search button and a download button. Below is a table with KWIC results.

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 06/11/2025

Another productive day at work

An interface with dropdown menus. The button to the right of the dropdowns always says "Johan".

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 23/09/2025

Next Tuesday 30/09 at 2 PM CEST I'm presenting my first case study's results to my research group. I made an agent-based simulation of reduction. All are welcome to join: the Teams meeting is open :-) teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Slide: What is the reducing effect?
Image: emoji man with text balloon "dunno"

Slide: the solution is in the fries
Images: fries in a fry cone, upside down virtual cone

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 03/09/2025

With FWO pitch season coming up, I looked up my own PowerPoint from two years ago. Not sure what I was doing here but clearly it worked

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Thanks to the presentation by @anthe.sevenants.net at #SLE2025 today I now know of the Zipfian dinosaur 🦕 and shall henceforth use it in all my stats classes 🤩

A comic of a Zipfian distribution where the curve looks like a dinosaur with head, body & tail

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 20/08/2025

My review of 'The Meaning of Constructions' by @benoitleclercq.bsky.social and Cameron Morin is out now. The book gives an impressive summary of meaning in construction grammar given its size. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

degruyterbrill.com

The meaning of constructions

Article The meaning of constructions was published on August 20, 2025 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 0, issue 0).

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 14/08/2025

So maybe I shouldn't be pickling my models in their entirety. 1.8 TB used ...

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 06/06/2025

The end of #DHBenelux2025: many authors, one train strike

Slide:
214 participants
44 oral presentations
23 posters
11 demos
10 workshops
3 panels
3 library tours
1 train strike

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 13/02/2025

I need more advanced features than NetLogo can provide, so I'm jumping ship. Nonetheless, look at the little speakers and hearers I designed! A hearer turns red if communication failed. Poor little guys.

A screenshot of NetLogo showing a black space with grey little people. Two people are coloured: a green person with a speech balloon (the speaker) and a red person with audio waves (the hearer). There are graphs and command lines surrounding the model space.

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 12/02/2025

Maybe I should not even be using NetLogo for prototypes

A NetLogo window showing "(Not Responding)" because the program is overwhelmed

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 16/01/2025

I'm at VUB for a course on reinforcement learning and they know how to grab my attention

A slide which shows Super Mario Bros for the NES with some reinforcement learning lingo around it

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 12/01/2025

The Zotero integration for Boox devices is pretty terrible. It doesn't support automatically downloaded attachments, and it doesn't support custom WebDAV endpoints. So I built my own! Syncing back to Zotero is something for another time.

A list of attachments for a specific book

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 05/12/2024

Find me and Julie Nijs at the CogLing days in Antwerp next Thursday. We have lots to say about individual variation in linguistics. And about this guy in a red bodysuit.

Blue PowerPoint slide. Slide title: "Language belongs to everyone"

On the left, institute expectations: we decide the course of language
Expanding galaxy brain meme, with a red line over it

On the right: reality: I'm just a guy on TikTok
Timon Verbeeck, Belgian TikTok star, in a red bodysuit, doing a thumbs up and looking goofy

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 04/12/2024

I will have whoever designed ProofCentral put on Santa's naughty list

A screenshot of the ProofCentral interface with a modal saying "Edit not allowed here"

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 25/11/2024

Thomas and I presented another edition of #lingquiztics! Congratulations to our winners and see you next year!

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 25/11/2024

Just wrapped up my talk @ the #DH Virtual Discussion Group. Very happy to have met lovely, friendly people. Thank you @leahcb.bsky.social for inviting me!

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Leah Budke @leahcb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

On Monday 25/11 (15h-16h30): 2nd session of the fall edition of the #DH Virtual Discussion Group for ECRs in BE! 🇧🇪🧑‍💻 #DigitalHumanities #DHinBelgium Join us for a presentation from @anthe.sevenants.net about the benefit of computer simulations for research. ℹ️ scholarlytales.hcommons.org?p=2146

scholarlytales.hcommons.org

Webinar Series: DH Virtual Discussion Group for ECRs in Belgium – Fall 2024 Edition – The Scholarly Tales

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Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 20/11/2024

I like general linguistic theory, but nothing beats working on present Dutch. Every day, I get to compare my results to what I actually hear in person. Spontaneous field work!

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