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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And at least the Norwegian ones make you fill out your whole CV one entry at a time manually, even if they want you to attach a separate CV too

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Send your You Know What to You Know Where by You Know When" Ah, the inclusiveness of academia

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

– What's your eye color? – Long exposure night sky?

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tried to figure out my eye color by sampling pixels from a photo, but it kinda just turned into #Rtistry or #AccidentalArt

A square image with sweeping lines from dark blue at the top to yellowish green at the bottom

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks! I wanted to emulator a battery charge indicator and arbitrarily made the color yellow if the percentage falls below 75% of the maximum of the time range. Just as a sort of indicator of "health"! 🔋🌳

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

• Annotating outside of the panel • Getting special Unicode characters to display/print (sometimes) • Combining different font colors and faces without losing other manual tweaking opportunities: ggtext and marquee have different pros and cons

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Urban Green Areas in Scandinavian capitals for this week's #TidyTuesday 🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪 Stockholm started high in 1990 but has since dropped the most. City expansion, construction, definition of city limits, something else or all of the above? #DataViz #ggplot2 Link: github.com/borstell/tid...

A small-multiples plot of the "Proportion of green areas across Scandinavian capitals: Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm". Each city has four panels - 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020 - showing a square of scattered green tiles representing the proportion of green areas. Below each square is an power bar-type plot showing each year's fill compared to the maximum across the 1990-2020 span, and next to it is a text label showing the percent change from the previous decade. While Oslo has had a quite stable level, Copenhagen lost a lot of relative green space in 2010, and Stockholm has been decreasing steadily and quite dramatically from the overall highest proportion in 1990, about half the proportion of 1990 in 2020. Data: UN Habitat Urban Indicators Dataset via TidyTuesday; Packages: {tidyverse, ggh4x}; Visualization: C. Börstell

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me: So the instrument is a "you-yous"?

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 20/09/2026

Please, I am begging you. Do not use dplyr::ntile() in any serious statistical analysis in which you want to group continuous observation into quantile-based bins. Despite the name it doesn't actually do that, and the thing it actually does is very dangerous when accuracy matter. #rstats

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The trouble with ‘ntile()’ – Notes from a data witch

Please, please, please do not use ‘dplyr::ntile()’ in an analysis that will be submitted to a regulatory agency. It’s secretly an ill-conceived SQL tool that doesn’t do what you probably want it to, a...

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In the past two years, I've seen more "view only"-links than correctly updated links in published papers. But the new thing I saw recently had a placeholder "Link to data will be posted upon publication" without any actual link.

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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A revision is not done when I've responded to all referee comments. It's done when I hate myself.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This was one of the arguments of one (incl me) side in a recent discussion about using LLMs/AI for work tasks. The tasks that other colleagues outsource to an LLM are the same tasks that I find rewarding and fun to do myself (not to mention the responsibility, accountability and ethics).

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Har @eliderad.se redan sett Instagrams svenska översättning av (att lägga till) "text"?

Skärmbild från uppladdningsvyn i Instagram stories med etiketterna Sms:a och Dekaler

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me wanting to make the entire workflow reproducible ends up with me writing #ggplot2 code to draw a cow for a figure 🐮

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Be my colleague! We're looking for a temporary #linguistics lecturer in Bergen 🇧🇻 for next semester (first half of 2027). "Only" an MA degree required. Start date: 1 January 2027 Application deadline: 20 September 2026 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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University Lecturer in Linguistics (temporary position) (307796) | University of Bergen

Job title: University Lecturer in Linguistics (temporary position) (307796), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, September 20, 2026

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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University Lecturer in Linguistics (temporary position) (307796) | University of Bergen

Job title: University Lecturer in Linguistics (temporary position) (307796), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, September 20, 2026

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Generally never, only if you deliberately try to aim for more target language pronunciation. But even in a very stereotypical (but widespread) Swedish accent in English, affricates become fricatives, so choose = shoes cheap = sheep chuck = shuck etc [NB some dialects, eg in Finland, do affricates]

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In Swedish, I'd consider [ɕʊˈɾɪt͜sʊ] to be the most common pronunciation.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A New Language Game has Entered The Villa: Glottle! glottle.app Try to guess the target language and along the way you get clues from its position in a language family tree and its geographical position. #languages #linguistics

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The subcategorization of Starbucks Name where it changes based on the country/language you're in

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"[Camels] can smell water at a distance of up to five kilometres"

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Constanze Ackermann-Boström @conab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Umeå University is recruiting ten fellows as full-time assistant professors through the Umeå University Northern Star Fellows Programme. ⤵️ #academicjob #sweden www.umu.se/en/northern-...

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Northern Star Fellows

Reach research excellence with Umeå University as a young researcher.

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Google searches for "me duelen los ojos" ('my eyes hurt') in Spain increased around the solar eclipse on August 12, 2026 ☀️🌑🌍👀 #DataViz #RStats

A plot of Google searches for "me duelen los ojos" ('my eyes hurt') in Spain around the solar eclipse on August 12, 2026 showing an increase in the search numbers from the start of the (partial) eclipse and peaking right after the total eclipse.

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book

Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Interested in narrative data visualisation? We're looking for a PhD candidate to join our team at the Center for Digital Narrative, with me and @lauragarrison.bsky.social as supervisors. Apply by 30 August! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, August 30, 2026

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/08/2026

Big changes ahead: the OSF will stop support sharing (new) data, materials and code. Feels like the end of an era!

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My snarky sarcasm is of course exaggerated and based on my personal anti-AI stance in general. I'm as always grateful for the work that you and all other contributors put in, and I totally get why automation is helpful. It does feel more relevant with human ideas behind the datasets though.

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Now when #TidyTuesday datasets are being submitted by "autonomous [AI] agents" (not disclosing the operator/financer), I can't wait until the point when datasets are also fully analyzed and visualized by AI agents, praising each other's work and offering us humans monthly summaries to read. /s

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So Norwegian (nynorsk) has the following as different words: for fór fòr fôr ... and of course "før", although that is a different grapheme–phoneme mapping altogether.

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

i teach R and Python because students won’t need expensive institutional licenses to use them in the future. There’s no way in hell i’m getting them hooked on expensive AI agent tools that haven’t even been priced for what they cost yet

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"hey, data visualization matters, you know" I explain to the empty room, two hours into picking a color theme for my plots

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pictures of baths I have taken. A list of mistakes I have made. Videos of holes-in-one I have shot. Photos of fingers I have snapped. A book of words I have written.

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Internal Structure of the voiceless rhyme

A poster of the film "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind" showing Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey lying on the ice next to each other. The title has been changed to "Internal Structure of the voiceless rhyme".

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Favorite: CSV Least favorite: JSON and CMDI

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That Deaf Immigrant @annalim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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

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glossa-linguistics.bsky.social @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Public service announcement: Tieu, Lyn & Vera, Gabriel Martínez. 2026. Passing the torch. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1). pp. 1–3. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...

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Passing the torch

Johan Rooryck is stepping down as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, having served two consecutive terms as Editor-in-Chief for a total of 10 years. The members of the edi...

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