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Felicia Bisnath

@fbisnath.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Høgskulen på Vestlandet 🇳🇴. Hearing. Thinking about attitudes, multimodal language contact, iconicity, typology, Creoles, and how to do good linguistics (!)

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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 15h
"the CV is not the place for Scandinavian modesty" #linguistics #AcademicSky
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I will be starting a new job soon (yay!) I'm stressed about visa stuff and because this is the fourth time I will move for linguistics (not yay)
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
reading my own papers like 🤨🤨🤨
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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 06/08/2026
The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.
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Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch
Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...
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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Do you work with production data? We have some updates for you. My students and I developed a tool that was accepted for publication in Behavior Research Methods. The tool is called: TAPA (Toolkit for Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis). Yes, the name is influenced by the tapas tradition. #speechscience
Illustration of a tapas table set with small plates of food, one labeled /tapa/. The image is created by Adriana Ojeda. Text reads: TAPA, Toolkit for Acoustic Phonetic Analysis. Runs on your local machine. Open source, free.
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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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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In Miami like, «..un jugo de piña 🇳🇴🇳🇴også🇳🇴🇳🇴»
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
feeling extremely vindicated about making awful, long sentences with a citation every 5 words or so
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Qualitative data is so useful but it really do make me despair sometimes 😵‍💫
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Nothing gives me more joy than to see my little pixel ducks jump in a pond and swim around in Stardew Valley 🥺
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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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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
new achievement unlocked: correctly identified a Danish accent in English. Telling Norwegian and Swedish English apart is still iffy though 😅
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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? 😰
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’ve been totally failing at my summer reading plans bcs I started to play Stardew Valley
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I love to make generalisations about #linguistics, but the field is so diverse ughhhh
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
remind me to just finish the paper and not come back after idk 3 months ugh
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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
Promotional image. Title: Gender Census 2026. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Images: On the left, a box with a Venus/female symbol on it, patterned with tree bark. On the right, a box with a Mars/male symbol on it, patterned with grass.
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
hello I don't mind if you cross-post
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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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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Finding out how round my cat is using #RStats Spoiler: Extremely round github.com/borstell/rou... #DataBS 🐈‍⬛🐱⚫️🔘
A photo of a tuxedo cat rolled up in a cat bed taken from aboveA photo of a tuxedo cat rolled up in a cat bed taken from above with a yellow line marking the outline of the cat and a dot in the middle and an overlay of a perfect circleA photo of a tuxedo cat rolled up in a cat bed taken from above with an overlay of a perfect circle
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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! 🥰
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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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Sign Language Linguistics | Cambridge Aspire website
Discover Sign Language Linguistics, 1st Edition, Adam Schembri, HB ISBN: 9781107077140 on Cambridge Aspire website
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I am most Trinidadian when I'm writing applications and steupsing (sucking my teeth) in annoyance
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
sacrificing my cool ideas for accuracy 🙄🙄🙄
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
today's burn: "you're so bad at being an addressee!" #linguistics
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
paper out, hope it's useful doi.org/10.1017/S009... #linguistics
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Enhancing linguistic research through critical use of race and ethnicity information | Language | Cambridge Core
Enhancing linguistic research through critical use of race and ethnicity information
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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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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Reviewer Zero Guest Lectures
🌱Reviewer Zero Guest Lectures🌱 Are your students entering research culture without ever learning how peer review actually works? We'd love to help. We are now offering free Zoom guest lectures tailo...
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I started typing LinkedIn into my music app while looking for Linkin Park 💀
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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
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Uri Horesh @urihoresh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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...
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
One good thing about non-academic job application processes is they reject you fast
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🚨 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
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Share Your Story: Impacts of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.
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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
📦 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/
A hex sticker with lavender borders and the word(s) "readelan" in red, next to light red annotation cells
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
asking university presentation templates to be Less Ugly
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Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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...
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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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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Norwegian has effectively replaced all languages in my head apart from English
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
44.93/50! I always guess too light 🎨
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/03/2026
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.
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
hey guys why does my brain work best if I get semi-dressed up, buy a coffee, invariably choose a wobbly table, and get periodically distracted by small babies, doggies, and random people?
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
For what it's worth, I won't even use it for research. Seeing shit with my own human eyes and understanding how it fits together is the only thing I'm good at??
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Giorgia Zorzi and I got some funding from our institution (HVL, Bergen) to study constituent order in Norwegian Sign Language. We are hypeee 👯🎉
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Does anyone have any impressions about how common it is for academic journals to publish articles that sort of examine the field itself? I don’t mean reviews here. #linguistics #AcademicSky
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Is there a name for when a method that was originally linked to natural phenomenon takes on a life of its own in the history of disciplines? Specifically that the motivation for using is that it's been used elsewhere? #linguistics #AcademicSky #PhilosophySky
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M. Alejandra Petino Zappala @petinozappala.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Workshop on genetics, eugenics and scientific racism next week! #Philsci #Philosophy #Ethics #HPS #Sociology #AcademicSky We will be conducting hybrid sessions, you can find the zoom link at www.imseam.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heinzelma...
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I do enjoy making a lil presentation. Also I absolutely need to use a graphical drag-and-drop type program bcs thinking through the presentation has to be visual for me
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
love spending my chosen writing day NOT writing 😭
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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
✅️ 🐋 have vowels ✅️ 🐣 have bouba/Kiki prefs ❓️ 🫎 pass Wug test ❓️ 🦙 do center embedding ❓️ 🐌 experience garden paths #linguistics
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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Sheep to people ratio in Aotearoa/NZ for #TidyTuesday 🐑:👤 🇳🇿🌿 #R4DS #DataViz #ggplot2 Code: github.com/borstell/tid...
A graph with the title "Sheep to people ratio in Aotearoa/NZ: Data from 1935–2024 by 5-year averages" on a light blue background with a pale green area resembling land. The x-axis shows years by 5-year increments and the y-axis shows the rounded number of sheep per people. Between 1935 and 1980, the ratio is about 20:1, but then rapidly dropping to about 5:1 in the 2020s. The top corner shows an outline of Aotearoa. Caption reads: "Packages: {tidyverse, marquee, patchwork, rnaturalearth, rvest}; Data: StatsNZ & Statista via TidyTuesday & Wikipedia; Visualization: C. Börstell"
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