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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you google there’s a list of 13 episodes (of course it’s 13 lol) that should “prepare” you for the new season. I’m just rewatching murder house, coven and freak show in full and then then the rest of the homework. The early seasons were good.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Okay it’s one that’s heavily AI-assisted if not entirely generated *sighs in academic disappointment*

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week I have sent in two reviews and within five minutes of hitting the submit button I have received new review invitations. Is this... a curse?

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So does that mean the Zug just keeps going, aimlessly? For SLE last week my train in Köln didn’t exist anymore and I had received 0 notifications. But I did get to Osnabrück in the end. Blessed be the Bahn.

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Linguist: What even is a cup, exactly

image from labov's 1973ish study of cups and bowls and semantic boundaries, a bunch of weird cuppy thing are illustrated including a mug with a loooong fluted stem and a triangle mug

neat bar graph of cuppiness and bowliness

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I just want a preamble.tex that I can add to my quarto document

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Guess we just have to change our names now 🤷‍♂️🤣

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I don’t have an answer but a colleague of mine showed me hallucinated (made up and undesirable) references that affected my work as it appeared at a conference presentation… No one is safe. And hey chat, wtf are Arne Van Hoey and Ma Ruiqi?

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Deadline for Cogling Days 2026 at KU Leuven has been extended to 10 July. Instructions can be found in the call. We are particularly interested in presentations that deal with the role of MEANING in language variation and change. See you in December! linguistlist.org/issues/37/20...

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LINGUIST List 37.2043 Confs: CogLing Days 2026 (Belgium)

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thank you @emilymbender.bsky.social and Nanna Inie! So many great alts to anthropomorphism in this piece! buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation
hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence
image recognition → image labeling
speech recognition → automatic transcription
the model shows bias → the model reflects bias
model mistakes → model errors
chatbots are good at … → chatbots are good for …
hallucination → undesirable output

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Bonnie McLean @bonniemclean.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Such a privilege to interview Kimi Akita for SKASE about his long career researching #ideophones! Kimi's conducted some of the most fascinating and insightful work in the field, which he continues to lead into exciting new directions. Ideophone enthusiasts, read here! www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL6...

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thanks for wording that get out of review card 🤣

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Are things like “zombie Lingua” and Elsevier shunning still holding up in this day and age? #AskAcademia #AcademicChatter #linguistics #langsky @dingemansemark.bsky.social

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

@samueljbeer.bsky.social showed us the problems that even a single 107-word wordlist can bring , how to contextualize it, and how to recontextualize it. It’s worth it to halt and break your head for a while over a small detail like a punctuation mark. #dilegma3

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I always try to wear my most ideophonic shirt when presenting about ideophones. By the way #DiLegMa3 is a great conference! Can’t wait what today brings but check out @samueljbeer.bsky.social ‘s overview for what the first day was all about.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

One of our Housewives on tv “reported” that she finally found someone who ✨ understood ✨ her in ChatGPT… so I’m guessing you’re not looking for an echo chamber lol.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Plenair praatje van Jacqueline Klooster bij de #KZM (Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis) Ik heb haar boek over *Medusa* gelezen en vond het echt goed.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The gods of academic publishing have been kind to us with two recent publications (in Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads 2025 [2026]; and in Language Variation and Change 2026). Here is a short reflection about them. Let me know what you think! www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2026-0...

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Marching out two publications – Thomas Van Hoey

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Back from Japan where I got to present at the Iconicity conference (#IcoLL) and the Hokkaido linguistics workshop (#Hokugen) You can read all about it here! www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2026-0...

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Omgs @lingucat.bsky.social that’s very nice of you to say!! Hope I can see your slidecraft somewhere soon!!

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Day three of #IcoLL In the blink of an eye it’s already over. Here’s Pamela Perniss during the final keynote.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Day two of #IcoLL. It follows a great first day. Today is cat day in Japan because it’s ninini ににに, reminiscent of the onomatopoeia for cat cry nyaaa にゃー

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Opening of #IcoLL, *the* conference on iconicity in language and literature. Looking forward to sharing and learning much. And of course reconnecting with and meeting new scholars. And all of this in Nagoya, Japan! #ILL26 #IcoSem26 #IcoLL26

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Huh? It's 2026 and I can't snap my line to a corner of a square in powerpoint? Make it make sense. #ppt #powerpoint #whatsthepoint Also, the world is quite dreary so find your pockets of goodness and cultivate them.

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

IPA is a magic spell that makes anyone who can read IPA make the noises with their mouth

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents). uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I knew 8 of the 200+ editorial board members that mention linguistics, most of which probably have gotten stuck in this venus fly trap. At least we know they are "willing to uphold high editorial standards" and "[s]upport the ethos and vision of the journal" lol

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Ssshhht 🤫 😈😈🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Well I can honestly say that the reviewer wasn’t me but I can say that I’ve seen a very similar paper at the end of last year (“style” and AI wise not content wise) and I’m happy to say the Editor followed the two reviewers’ advice to reject. The mystery for me was how it even got through to revs…

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It's here! Read my #AcademiaWrapped at your own peril! It's funny, I promise. #AcademiaWrapped2025 www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-1...

Academia Wrapped 2025. It's here. Find out what 2025 had in store for me.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

After passing through the focus group, here is the next exciting installment of my blog: Sunsets, spreadsheets, and languishing leaves. Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy! www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The real magic is ✨️regex✨️

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

As I show in my new preprint, #Bayesian statistics is no longer just a niche tool. It’s becoming mainstream in linguistics research. A survey of journal articles shows a rapid rise in Bayesian regression over the past five years. Why? #Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics doi.org/10.48550/arX...

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A Bayesian dawn in linguistics: Trends, benefits and good practices

In recent years, Bayesian statistics has gained traction across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This paper explores the growing application of Bayesian methods within the field of linguistics ...

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Daniel Feshbach @danielprime.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Yikes. I forgot Academia.e d u is still at it!

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Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Honoured to have given a plenary lecture at the #SLE2025 conference in Bordeaux! I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena. 📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here: #linguistics

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Societas Linguistica Europaea - 58th Annual Meeting26-29 August 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne

YouTube video by Université Bordeaux Montaigne

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

But Thorn what about your exorbitant CO2 tarot and fountain pen footprint!! Not to mention the artisanal ink milked from fresh octopi 🐙 Think of the turtles 🐢 next time you take up the pen 🖊️

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Can a study rightfully state its “effect is found ACROSS LANGUAGES” when it’s only two (in this case English and another well-studied one)? What’s the minimum? Serious question. #langsky #linguistics

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I know some East Indian Companies that would agree 🤣

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Compared to the standard Gardnerian wardrobe, yes.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Guys, I can't explain it but I think #SquidGameSeason3 ends with Scarlett Johansson playing a Korean man #SquidGame

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Kids these days have poor file naming habits.

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