Felicia Bisnath

Yeah, I think so too! -- I think this kind of thing probably happens a lot in science and I bet someone has written about it

I'm thinking of something like using school cohorts to understand sign language development because of the observation that younger students behave differently from older ones, and then later on the motivation for other studies is something like, this is how it's done in our field

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

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...

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

I was curious about the paper and made an account T_T

love spending my chosen writing day NOT writing 😭

✅️ 🐋 have vowels
✅️ 🐣 have bouba/Kiki prefs
❓️ 🫎 pass Wug test
❓️ 🦙 do center embedding
❓️ 🐌 experience garden paths

#linguistics

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"

Sheep to people ratio in Aotearoa/NZ for #TidyTuesday

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#R4DS #DataViz #ggplot2

Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

naming a folder "linguistics" on my laptop is so uninformative -- like, it's all #linguistics

current mood: depressed about annotation

inconsistent file naming will be the death of me

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

using LLMs to write texts is so unfathomable to me bcs writing is sooo incredibly personal for me

alice from alice in wonderland is kneeling down in a dark room with the words curiouser and curiouser . ALT: alice from alice in wonderland is kneeling down in a dark room with the words curiouser and curiouser .

one journal seems to only accept papers within an extremely narrow domain and its zombie alternate seems to accept everything

calling L1 speakers of British English, please help out my student Emilia on her dissertation study! 🐦🐦

it's a short (<20 min) and fun one on voice recognition, please share! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

the list of things I will apparently find time to apply to grows ever longer 😭

Dr. Adrien Dadone (Leiden U) will present on relative clauses in French Sign Language and French on Mon 2nd Feb at 2:30PM Norway time. Find the abstract and how to get the link to the presentation here: www.hvl.no/en/research/...

Languages: Norwegian SL, International Sign, English

#linguistics

✨that very special post-interview feeling of inadequacy✨

Manuel des langues créoles à base française The handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of French Creole studies, from a both comparative and language-specific perspective. Covering structural and historical features of French-based Creole ...

After more than ten years of preparation, our Manual of French-based Creoles is finally available for download.
What better place to announce this publication than during a visit to Martinique?
🦎🌴
Fok zot kouri gadé-y !

In our recent manuscript, we invite cognitive scientists to be critical of the labels they choose to describe language users. We argued that the term native speaker is problematic as it distorts scholarly inquiry and introduces bias.
Cognition link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An information plate, very faint from the sun, mentioning the name Cashacrou; in the background a tall palm tree and shrubs, the bay of Scott's Head looking towards Soufrière, and the mountains of Southern Dominica

Entry sign next to the road welcoming visitors to the village of Sineku in the Kalinago territory in Eastern Dominica

🇩🇲 Would you like a thread on the multiple layers of multilingualism in Dominica? Of course you do.
Starting with the linguistic memory of the indigenous Kalinago, still present in many toponyms and other names. The spelling varies widely but the meaning is often quite well documented or remembered.

8 A snapshot of the emerging because-X construction 8 A snapshot of the emerging because-X construction was published in English Sociosyntax on page 227.

Years ago, 957 people from Twitter contributed to my research on 'because X' and I promised I'd share the results with them. I can't, because twitter, but please share it with people here anyway: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Non-paywalled pre-print: kar.kent.ac.uk/105654/
#linguistics

Chicken on pizza should be illegal

A line chart showing "Cumulative publications in Google Scholar Alerts" from July 2025 to January 2026, with one line showing all sign language alerts (at around 1200 by January 2026) and the other showing sign language alerts without AI keywords (around 400 by January 2026)

About 6 months ago, I got so tired of getting mostly AI(-adjacent) papers in my Google Scholar Alerts for "sign language", so I added a new filter excluding a few keywords to get more relevant #linguistics papers.

Now I checked the difference between the two alerts, and there's an obvious pattern.

all my chickens have come home to roost (I have to fill in all the places that say "CITE" in a draft)

my schedule right now is something like pet white kitty, pet black kitty, eat curry probably, pet black and white doggies, pet black kitty, pet white kitty, repeat

fbisnath.bsky.social's Bluesky Wrapped 2025 Check out fbisnath.bsky.social's year on Bluesky!

This year on Bluesky I wrote 118 posts and apparently I love saying "linguistics" and 😬!

www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

so.. who's going to Evolang next year? #linguistics

Two scholarships are available to Palestinian applicants looking to start a postgraduate Masters degree in Sep 2026, including our Masters in Comparative Literature & Masters in Global Languages, Literatures, and & Cultures: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...