Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri)

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Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R".

stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/

Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)

The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

There are possibly 8000 language varieties used around the world today, many of them with communities of speakers and signers that number less than 10,000.
Even if only a handful of people in those communities want to keep their languages alive, I’m happy to promote their right to do so.

You're not interested in Cornish nor BSL. Your children aren't interested in Cornish either. Yet we are having got several posts about exactly how much you're not interested in any of this discussion about minority languages.

That's quite a non-sequitur. Nobody here said anything about forcing anyone to do anything.

Most people are not gay, but we have same sex marriage. What's your point? Minorities should have no rights?

Innovations in Linguistics Education is a new Diamond Open Access journal, is dedicated to the teaching of linguistics.

journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations

I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!

I wonder how this compares to the British Sign Language Act 2022? Did they overlook this? :-)

"[L]inguistics is uniquely positioned to teach us both about what all humans share and what makes cultures and individuals distinct"
@adamcschembri.bsky.social expressed it so nicely, read more here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...

This just in from #Cornwall on #Kernewek #linguistics

I like to search spreadsheets before exporting into R. Old habits I guess.

I'm making plans to teach a sociolinguistics class next year at the LOT Summer School in Groningen -- pls let me know about any cool new stuff I should include! #linguistics

Happy World #Linguistics Day! www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...

Happy World Linguistics Day! ⭐🎉🎊

Great work - I told Marcus that I'd love to see this lead to a special issue where different colleagues respond to the issues in this article, as also happened with Evans & Levinson's paper on linguistic diversity back in 2009. What do you think?

The title page

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

My L1 is Australian English. I have basic conversational French. I can sign comfortably in Auslan and British Sign Language (closely related varieties) on a range of topics. I have some conversational American Sign Language and I can give basic presentations on my research in International Sign.

Yes, I hear you and I agree, but I feel like the horse has bolted: I still see lots of colleagues using Ethnologue as a source, so I'd prefer that the information that they have is as accurate as possible.

Really? I have had a close friend from south London who experiences this a lot.

Apparently, if you're an expert on (a) particular language(s), and you provide input, you can be granted access according to a colleague of mine. Maybe we should try that?

Ha yes I’ve heard other people from south east England have had the same experience, and yet all three accents (London, Australian, and New Zealand) sound very different to me!

If he lives in Australia, he’s definitely not from there. 😊 This YouTuber doesn’t have an Australian accent. He sounds like an immigrant from England.

$2400 a year to subscribe to Ethnologue. Scandalous.

I speak with a clearly Australian English accent by the way, although not a particularly broad one.

Accent perception is wild. In the same evening, I meet two new people, both native speakers of British English and from Birmingham (UK): one asks me if I was born and raised in the city, while the other asked which part of Australia I was from!

I remember being at an HIV workshop years ago where there was discussion about replacing the term 'promiscuous' with 'popular and affectionate'.
Why didn't this make it into 'Word of the Year'?🤣

The logo for LGBTQ+STEM Day, with the hashtags below and the date 18 of November, over a rainbow background

Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!

How are you celebrating it?

#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM

It’s National #Linguistics Day next week: what are you doing to celebrate it?

Ofqual announces rules for unique British Sign Language GCSE New regulations following consultation mark a further step towards a qualification that could connect communities.

I’m excited to see Ofqual officially set out the rules for the brand new GCSE in British Sign Language.

It’s inspiring to see a qualification that recognises the linguistic, cultural, & social importance of BSL finally taking shape.

🔗 tinyurl.com/5y33p6re

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#langsky #linguistics #GCSE #BSL