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Written by Irene on 2025-01-10 at 14:48

Would you like to assist a postdoc in actually getting a paid postdoc position? Welcome to my application seminar, where I'll present my planned project and need input to improve it.

Subjects:

[#]CorpusLinguistics

[#]MigrationStudies

[#]ParliamentaryDiscourse

Date & time: 22 January 13:00–15:00 (at the most)

Information: https://www.gu.se/en/event/power-in-powerful-discourses-constructing-immigration-in-european-parliaments

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Written by Irene on 2025-01-08 at 21:39

Hello, Fediverse,

I have forgotten how and whether or not I can follow any Bluesky account. Say @linguistlist.bsky.social for example. I am following @bsky.brid.gy already, but still won't get any search results for Linguistlist.

[#]fediverse

[#]bridging

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Written by Irene on 2024-12-21 at 09:06

Happy (or scary, for the HPL fans) solstice, everyone!

🌐🌞

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Written by Irene on 2024-12-20 at 14:10

Article sent to one journal, book review sent to another.

Checklist checked, stuff packed. Phew. Now a Majornas #Julapilsner and then perhaps an #ElfsborgsLösen . Sun outside, candles inside. Bring on the holidays!

[#]itsalwaysstoutseason

@beersofmastodon

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Written by Irene on 2024-12-13 at 12:44

Happy to attend Felix Morger's Ph.D. defense (viva) on his work “In the minds of stochastic parrots: Benchmarking, evaluating and interpreting large language models”, analysing what LLMs actually do and are able to (not) do.

Link to the thesis: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/83731/omslag-epublikation.pdf?sequence=3

[#]StochasticParrots

[#]LLMs

@linguistics

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Written by Irene on 2024-12-02 at 12:05

Excellent beginning of the week: Scholarship granted for a pilot project with @ljo and @klasronnback to create a new, annotated corpus of (a certain kind of) old American English! In a future proper project, we'll be collaborating also with Morgan State University in this. Very happy to have got my first postdoc project going!

[#]postdoclife

@corpuslinguistics

@academicchatter

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Written by Irene on 2024-11-30 at 16:06

Now for a proper porter 😃

Happy bday again to my fav brewpub!

[#]MajornasBryggeri

@beersofmastodon

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Written by Irene on 2024-11-30 at 13:11

Local brewpub celebrates five years of existence! I have to drive in a short while, so I'm starting with a rhubarb & raspberry soda.

Happy birthday, #MajornasBryggeri !

[#]GbgSoda

[#]party

@beersofmastodon

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Written by Irene on 2024-11-26 at 15:35

Couldn't decide today, so made a taster tray of Beersmith's Honey red ale (lots of honey!), Majornas Julapilsner (slightly more complex pilsner) and Elfsborgs lösen (excellent dry porter).

@beersofmastodon

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Written by Irene on 2024-11-19 at 12:03

Dear Fediverse, I just had to buy (for a relative) a OnePlus Nord CE3 Lite phone that cannot (yet) use any /e/OS. Are there any other privacy-focused OSes that work for this specific phone? Or other tips on what to turn off or on in the settings?

Boosts appreciated.

[#]OxygenOS

[#]OnePlus

[#]privacy

[#]SafetyFirst

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Written by Irene on 2024-11-18 at 15:27

Still, the power of the icon is strong, and in the small town of Varberg, this statue is now hosted in a hotel garden, open to the public, and some (two?) hundred metres to the northwest, in a private garden, another statue by Susanna Arwin called The Old Lady Army (currently with scarves).

Sad story, but fascinating art work.

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Written by Irene on 2024-11-18 at 15:23

Fascinating stories I heard today from someone involved:

The lady bashing nazis with a handbag got international fame at the end of the last millennium. In 2014, a statue of her was made, but the family kindly asked not to have it in their hometown — the lady often went around hitting people due to personal trauma. Also, the artist had not asked permission from the original photographer, so she had to change the looks a bit.

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Written by Irene on 2024-11-17 at 19:25

New here? Linguist? Then do look up this list of linguists to follow!

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mastodonlinguists

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Written by Irene on 2024-11-12 at 07:06

My night train to Umeå university (station on campus!) is a tad bit late (40 min.), but since we're in the North (of Sweden), some people missing their connection have to wait until this afternoon for the next. Then they get a "day room" at a local hotel, and lunch there!

That's the way to go, SJ!

(No worries for me, either.)

[#]traintravel

[#]SJ

[#]tåg74

@academicchatter

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Written by Irene on 2024-11-07 at 13:47

Well, at least a friend of mine got a grant from the Swedish Research Council today. My colleagues and I didn't, so I'm still available for any corpus linguistic postdoc positions!

[#]academicgrants

[#]PostdocPositionWanted

[#]postdoclife

@linguistics

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Written by Irene on 2024-11-04 at 18:45

On a train, writing my keynote presentation for a (bachelor/master) Slavic student conference next week. Topic: Academic publishing. Sections: open science, choice of writing language, what ranking is, examples of journals.

What else do you think foreign language students could need to hear?

@academicchatter

@linguistics

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Written by Irene on 2024-10-11 at 10:36

Excellent end of the work week: final acceptance letter from Cambridge University Press to publish my short monograph Social Group Representation In A Diachronic News Corpus as an part of their Elements in Corpus Linguistics series!

Topping that up with an Einstürzende Neubauten consert with friends and colleagues tonight.

@academicchatter

@corpuslinguistics

@linguistics

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Written by Irene on 2024-10-10 at 14:25

Cool, now creating word rain is openly available as a service at https://wordrain.isof.se/ !

via @ahltorp

https://mastodon.nu/@ahltorp/113283539772788738

@linguistics

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Written by Irene on 2024-10-10 at 14:18

Having sent my own manuscript to the publisher last week, I'm reading someone else's for a review, with a nice Rauchbier from local brewery Stigbergets!

[#]AcademicBooks

[#]rauchbier

[#]Majorna

[#]Vinterbloss

@academicchatter

@beersofmastodon

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Written by Irene on 2024-10-03 at 06:34

"Lycka till att åka tåg mellan Stockholm och Göteborg"

In short and English: Next year and 2.5 years more, there will be a reduction to half the trains going between Sweden's largest cities. Why? Mainly because of decades of maintenance neglect, but also because the state-owned company owns a specific machine that “would be unfair to the other companies that replied to the tender if we used”. Just wow.

https://www.etc.se/ledarkolumn/snart-blir-det-naestan-omoejligt-att-aaka-taag-mellan-stockholm-och-goeteborg

[#]traintravel

[#]StayOnTheGround

[#]MarkbundetResande

[#]SJ

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