#LingComm25 was an awesome experience to be a part of. So many people around the world working on scicomm and langcomm. Truly inspiring 🐦🐦 #LangSky
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That's a wrap for #LingComm25! And it was the biggest LingComm ever.
We'll be back next time for more panels, talks, how-tos, posters, and great chats with all the linguistic communicators.
Thanks to everyone who attended and made this conference such a success.
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Plenary: @emilymbender.bsky.social on text extruders:
"Why are we automating that? How does it fit into the context we're trying to use it…? Who gets hurt if it goes poorly, if it puts errors? Who gets hurt if it works as intended, and who's benefiting from that being automated?
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I thought the lightning talks were my favourite part of #LingComm25 but the speed dating, YES PLEASE! Such an absolute joy to talk to people from Melbourne to Texas about everything language and linguistics and lingcomm #LangSky
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@drjpb.bsky.social: "If you write something inaccesible, did you really write it?" After being intimidated by the academic style, he realised: "If I can't understand it, they didn't do a good job!"
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Project Myopia is a project by @riannawalcott.bsky.social and collaborators compiling resources "so instructors can't say well we want to diversity our curriculum but we don't know what to add"
projectmyopia.com/about/ #LingComm25
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I have accumulated so many new browser tabs from #LingComm25...
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I'm at the #LingComm25 panel: Talking About Hard Stuff, Language Ideology and Identity
featuring @drjpb.bsky.social @mikemena.bsky.social @riannawalcott.bsky.social and moderator @jessgrieser.bsky.social
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Sorry to miss the talks on the last day of the
@lingcomm.bsky.social conference #LingComm25 today!
Unfortunately, I have a deadline I can no longer ignore. :-(
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What does it mean to talk like a person, and not like a journal?
@mikemena.bsky.social: "It's more than switching vocabulary words. It's relating to a person on a different level."
Try using YOU. Just addressing the reader gives it a whole different vibe.
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Went through all my open tabs today and organised them neatly, closed many, and in the process discovered I've just missed nearly all of #LingComm25 as well as something at the @britishacademy.bsky.social I wanted to attend :( how many other #linguistics events languished in the term-time-tab chaos?
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Here's the UK National Linguistics Day info site
www.linguisticshq.co.uk/national-lin... #LingComm25 #linguistics
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Doing a Linguistics Day for high schoolers? Take a tip on terms from Frances Blanchette.
Morphology? ❌
Wordmaxxing ✅
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Apparently November 26th is National Linguistics Day in the UK because it's de Saussure's birthday??
Just found this out from @adamcschembri.bsky.social at #LingComm25 and the chat immediately goes wild
World Linguistics Day, anyone???
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@malvinanissim.bsky.social heads up an Ethics in AI course at the University of Groningen, where one final project is to give a presentation to high school students. The uni students report that having to explain concepts to younger people forces them to consider multiple perspectives.
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"You take a complicated subject that everyone THINKS they understand and explain it in a way that people REALLY understand." @grantbarrett.com on a huge value of linguistics and lingcomm training
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If you can bring a bit of childlike silliness, even adults will respond.
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"The way we try to figure out what the average person already knows about a word [before bringing it to an irl demo] is we run the keyword through google image search"
Laura Wagner at #LingComm25
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@Laura Wagner and Cecile McKee are showing how to share linguistics with respect. Right now they're role-playing teaching IPA with nametags, and linguistic concepts with dinosaurs! 🤯
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Illustration of a black cat with yellow eyes on a lime green background. The text in Estonian reads: (ära) kassima.
Really cool stuff at the second poster session at #LingComm25
I really loved to learn about Slängistik on Instagram who does not only share posts on slang in Estonian but also illustrates them!!!
Just look at that beautiful cat from flow 🐈⬛💖
🔗 www.instagram.com/sl2ngistik/
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Valerie Friedman: "Forget what you know as a linguist in many ways, and all those internal battles we have… It's not about dumbing it down. It's about simplifying."
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Hedde Zeijlstra: "Try to think what you're going to accomplish with your writing" before you start. "Try to keep in mind who you write for."
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Final thoughts on book publishing:
Evangelia Adamou: "I feel personally that there is a lot of pressure to build your own audience. What I liked about @MITPress was they built the audience for me."
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Three boxes leading into one: Aphasia Community Members: contribute knowledge from their personal experience with aphasia and the broader community Speech Language Pathologists: evaluate theraputic foundation of the games throughout development Game Designers: Build scalable playful systems (all leading into box called "Co-Design Team Aphasia Games for Health)
Really cool example of games + linguistics from Kathryn Hymes at #LingComm25 - made a game for working on language skills for people with aphasia
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Author Hedde Zeijlstra on publishing: "The hardest thing about writing was that there was a linguist sitting on my shoulder" playing the part of a critic.
"You just have to beat up that person on your shoulder."
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Tips on podcast audio from @becauselanguage.com
How hard do you go on the edit?
- UMs and UHs have a function, so try to leave them.
- Honour the conversation you had. Don't overwork it.
- Serve the show — if it's distracting, cut it.
And always always always record more than one way.
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Valerie Friedman has an important tip on publishing (on the English-speaking scene): Agents get paid when you do.
"If an agent is asking you for money up front — run."
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Evangelia Adamou: Writing a popsci book is a great way to consolidate yourself as an expert in the field.
However, "popular books don't always count the same [as academic books], especially early in your career. You may want to wait to get tenure first, before writing a popular book."
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Valerie Friedman on writing a popular book: "There's a point at which you have the confidence to say what *WE* do, rather than just what *I* do."
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Valerie Friedman has studied "vowel movement".
"I know I can say that in this crowd and not be mistaken for a gastroenterologist."
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