Hedvig
@Laserhedvig
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postdoc linguist at DLCE @MPI_EVA_Leipzig co-host of @becauselangpod. proud @anualumni. views == mine 🇸🇪 living in 🇩🇪, previously 🇨🇦🇳🇱🇦🇺 🐈 🐈⬛
Leipzig
Joined January 2014
Do you like maps of the Pacific? 🏝️🥥🍠🌴.Well, have we got a group for you! ☺️.
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RT @kensycoop: How are humans able to make sense of time? . Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts….
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dearest @cragcrest . I am not here for my semi-regular plea for you to do more podcasts, especially with @ClareMalone . I am here to say that the video on your old article is down and please do you know who to poke to fix it please? ty + you're so cool!.
fivethirtyeight.com
P-values have taken quite a beating lately. These widely used and commonly misapplied statistics have been blamed for giving a veneer of legitimacy to dodgy stu…
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Achievement unlocked: Etymonline-editor Douglas Harper agrees with me on something. So, I can't be that dumb.
Would you eat a HANDBURGER? Someday we all might. @Laserhedvig really likes folk etymologies, and Douglas Harper of Etymonline explains why they're just fine. That episode is here:.
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RT @MishaTeplitskiy: People usually think replication attempts in science are rare. Journals don't publish replications, so scientists don'….
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RT @dwnews: Germany is a multilingual society, but accessing health care is often frustrating for people who don't speak German. https://t….
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Germany is a multilingual society, but access to health care is often frustrating for people who don't speak German. The government is planning to introduce translation services, but implementation...
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RT @ChelseaParlett: It turns out you can’t teach a decades worth of stats experience/learning in a single semester.
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I had the great pleasure of talking to Berthold von Maris from @nrc about grammatical diversity recently. It was fun and the resulting piece is very well-done!.
nrc.nl
Taalkunde: Voor het eerst kunnen taalkundigen op wiskundige wijze talen van over de hele wereld met elkaar vergelijken.
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RT @becauselangpod: I loved this chat with @JulieSedivy about her new book "Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love". And a discussion with Ma….
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RT @johngreen: Hi! My new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, comes out March 18th. I'm signing 100,000 copies of it. You can preorder your s….
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RT @jayforeman: If you enjoyed the latest #MapMen episode with @markcooperjones and me playing Geoguessr, you can watch our BONUS GAME (5 m….
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RT @MPI_EVA_Leipzig: 📢📢📢 Apply by 30 November 2024! Join our vibrant research community @MPI_EVA_Leipzig or @UniLeipzig! Our Intl. Max Plan….
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RT @alexisjbreen: It's that time of year again - #CrowCoG is advertising for 🚨 MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS (APRIL - SEP 2025….
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RT @RosaGisladottir: I am excited to announce that Asifa Majid is the 2024 recipient of the international #VigdísPrize, an award conferred….
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I just renamed the app on my home screen. I haven't seen that black X in ages.
Can we all agree we’re still calling this app twitter. It’s been a year and I’ve never called it 𝕏
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RT @bkmacaulay: I had half my Japanese linguistics students read a paper that argues that Japanese has no syllables, and the other half rea….
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I love the Agatha Christie podcast @allaboutthedame ! What I do is I listen to the radio adaptions, preferably by Enyd Williams, or audiobooks, preferably by John Moffat or Hugh Fraser, and then I look up the podcast ep. It's wonderful!
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RT @d_feldman: The widely-used wordfreq database of English word frequencies will no longer be updated.
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