Calle Börstell
@cborstell.bsky.social
Linguist at the University of Bergen 🇳🇴
#SignLanguages, #linguistics, #RStats & #dataviz
#SignLanguages, #linguistics, #RStats & #dataviz
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Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
www.givingwhatwecan.org
December 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
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@dslc.io welcomes you to week 51 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring The Languages of the World!
📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-12-23
🗞️ https://glottolog.org/
#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-12-23
🗞️ https://glottolog.org/
#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 51 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring The Languages of the World!
📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-12-23
🗞️ https://glottolog.org/
#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-12-23
🗞️ https://glottolog.org/
#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
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New, improved, typo-free meme.
That's what I get for making a meme when I'm behind on sleep with a sick kiddo at home. 🫠
That's what I get for making a meme when I'm behind on sleep with a sick kiddo at home. 🫠
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New, improved, typo-free meme.
That's what I get for making a meme when I'm behind on sleep with a sick kiddo at home. 🫠
That's what I get for making a meme when I'm behind on sleep with a sick kiddo at home. 🫠
Reposted by Calle Börstell
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲
Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner.
🔵 no manual coordinates
🔵 inherits theme styling
🔵 scales nicely when resizing
Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner.
🔵 no manual coordinates
🔵 inherits theme styling
🔵 scales nicely when resizing
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲
Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner.
🔵 no manual coordinates
🔵 inherits theme styling
🔵 scales nicely when resizing
Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner.
🔵 no manual coordinates
🔵 inherits theme styling
🔵 scales nicely when resizing
Reposted by Calle Börstell
Or as I often say: Friends don't let friends use abbreviations!
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
December 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Or as I often say: Friends don't let friends use abbreviations!
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In their article "Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu", Jacqueline Iseli and Rachel McKee describe the sociolinguistic context of deaf people in Vanuatu who have limited opportunities to socialise together, and document signs used by 19 deaf adults across the country nzlingsoc.org/journal_arti...
Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu: A sociolinguistic study - Linguistic Society of New Zealand
nzlingsoc.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In their article "Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu", Jacqueline Iseli and Rachel McKee describe the sociolinguistic context of deaf people in Vanuatu who have limited opportunities to socialise together, and document signs used by 19 deaf adults across the country nzlingsoc.org/journal_arti...
New paper on lexical variation in Swedish Sign Language with Swedish colleagues.
Using a combo of elicitation (in-person), survey (online) & corpus data, we look at some changes in lexical choices over time & discuss methods for measuring variation of variation
#linguistics
doi.org/10.16995/glo...
Using a combo of elicitation (in-person), survey (online) & corpus data, we look at some changes in lexical choices over time & discuss methods for measuring variation of variation
#linguistics
doi.org/10.16995/glo...
Approaching lexical variation in Swedish Sign Language
Languages exhibit variation, which may reflect ethnic, geographic, social or age- or gender-based differences between language users. Many sign languages are known to exhibit lexical variation, with m...
doi.org
December 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
New paper on lexical variation in Swedish Sign Language with Swedish colleagues.
Using a combo of elicitation (in-person), survey (online) & corpus data, we look at some changes in lexical choices over time & discuss methods for measuring variation of variation
#linguistics
doi.org/10.16995/glo...
Using a combo of elicitation (in-person), survey (online) & corpus data, we look at some changes in lexical choices over time & discuss methods for measuring variation of variation
#linguistics
doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Yesterday I got to give a guest lecture in Dr. Hannah Lutzenberger's methods class at the Humboldt University of Berlin. It was great and I finally got to make use of this little figure from the methods chapter in my dissertation! I forgot I like explaining things #linguistics
December 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Yesterday I got to give a guest lecture in Dr. Hannah Lutzenberger's methods class at the Humboldt University of Berlin. It was great and I finally got to make use of this little figure from the methods chapter in my dissertation! I forgot I like explaining things #linguistics
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Far down in Saloni's post, an example worthy of becoming a standard reference argument against extending the y-axis to zero (or showing full range)
December 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Far down in Saloni's post, an example worthy of becoming a standard reference argument against extending the y-axis to zero (or showing full range)
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Highly recommended for all mentors and advisers who work with deaf students in graduate programs: academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...
This is our rhythm: academic becoming and realignment in deaf space
Abstract. Deaf scholars have long worked at the margins of academic institutions not designed for them. Designated deaf academic spaces—where deaf ways of
academic.oup.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Highly recommended for all mentors and advisers who work with deaf students in graduate programs: academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...
The {qatarcars} dataset for #TidyTuesday
How do the sizes of different car types relate to the dimensions of a standard parking space?
🅿️🚗🅿️🚙🅿️🛻🅿️🚙
Code: github.com/borstell/tid...
#ggplot2 #RStats #DataViz
How do the sizes of different car types relate to the dimensions of a standard parking space?
🅿️🚗🅿️🚙🅿️🛻🅿️🚙
Code: github.com/borstell/tid...
#ggplot2 #RStats #DataViz
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The {qatarcars} dataset for #TidyTuesday
How do the sizes of different car types relate to the dimensions of a standard parking space?
🅿️🚗🅿️🚙🅿️🛻🅿️🚙
Code: github.com/borstell/tid...
#ggplot2 #RStats #DataViz
How do the sizes of different car types relate to the dimensions of a standard parking space?
🅿️🚗🅿️🚙🅿️🛻🅿️🚙
Code: github.com/borstell/tid...
#ggplot2 #RStats #DataViz
This might be for an extremely limited target group, but if you ever need to visualize landmarks/keypoints of Mediapipe or OpenFace computer vision models, I've created simple coordinate data files for plotting in a Github repo: github.com/borstell/com...
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This might be for an extremely limited target group, but if you ever need to visualize landmarks/keypoints of Mediapipe or OpenFace computer vision models, I've created simple coordinate data files for plotting in a Github repo: github.com/borstell/com...
December 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Aurélia Nanna Gassa Gonga will present at the Silc Seminars next week, Thursday Dec 11th, at 14:30 Norway time on her PhD research - "International Sign Interpreting: New Evidence for a Language-Like System"
Find more information here: www.hvl.no/en/research/...
#linguistics
Find more information here: www.hvl.no/en/research/...
#linguistics
Silc Seminars
Sign Language, Interpreting, Linguistics and Communication Seminars
www.hvl.no
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Aurélia Nanna Gassa Gonga will present at the Silc Seminars next week, Thursday Dec 11th, at 14:30 Norway time on her PhD research - "International Sign Interpreting: New Evidence for a Language-Like System"
Find more information here: www.hvl.no/en/research/...
#linguistics
Find more information here: www.hvl.no/en/research/...
#linguistics
Reminder that it's the season for the objectively best bun in the world, Swedish saffron buns.
Recipe:
borstell.github.io/misc/saffron/
Recipe:
borstell.github.io/misc/saffron/
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reminder that it's the season for the objectively best bun in the world, Swedish saffron buns.
Recipe:
borstell.github.io/misc/saffron/
Recipe:
borstell.github.io/misc/saffron/
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🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄
Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵
#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource
Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵
#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄
Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵
#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource
Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵
#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource
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🚨 #EnvisionBOX alert 🚨
We are pleased to announce a virtual EnvisionBox Community Meeting, designed to bring together researchers who work with computational tools for processing, annotation, and analysis of multimodal data available on the EnvisionBox platform (and beyond).
#multimodality
We are pleased to announce a virtual EnvisionBox Community Meeting, designed to bring together researchers who work with computational tools for processing, annotation, and analysis of multimodal data available on the EnvisionBox platform (and beyond).
#multimodality
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🚨 #EnvisionBOX alert 🚨
We are pleased to announce a virtual EnvisionBox Community Meeting, designed to bring together researchers who work with computational tools for processing, annotation, and analysis of multimodal data available on the EnvisionBox platform (and beyond).
#multimodality
We are pleased to announce a virtual EnvisionBox Community Meeting, designed to bring together researchers who work with computational tools for processing, annotation, and analysis of multimodal data available on the EnvisionBox platform (and beyond).
#multimodality
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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.
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.
Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R
stefanocoretta.github.io
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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.
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.
People who use ELAN for research: What is your preferred way of analyzing annotated data?
1) Searching within ELAN
2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet
3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar)
4) Other?
#Linguistics
1) Searching within ELAN
2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet
3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar)
4) Other?
#Linguistics
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
People who use ELAN for research: What is your preferred way of analyzing annotated data?
1) Searching within ELAN
2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet
3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar)
4) Other?
#Linguistics
1) Searching within ELAN
2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet
3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar)
4) Other?
#Linguistics
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I don't know how I've missed it because it's *right on the documentation home page*, but if you use {glue} for nice string interpolation in #rstats and you have {stringr} loaded (likely through the tidyverse), you can use str_glue() instead of glue::glue() or loading library(glue) glue.tidyverse.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I don't know how I've missed it because it's *right on the documentation home page*, but if you use {glue} for nice string interpolation in #rstats and you have {stringr} loaded (likely through the tidyverse), you can use str_glue() instead of glue::glue() or loading library(glue) glue.tidyverse.org
This was such a cool map animation of Germany that I had to try to make one for Sweden! But with only ≈2000 towns, so some sparsely populated areas don't show so well. #ggplot2
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This was such a cool map animation of Germany that I had to try to make one for Sweden! But with only ≈2000 towns, so some sparsely populated areas don't show so well. #ggplot2
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When you think you’ve finally gotten through the last round of reviews.
Reviewer 2:
Reviewer 2:
a picture of yoda with the words no there is another on the bottom
ALT: a picture of yoda with the words no there is another on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When you think you’ve finally gotten through the last round of reviews.
Reviewer 2:
Reviewer 2: