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Tülay Dixon
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Applied Linguist at Oxford College of Emory University | PhD in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University

corpus linguistics, academic discourse, language attitudes, research methods, CALL

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jeremy-data.bsky.social
A worthy mantra from Andrew: "[I] cannot LLM [my] way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability."
andrew.heiss.phd Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 4d
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future? No. Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course? These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this). However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code. In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner: …to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability. There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability. The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma. This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle. This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too): Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.) It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything. You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy. As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible: To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use. Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled. So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting. You’ve got to learn first.
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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jessgrieser.com
Taking to my vet just now I realized vets : pets :: linguists : languages.

Vets often have lots of pets because they like pets and that’s why they became vets. But having a bunch of pets isn’t what makes you a vet.
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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hadley.nz
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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gavinbrookes.bsky.social
Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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danielrisbell.bsky.social
*please share widely*

My department (Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) is hiring a corpus linguist who conducts research on second languages. Great place to teach (2/2 load) and do research! See link for more details:

go.hawaii.edu/mGc
Assistant Professor (Second Language Corpus Linguistics)
Title: Assistant Professor (Second Language Corpus Linguistics)Hiring Unit: College of Arts, Languages & Letters/Department of Second Language StudiesLocation: University of Hawaii at ManoaDate Posted...
go.hawaii.edu
September 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
New in corpus building tools: the NPR Corpus Builder, which lets you search NPR content and download pre-formatted files, ready to import into your choice of corpus analysis software.
corpustools.prendrelangue.fr/nprcorpusbui...

#linguistics
Screenshot of the web application, displaying the search and download interface and a preview of search results
May 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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posit.co
We’re excited to announce that the session catalog for posit::conf(2025) has launched!

View 100+ talks, sort by day and type, and add favorites to your schedule: reg.rainfocus.com/flow/posit/p...

Our Early Bird discount is still available. Get your ticket today!

#RStats #Python #PositConf2025
A graphic announcing the 'FULL PROGRAM LAUNCH' for 'posit conf (2025)'. Below the text is a stylized white outline of a city skyline. At the bottom left is the 'posit' logo followed by 'conf (2025)'. On the bottom right, in white text, are the dates 'SEPTEMBER 16-18' above 'Atlanta', accompanied by a small yellow cube.
April 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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tovelarsson.bsky.social
The Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of Spoken American English (LANA-CASE) is featured in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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davisvaughan.bsky.social
@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉

With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...
Air, an extremely fast R formatter
We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.
www.tidyverse.org
February 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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dylanburton.bsky.social
Excited that my article with Paula Winke has been published today in Studies in Second Language Acquisition! In this study we examined the relationship between non-language specialists' estimates of L2 language ability and perceived affect. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Affect as a component of second language speech perception | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge Core
Affect as a component of second language speech perception
www.cambridge.org
February 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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tienchihmath.bsky.social
Hey friends who work at SLACs and PUIs! I am on a working group to examine course releases and workloads. Would any of you be able to direct me to resources on how your institution measures workload and/or computes releases? Thanks!
February 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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tovelarsson.bsky.social
Deadline extended until Jan 31!
January 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
tulaydixon.bsky.social
Meet the Vocabulary List Generator (VLG), a free digital tool that can be easily used by practitioners and researchers to create vocabulary lists. The VLG takes into account frequency together with the latest dispersion measures.
doi.org/10.1016/j.rm...
VLG Interface
January 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
tulaydixon.bsky.social
Daniel beat me to it, but yes, snow in Atlanta!!! 🙂
danielhdixon.bsky.social Daniel H. Dixon @danielhdixon.bsky.social · Jan 10
Snow in Atlanta!
January 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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lanegreene.bsky.social
Bill Labov, an absolute titan of linguists, died yesterday at 97. He virtually invented the field of sociolinguistics, and then was its leading light for many decades.
December 18, 2024 at 9:27 AM
tulaydixon.bsky.social
Looking forward to this—and not having to travel for it!
posit.co Posit @posit.co · Dec 6
We are excited to announce posit::conf(2025)! Join fellow data enthusiasts & developers for an unforgettable three days of learning, connection, and inspiration.

Learn more and register at posit.co/blog/positco...

#datascience #rstats #pydata #quarto #tidyverse #posit
Registration for posit conference 2025 Now open. Atlanta, Sept 16-18
December 6, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
🗣💬 Major update: the corpus collection tool BlueskyScraper now comes with a live stream module which lets you collect posts in real time, either randomly or through filters, then download the results as a file in the format of your choice.

🔗 Info: fmoncomble.github.io/blueskyscrap...
Screenshot of the BluesyScraper live stream module's interface, displaying the available filters (by language, by user, by keywords, including regular expressions) and the "start streaming" button.
December 2, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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darinself.com
Every academic right now
A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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tovelarsson.bsky.social
📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:

uclouvain.be/en/research-...
Call for papers
To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona ...
uclouvain.be
November 27, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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lingwithcorpus.bsky.social
Check out our latest blog post by @jesse-egbert.bsky.social titled "(Zipf's) Law and (Rank) Order".

linguisticswithacorpus.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/z...
November 27, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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danielrisbell.bsky.social
Optimist: glass half full
Pessimist: glass half empty
Corpus Linguist: Which word most frequently appears in the phrase "glass half *"?
Screen shot of CoCA output showing "glass half full" (n = 123) is twice as frequent as "glass half empty" (n = 54)
November 25, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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jaspstats.bsky.social
Doing a Meta-Analysis? Visualize it with JASP.
Our new release is coming soon.
fbartos.bsky.social František Bartoš @fbartos.bsky.social · Nov 16
We are in the final phases of preparing a new update of JASP (@jaspstats.bsky.social). I'm creating examples for the completely revamped Meta-Analysis module - check out how stunning forest and funnel plots can be created with only a couple of mouse clicks!

#meta-analysis
November 17, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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dylanburton.bsky.social
I've created an Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies starter pack for new BlueSky users (I credit @danielrisbell.bsky.social for the idea). Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added to or removed from the list!

go.bsky.app/VZPgwMD
November 15, 2024 at 2:07 PM