Caitlin Halfacre
@caitlin91.bsky.social
Juggling contracts in Newcastle cos academia's *just like that*
Evangelical Christian | Research Associate | Newcastle | extraverted; wobbly jointed; love people, food, stories, Jesus
blog at http://lifeintheborderlands.substack.com/
Evangelical Christian | Research Associate | Newcastle | extraverted; wobbly jointed; love people, food, stories, Jesus
blog at http://lifeintheborderlands.substack.com/
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lectureship in applied linguistics in my department. lovely city, lovely department, lovely colleagues 🌸 manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
lectureship in applied linguistics in my department. lovely city, lovely department, lovely colleagues 🌸 manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
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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.
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To all educators out there: We are trying to formulate a criterion for our exams that tackles the vagueness of LLM output and punishes it more strictly. If you recognize the issue, has anyone of you come up with a crisp operationalization of such a criterion. Also grateful for other pointers 🙏
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
To all educators out there: We are trying to formulate a criterion for our exams that tackles the vagueness of LLM output and punishes it more strictly. If you recognize the issue, has anyone of you come up with a crisp operationalization of such a criterion. Also grateful for other pointers 🙏
You sir, have won the internet for today, possibly for this year #tidyverse #dplyr #genzplyr #rstats
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
You sir, have won the internet for today, possibly for this year #tidyverse #dplyr #genzplyr #rstats
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Our goal was therefore to engage with the classic & contemporary arguments given by folks in the child-innovator camp, specifically by reviewing (and crediting!) all those who worked hard to dispute their claims over the years. Hope that gives some clarity, alongside the obvious press release 'buzz'
September 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Our goal was therefore to engage with the classic & contemporary arguments given by folks in the child-innovator camp, specifically by reviewing (and crediting!) all those who worked hard to dispute their claims over the years. Hope that gives some clarity, alongside the obvious press release 'buzz'
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I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.
I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.
I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.
Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
www.mpi.nl/publications...
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
www.mpi.nl/publications...
September 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.
I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.
I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.
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Sometimes it depresses me how little impact decades of the study of sociolinguistic variation and change has had on other areas of the language sciences (I get the same feeling about gesture studies), but I didn't even realise that this idea was prevalent in some areas of my own field!
For decades, linguists assumed kids drive language change through ‘imperfect’ learning. New research by Raviv, Blasi & Kempe (Psychological Review) show that instead, adolescents and young adults are more likely to spread, normalize, and cement linguistic shifts. www.mpi.nl/news/young-c...
September 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Sometimes it depresses me how little impact decades of the study of sociolinguistic variation and change has had on other areas of the language sciences (I get the same feeling about gesture studies), but I didn't even realise that this idea was prevalent in some areas of my own field!
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If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts.
Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app
Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app
pin2saved for Bluesky
Migrate your Bluesky 📌 replies to saved posts.
pin2saved.vercel.app
September 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts.
Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app
Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app
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v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
September 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
#UKLVC15 you've been wonderful. Thank you to everyone who organised, presented, asked questions, had intelligent sensitive conversations...all the things. If that was my academic swansong (tbc), it was a pretty great one.
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#UKLVC15 you've been wonderful. Thank you to everyone who organised, presented, asked questions, had intelligent sensitive conversations...all the things. If that was my academic swansong (tbc), it was a pretty great one.
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social
#ManchesterVoices in the wild(ish). Maya Dewhurst is looking at nasal vowels in Blackpool and Manchester, based on folk and literature associations between nasal quality and Manchester accents. #UKLVC15
September 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
#ManchesterVoices in the wild(ish). Maya Dewhurst is looking at nasal vowels in Blackpool and Manchester, based on folk and literature associations between nasal quality and Manchester accents. #UKLVC15
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hey #LingSky 🐦🐦, we have a great post-bacc summer intern interested in socio-phon types of questions. If anyone knows of RA types of opportunities in these areas of linguistics, plz lmk! tagging ppl at top of mind @jofrhwld.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
hey #LingSky 🐦🐦, we have a great post-bacc summer intern interested in socio-phon types of questions. If anyone knows of RA types of opportunities in these areas of linguistics, plz lmk! tagging ppl at top of mind @jofrhwld.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social
If anyone knows anyone who's successfully transitioned from academic Linguistics to data-type work in industry please could you put me in touch? I'd love some advice on what sort of jobs to look at and how to translate my skills and training in a way companies will understand
July 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If anyone knows anyone who's successfully transitioned from academic Linguistics to data-type work in industry please could you put me in touch? I'd love some advice on what sort of jobs to look at and how to translate my skills and training in a way companies will understand
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We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
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The biggest publishers pulled profit margins in 2023 that rival Big Tech.
And they still charge you to publish and your library to read.
When are we going to start seriously thinking of alternatives to reform #PeerReview?
🧪 #SciPub #AcademicPublishing
And they still charge you to publish and your library to read.
When are we going to start seriously thinking of alternatives to reform #PeerReview?
🧪 #SciPub #AcademicPublishing
Where is the money going? In the case of for-profit publishers it's very clear:
Your open access fees fund corporate profit margins.
Profit margins for large academic publishers can far exceed those of household names like Amazon and Apple.
chart source: bit.ly/4leULKi
#scipub #academicsky
Your open access fees fund corporate profit margins.
Profit margins for large academic publishers can far exceed those of household names like Amazon and Apple.
chart source: bit.ly/4leULKi
#scipub #academicsky
July 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The biggest publishers pulled profit margins in 2023 that rival Big Tech.
And they still charge you to publish and your library to read.
When are we going to start seriously thinking of alternatives to reform #PeerReview?
🧪 #SciPub #AcademicPublishing
And they still charge you to publish and your library to read.
When are we going to start seriously thinking of alternatives to reform #PeerReview?
🧪 #SciPub #AcademicPublishing
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The Langauge Learning Lab at MSU (my lab!) has an opening for a 1-year post-doc fellowship in language disorders. The position starts August 2025 and may be renewed for a 2nd year.
Please share with anyone who may be interested. For full details and to apply go to: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Please share with anyone who may be interested. For full details and to apply go to: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary
The Language Learning Lab in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State University (directed by Ron Pomper, Ph.D.) has an opening for a 1-year post-docto...
careers.msu.edu
June 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The Langauge Learning Lab at MSU (my lab!) has an opening for a 1-year post-doc fellowship in language disorders. The position starts August 2025 and may be renewed for a 2nd year.
Please share with anyone who may be interested. For full details and to apply go to: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Please share with anyone who may be interested. For full details and to apply go to: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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Norway considers hiring US researchers that would associate with running projects like my ICONIC project. Specifics are not defined yet, but if you are a postdoctoral researcher working on iconicity and would like to come to Oslo and work with me, shoot me a PM.
shorturl.at/4Zxzz
shorturl.at/4Zxzz
Slik skal Norge tiltrekke seg internasjonale toppforskere
Forskere som vil vekk fra Trumps USA, kan nå få muligheten i Norge. 30-40 forskere kan få komme hit. Slik blir den nye ordningen.
www.khrono.no
June 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Norway considers hiring US researchers that would associate with running projects like my ICONIC project. Specifics are not defined yet, but if you are a postdoctoral researcher working on iconicity and would like to come to Oslo and work with me, shoot me a PM.
shorturl.at/4Zxzz
shorturl.at/4Zxzz
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Wanted: Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
Happy to chat about procedural aspects of the job and connect with our welcome center, who are amazingly helpful in getting settled in Osnabrück
#JobSky
www.hs-osnabrueck.de/wir/jobs-und...
Happy to chat about procedural aspects of the job and connect with our welcome center, who are amazingly helpful in getting settled in Osnabrück
#JobSky
www.hs-osnabrueck.de/wir/jobs-und...
Lecturer in the field of "Quantitative Methods" (WiSo 34-2025)
Welcome to Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, the largest university of applied sciences in Lower Saxony! At three locations, we offer around 100 degree coruses with practical relevance, an imp...
www.hs-osnabrueck.de
June 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Wanted: Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
Happy to chat about procedural aspects of the job and connect with our welcome center, who are amazingly helpful in getting settled in Osnabrück
#JobSky
www.hs-osnabrueck.de/wir/jobs-und...
Happy to chat about procedural aspects of the job and connect with our welcome center, who are amazingly helpful in getting settled in Osnabrück
#JobSky
www.hs-osnabrueck.de/wir/jobs-und...
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Caitlin Halfarce talking to us about the Manchester Voices Project at the MCRL symposium today :-) great work!
May 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Caitlin Halfarce talking to us about the Manchester Voices Project at the MCRL symposium today :-) great work!
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Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE
@caitlin91.bsky.social
@caitlin91.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE
@caitlin91.bsky.social
@caitlin91.bsky.social
Today is the day! We're excited to share what our members have been up to this year.
MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what @manmetuni.bsky.social's #linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linguistic...
May 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social
Linguistics could make language learning more relevant – and attractive – for school pupils
A languages curriculum enriched with linguistics is appealing to students and teachers.
theconversation.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social
There have been better years to be on the academic job market...
that's 15 UK universities in dispute over job cuts
that's 15 UK universities in dispute over job cuts
May 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
There have been better years to be on the academic job market...
that's 15 UK universities in dispute over job cuts
that's 15 UK universities in dispute over job cuts