Felicia Bisnath
@fbisnath.bsky.social
Postdoc at Høgskulen på Vestlandet 🇳🇴. Hearing. Thinking about attitudes, multimodal language contact, iconicity, typology, Creoles, and how to do good linguistics (!)
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Felicia Bisnath
@fbisnath.bsky.social
· Sep 12
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Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+
geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+
annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) +
ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+
theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint")
#RStats #ggplot2
ggplot() +
geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+
geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+
annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) +
ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+
theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint")
#RStats #ggplot2
October 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I'm Baby
Baby’s first scalar implicature at 2;2.
Me: our neighbor’s dogs are cute.
Baby: why?
me: most dogs are cute really but I like their dogs the most.
Baby: ‘no. All dogs cute’
Me: our neighbor’s dogs are cute.
Baby: why?
me: most dogs are cute really but I like their dogs the most.
Baby: ‘no. All dogs cute’
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I'm Baby
some fonts really stress me out
October 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
some fonts really stress me out
The current government in Trinidad & Tobago is all in with the US on this
The U.S. military has destroyed five boats it has alleged were ferrying drugs into the U.S., killing 27 people. No authority has publicly released the names of any of the dead. One family is believed to be the first to publicly say they believe a relative is among those who were killed.
U.S. Military Killed Venezuelan Fisherman in Suspected Drug Boat Attack, Family Says
For the first time, one of the 27 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on suspected drug vessels has been publicly identified.
nyti.ms
October 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The current government in Trinidad & Tobago is all in with the US on this
cleaning my code by breaking my code 😡
October 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
cleaning my code by breaking my code 😡
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
deadmau5 anonymisation is my fav
There is something schematic about the two-handed forms for plurals, such that different participants can choose different gestures for the same meaning, but nonetheless involving an iconic plural mapping onto the two hands.
#iconicity
#iconicity
October 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
deadmau5 anonymisation is my fav
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling....
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Non-signers favor two-handed gestures when expressing inherently plural meanings
Sign languages have been shown to favor two-handed forms to express plural meanings, and in this paper we investigate whether this pattern is similarly found in silent gestures improvised by hearing n...
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling....
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
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🚀 My latest article, entitled "Discourse Markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) Dialogues and Their Translation into French: A Corpus-Based Study", has been recently published open access!
🌍 doi.org/10.3390/lang...
🧵 1/4
🌍 doi.org/10.3390/lang...
🧵 1/4
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚀 My latest article, entitled "Discourse Markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) Dialogues and Their Translation into French: A Corpus-Based Study", has been recently published open access!
🌍 doi.org/10.3390/lang...
🧵 1/4
🌍 doi.org/10.3390/lang...
🧵 1/4
list of things that are fulfilling to me: lifting weights, looking at cats exist, bottle-feeding tiny baby puppies
October 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
list of things that are fulfilling to me: lifting weights, looking at cats exist, bottle-feeding tiny baby puppies
I'm not learning important things in Norwegian class, like the vocabulary to respond to kind ladies who compliment my shoes (they're semi-chunky red patent square-toe loafers that deserve all the praise)
October 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I'm not learning important things in Norwegian class, like the vocabulary to respond to kind ladies who compliment my shoes (they're semi-chunky red patent square-toe loafers that deserve all the praise)
I feel like I should not apply to temporary positions that ask for way too many novel materials on principle
October 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I feel like I should not apply to temporary positions that ask for way too many novel materials on principle
I'm just one year past my PhD and I already feel so tired when I think about applying for things
October 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I'm just one year past my PhD and I already feel so tired when I think about applying for things
one of my fav things is when academics send me photos of their vacay, pets etc. in work e-mails
October 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
one of my fav things is when academics send me photos of their vacay, pets etc. in work e-mails
On Oct 23rd 2025 at 14:30 CET Marianthi Koraka (Georg-August-Universität ) will present on imperatives in German Sign Language and Greek Sign Language at the Silc Seminars. English-Norwegian SL interpreting available.
E-mail me to get on the mailing list www.hvl.no/en/research/...
#linguistics
E-mail me to get on the mailing list www.hvl.no/en/research/...
#linguistics
Silc Seminars
Sign Language, Interpreting, Linguistics and Communication Seminars
www.hvl.no
October 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
On Oct 23rd 2025 at 14:30 CET Marianthi Koraka (Georg-August-Universität ) will present on imperatives in German Sign Language and Greek Sign Language at the Silc Seminars. English-Norwegian SL interpreting available.
E-mail me to get on the mailing list www.hvl.no/en/research/...
#linguistics
E-mail me to get on the mailing list www.hvl.no/en/research/...
#linguistics
I really want to like running but I really hate it
October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I really want to like running but I really hate it
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Back to the roots, both for me and for the field: there is still a lot to be said about 19th century creolistics and its fundamental coloniality. Proposals may cover any Creole language in the world; articles can be in various languages, including (and particularly welcome) in French-based Creoles.
Calls: Archipélies - "Special Issue: Describing Creole Languages in the 19th Century: Ideology, Sociology, and Intertextuality / Décrire les créoles au XIXe siècle : idéologie, sociologie et intertextualité" (Jrnl)
Calls: Archipélies - "Special Issue: Describing Creole Languages in the 19th Century: Ideology, Sociology, and Intertextuality / Décrire les créoles au XIXe siècle : idéologie, sociologie et intertextualité" (Jrnl)
How do beliefs about Creole languages influence the their descriptions by 19th-century creolists? This issue of 'Archipélies' seeks to answer this question, focusing on the beliefs, representations, and, more broadly, ideologies that permeate descriptions of Creole languages from the documentation of Haitian Creole by Ducœurjoly in 1802 to the naturalistic portrayal of Creoles around the turn of the century. Far from being reduced to simple nomenclatures, descriptions of Creole languages reprodu
dlvr.it
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Back to the roots, both for me and for the field: there is still a lot to be said about 19th century creolistics and its fundamental coloniality. Proposals may cover any Creole language in the world; articles can be in various languages, including (and particularly welcome) in French-based Creoles.
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
September 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features.
Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies
Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community l....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features.
Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
sometimes I enjoy writing dry ass formulaic prose
September 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
sometimes I enjoy writing dry ass formulaic prose
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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
I've been scheduling little virtual 10 min-ish hellos with my buddies in other countries during our workdays and it's actually a very nice way to keep in casual contact
September 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I've been scheduling little virtual 10 min-ish hellos with my buddies in other countries during our workdays and it's actually a very nice way to keep in casual contact
I really wish groups would stop using Facebook as their only means of sharing information
September 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I really wish groups would stop using Facebook as their only means of sharing information
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It's the #InternationalDayOfSignLanguages!
The GIF below shows a commonly used international sign for 'sign language'. But is there only a single, universal sign language? Of course not, there are many!
#Linguistics
The GIF below shows a commonly used international sign for 'sign language'. But is there only a single, universal sign language? Of course not, there are many!
#Linguistics
September 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's the #InternationalDayOfSignLanguages!
The GIF below shows a commonly used international sign for 'sign language'. But is there only a single, universal sign language? Of course not, there are many!
#Linguistics
The GIF below shows a commonly used international sign for 'sign language'. But is there only a single, universal sign language? Of course not, there are many!
#Linguistics