Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智
@simazhi.bsky.social
Linguist | Sinologist
Ideophones, onomatopoeia, iconic words @KU_Leuven ➡️ @NTU_TW ➡️ @HKUniversity ➡️ @KU_Leuven and @FWOVlaanderen
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Ideophones, onomatopoeia, iconic words @KU_Leuven ➡️ @NTU_TW ➡️ @HKUniversity ➡️ @KU_Leuven and @FWOVlaanderen
thomasvanhoey.com
After passing through the focus group, here is the next exciting installment of my blog: Sunsets, spreadsheets, and languishing leaves.
Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy!
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy!
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
After passing through the focus group, here is the next exciting installment of my blog: Sunsets, spreadsheets, and languishing leaves.
Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy!
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy!
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
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The real magic is ✨️regex✨️
October 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The real magic is ✨️regex✨️
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As I show in my new preprint, #Bayesian statistics is no longer just a niche tool. It’s becoming mainstream in linguistics research. A survey of journal articles shows a rapid rise in Bayesian regression over the past five years. Why?
#Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
#Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
A Bayesian dawn in linguistics: Trends, benefits and good practices
In recent years, Bayesian statistics has gained traction across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This paper explores the growing application of Bayesian methods within the field of linguistics ...
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
As I show in my new preprint, #Bayesian statistics is no longer just a niche tool. It’s becoming mainstream in linguistics research. A survey of journal articles shows a rapid rise in Bayesian regression over the past five years. Why?
#Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
#Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
Yikes. I forgot Academia.e d u is still at it!
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Yikes. I forgot Academia.e d u is still at it!
I wish I didn’t like it lol.
September 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I wish I didn’t like it lol.
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Honoured to have given a plenary lecture at the #SLE2025 conference in Bordeaux!
I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena.
📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here:
#linguistics
I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena.
📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here:
#linguistics
Societas Linguistica Europaea - 58th Annual Meeting26-29 August 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
YouTube video by Université Bordeaux Montaigne
youtu.be
September 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Honoured to have given a plenary lecture at the #SLE2025 conference in Bordeaux!
I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena.
📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here:
#linguistics
I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena.
📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here:
#linguistics
Can a study rightfully state its “effect is found ACROSS LANGUAGES” when it’s only two (in this case English and another well-studied one)?
What’s the minimum? Serious question.
#langsky #linguistics
What’s the minimum? Serious question.
#langsky #linguistics
August 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Can a study rightfully state its “effect is found ACROSS LANGUAGES” when it’s only two (in this case English and another well-studied one)?
What’s the minimum? Serious question.
#langsky #linguistics
What’s the minimum? Serious question.
#langsky #linguistics
We don’t need AI to solve questions like these, just logical thinking and basic programming skills. Great article!
www.bigeatersushi.com/stop-getting...
www.bigeatersushi.com/stop-getting...
Stop Getting Fooled by 4+ Star Tourist Traps!
Google says it removed 170 million fake reviews in 2023. Still, I’ve been burned way too often. You probably have too. How to avoid tourist traps.
www.bigeatersushi.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We don’t need AI to solve questions like these, just logical thinking and basic programming skills. Great article!
www.bigeatersushi.com/stop-getting...
www.bigeatersushi.com/stop-getting...
Guys, I can't explain it but I think #SquidGameSeason3
ends with Scarlett Johansson playing a Korean man
#SquidGame
ends with Scarlett Johansson playing a Korean man
#SquidGame
June 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Guys, I can't explain it but I think #SquidGameSeason3
ends with Scarlett Johansson playing a Korean man
#SquidGame
ends with Scarlett Johansson playing a Korean man
#SquidGame
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Kids these days have poor file naming habits.
June 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Kids these days have poor file naming habits.
Over het fenomeen van 'kirakira' namen
kirakira キラキラ betekent 'glitteren' en is een #ideofoon.
#ideophone
www.hln.be/buitenland/j...
kirakira キラキラ betekent 'glitteren' en is een #ideofoon.
#ideophone
www.hln.be/buitenland/j...
Japan voert regels in tegen ‘glitterende’ en ‘fancy’ babynamen
Vanaf deze week gelden in Japan nieuwe regels die de keuzevrijheid van ouders bij het geven van babynamen beperken. De focus ligt op het standaardiseren van de uitspraak van 'kanji-tekens' (Japans sch...
www.hln.be
May 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Over het fenomeen van 'kirakira' namen
kirakira キラキラ betekent 'glitteren' en is een #ideofoon.
#ideophone
www.hln.be/buitenland/j...
kirakira キラキラ betekent 'glitteren' en is een #ideofoon.
#ideophone
www.hln.be/buitenland/j...
Some reflections about the AI hype cult.
#linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
#linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
May 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Some reflections about the AI hype cult.
#linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
#linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
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📢 We’re pleased to announce IcoLL2026: Joint conference of IcoSem and ILL (21–23 Feb., Nagoya U., Japan). The conference will feature invited talks by Dr. Mutsumi Imai, Dr. Noburo Saji, Dr. Pamela Perniss, and Dr. Neil Cohn. We look forward to welcoming you to Nagoya!
🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4
🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4
May 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📢 We’re pleased to announce IcoLL2026: Joint conference of IcoSem and ILL (21–23 Feb., Nagoya U., Japan). The conference will feature invited talks by Dr. Mutsumi Imai, Dr. Noburo Saji, Dr. Pamela Perniss, and Dr. Neil Cohn. We look forward to welcoming you to Nagoya!
🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4
🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4
If a #deathnote randomly fell into my lap, I wouldn’t tell anyone. But there would be signs 🤭
a close up of a person with black hair
ALT: a close up of a person with black hair
media.tenor.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If a #deathnote randomly fell into my lap, I wouldn’t tell anyone. But there would be signs 🤭
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Djeez.
Word volwassen, verwend nest.
Word volwassen, verwend nest.
May 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Djeez.
Word volwassen, verwend nest.
Word volwassen, verwend nest.
Going through @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social’s new book The AI con.
Despite the aggressive marketing here (big turnoff) I’m in chapter 3 and it might be the most timely book I read this year🫰Insightful throughout
Will formulate my thoughts after another AI writing workshop 😮💨😮💨
Despite the aggressive marketing here (big turnoff) I’m in chapter 3 and it might be the most timely book I read this year🫰Insightful throughout
Will formulate my thoughts after another AI writing workshop 😮💨😮💨
May 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Going through @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social’s new book The AI con.
Despite the aggressive marketing here (big turnoff) I’m in chapter 3 and it might be the most timely book I read this year🫰Insightful throughout
Will formulate my thoughts after another AI writing workshop 😮💨😮💨
Despite the aggressive marketing here (big turnoff) I’m in chapter 3 and it might be the most timely book I read this year🫰Insightful throughout
Will formulate my thoughts after another AI writing workshop 😮💨😮💨
Reposted by Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智
Day 6 of yeeting apps that suck up my attention off my phone (instagram, facebook, Reddit) and the withdrawal signs are lessening. My phone has become boring. Obviously bluesky could stay, as it hasn’t turned into an ever updating slot machine (yet).
May 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Day 6 of yeeting apps that suck up my attention off my phone (instagram, facebook, Reddit) and the withdrawal signs are lessening. My phone has become boring. Obviously bluesky could stay, as it hasn’t turned into an ever updating slot machine (yet).
Remember how I was happy to announce two papers were available open access and online?! Well, I was wrong. There is another.
On Friday we learned about our paper in English Language and Linguistics (next skeet)
1/3
On Friday we learned about our paper in English Language and Linguistics (next skeet)
1/3
May 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Remember how I was happy to announce two papers were available open access and online?! Well, I was wrong. There is another.
On Friday we learned about our paper in English Language and Linguistics (next skeet)
1/3
On Friday we learned about our paper in English Language and Linguistics (next skeet)
1/3
Things I did not have on my May 2025 fortune telling bingo card: my mom excitedly telling me abt using ChatGPT for the 1st time in her life, and it's for tarot readings and astrology 🔮✨✨
So I also tried it. Good news everybody. Even 4.5 "does not have access to a good astrological API". We're safe.
So I also tried it. Good news everybody. Even 4.5 "does not have access to a good astrological API". We're safe.
May 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Things I did not have on my May 2025 fortune telling bingo card: my mom excitedly telling me abt using ChatGPT for the 1st time in her life, and it's for tarot readings and astrology 🔮✨✨
So I also tried it. Good news everybody. Even 4.5 "does not have access to a good astrological API". We're safe.
So I also tried it. Good news everybody. Even 4.5 "does not have access to a good astrological API". We're safe.
One day you go to sleep wondering what all this stochastic "chance of P occurring", with P being the chance of an honest die, is all about.
And then one day you wake up 20 years later, eagerly looking forward to continuing watching videos about statistics on youtube.
What are the actual odds? 🤯🧮
And then one day you wake up 20 years later, eagerly looking forward to continuing watching videos about statistics on youtube.
What are the actual odds? 🤯🧮
May 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
One day you go to sleep wondering what all this stochastic "chance of P occurring", with P being the chance of an honest die, is all about.
And then one day you wake up 20 years later, eagerly looking forward to continuing watching videos about statistics on youtube.
What are the actual odds? 🤯🧮
And then one day you wake up 20 years later, eagerly looking forward to continuing watching videos about statistics on youtube.
What are the actual odds? 🤯🧮
Two papers of mine got published online this week. Celebratory blogpost with some random thoughts. I'll link the two papers (both open access) below
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
Please read and cite <3
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
Please read and cite <3
April 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Two papers of mine got published online this week. Celebratory blogpost with some random thoughts. I'll link the two papers (both open access) below
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
Please read and cite <3
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
Please read and cite <3
Grellig…
I actually encountered the issue @dingemansemark.bsky.social mentioned about the bibliography being removed from the chapter in question. Super inconvenient OUP!
And totally unreasonable to not give authors offprints without their begging for it.
I actually encountered the issue @dingemansemark.bsky.social mentioned about the bibliography being removed from the chapter in question. Super inconvenient OUP!
And totally unreasonable to not give authors offprints without their begging for it.
New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
April 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Grellig…
I actually encountered the issue @dingemansemark.bsky.social mentioned about the bibliography being removed from the chapter in question. Super inconvenient OUP!
And totally unreasonable to not give authors offprints without their begging for it.
I actually encountered the issue @dingemansemark.bsky.social mentioned about the bibliography being removed from the chapter in question. Super inconvenient OUP!
And totally unreasonable to not give authors offprints without their begging for it.
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I'm loving the hypocrisy of telling authors they can't share PDFs of their work with anyone and then sharing ALL that work with OpenAI without the authors' permission.
Publishers need us more than we need them in this era...
Publishers need us more than we need them in this era...
New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
April 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm loving the hypocrisy of telling authors they can't share PDFs of their work with anyone and then sharing ALL that work with OpenAI without the authors' permission.
Publishers need us more than we need them in this era...
Publishers need us more than we need them in this era...