Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

Postdoc and lecturer in corpus linguistics and project leader in the CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" at the University of Cologne (Germany)

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• Former research fellow at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at UCLouvain
• Ph.D. in English linguistics/English language teaching
• Conference Interpreter M.A.
• Cognitive Science M.Sc.

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Website: https://www.elenlefoll.eu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-8010
PL in the CRC 1252 "Prominence in language": https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/
Departmnt of Romance Studies, University of Cologne: https://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/

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2026-10-16 15:09:20 UTC

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Many take/have taken my Data Analysis in R class, in which I teach Quarto (see Ch. 14 in my textbook: https://elenlefoll.github.io/RstatsTextbook/14_Quarto.html). For the others, I get them to work through this standalone hands-on guide that I wrote for this purpose (https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/quarto4research) as homework and encourage them to attend one of the Quarto workshops that I regularly give at the University of Cologne. For the past two semesters, it's actually been former students of mine who've been giving these workshops because some of them have become real Quarto wizards and enjoy passing on their magic powers!

2026-10-16 07:52:27 UTC

My M.A. linguistics/Romance studies students have to submit their term papers in Quarto with all the necessary files for me to be able to locally re-render it. It's a joy to see how they creatively use this highly flexible format for their projects. This morning I was about to award one student a grade of 1,3 for their paper (second best possible grade in Germany for an excellent paper albeit some methodological flaws), but then I realised that, in addition to their raw data, they also submitted a README and a data dictionary so I've changed my mind and have rounded that up to a 1,0. All my courses include a good dose of Open Science and it's wonderful to see students really taking these things on board! 😊
#HigherEd #linguistics #Romanistik #Quarto #OpenScience

2026-10-06 08:18:30 UTC

I take serious issue with the @npub13yw…wwpf's reporting on data showing increased cancer rates among young people "prompting warnings about lifestyle choices". It is completely inappropriate to suggest that cancer patients and survivors might have avoided their cancer had they made better life choices.
The article says very little about the causes of cancer, only stating: "WCRF said risk factors such as growing obesity levels, poor diet, insufficient exercise, alcohol consumption, smoking and environmental exposures (such as pollutants, chemicals, plastics, water and air pollution) could be contributing to the trend" and adding "About 40% of cancers are linked to these kinds of modifiable risks."
But that list mixes a lot of things: exposure to polluants, chemicals, plastics and pollution are not *personally modifiable risks*! These are society-level risks that require collective, i.e. political, action. So now is the time to report on irresponsible policies such as Germany's fuel subsidies or the EU's Food and Feed Safety Omnibus that aims to roll back safeguards protecting us and the environment from pesticides and are *currently* being implemented/negotiated NOT blame young people for not eating their fives-a-day. Seriously, what are we supposed to do: Cycle to work in more toxic fumes? Ingest more harmful pesticides by eating more fruit and veg?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/06/cancer-rates-rising-more-quickly-among-younger-people-international-study-finds
#PinkOctober #cancer #pesticides #EU #OctobreRose #cancer_colere #Tankrabatt #Krebs
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2026-09-12 08:29:11 UTC

In my "Introduction to Data Analysis in R for Linguists" seminar (based on my textbook: https://elenlefoll.github.io/RstatsTextbook/), I spend a lot of time on project management, file naming conventions, file formats, and reproducible workflows using Quarto. Some might consider it a waste of time because it means I have less time for other things (sorry ANOVAS, you're out!). However, this latest round of term papers has, once again, proven that this is well-invested time: my students are delivering fully reproducible term papers in Quarto format and, because they have a firm grasp of the basics, those that are motivated learn far more complex things than what I've taught them to complete really quite ambitious projects. Today's heartwarming quote from a [female] M.A. student: "I ended up having a lot of fun getting into the more technical, coding-heavy side of things, which surprised me! So thank you for that." And many go on to use R and Quarto for their MA theses! 🥰
#Quarto #RStats #linguistics #HigherEd

2026-07-05 13:12:21 UTC

Hello #ggplot2 #dataviz experts out there!
I have created a map of Indonesia with some labels for a friend's publication (left), but she would ideally like the labels to be around the edges of the map (as in the second figure). I am currently using ggrepel::geom_label_repe() to ensure that the labels don't overlap. Any ideas how I could achieve something resembling the second figure?
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2026-06-14 19:49:01 UTC

I try to be optimistic about academia, but then there are evenings like today...
I am reviewing a textbook on GenAI and second language teaching for a renowned commercial publisher. Although I now priorise reviewing for scholar-led, non-commercial publishers, the topic is of personal interest to me and I accepted this invitation because I wanted to ensure that critical AI literacies were well represented in this new textbook (and decent financial compensation was offered, which I admit was also a motivation). This evening, I started reading the preface (which was short but promising) and the introduction. After a couple of pages of pleasant reading, I came across a statement that I thought was odd so I decided to follow up on the reference that was used to support this statement. It turned out that the DOI in the reference section returned a 404. And that the entire reference does not exist! This made me suspicious so I went through all references in Ch. 1 and found three additional hallucinated references and several more incorrect DOIs! I'm not reading any further – will now stop working and attempt to write a polite review tomorrow.
#AppliedLinguistics #SLA #GenAI #academia

2026-06-11 07:59:40 UTC

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll/116725024738077486
This is TODAY at 16–17:30 CEST! Feel free to DM or e-mail me, if you need a last-minute Zoom link as the newsletter mail has already gone out.
#DigitalHumanities #OpenScience @npub1jp9…kqs2
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2026-06-10 09:08:50 UTC

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Believe it or not, but tomorrow is already Thursday 11 June and therefore time for a cup of freshly brewed #ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas! 🤗
We meet at our usual tea-time 16–17:30 CEST in room 4.006 of
@npub1vup…t69z (entrance via Kerperner Str.) and on Zoom and very much look forward to learning from our guest speaker Robert Keßler (Parallel and Distributed Systems Group @npub1ez4…f08a about reproducibility in computer science – a topic of relevance to all of us working with computational methods of some kind!
Robert's recommended (but optional) preparation reading is one of our favourites: https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3233853.
Come for the (cardamon!) tea and biscuits and stay for the insightful discussions! 🫖 🍪
#OpenScience #reproducibility #ComputerScience #DigitalHumanities
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2026-05-18 11:49:43 UTC

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This Thursday 21 May 16–17:30 CEST ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas exceptionally meets online only as we welcome two international guest speakers, @npub12u4…9ghe (University of Edinburgh) and Jessica Hampton (University of Lancaster), to speak to us about "Registered Reports as a model for research reform: theory and practice".
Stefano and Jessica recently launched Registered Reports in Linguistics (https://journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling). We very much look forward to their insights into how registered reports can be applied to both quantitative and qualitative research in linguistics, the humanities, and beyond!
As usual, there will be plenty of time for questions and discussions! Join our mailing list to get the Zoom link: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas or send me a DM. The session will not be recorded.
@npub1vup…t69z #humanities #linguistics #DigitalHumanities #OpenScience
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2026-05-18 08:01:00 UTC

If any 3 to 10 year-olds in Cologne have sick teddy bears or dolls, they can bring them to the university clinic tomorrow afternoon or Wed afternoon to get them diagnosed and healed. A fantastic offer from @npub1ez4…f08a!
https://fsmed-koeln.de/projekte/teddybaerkrankenhaus
#Köln #Koeln
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2026-05-13 06:24:08 UTC

I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. A researcher made up a disease and published two evidently fake preprints about it (including sentences such as “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”), which were almost immediately picked up by LLMs and documented in their output. Worse, actual – supposedly serious – medical papers also started citing the preprints, demonstrating that academics relying on LLMs to do their work is a genuine problem! Not that I had my doubts but, if anyone did, this seems like the perfect demonstration of the problem. Article immediately added to the syllabus of the class I am co-teaching with Iris Ferrazzo on LLMs for Romance Studies/Humanities!
#LLM #GenAI #academia #research #ResearchIntegrity #humanities

2026-05-12 05:34:41 UTC

I am trying my best not to be too pessimistic about the state of academia, but then there are mornings like today when I see that the Deutscher Hochschulverband [the German association of university professors] is offering a further training course entitled "Der Weg zum Forschungsantrag mit Multi-Agenten: Forschung mit KI neu denken" [Roadmap to a multi-agent research proposal: Rethinking research with AI]. This four-hour practical workshop demonstrates how to make use of multiple "AI agents" to review the literature, develop research questions and hypotheses, and write grant proposals. At a mere 250 € for members, the course is (of course) already sold out: https://www.dhvseminare.de/forschungsantrag_mit_multi-agenten_online-workshop. If, two years ago, someone had told me that it would be academics themselves that would make universities redundant, I wouldn't have believed them. Now I'm not so sure...
#academia #Hochschule #university

2026-05-11 05:52:11 UTC

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This coming Wednesday (!) 13 May ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas is delighted to welcome Andrey Anderson dos Santos to speak about Open Peer Review. After a short input talk, we will have plenty of time to discuss this rather controversial topic!
Join us at 16:00 CEST in room 4.006 of the @npub1vup…t69z for tea and cookies, or online via Zoom (see link sent via our mailing list: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas).
Andrey recently completed his PhD on #OpenScience practices in the #humanities and is coming all the way from Brazil to Cologne, so don't miss out!
Recommended (optional) reading for preparation: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03488-4.
#reproducibility #ReproducibiliTea #PeerReview #Reviewer2
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2026-04-16 06:29:04 UTC

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At ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas we are ignoring the rainy weather and opening the summer season TODAY 16-17:30 CEST with linguist Anne Rosar (University of Mannheim) with a short input talk entitled "From Lab to Public: Navigating the Challenges of Science Communication" that will lead us to an extended discussion on how to communicate our research beyond the ivory tower over tea and biscuits!
For preparation, Anne recommends watching the following presentation of the German Science and Humanities Council's position paper: "Wie gelingt die Kommunikation wissenschaftlichen Wissens?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmbxKA94xI). The video is in German but can be watched with auto-generated English subtitles.
You can join us in person @npub1vup…t69z in Cologne (room 4.006, access via Kerperner Str.) where we serve a range of teas and biscuits. Regular attendees will be pleased to know that we have stocked up on our signature cardamon tea! Alternatively, you can brew your own tea and join us via Zoom (send me a DM/e-mail for the link).
#ReproducibiliTea #reproducibility #OpenScience #SciComm #linguistics #humanities #DigitalHumanities
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2026-04-09 06:27:15 UTC

We are delighted to announce the summer 2026 edition of ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas @npub1ez4…f08a with tea-rrific guest speakers from as close as Cologne and as far as Brazil, bringing us new insights into how to improve the way we do research! ☀️
Find the full schedule on our homepage (https://ub.uni-koeln.de/en/courses-consultations/specials/reproducibilitea-in-the-humaniteas) with topics spanning the entire research cycle from registered reports, achieving reproducibility (with sensitive data), doing big team science, and open peer review, to sustainable research and education for sustainable development, and science communication.
Join us in person at the University Library @npub1vup…t69z (room 4.006, access via Kerperner Str.) where we serve a range of teas (including our signature cardamon tea!) and biscuits. Alternatively, brew your own tea and join us via Zoom. The Zoom links are shared via our mailing list (https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas). Come to network and join the discussions! 🤗 🫖 🍪
#ReproducibiliTea #humanities #SocialScience #academia #research #OpenScience #reproducibility #DigitalHumanities
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2026-03-31 15:34:45 UTC

I just submitted my textbook manuscript to @npub1zfk…7zjn! 🎉🎉🎉 I published the initial version of the first few chapters online in April 2024 and this project has been at the centre of my attention for much of these past two years so it's a big day for me! I am incredibly grateful to the many students and colleagues whose critical and encouraging feedback has been instrumental to improving the book. The online version is here: https://elenlefoll.github.io/RstatsTextbook/.
#Rstats #linguistics #HigherEd #statistics #dataviz

2026-03-20 14:27:47 UTC

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Oh I know what my goals are, but I am struggling to align them with the constraints of our university’s module handbooks and the rules of the examination office…

2026-03-20 14:01:17 UTC

I really hate grading. I enjoy advising students, seeing them progress, and reading their work, but I would much rather give them extensive feedback and encourage them to revise their work than hand out grades. Right now, I have a case of a student who's clearly put in a lot of time and effort in a project, did some things really well, but also completely missed the mark on other aspects of the assignment and well... how do I grade that?!
#HigherEd

2026-02-27 13:23:26 UTC

I have really enjoyed following #DHd2026 on Mastodon – a huge thank you to everyone who tooted! Next semester, #ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas (https://ub.uni-koeln.de/en/courses-consultations/reproducibilitea-in-the-humaniteas) continues in Cologne and online. We would love to see more #DH participants from DACH and beyond!
Join our mailing list to be the first informed: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas
If you'd like to contribute a session (a 20-min talk or 90-min workshop), get in touch ASAP as we are currently planning next semester's schedule! 🫖
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2026-02-07 14:54:58 UTC

#mosstodon 💚
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2026-02-02 19:47:40 UTC

I'm delighted to have been accepted as a participant at the Winter Academy of the Musikhochschule in Bremen and am now looking for an affordable place to stay 16-20 February, preferably where I can do some minimal cooking whilst avoiding AirBnB. Any tips? 🎵
#EarlyMusic #Bremen

2026-01-11 14:56:58 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-12-30 10:13:42 UTC

A uniquely British problem.
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2025-11-26 16:22:33 UTC

I'm wondering: If a published paper mentions that a study was approved by the ethics committee of University X, number XXXX, is there a way to find (and read) this ethics approval?
#metascience #ethics #academia

2025-11-19 10:40:13 UTC

Argh... is #QuartoPub down? I am getting an API Error 500 when trying to update my course website for tomorrow morning's class... 😱
#Quarto

2025-11-11 19:49:19 UTC

ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas is proud to present its fourth season with an exciting programme of guest speakers and topics ranging from reproducible pipelines to data sharing, research integrity in the context of #GenAI and participant consent: https://ub.uni-koeln.de/en/courses-consultations/specials/reproducibilitea-in-the-humaniteas! 🫖 🍪
#humanities #SocialScience #reproducibility #OpenScience #OpenResearch #ReproducibiliTea
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2025-10-11 20:13:47 UTC

It's nearly Halloween and my mum's put a witch among her cat pictures in her #Etsy shop! 🧙‍♀️ These 3D tactile pictures are all hand-made by my mum in her kitchen using an unusual technique that involves fabrics but no stitching or glue: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AfricAgnes
#ShopLocal #craft #art #catsofmastodon #cats #halloween
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2025-09-21 17:23:51 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-08-17 17:42:50 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-05-23 06:54:46 UTC

❝ But I just use AI for boilerplate!" you whimper, clutching your Co-Pilot subscription. Listen to yourself. If you’re writing the same boilerplate every day like some industrial-age cog monkey, automate it yourself. Write a library. Invent a macro. Reclaim some dignity. If AI’s doing your "boring parts", what exactly is left for you to do? Fidget with sliders? Paint by numbers while the inference works it's magic? ❞
I admit I have better things to do this morning than read this, but it's brilliantly funny and soooooo refreshingly on point: https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/. #LLM #CoPilot #Programming

2025-05-20 06:15:24 UTC

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Being a German speaker confused me for a second there because "Not" means "misery" or "poverty" so I initially read the first line of the plot as a scale going from "extreme poverty" to "disadvantaged". But wouldn't it be easier to read if they had printed "Not disadvantaged"? Or gotten rid of the double negation altogether?

2025-04-19 08:46:25 UTC

A friendly reminder to all (and, in particular, #PhD students): Like all weekends, the #Easter weekend is a great time to do a local back-up of all the important files on your computer. Don't just blindly trust the cloud. Aim for multiple copies in multiple places.

2025-01-27 13:56:51 UTC

🚨 Full-time position for a Computational Linguist / #Programmer (f/m/x) 🚨
Fixed-term contract from 1 April 2025 until 31 Dec. 2028 as part of the CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" @npub1ez4…f08a: https://uni.koeln/NZXPB. Application deadline: 16 Feb. 2025.
I am happy to answer any questions about the CRC and/or working at the University of Cologne! General information about the CRC: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en. #linguistics #programming #FediHire

2024-12-28 23:08:29 UTC

A relative has been without music and radio for nearly a year because they have a Sonos speaker that stopped working for no good reason. I’ve had to reinstall all the services, do manual updates, and work my way through several reddit threads to make everything work again.
Quite proud of myself as another, more tech-savvy relative had declared the thing bricked, but it’s ludicrous that it’s that complicated. Definitely would not recommend getting one of these! #eWaste #RightToRepair #Audio

2024-12-23 11:23:02 UTC

Sad fact: Once you’re inside the #Eurostar terminal in Bruxelles Midi, there is no way to get a proper cup of tea. 😢 #BritOnTour #TrainTravels
* I am not counting the “lemon tea” that a vending machine will, if you trust it with your contactless bank card, unceremoniously pour you in a flimsy pastic cup between a watery coffee and an equally watery tomato soup.

2024-12-18 06:58:17 UTC

"William Labov, known far and wide as one of the most influential linguists of the 20th and 21st centuries, passed away this morning at the age of 97." https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399 #sociolinguistics
On learning this, I decided to re-read Labov's short essay "How I got into linguistics, and what I got out of it" (http://danielezrajohnson.com/labov_howigot.pdf). I will be recommending it to my M.A. students who are interested in doing a #PhD in #linguistics.

2024-12-12 08:00:38 UTC

I am only now realising that some (many?) undergrads do not understand the concept of sending a file via e-mail because they are so used to files being saved in clouds. It's the first time I've had to explain that, if I send you a file, then you now *own* that file and, if you modify it and then (accidentally) delete it, your version of that file is gone (or in the trash, if you're lucky). #GettingOld

2024-12-11 09:14:43 UTC

I don't understand the point of publishing a paper about a great innovative tool that you developed if you're not going to make that tool available to anyone. And I don't understand the point of citing this paper as a example of a great innovative tool, either. If it's not available, it might as well be fiction. #AcademicRant #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience

2024-12-07 12:44:10 UTC

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If you're the sort of person who's more into gifting practical things rather than art and jewellery (which I agree is often difficult to choose for others), I recommend the wonderfully classy but highly robust fabric bags that my mum also makes. If you have a different primary colour in mind than what's online, send her an e-mail, she probably has more in stock. https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1682065683/african-fabric-bag-origami-bag-tote-bag #ShopHandmade
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2024-12-07 12:34:41 UTC

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My mum's insect fabric pictures were recently featured in an arts magazine in the Netherlands, but her #mushroom art is also absolutely worth checking out! https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1690913082/mushroom-art-mushroom-gift-mushroom-wall
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2024-12-07 12:29:32 UTC

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My mum also makes highly original Christmas baubles that genuinely spark joy! ✨ #ShopHandmade
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2024-12-07 12:22:31 UTC

This was look at uni on Wed: showing off a scarf and earrings made by my mum. If you're looking for beautiful, handmade gifts this Christmas, do visit her stall on #Greenwich market on Saturdays and Sundays or, if London is too far, check out her craft and art on Etsy! https://www.etsy.com/shop/AfricAgnes. #ShopHandmade
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2024-12-04 06:39:38 UTC

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in my opinion, qualitynesia applies to most telephone conversations: landline-to-landline sound quality was, on average, considerably better than what we are now putting up with mobile phones (which is increasingly less due to the tech and more with how and where we speak on the phone).

2024-10-27 14:59:09 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2024-10-27 07:12:26 UTC

I’ve been boycotting #Amazon for well over 10 years now and can confirm that it’s perfectly possible to live a happy life without it. As far as I’m concerned there were always more than enough reasons not to support this exploitative company, but if some folks are deciding that now is when they’ve had enough, then I’m all for it! I must say I had stopped hoping that this might one day become a thing. Gloomy times for sure, but you’ve given me a bit of hope today. Thank you! #boycottMusk

2024-10-24 09:00:36 UTC

A reminder to all interested in Open Science about this cool list of #Mastodon accounts that regularly post about #OpenScience, #reproducibility and #replication curated by @npub1a9x…r302: https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience/. #AcademicChatter

2024-10-18 16:12:32 UTC

Took a break to go for a run in the woods this afternoon and ended up spending most of my time admiring all different kinds #mushrooms! 🍄 #WorkLifeBalance #FungiFriday
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2024-10-11 12:32:04 UTC

Reality check of the week... 😬
I asked a group of B.A. students (pre-service foreign language teachers) which search engines they regularly use to search the web. At first, they all said "Google" (and nothing else). Then one added "but not so much now because I prefer ChatGPT". I asked how they searched the web with #ChatGPT and the answer was: "I ask my question and I get the answer". Then I asked which other search engines, apart from Google, they were aware of.
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#HigherEd

2024-09-18 07:51:37 UTC

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Turns out it's not possible using the free version of IFTTT 😢

2024-09-12 16:46:56 UTC

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That’s true but I really don’t want to be on what Twitter has become! And I also don’t have the time or the inclination to maintain social media presence on two platforms. Curious about fedi bridges but, from, what I’ve read so far, it all seems rather involved.

2024-09-12 14:11:49 UTC

I really appreciate the community I have found on #fosstodon but, if I'm honest, I think my career is likely to be negatively impacted by choosing #Mastodon as my only social media. I've seen a few posts about how people are getting much more engagement here than they used to on Twitter. I really value the exchanges I have here but my research community is largely not here... 🙁 #AcademicChatter
This was made obvious to me today as I logged on X for research purposes and saw this:
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2024-08-04 20:14:19 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2024-01-06 11:21:52 UTC

New year calls for a new #introduction – especially as mine's been out-of-date since March 2023... 😬
So, I'm now a #postdoc at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of #Cologne 🇩🇪. I work in the fields of applied #linguistics and foreign language #education. I like all things related to #CorpusLinguistics, #SLA, #LanguageTeaching, #Rstats & #OpenScience! 🤓
I also work as a freelance conference interpreter (🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪) and like trains 🚄, bicycles 🚲, tea 🫖, cake 🍰 & emoji! 😇
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