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All careers are alternative nowadays

All careers are alternative nowadays

by | Jan 31, 2020 | soapbox, training | 0 comments

There are contrasting views on what PhD degrees are for, whether we are training too many of them, or whether we should be preparing them differently for what lies ahead. In the fields that I know better, this is often framed as the question of whether we should be...
Theories all the way down

Theories all the way down

by | Dec 20, 2019 | papers, soapbox | 2 comments

“Don’t you have anything positive to say?” Well, as it happens I do! It can be found in a new paper by myself, Phoebe Gaston, Nick Huang, and Hanna Muller, “Theories all the way down: remarks on ‘theoretical’ and ‘experimental’ linguistics.” The question above came...
Remembering Akira

Remembering Akira

by | Aug 22, 2018 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

Akira Omaki (1980 – 2018) Akira Omaki, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, passed away on August 6th 2018, following complications from lymphoma. Akira was 38 years old. Growing up in the city of Hakodate, on the tip of Japan’s...
Creating a parkrun USA event: 6-month update

Creating a parkrun USA event: 6-month update

by | Apr 26, 2017 | running | 2 comments

Now that it’s 6 months since we launched College Park parkrun, it’s time for an update on our experience of creating a parkrun USA event. I wrote a blog piece about it shortly after our launch, but a lot has happened since then. We have made it through our first...