by Colin | Jan 31, 2020 | soapbox, training |
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...
by Colin | Dec 20, 2019 | papers, soapbox |
“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...
by Colin | Jan 11, 2017 | news, soapbox |
The US government recently formed an Interagency Working Group on Language and Communication (IWGLC) to look into the scope of research and development activity across around 15 different government agencies. This may sound like a total snoozefest, but it’s...
by Colin | Jan 1, 2016 | publishing, soapbox |
Our little publishing experiment was not supposed to go like this. Largely by accident, we created a peer-reviewed outlet with impact that matches the top journals in linguistics, with time-to-publication that is almost implausibly fast relative to peers, that saves...
by Colin | Sep 13, 2015 | soapbox, training |
Linguistics as a field is different from how it was 20, 30, 40 years ago. There was a time when linguistics was dominated by a couple of sub-fields that relied overwhelmingly on similar analytical tools, working at roughly the same level of analysis. Things are...
by Colin | Jul 29, 2015 | site, soapbox, training |
These are notes initially written for a workshop on Web Presence at the 2015 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, at the University of Chicago, July 29th 2015. They have been updated for a workshop on Building Your Profile in a Digital World at the...
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