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 | Aug 22, 2018 | Uncategorized |
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...
by Colin | Apr 26, 2017 | running |
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...
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 | Nov 12, 2016 | running |
Helping to create a parkrun event in my hometown has been incredibly rewarding. parkrun makes amazing contributions to health and happiness, but it has struggled to gain traction in the US. These are some thoughts on what it takes. parkrun is the world’s largest...
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