Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social

All my fave things in 1 thread. Phonetics, phonology, Bible translation & the meaning of Good Friday Jesus on the cross "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He was forsaken for me - the perfectly sinless Son punished by the perfectly just Father for the sins of us all.

@StagecoachNE there's confusion with the John Dobson street stop (No1 & others). The sign says closed for limited hours, please use temporary stop. I just got on there and there wasn't a temporary stop., the driver said we shouldn't be using it & they hadn't been told it was open

Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE @91caitlin

@MCRLinguistics @Katy_Brown4 @KhawlaBadwan *tweeting duty....can you tell I'm cross posting 👀

We are go... ...huge thanks to Niall Curry (1) and @Katy_Brown4 (2) for setting this all up and @KhawlaBadwan (3) for keeping us all both in line practically and looking at the big picture of looking after language @91caitlin on skeeting duty today.

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@jobsacuk help@ weren't able to help - this alert is tied to me having my job alert turned on. I would like to recommend you creating an option to turn off this part of the alert because of all the reasons above and in this tweet as well x.com/91caitlin/stat…

@91caitlin Hi there, if you send an email to help@jobs.ac.uk we will be happy to help further 🙂

Hey @jobsacuk I'd really like a way to turn this alert off...the academic job market is depressing enough without having an email reminder of it every three months

@NewcastleUniUCU this is INCREDIBLE - also are you guys on bluesky? It's where all the academics seem to be hanging out these days

Just a little song for you all to sing while you walk to the post box to post your ballots! #wearetheuniversity

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@jobsacuk A way to turn them off or make them less regular would be great. In a small field like linguistics it's completely normal for a role not to come up in 3 months

@91caitlin Hi Dr Caitlin, these emails are aimed at helping jobseekers find roles using ways they may not have considered. They are not intended to cause upset and we can look into the wording.

.@jobsacuk I've said it once, I'll keep saying it. These emails aren't useful and are a great way to dishearten an ECR who's well aware there aren't many jobs in her field. 'change your search' is tantamount to saying 'change your specialty'...please stop...

@R_Graph_Gallery I'm not sure I'd go for this one - often there's innate ordering in your groups that you want to maintain to be able to see patterns - e.g. if the groups are north to south I want to keep that on the axis not reorder in order of the results

What do you think? 🤔 I'm about to create a set of #dataviz caveat flashcards For instance, not ordering groups in a barplot is a very obvious #dataviz caveat. Yet, probably the one I see the most often! 🙈 I would love to have feedback on the card below! 🙏🙏🙏

@TimoRoettger @jvcasill @StefanoCoretta @BodoWinter When I was digging that was all I found - nothing linguistics-y, and no, nowhere near publishing yet unfortunately - funding dependent it'll be at NWAV though

@91caitlin @jvcasill @StefanoCoretta @BodoWinter Thats the gold standard tutorial for brms and ordinal models :) just wondered how common this is in linguistics. Did you use it and publish sth I can cite?

@ LingTweeps: Did ynyone come across cumulative probit (not logit) models in linguistics? Trying to cite some folks, cannot imagine I am the first to analyse ordinal data assuming they are derived from a latent continuous variable. @jvcasill @StefanoCoretta @BodoWinter?

@bushontheradio my parents do because their signal is awful for mobile

So today my mum and dad finally got rid of their land line. Are there any land line owners still out there?

@PrettySophieK Maybe not a helpful sample because I research phonetics so don't visualise sound using letters at all, but I definitely need the 'n' in the last syllable to get the right sound. I just read the Qua/Kwa as orthography vs phonetic alphabet which I guess isn't what you're getting at

Ok, so people’s brains clearly think differently from mine 😆 What I am saying is. If you pronounce the word “Croissant”, NOT like “Cross-Ant” but in a more Frenchified way, how do you envisage it? As “Qua-Son” or “KWA-SOH” or another way?

Can you share #dataviz examples where the designer missed the audience by a mile? too technical? too unconventional? too much detail? Please share!

🏆 Babel Young Writers' Competition 📚 Win publication in Babel No50 + a year's subscription! 📖 Read our first ever winner @katpavv on British Sign Language: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/upl… 📜 Rules below...

@RobDrummond @bossproofreader @EagleEyeEditor #goals

Honorary northener. Thanks @bossproofreader and @EagleEyeEditor!

We have two sets of portable banners (a set of 5 and a set of 9) describing key findings from the Manchester Voices project. If any Greater Manchester schools, colleges, libraries, community centres etc would like to host them for a bit, please get in touch!

@NWAV52miami do you have any info on registration prices? I need to apply for funding asap and can't do that without a costing