last updated December 4, 2024
Links and sites I like to share with graduate students and colleagues
This lovely post, “Welcome to Graduate School”, by David Shorter outlines six key lessons to help graduate students in their first year
The Thesis Whisperer is a goldmine of posts related to graduate work, especially writing.
PhD Comics just gets it.
Finding good information on the Internet (2011)
So much amazingness on this site by Raul Pachecho-Vega who dispenses essential wisdom on academic writing, productivity, time management and more.
Acadeafic – Academic vlogs and blogs about the latest sign language and Deaf Studies research
Research blogging blogs about peer-reviewed research
35 Mostly Different Guidelines For Science Writers by Scientific American
These are my go-to sites for language-related awesomeness.
Resources by Gretchen McCulloch as well as All Things Linguistic and Lingthusiasm (a podcast with some accessible content) as well as Mutual Intelligibility
The Austin Principles of Data Citation is a must for any linguist interested in open data (and in my opinion, that should be all of them!)
The Language Log has been posting about linguistics for years
XKCD, “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”, has plenty of relevant content
Some resources for linguistics (especially language documentation)
Language Documentation and Conservation
(Especially check out SP15: Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998)
Sites by some of my amazing colleagues –
Carl Börstell (? SignGlossR)
Naomi Caselli
Jon Henner
Lynn Hou (? Bibliography)
Ryan Lepic (? Topics)
Diane Lillo-Martin (? Sign Linguistics & Language Acquisition Lab)
Melissa Malzkuhn (? motion light lab)
Corrine Occhino (? Resources)
Adam Schembri (? What all linguists should know)
Sign Linguistics Corpora Network
E-MELD Best Practices in Digital Language Documentation
Open Language Archives Community
Tools for Linguistic Anthropologists
Experimental linguistics in the field
The Language Archives (home of ELAN)
UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
Library of Congress Digital Collections (and some great captioned videos)
Collections as Data 2016 conference
The University of British Columbia: Indigenous Peoples: Language Guidelines
Accessibility
“Sign language media and deafblind people” by Ben Fletcher via CRESTFest