Recommended links

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

Bad ideas about writing

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

The ECHO project

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)

Endangered Languages Project

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

“Social Media for All” Image descriptions and Transcripts by Convo Deaf Ecosystem Spotlight

“Sign language media and deafblind people” by Ben Fletcher via CRESTFest