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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 8d

It was an early morning start for me as a volunteer at the Music Summer School Festival in Norfolk as I was on breakfast duty. Now in the choir rehearsal: wish us luck for the Gloria from Bach’s Mass in F minor! mssf.org.uk #EarlyMusic

Meal tickets and clicky counter on a table witha cup and saucer

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 12d

#FensterFreitag

Window of shop selling all kinds of cleaning products

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 12d

#FensterFreitag

Pub window in brick building with rounded corners

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 12d

#FensterFreitag

Art deco building with ceramic tiles and large rounded windows in an old shopping centre

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 12d

Re: Out of office

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 15d

Just submitted my first ever proper preprint to MetaArXiv! Now awaiting the moderator's approval... 🤞 #metascience #CorpusLinguistics

Screenshot of submission confirmation for the article: A Scoping Review Of Open Science Practices In Corpus Linguistics Research
Pending: MetaArXiv uses pre-moderation. This preprint is not publicly available or searchable until approved by a moderator.
Authors: Elen Le Foll

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 20d

Colleague: Last class of the semester for you too today, hey? Me: Yes, I can't wait!! Colleague: We're watching film. What fun thing are you doing with your class? Me: An introduction to multiple linear regression analysis! Colleague: 🥴 #Rstats #HigherEd

Artwork by Allison Horst. Two blue dragons stand on scales next to a vertical yardstick showing one slightly taller than the other. Regression estimates are shown at the top as an equation: "weight (tons) = 2.4 + 0.3*height", with explanatory text reading "If all other variables are constant, we expect a 1 foot taller dragon to weight 0.3 tons more, on average." Source: https://allisonhorst.com/linear-regression-dragons.

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 24d

#SilentSunday

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 24d

I've done a lot of computational reproductions so I thought I'd seen it all, but this one is new: the OSF repository features a single Excel file which, to my surprise, does actually contain both the data and the code. The file has multiple tabs and some of […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Data availability

All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper. The numeric data of this study are available at Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/f5wt8).
Code availability

The script for statistical analysis is available is available at Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/f5wt8), for purposes of reproducing or extending the analysis.

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 27d

We have greatly enjoyed organising ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas but, after five semesters, we have decided it's time we took a (tea) break. This means that TODAY's session will be the last we brew (at least for a while). Don't miss out on what promises […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Photo of Onur wearing glasses and a moustache

Big Team Science for language science: opportunities and challenges Abstract: The present paper advocates for incorporating Big Team Science practices into the language sciences. Big Team Science is a promising mode of collaborative research in which top-down coordination directs efforts by a large number of researchers from different institutions towards a common scientific goal. The redistribution of resources and division of labor enabled by Big Team Science may enable researchers to increase methodological rigor, systematically explore claims across a wider sample of languages, and to diversify both the languages studied and the researchers engaged. However, implementing Big Team Science practices is not without challenges, some of which are unique to the language sciences. We suggest strategies and best practices for adapting to these challenges, including theoretical and methodological pluralism, variation in conditions among data collection sites, and navigating a trade-off between maximizing methodological rigor and ability to engage with the most inclusive, typologically broad language samples. Keywords: big team science, cross-linguistic, language sciences, WEIRD

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· 28d

Either I am even more tired than I thought or this plot is not the best way to display this information... #dataviz

A stacked barplot showing min, mid and max data transparency on the x-axis and percents on the y-axis. The bars are filled according to Method transparency which also three levels: min, mid and max. The caption reads: correlation of transparency in data collection and methods.

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jul 9

Concert tip featuring yours truly: next Wed 15 July in Cologne with wonderful madrigals and lute songs by Claudio Monteverdi. Free entrance. #Köln #EarlyMusic

Poster advertising a concert in Cologne, Germany with a renaissance painting of a fantasy roman building in luscious Italian landscape

UNIVERSITÄTSKONZERTE IM SOMMER 2026
Collegium musicum der Uni Köln und Gäste
collmus.com
Arkadische
Sehnsucht
Madrigale von Monteverdi nach Versen von Guarini Sophia Herber Mezzosopran
Liza Solovey Laute
Madrigalchor der Uni Köln Gerhard de Buhr Dirigent Marc Höhmann Moderation
Mi, 15. Juli 26
19:00 Uhr
Basilika St. Aposteln Köln
Eintritt frei
UNIVERSITÄT
ZU KÖLN
Aposteln-Aula an der Basilika St. Aposteln Köln
Neumarkt 30, 50667 Köln
collegium musicum der Universität zu Köln

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jul 8

Yesterday afternoon I led a three-hour workshop on LLMs for my colleagues from the Department of Romance Studies. I have a lot of teaching experience in all kinds of contexts, but this was possibly the scariest experience so far: in a small room by 30°C […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Hausarbeit ex machina?

Workshop für Lehrende am Romanischen Seminar zum Umgang mit KI in Lehre und Prüfung

7. Juli 2026 (Teil 1)

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jul 7

On Friday morning I taught a four-hour "Data Visualisation for Linguistics: The Grammar of Graphics" workshop as part of my M.A./M.Ed. seminar on "Data Analysis in R for the language sciences", which I opened up to all interested students and colleagues from […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Anything else you'd like to share?
4 responses
Thank you :)
Elen is the goat
you're very good at breaking down complex topics and making them easy to understand
I had a great time and loved the workshop very much!

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jul 5

Hello #ggplot2 #dataviz experts out there! I have created a map of Indonesia with some labels for a friend's publication (left), but she would ideally like the labels to be around the edges of the map (as in the second figure). I am currently using ggrepel […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Map of Indonesia with some 20 cities labelled

Map of the world with lots of dots with long arrows point to language labels

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jul 1

The @FORRT Replication Hub Showcase is TODAY 15–17:00 CEST. Drop in any time you like. At some point, yours truly will say a few words about @replicationresearch. Registration here […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Replication Hub Showcase poster with small headshots of 12 speakers.
Do you care about replications? Join our showcase to learn about ongoing
projects at the FORRT Replication Hub, including walkthroughs and short
presentations.

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 28

3. In past heatwaves some people starting entrusting their secrets to trumpets while attempting to stay cool at home with their pet lions.

Matthias Stomer
Die Vision des Hl. Hieronymus, ca. 1640
The Vision of St Jerome, c. 1640 Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on Canvas Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
Sammlung Rau für UNICEF/Collection Rau for UNICEF

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 28

2. Aerial photography used to be a lot more fun (and dangerous !).

Photography of a man wearing a top hat sat in a tiny basket in the sky

First aerial photograph of Paris by Nadar 1858

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 28

Went to the wonderful (and air-conditioned!) Arp museum today and learnt a few things: 1. Keep your dragon on a leash.

Painting of two people, one of whom is a princess walking a dragon held by a golden leash.

Friedrich Sustris
HI. Georg und die Prinzessin (Allegorisches Verlöbnis), 1570-1600
St George and the Princess (Allegorical Betrothal), 1570-1600
Öl auf Kupfer / Oil on Copper
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
Sammlung Rau für UNICEF/Collection Rau for UNICEF

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 25

TODAY (Thursday) 16–17:30 CEST #ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas is meeting ONLINE only due to extreme heat @unibibkoeln. Get yourself some iced tea/ice cream and join us via Zoom! Send me a DM or e-mail to get the link if you have not already received it […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Title page of recommend paper linked in post: Synthetic Data - what, why and how?

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 23

The temperature in my office has reached 30°C so I decided to take a break and get myself an ice cream. On the way down to the cafeteria, I checked my pigeon hole and found… Katja’s amazing gamified introduction to German syntax that I had the great pleasure of reviewing a while back! 🤩🤩🤩

Outdoor photo. Me holding an ice cream and a book festuring a red dragon on the cover. Book by Katja Politt Syntagma Ein Selbstlern- abenteuer Eine Einführung in die Syntax der deutschen Gegenwartssprache

Die Reise beginnt Es ist ein regnerischer Tag, wie er schlechter nicht sein könnte: Das Wetter ist zu mies, um draußen Dinge zu unternehmen, und nun ist auch noch das Internet ausge- fallen! Frustriert sitzt du auf dem Sofa und überlegst, wie du die Zeit totschlagen kannst, bis sich eine der beiden Situationen bessert. Mo- ment - totschlagen? Du hast da noch dieses Buch im Regal, das du immer mal lesen wolltest als Vorbereitung auf deinen Syntax-Kurs im nächsten Semester. Zugegeben, nach Lernen ist dir auch nicht wirklich zumute, aber wieso nicht einmal einen Blick hineinwerfen. Du fischst das Buch aus deinem Regal. Als du es abklopfst, löst sich etwas Staub von dem rotgoldenen Einband, auf dem ein stilisierter Drache abgebil- det ist. »Syntagma«, liest du den Titel vor. Du hast keine Ahnung, wer oder was das ist. Vielleicht der Name des Drachen auf dem Einband? Du schlägst das Buch auf und beginnst zu lesen ...

as a little . thanhs for all your süpport, enthusiasm & awesomeness !

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 20

Hey #train experts out there, do any of you know if/when tickets will be available for the Nightjet Munich to Bologna in mid-September? For months now, the ÖBB website is not giving me the option of buying a ticket and says that construction works may affect […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Ticket valid for section of the journey only:
Bologna Centrale⮕Pescara Centrale
train service departs from 19:59 , arrives in 11:40 13 Sep

Travel time 15 h 41 min
trains and transports Nightjet 295, Frecciarossa 9803
NJ 295
FR 9803
from München Hbf Platform 12 to Pescara Centrale
München Hbf, Platform 12
Pescara Centrale
Please note – timetable subject to change - Due to construction work or other factors affecting our services, the departure and/or arrival times of this ...
construction works
Construction work in Italy - Rerouting/Train will not stop at all stations - NJ 295: This train is being redirected between Rosenheim in Oberbayern and B...
1 Change: Bologna Centrale

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 19

My students did very well today, surviving a four-hour class on LLMs on a Friday afternoon by 35°C in this beautiful, but entirely unsuitable building! Perhaps the ice cream that I bought for the break helped? 😊

Modern looking building showing inside courtyard covered by a glads ceiling, palm trees

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 18

Je viens de finir de lire « Un grain de sable dans la machine » de Nicolas Celnik et Juliette Brigand et je recommande ! C’est une belle réflexion sur l’emprise des technologies sur nos vies et notre société et environnement de manière générale. #GenAI #IA #GraphicNovel

Couverture de la BD. On y va un croquis de jeune femme qui dessine sur un fond avec un motif qui rappelle une puce électronique. Le livre vient d’une bibliothèque.

Page 57 de la bédé. C’est le récit d’une femme lors d’une randonnée dans la montagne. Elle dit : je suis assistante sociale à travail. Au début mon métier avec un sens. On avait rendez-vous avec les gens, on discutait avec eux, on prenait le temps de comprendre leur situation. En 2013 prend travail a commencé à utiliser les algorithmes. Ils nous ont promis que ça allait libérer du temps pour les conseiller. Aujourd’hui, je passe mes journées à envoyer des mails pré écrit à des gens que je n’avais jamais vu. Pour lutter contre la fraude, les chômeurs ont maintenant un score de suspicion qui évalue leur honnêteté. Et un score d’employabilité basé sur leur parcours professionnel. On a fermé les guichets, remplacer les rendez-vous par des formulaires en ligne. C’est devenu un travail à la chaîne.

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 18

Any kind soul out there who might have access to the journal *Corpora* and could send me the following three PDFs? 🙏 1. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/cor.2021.0227 2. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/cor.2022.0264 3 […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

German Higher Education (DFN-AAI)

Bielefeld University
Georg-August University Göttingen
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Julius-Maximilians-Universit t W rzburg
Paderborn University
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Universitaetsbibliothek Wuerzburg
University of Bamberg
University of Bayreuth
University of Konstanz
University Of Passau
University of Tübingen
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Universität Heidelberg

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 16

This promises to be a very exciting talk tomorrow (Wed) evening at @UniKoeln ⬇️ #GenAI #HigherEducation #Research

Against the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in academia
Marcela Suarez (Radboud University)
Wed 17 June 18-19:30
Seminargebäude 106, Room S01

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 15

One of my favourite murals in Cologne was looking particularly special with tonight’s evening light! #Koeln

Photo of car park with marked spaces and of a large brick building in which the same white marking have been painted

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 14

#SilentSunday

A large rock with a small green plant growing out of it

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 12

#FensterFreitag

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll· Jun 11

Dinner for 3€ at PiKa, the friendliest place to grab a snack (pizza or coffee) on campus! The woman who works in the evening is so kind: In the evening she always gives two slices for the price of one and today I even got a liquorice dessert! A few weeks back […] [Original post on fediscience.org]