A few weeks ago I presented my most recent paper, “Mark the unexpected”, at the October MOSAIC meeting 2024 (https://cscan.gla.ac.uk/mosaic/). Preprint is available here andRead More
I was interviewed by Le Huffington Post about memes
If you were around the internet memes of 2000s and 2010s, you might think Le Huffington Post is a joke on The Huffington Post, withRead More
Presenting my new research
The summer is here and with it the conference season. That’s right! Instead of holidays, academics have conferences (and holidays after them if they areRead More
Podcast on Bislama and Nafsan
I recorded a podcast episode about Bislama and Nafsan, hosted by Elle Charisse! Together with Nick Thieberger, my former PhD supervisor, we talk about theRead More
My first interview on comics and linguistics + new postdoc announcement
You can now watch my interview with Make Storyboard where I talk about my comics, my research in linguistics, and my creative process and approachRead More
“Modeling the evolution of internet memes” on YouTube
You can now watch my talk from the Cultural Evolution Society conference 2022 on YouTube. I presented an updated version of this talk with newRead More
Slides for “From Iconic to Abstract”
In May I presented my ongoing work on how the change of Internet Memes resembles language change at the conference ‘Iconicity in Language and Literature’Read More
Our paper in Language!
My amazing co-authors and I published our article in Language! We argue for the crosslinguistic validity of irrealis, check it out on https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857153 or here!Read More
Urban Fieldwork in Düsseldorf
I have recently started an outreach project Making invisible languages visible: Urban fieldwork in Düsseldorf, with my colleagues from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. With aRead More