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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Jul 31

Do you ever feel like no matter how much you work, you never get to the bottom of it? Like you're not really being productive?
The Done! list will help you realize just how much you actually accomplish without even noticing 🙂
#timemanagement
#AcademicAchievements
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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Jul 16

Valentina tells me that they will have a remote connection if there are people who are interested.

Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) Trinity College Dublin 4-5 December 2025

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Jul 15

Diego Krivochen's new article on #Isogloss : Subjecthood in Spanish meteorological verbs
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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Jul 13

Two days left to send an abstract to the Formal Linguistic Approaches to Multimodality Workshop in Dublin!
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FLAMM

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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Jul 5

How do I say no? Ask Your Academic Auntie :)
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Saying NO

Welcoming new members of ISC committees - International Science Council

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Jul 2

I'm honored to have been invited to join the Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science of the International Science Council.
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Thanks to @globalyacademy.bsky.social for nominating me!

The International Science Council (ISC) is pleased to welcome new members to the Committee for Finance, Compliance and Risk, the Committee for Freedom and Responsibility...

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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Jul 1

I'm feeling #overwhelmed! How can I cope with #academic #workload? A new video by Your Academic Auntie :) youtu.be/BAnGua1HPjo

I'm feeling #overwhelmed! No time for holidays...

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Jun 29

Hot off the press: Li, Lobo & Teixeira, #Subject-#object asymmetries in the processing of #EuropeanPortuguese cleft structures: Assessing the role of #animacy
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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Jun 2

End of term time, time for student #evaluations, sometimes hurtful ones. How should you take them? A new #AcademicAuntie video 😊 youtu.be/gmPsuv5PSWE

Student evaluations

Heritage Language Syntax 6<br>Istanbul, November 6-7, 2025

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Jun 1

Third factors in language design: the view from hashtag#heritage languages, INALCO Paris (and Zoom), next Friday (6 June)!
Join us (in person or online) to discuss the latest findings on heritage language grammars and cognition.

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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 30

The dates are out!
Heritage Language Syntax 6 (#HLS6) will be held at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul on 6-7 November!

The CFP is open; the deadline for abstract submission is 13 July:
hls.bogazici.edu.tr

hls.bogazici.edu.tr

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 29

Added it! And since I reorganized the categories (that I had added randomly) not it's first on the list! :)

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 29

Sounds perfect! Which category should it go in? Computational linguistics? (I don't think that's for quantitative methods and stats right?) Thank you so much!

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 29

Thanks! I had seen this but I'm not sure it's a textbook? Is that for an intro NLP?

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 29

Better send me an email to my uu address - I almost never check here :) Thanks for your interest!

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 28

Are these textbooks? I am only collecting those, not reference books --

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 28

Oh it's just 30 pages! If you feel like translating it go ahead! (Let me know if you do -

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 28

Thanks Steve! Is it a textbook? I'm only collecting those, not reference books (it would get too long a list)

Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 26

#OA textbooks in #Linguistics! These #textbooks are free to download and use in class 🙂
Enjoy, share, and long live #OA!
www.robertadalessandro.it/oa-textbooks

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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 19

Is it ok if I contact some #bigshots and ask them to join my publication so that I have their name on my paper and they get a publication for free? A new #YourAcademicAuntie video! www.youtube.com/shorts/awxFj...

Big shots

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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · May 9

Can you avoid #rejections? On having your #article, your #project or your #jobapplication rejected, by #YourAcademicAuntie
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Rejections