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Sidney Wong

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黃吉贊 ~ Queer Cantonese advocate from Aotearoa & PhD researcher @ Canterbury, NZ. he/any Computational Sociolinguist. Place ~ Identity ~ Language. Fulbright 24/25 @ Champaign-Urbana, IL. Views my own. https://linktr.ee/sidneygjwong

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Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jan 20

The Asia-Pacific Linguists Community starter pack brings together perspectives from linguists, language researchers, and language enthusiasts with a connection to the Asia-Pacific Region go.bsky.app/AMrs7bo

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Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 30

Top tip, if you're going to organise a Zoom meeting make sure to include them in the calender invite. I'm going to blame it on thesis brain.

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 16

Weatherwise, the Midwest is terrifying - one minute it's sunny, nek minit a thunderstorm out of nowhere. Photo 1 is the view outside the apartment, and Photo 2 is the other side of the apartment 20 metres away (you can still see the blue skies).

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 16

I've been away from home for nearly a year and I still appreciate the monthly welfare check texts from Spotlight.

Who wouldn't appreciate a 30% sale storewide, in this economy!?!

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 13

The abstract deadline for the 2025 Annual Conference is slowly hurtling towards us!

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jun 4

The 2025 Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand will be hosted by Massey University at the Massey Wellington campus on November 27-28.

Abstract deadline: 1st August 2025
Notification: 29th August

Call for papers - Linguistic Society of New Zealand

The 2025 Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand will be hosted by Massey University at the Massey Wellington campus on November 27-28. Plenary talks will be given...

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Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 10

St. Louis ⚜️

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 10

Oddly specific question, what is the "current" paradigm in sociolinguistics research? Interested to hear your thoughts especially those outside the Anglo/North American perspective.

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Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 9

I just got back to Champaign-Urbana and I couldn't believe my luck I saw a "lightning bug" (firefly). What a treat!

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thank you for your suggestions! I made it up the Arch and even managed to fit in a Mississippi River cruise. It's such a lovely city, I need to put aside some time to explore more of St Louis!

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 8

I've made it to St Louis! What are some must do's for a day trip in the city centre?

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 8

I'm pleasantly surprised by the number of cowboy hats at Denver International Airport 🤠

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 3

It's criminal that it's 16°C (61°F) while we're dealing with the corn sweat 🌽💦 in the Midwest.

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 3

I've made it to 舊金山 ('Old Gold Mountain') en route to my desto for the long weekend. A much needed change of scenery as I work on the final write up of my thesis.

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Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 2

Happy Midpoint of the Half Century folks! We're now closer to 2050 than we are to 2000.

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Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 2

I had one of two missions while in Chicago and I failed one miserably. It's been over 11 months since I've had a meat pie, and the one pie shop wasn't open when it was meant to be. Pure sadness as I take the 'L' to the airport.

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 2

Back briefly in Chicago and so far two people have asked me for directions. Either the busses need better signage, or I'm starting to look like a local.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 2

I can tell it's not Pride Month anymore 😆

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 2

Latex isn't a choice, it's a way of life.

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Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jul 2

Zotero!

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jun 29

Just hit another milestone as I prepare to head home, one final trip to Costco as I let my membership lapse. I'm gonna miss the reasonably priced hotdog combo and single slice of pizza.

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jun 28

How interesting! I looked into the SYD-LAX flights and it looks like Qantas carries out routine maintenance for their Boeings at LAX, so it makes sense that AirNZ might do something similar. That's my theory anyway!

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jun 28

Do we have any AvGeeks on here? Does anyone know why the daily flights ANZ3/ANZ5 route LAX-AKL are only less than one hour apart?

This also goes for the ANZ4/ANZ5 AKL-LAX (only 35 minutes apart). I'm curious. Did this have something to do with the old AKL-LAX-LHR route?

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jun 26

This has been my attempt to be artistic. Not bad considering my colourblindness. The derpy penguin feels like a physical manifestation of me.

Credit to the Pottery Place for making the ornaments for me to paint.

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jun 26

Once at an undergraduate event, I managed to woof down 2.5 pizzas 🍕

I peaked early.

Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is me wrapping up my time in the US and my research on hate speech detection with my latest paper in the Proceedings of the LSA - Stronger together: Unleashing the social impact of hate speech research
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Stronger together: Unleashing the social impact of hate speech research | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

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