Blog

Notes on doctoral research, neology, academic life, conferences, funding, and more

Blog

The work, decisions, and context behind the CV

What does it actually take to win a SSHRC postdoc?
16 min

Looking at the research profiles of successful language-oriented applicants

Aug 13, 2026

My 2027 Grenoble trip is now funded
3 min

An SSHRC travel fellowship will support the international research component of my doctoral project.

Aug 10, 2026

The Corpus Was There. Access Wasn’t.
18 min

An eighteen-month search for newspaper data—and why Canada needs a text and data mining exception

Aug 7, 2026

pipx is glorious
4 min

Why installing command-line applications should not require remembering which virtual environment they disappeared into.

Aug 6, 2026

Preparing for a postdoc fellowship
3 min

The countdown is at 14 months

Aug 5, 2026

PhD protocol #1 published in F1000Research
3 min

A first published step in my doctoral research on neological diffusion.

Jun 20, 2026

Tourists walking through a crowded historic street lined with shops

Neologisms in Tourism
3 min

Notes from Giovanni Tallarico’s presentation

Jun 19, 2026

The JDL 2025 proceedings are now available
2 min

Completing a second proceedings volume as editor-in-chief

Jun 17, 2026

My first invited conference presentation
2 min

The most important part of a conference presentation may happen after the final slide

Jun 16, 2026

My first experience as a peer reviewer
5 min

A valuable lesson in what professional peer review involves

Jun 11, 2026

What I learned from not being shortlisted for an ‘Outstanding Individual’ award
4 min

The criteria tell you who is eligible. Previous winners’ profiles can tell you who is likely to win.

May 17, 2026

Taking a backseat at JDL 2026
3 min

Why collective student projects need rotation, not permanent stewardship

Mar 5, 2026

A father holding his newborn

Going on paid parental leave during a PhD
3 min

A reflection on interrupting my doctoral studies

Feb 25, 2026

Passing my second doctoral examination
1 min

A PhD milestone before parental leave.

Feb 24, 2026

Return to France postponed
2 min

Our son, Georges, was born 2.5 months premature

Sep 12, 2025

The JDL 2024 conference proceedings are now complete
3 min

Publishing conference research on a timeline measured in months, not years

Aug 25, 2025

Letter of thanks for a short-term research stay in Grenoble, France
2 min

To the anonymous donor whose support made it possible.

Aug 12, 2025

Three weeks in Grenoble, France
2 min

A three-week research stay in Grenoble offered an opportunity to work with Olivier Kraif in person and complete an online course on AI-assisted systematic reviewing.

Jun 29, 2025

Neology Training School
3 min

Attending the first ENEOLI Training School on Lexical Innovation

Jun 15, 2025

Filming the 2025 Journées de linguistique
4 min

How two Sony cameras and synchronized timecode made filming and editing six presentations from the 2025 Journées de linguistique considerably more efficient.

May 20, 2025

Reducing my teaching load
2 min

A conscious decision to protect the time needed to complete the dissertation.

Feb 11, 2025

Passing my first doctoral examination
3 min

Three questions, six weeks, and a finish that came later than planned.

Jan 30, 2025

The cognitive mechanisms involved in the “DEGREE ADVERB + PROPER NAME” construction
2 min

A publication stemming from my MA thesis

Jul 24, 2024

My doctoral fellowship just increased by $40,000
2 min

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships had remained at $20,000 annually for over two decades

May 31, 2024

TCHÉCALEX 2024
1 min

My first international conference presentation experience

May 26, 2024

Teaching lexicology for the first time
3 min

My first linguistics course taught in French

May 14, 2024

Finishing my doctoral coursework
4 min

One course at a time—and one course twice

Dec 22, 2023

Death of Academic Twitter
3 min

I just received SSHRC funding for a project whose original data-collection strategy is no longer viable.

Jun 23, 2023

Presenting the first version of my PhD project
2 min

The 5th CRIFUQ Student Day

Jun 15, 2023

ENEOLI receives COST funding
2 min

The European Network on Lexical Innovation has been approved as COST Action CA22126.

May 12, 2023

Olivier Kraif agrees to cosupervise my PhD
2 min

But he’s popular, and we’re now on a waiting list

May 5, 2023

My PhD is now funded!
3 min

The same project ranks near-perfectly at SSHRC—and last at the FRQSC.

May 1, 2023

The hunt for a co-supervisor for my PhD
2 min

Seeking one computationally minded lexicalist—preferably a nice one

Jan 15, 2023

Working paper: Students would benefit from guidelines for preparing conference abstracts
2 min

A corpus-based study of how graduate students structure French-language conference abstracts.

Nov 2, 2022

Why a blog?
6 min

A place to document the work, decisions, and detours that rarely appear in an academic CV.

Sep 4, 2022

Starting my PhD
8 min

Why I chose to do a PhD in linguistics over an MSc in Speech Technology

Sep 4, 2022
No matching items