30.1589, Staff Letter: Nils Hjortnaes

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1589. Thu Apr 11 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1589, Staff Letter: Nils Hjortnaes

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Editor for this issue: Nils Hjortnaes <nils at linguistlist.org>
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:32:36
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Staff Letter: Nils Hjortnaes

 
Hello all,

My name is Nils. You may recognize it from some of the fun facts or the
Antarctica post, and while I enjoyed the latter in particular, my main role
here at the LINGUIST List is to work on the new website
(https://new.linguistlist.org/). Because we are all grad students, it’s been a
slower process than I’d like, but it’s coming along, and worth checking out!
Go see for yourself and let us know what you think.

Besides working at the LINGUIST List, I am a PhD student at Indiana
University, our host institution. My primary interest, in a very broad sense,
is computational methods for under-resourced languages and language
documentation. I’ve still got a lot of work and a long ways to go before I
even think of defending, but it wouldn’t be possible at all without my job at
the LINGUIST List.

In terms of my life outside academia, my primary hobbies are rock climbing,
fencing, and video games. They do a good job of keeping me sane while I work
on projects and classes. I’ve also been playing violin for 18 years, though I
don’t play as much as I’d like anymore, and I’m fluent in German thanks to
attending an immersion elementary school. I took a class on Danish in college
because that’s where my ancestors came from, but I admittedly don’t speak it
very well.

As I mentioned, all of us here at LL are graduate students in Linguistics at
Indiana University. By working here, we get our tuition paid as well as a
small stipend, allowing us to contribute to the community directly while
learning to contribute to the field academically. We are committed to keeping
LL free, especially since a not insignificant portion of our readers are
(we’re pretty sure) graduate students or recent graduates seeking jobs.

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