right! aaaaa i already get enough unprompted emails about how im not doing enough
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right! aaaaa i already get enough unprompted emails about how im not doing enough
no omg
there’s no “fix” for declining birth rates that doesn’t involve violating people’s bodily autonomy or their right to live as they choose, so let’s start there
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Call for Papers: The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages & Linguistics (GURT), happening in March 2026 in DC. The theme is "FUTURING LINGUISTICS: Content, Curriculum & Careers"! Proposals for papers, posters, & colloquia due 11/17 #linguistics
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Yesss!! Imagine if AI companies needed to secure IRB approval before turning our students into test subjects #EduSky
love the school photo setup
admittedly this is also one of the big reasons people get way mad about it. but that's very very survivable and can be a great source of useful information about people's values
there is such an incredible rush of power in saying bluntly "im not doing that" to someone who has never once considered the possibility that my internal world might be unknown to them
sometimes transitioning is a way to set relational boundaries. like ooooh i get to stop letting people make me do shit i dont want to do! highly recommend
Philly’s public pools are open for eight weeks, max. But Charisma Presley dreams of a city where families have access to public pools long past Labor Day, where they can swim for free year-round.
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
most important insight of my entire linguistics education: statements about language are always statements about people
phding is a completely different set of skills from remembering to eat produce if thats any help. (living in a new country is more similar to remembering to eat produce, i found it difficult but doable with support)
pleased to share my new paper (it's open access!)! in this paper we look at how people evaluate speakers across authority levels when they use negotiation words on four dimensions - professionalism, politeness, friendliness, and knowledgeableness
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
okayyyyyy got me a jersey appt and gonna have a little transit adventure this weekend, ty for this
right i mean i actually have multiple of the "qualifying conditions" so this is absolutely not an eligibility issue, it's about the company refusing to supply it
okay well i've made an appointment in freaking new jersey. this is literally SUCH bullshit lmao
yeah i'm like looking at whether someone can give me a ride this weekend i guess. lmao
i have plenty of conditions and diagnoses, these two companies are basically a duopoly in my city and are simply. not administering it. cvs's website says it's unavailable in my area, so i'm now looking to get a ride across state lines lmao
yeah it's literally such bullshit. gotta start formulating it in the basement and gray-market/diying it like hrt
pissing myself off by checking cvs & walgreens sites to confirm they still won't give me the fucking boostie. maybe i start calling individual pharmacies one by one just to revenge waste their time? i don't fucking know, man
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Theydies and Gentlethem, Mr. Cheeto Crispy.
one weird thing about living in philly rn is sometimes i hear random crowd cheering and i have to check if there's Sports or News
For the Philly people, I just learned there is a native plant sale at the former Greensboro lot happening right now until 1 PM!
my uu congregation when i was growing up had earlier and later service times but the later one was still technically sunday mornings
clowns are often about externalizing/personifying the id. a sleepy clown desires, with utter completeness, a little fucking nap
Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!
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I once completely changed someone's mind on introducing yourself with pronouns when I pointed this out. Obviously won't work for everyone, but worth a shot.
when you decide that yes, you're going to assign your own paper in the grad seminar
👉 Is pointing rude? 👈 I had an extreme amount of fun chatting about gesture with the Let's Learn Everything crew. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9... We touched on medieval manuscripts, rainbows, archers and Just Dance (absolutely not Dance Dance Revolution)
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for example, cats
need to howl's moving castle magic door attach my apartment to kaohsiung. NOT for tax evasion
ughhhhh
this is wonderful
oh 💜 linguistics 💜💜
the trees outside my window are very pretty. i bet it's nice outside but if i experience a sound or smell or texture i Will perish. because i moved a lot of pdves around today
trying to put words to a small sadness i just experienced wrt sensory processing disorder. um, it sucks that i have to choose between getting work done or feeling outside air on my skin, some days, because i can't tolerate doing both
yes we shall make it happen
is the idea "cc like five more people into an email thread i have been neglecting since may"
oh my god not being allowed to swim is easily in my top three of most annoying parts about surgery recovery. please it's The Thing that is so good for my body, i must
"kirby be more on top of emails" would be one of the strategies
ooh yes i hadnt thought of that, ty!
many such cases!!! you'd be your area's top cat rehabilitator i bet
i will say i occasionally need to stop and hang a lampshade on, like, PP. esp intro/syn1, if i hear myself say something like "okay so we really need to deal with this floating pp over here" i need to go "okay PLEASE laugh, it's FUNNY" and this improves morale (mine & theirs)
one of your many admirable talents! genuinely
everyone should get sabbaticals if they want
man if we had UBI i think i'd randomly take a year off to go ham as a knitting designer every few years
yeah it's a loadbearing adverb
i do really enjoy how it is phallic yet doing something that penises usually do not do
at what point did they start actively hooting and hollering at you. or was there a deathly silence. did they make you dangle
Hell yeah buddy bon appetit
i will check again!
same same
oh no jen
will look into it, thank you! i gotta also try and find something i can get to w no car from cc on low spoons so that's a limiting factor
i have had some success with having very candid convos with them (as a class) about why im doing this and what i want them to get out of it and what strategies tend to work, but thats my teeny class size privilege probly
does anyone have any ideas of how to get a covid boostie in philly rn. the wall green and the cvs are telling me no
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oh this kind of thing makes me so sad. you're anxious because im not keeping enough tension on the leash? fuck
i am personally fighting this by being a weird hippie at them but god it gets harder and harder to get away with it
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yeah I think step 1 email me and I'll start looping in EC / admin people I think will be helpful, and step 2 will be rounding up people who will be good at actually writing it
we absolutely could do this, it will take a couple emails to kick it off and then a bunch of zoom meetings to actually write it, but like, yeah this is very doable
noogying you
i miss taiwan breakfast :(
i think im supposed to object to this
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also calling stuff gouache can be fun
The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
We've got 35 sets of these posters left. This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms. Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc! squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...
Many updates to our psycholinguistic database page. You terrific people have been busy distributing open source data including lexical databases for BSL, French, German sign. LMK if I've missed anything www.reilly-coglab.com/data
linguistics
“But they came here illegally” ON GOD i don’t care
corpus linguistics thread
“That guys actions and opinions actively go against many of my values” is not a “purity test” it is literally how we choose who to vote for.
yummmm
i think im gonna make a dotted rays. or not a drop. not sure yet
dude i have some really fucking amazing coauthors. i cant wait to tell you about this next thing
i set a goal last week of "if i have a 7-day streak of hitting dish zero im allowed to cast on a new wip" and i am gonna cast on a new wip tomorrow >:3
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RIDICULOUSLY tired overspent spoons but all doing nice things and having a nice time
For my money still the best single paragraph on AI/LLMs I've read
thank you for sharing!
A colleague at UB is conducting a 6-9 minute survey on the experiences of transgender people in academia: sunybuffalo.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
correct!
my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)
the first crash course linguistics video now has a million views, @superlinguo.bsky.social @jessgrieser.com aren't you glad we worked on this in 2020 anyway if you want some fun 10 min linguistics videos to watch you can still do that!
Calls: More Than Just Noise: Detecting Patterns in Acceptability Judgment Data (DGfS 2026 Workshop)
Free idea for a paper here: wealth of material about there about the literal and figurative meaning of fences in residential areas. Maybe someone’s written it, google scholar mostly gives uses of “fence” as intellectual boundaries
okay but further to this, someone should write a paper (or book) about the sense of paranoia and distrust the availability of LLMs creates (/amplifies) in education free idea for a good home
Don’t forget your meds! ✨
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This is the AI policy I'm going with this semester