TIL the Sanskrit word for apple is “Kashmiraphalam”. Named for the region or the goddess?

Picnic kind of day.

Mantra for 2026

Some thoughtfully curated exhibits at the Asian Art Museum, DC. I really enjoyed the emphasis on syncretism across time and space in the South Asian and Korean sections. Goddess Durga, 9th Century Central Java. Love the natural proportions used for this figure.

The Sock Knitter, 1915 by Australian painter Grace Cossington Smith #WomensArt

RIP Barbara G Walker. What a life.

How to make a linguist happy- Acoustics: 2

I strongly recommend cleaning out one's old photo/document troves. You NEVER know what you will find. Personally, I like this analysis generated by a comedian friend who I introduced to Praat and pitch tracking.

This one will stay with me.

TIL. And wow Canadian linguists. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

“It’s just a rectangle, how long can it take”. *6 months later 😭*

To the future or the past?

Inside you there are two bad linguists:

She looks comfy for someone keeping me company at the airport… 🧶

It is amazing how little the world has changed in the last 250 years, vindicating her clear-eyed and ruthless criticism of romance over and over…

“Hello from Tucson”

I love this so much.

Happy Birthday to Ryan Gosling! To celebrate his Nov 12 birthday here are a few of my favorite "Hey Girl" knitting and crafting memes. 🧶 Feel free to add your favorites in the replies.

2025 sweater coming up! 🧶

20 years apart, and I made the same exact decision for the same exact reason. Russian roulette on Delhi roads every day with no cycle helmet. There must be a god.

Only correct way to learn a new language as an adult.

Hercule Poirot always makes the male gaze look 100x times more comical:

I have made one sweater for every year I’ve been in the US. A 🧶🧵:

Just watched “Rebel With A Cause“, by grammartable.bsky.social. As a LingTwitter acquaintance once said, “grammatical prescriptivism is linguistic fan fiction“, and this production brings that alive in an all new way! PS: do you use punctuation before or after an emoji, or omit it entirely 🤔?

“…The artist…Pradipta Karmakar, said the genealogical representation of the evolution of Bengali shows that all mother tongues, not just Bengali, should be respected.“ scroll.in/article/1086...

New research from Prof. Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social, Dr. Marina N. Cantarutti @marinanc.bsky.social, & Dr. Jürgen Trouvain investigates the phonetic structure of laughter in conversation. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Timeline Cleanse.

My personal internet toxicity level can be described as a teary-eyed baby Pepe the Frog superimposed on a standard skull emoji, created with pre-AI tools.

Oh wow Bluesky has a bookmark button. RIP 📌 you will be missed.

In these dark times, I am so grateful for Cardi B.

Spent the last week in Orientation, selling Arizona with words. This is the correct way to do it :)

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lossless compression socks

The gardenpath-iness of this banner tickles my brain in just the right way.

Rainbow on the arm kind of day. 😃

The irony, of course, is that the “phonetic way to say umami” is [umami].

New affiliation!

✨Discovering dynamical laws for speech gestures ✨ ➡️ I’m delighted to announce my new article out today in Cognitive Science, where I discover simple mathematical laws that govern articulatory control in speech. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Minor update: I passed.

📣 Dissertation Defence 📣 "Vocal Entrainment in Multi-Party Conversations: An Exploration of Automated and Experimental Approaches” 📅 Date:Friday, June 20, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10:00 (Mountain Standard Time) 🔗 Register to join via Zoom: forms.gle/t9B3sMZbrgcK...

The ICML Tokenization Workshop is looking for last-minute reviewers. Please help out if you can!

I started designing a hexagon blanket and working on my PhD application in 2018. It is WILD that an ambitious knitting project is taking longer than a dissertation 🫠. Self-From-2018 would be proud of the excel sheet with dropdown lists and conditional formatting I use to manage the project tho. 😛

Let's keep this recursion going...

My dissertation is now listed on Proquest! 🙂 www.proquest.com/docview/3212...

Special Dissertation Auditor.

Bar charts vs dot plots.

I detest using singular first person in my dissertation.

Always remember to thank your LM, it's a common courtesy like tipping your landlord

I wrote some software that visualises real-time nasalance for our @phoneticslab.bsky.social public engagement event this week! We use two microphones to capture oral and nasal signals, separated by a baffle, and map each signal's amplitude to a visual representation of the face!