Salt flats

My box full of Girl Scout cookies arrived!!!

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Only reposting NYT articles when there good linguists mentioned

Got pastries, bought books

This is gonna be so cool (no way I can make the submission deadline and I live to far to just go but y all should!!!)

SLC: <tries to do the minimum (the bar is really low) to make the city livable as a city, not a giant drive-through> Utah Legislature: <no>

Probably the only reform science needs is to dethrone its gods and heroes, and abolish and purge all elite (and otherwise) boys clubs. I strongly suspect everything else would start falling into place after that.

Thanks to those LinkedIn followers who volunteered! (None from here 😕) While we are in Semitic territory, we also need volunteers for reviewing a paper about transcribing from a Semitic language text to phonetic symbols (IPA). Pls contact me if you can review it! Thx! #linguistics #phonetic #NLP

“correlation is not cognition” — Guest & Martin (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s421... @olivia.science @andreaeyleen.bsky.social

NACLO Day!

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Ah cool!

In the last week I forgot my towels in the washer TWICE 😭😭😭😭😭

I wonder how we all evaluate what “major impact on the field” means in a way that is not confounded with biases about “what I personally find interesting”

I am told Outlook is also down so...freedom?

Canvas down, adding or dropping students from random courses. Amazing. 10/10 software. Worth the $$$$ the University pays for it and the tears of the many of us who hate it even when it "works".

This is literally the plot of "Common Side Effects"

I don't have trouble saying that a human researcher who wants to do interesting work and has minimal self-respect, when left to their own devices, will not make up citations or blend citations together (or, not do this unknowingly). For mistakes made, it will likely not be from lack of checking.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Much more controversially: I think connectionists in the 80s may have erred if you asked them: would a model trained on the intellectual history of the species be a viable model of human cognition?

And it was great!

This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents). uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...

Woke up remembering I have no breakfast food left. Tragedy. 😭😭

Wish I was at that workshop

If you're interested in a short behind-the-scenes of the retraction of a mega-metascience paper—the first of its kind (the retraction, not the paper)—this might be for you! Had to gloss over so many details to observe allotted time but happy to share an extended version of my slide deck with links.

Love SLC’s specific brand of “free send cold, but also so polluted that the fog is smog and your allergies get triggered” 🙃

Some of you out there really thinking that having an LLM estimate norms of things like “animacy” has the same validity as running an experiment asking actual humans to do it. The field is doomed.

Italy just voted to end mail-ballots for Italians residing abroad so I guess now I am tied to TWO countries I have no representation power in 🙃

If as a reviewer you write a sentence like “ I question why the authors did X” it would be nice if you could follow it up with what exactly you question about it, especially if X was justified by like 10 references and 2 full paragraphs of rationale 🙃

After a week of classes my students already understand that I am the kind of prof who appreciates references to Avatar The last Airbender in their assignments. success.

Logging off to lie in bed dissociating for a while and I invite you all to join me

Was a bit demotivated today but I got to chat about some cool sentence processing results with a friend and I got excited again

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My talk on the limitations of algorithmic fairness is now online! youtu.be/YjZ4s3nqxbs?...

One canvas page up, one more to go

Woke up early thinking I’d be productive (semester starts Monday 😭😭) and then <waves around>

6am flights always seem like a good idea until you have to wake up for them

🔥 well-thought, theoretically grounded models >>>>>>> trendy uninterpretable forest killers

I love caldarroste, deeply missed in cold SLC

In better news, a new season of culinary class wars is out

My partner, after a dinner with my parents: “I had never had a dinner like this” Me <puzzled>: “uh, like what? Chaotic?” My partners: “No like, Just cheese” 😂😂😂

I feel some people missed that modern minimalism is a lexicalized approach where the lexicon IS the grammar? Like, there haven’t been “rules” for like, 50?

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

In Italy for Christmas. Me: “do you wanna go for a walk?” My partner, looking confused and embracing Americanness “a walk?! To where?!?”

20kgs of potatoes have been cut and cooked (not eaten yet)

Mandatory syllabi posted, time for Italian food coms until the 26th

I ate too many Nutella-bollen (no regrets)

out now! the Crip Linguistics Reader has some really important stuff in it, and I hope every linguist will engage and find something to take away from this volume

there is no shortage of "the ai does not and cannot do the thing these companies say it does" stories and none of it seems to be hurting their valuation or the rate at which organizations adopt them, there are so many better ways for us to get our schadenfreude than this