New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We have been saying this all along but sure we had to wait for them to acknowledge it

lol (sad lol) the university’s advice to H1b faculty currently outside of the US is… please return by Sunday. Very helpful yes, so nice to have such reassuring and insightful leaders

One (1) good news would be nice ngl

everyone's thinking about Silicon Valley but this would also make it basically impossible to hire international faculty also

Even on bluesky, replies to this just show how most US-ians know nothing about how hard it is to stay in this country as a non-citizen. H1Bs are not *easy to get* omg, and this move will 💯 destroy US’ability to attract international faculty

Empirical work can’t justify itself. You need an outer layer of theory in which to do the justification that is non-empirical. Gödel 101. I love the enthusiasm for computing, but maybe look into its foundations and the uncertainty at its core. No model is a view from nowhere. 18/18

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Don't worry guys we basically solved language

No chrome I don’t wanna try Gemini. No Colab I don’t want AI support. Pls stop. Stop 😭😭😭😭

Ah yes let’s make overleaf unusable

PCIbex I love you but you are bringing me down (semi cit.)

icymi, you can now preorder the crip linguistics reader

I feel this needs to be said again but LLMs are not implementing usage-based theories of language unless one interprets the latter in the shallowest, devoid of their most interesting assumptions, way. “Usage” is not just frequency ffs.

I beg y'all to read a but of philosophy of science and work about "theory-free' science (it does not exist)

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I don’t exactly know how to express this but the intense ethno-nationalism that imbues Italian festivals in the US really leaves me feeling super weird

Excited to present this (now-published) project at the 11am poster session today. Poster C36 for the elevator version! #SNL2025 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

So many of my students have COVID (just counting the ones who have actually told me, not even considering all of those who have mentioned "the thing that is going around"), but sure who needs vaccines 😭

Submitted a review for a paper in time, can the review gods send me my own paper's decision/reviews soon? 😭

Help I kinda wanna study sentence wrap-up effects

Love living in the 1950s🫠

Something that comments in this thread are pointing out is that this person was in a non-tenure track position. This speaks to both the importance or tenure protections as well as of ensuring that non-tenure track faculty have due process protections if we care about academic freedom

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Piano class is THOUGH this semester

I always love to save time in y schedule to work on a college-level thing, just to find out the college-level proposal prep system is offline/has issues/won't work. /s

Ling bluesky, opinions/recs for a high sensitivity mic? Mostly to be used in sound proofs booths for stimulus recording!

Saw Japanese Breakfast last night and what a show 🔥

University admins will take 6 months to get you a table and then send you 100 email for you to decide on 20k equipment within a week

I wish I was at AmLaP

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I would like 1 (one) less meeting today, please and thank you?

I just published Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers medium.com/p/are-we-exp...

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

I don't think that preparing to go up for tenure should be compared to sports with metaphors like "slam dunk" or "hit it out of the ballpark" and I think that treating academia this way is indicative of a deeply American sickness

✨New preprint out! With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval. 👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal 👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors osf.io/preprints/ps...

Tuesdays that feel like Mondays

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🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

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Ling folks who love TV shows, anyone has suggestions for a character exhibiting a strong Philly accent (bonus if it shows the /æ/ split?). Asking for my class XD

I just needed a good example of why we need IPA to distinguish orthography and pronunciation for tomorrow’s class so… thank you! XD

🚨Pre-print alert!🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps... The first paper from our NIDCD-funded study examining the effects of aging, acoustic challenge, and hearing loss on language-related ERPs. w/ Jack Silcox, David Strayer, Sarah Ferguson, and Karen Bennett. Check it out!

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Very proud of this paper

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_...

Anthropic caring about "model well being" for their LLMs is pseudoscientific nonsense, and it's an alarming position to take. Do you notice how the people who claim to worry about existential threat of AI to people are suddenly moving to care about models instead? 🧵 1/4

Oh, we have such a cool one up of colloquium speakers this semester 🖤