This will surprise none of you but Rome is SO hot and SO humid these days (and it's not even heat wave time!)

It really bothers me that "we" have decided that for scientific contributions being "incremental" is somehow a fault

I would find many LLM papers so much more interesting from a technical perspective if they dropped the far fetched, superficial cognitive science “framing”

The way Becky Chambers understands (and fuels) my existential dread

I was gonna engage in discourse and stopped myself. Pls clap

I won't be at SCiL this year but UofU Comp Ling is well represented with work from students and colleagues! A short thread! Go say hi to them, they are fun and for most of them this is their first SCiL experience!

Ani stop adding content to the outline of this paper and actually write the paper challenge

Chrome updated during the night closing all my tabs while I am in the middle of writing the lit review for a paper 😢😢😢😢

Sigh SLC

Fire season 🙃🙃🙃

it is wrong and uncouth to turn food into debate fodder. food is to be enjoyed and appreciated only. we're not to destroy one of the greatest things we have left sheesh

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So many things to do, brain is empty

5am in Santa Ana and already stuck in traffic, how do people live like this

Hi language science bluesky! If you have 20 minutes, PhD student Dhanya Charan (dhanya.humspace.ucla.edu) and I are recruiting volunteer participants for a 20-minute speech production study! Link here: www.labvanced.com/player.html?... Please re-skeet / share widely! Thank you!

Hacks was truly the perfect show

This!! Honestly I blame English for this frustrating collapse of the terms

Okay but these abstracts are good, if I can say so myself (tho a bit weird for the conferences I am sending them to)

I miss the ocean

The way my university BEGS us to get money for research and the makes it impossible to use said money once you get it 🙃🙃🙃

journal with witch was such a good watch

Everything is terrible but Becky Chambers has a new book coming out 🎉 (in October 😩)

<Ani pls finish those journal submissions instead of adding conference abstracts to the pipeline>

Need a #reviewer for a submitted article about #EEG decoding of #spoken and/or #imagined #words. Please contact me if you can review — thanks! Otherwise pls boost! #ACM #TALLIP #NLP #NLProc #psycholinguistics

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every single time I see a university announcement breathlessly pushing commercial gAI or partnerships with OpenAI, Microsoft, etc I have a moment of incredulous rage: how little the university values the work of its own.

Nice!

Nerdsniped into reading two disseratations in reviewing a paper

If I have to read one more novel in which an USian romanticizes the Italian “slow pace of living”…

I had a long work day planned but my laptop is not letting me log in (sigh) so I guess… anime time?

I hate airline companies so so much

"We should not be content with theories and models that prioritize numerical correlation over explanation, that blur their metatheoretical ties, and which render our fields closer to pseudoscience. Computational cognitive science in principle can and should do more than merely model data." ❤️‍🔥🔥

Finals week ended Wednesday and we have to post finalized final grades by Monday.

Solidarity with all the workers of the world. ✊🏼 They are nothing without us. “Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.” - Dolores Huerta

YES to everything Kirby says here, it warms my heart (and makes me feel very seen as both someone who tries to ask himself "why am I teaching this" often, and as a kind-of-syntactitian)

Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter

I bought a book but found out after buying it that it was a sequel, so I had to buy another book

Help I agreed to do too many reviews again 😩

Maybe it's just me, but I think that there is something broken in a conference that costs $1,050.00 (for EARLY registration!). We can pretend that it is a multidisciplinary venue but in practice who gets to go?

It would be worth for the whole field to reread Kaplan's beautiful "Three Seductions of Computational Psycholinguistics" once in a while d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/97323696/For...?

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Oh cool!

I keep dreaming about high speed trains in the US

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I forgot how much I loathe O’Hare

I finished Negative Positive Angler. what a sweet anime . I came for the slice of life and stayed for the fishing and the surprisingly nuanced portrayal of depression 😅

superstars in the field 🙄still talk about transformations as if it’s 1985. please move on we all have

Last day of classes (😭🎉! My Undergrad coding for the humanities class is simulating a poster session to present their posters! All proposals looked really fun so I am looking forward to it!