looks like the trains are finally going to start running on time

Wonder whether my students will prefer to switch to Ventrilo or to TeamSpeak

One thing that gets lost in the "technically it's ehebophilia" crap is that these fuckers aren't attracted to youth at all. They're attracted to vulnerability. They're delighted to hit on an adult woman as long as she's a student or an employee: someone they can easily hurt & control

Summer Schools: 7th Crete Summer School of Linguistics / CreteLing2026

Cornell alumni, don't forget to vote for trustees! You can choose among: - a private equity guy (management consulting flavor) - a private equity guy (real estate flavor) - a banker - an FTC M&A attorney

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support your neighbors destroy ice

LMs that "know more" about toxicity are less toxic! Our #TACL 📄 connects behavior and internals: 💠 LMs amplify toxicity beyond humans 💠 Information about toxicity peaks in lower layers 💠 Bypassing these layers increases toxicity More details👇 #NLProc #interpretability (1/🧵)

We call for a deescalation of tensions from both sides, the murderers and the people being murdered

sure would be nice if any of our representatives actually represented us sure would be nice if anyone in the opposition party actually did some opposing

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my god. is the concept of fact checking just so thoroughly annihilated?

seasoning my doomscrolling by rubbing salt in the wound that is to say distracting myself from the news by doing SALT reviews

rubicons

Trump is sullying the good name of the FIFA Peace Prize.

we're the bluesketeers you can be one too cause doomscrolling and posting is the thing to do hanging out with nazis is not the way hear what Sexy Alf has to say!

I assume the ADL is all over this

Finally got around to this one, fully enjoyed it The book wants you to think it's about kinesics and translation theory, but it's really about speech act theory (complimentary)

"In our upside-down moment", where a partisan hack with zero journalistic chops, let alone integrity, is put in charge of CBS News

Is there a way to search any of your favorite {social media/microblogging} {platforms/websites} for text with specific formatting? e.g., if I wanted to find a specific word on Tumblr but only in boldface, or to search some Discord server and only find text in italics... is there a way to do that?

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Okay but these are pretty great, actually

Now available! THE CRIP LINGUISTICS READER is a wide-ranging and groundbreaking collection that challenges normative ideas about what is considered “good language.” Visit our website for more information on this latest release from GU Press! gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-...

Hey h̷u̷g̷e̷ ̷n̷e̷r̷d̷s̷ linguists! Know of any papers on faux corrections or ::COUGHintentionalCOUGH:: discourse 'repair' moves, in any modality?

> widely regarded as a tech genius, for vague reasons > loves only a chatbot he programmed, and his own ego > willing to subvert democracy and betray humanity for personal gain > seen by everyone else, correctly, as a sniveling coward truly a character for 2025

It is the case in all possible worlds, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

This paper with @aaronstevenwhite.io is finally published! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1007/s110... (Or, if you don't have institutional access, you can download it from lingbuzz: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007...)

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf

strong support for "coded" as #woty2025 It's not brand new, but I do think it's really escaped containment

What are the mitzves of Thanks Giving, a festive meal, to eat the turkey bird, to hear the story of thepilgrim, to watch the football game. And some say to argue with an uncle.

free the -cuterie!

Banksy social commentary brought to you by conditional (counterfactual!) strengthening

Pssh, everyone knows it was two *of each kind*, so it was way more than two animals total that Moses brought on the ark! 🤪 Come study how illusions like this bear on psychological/linguistic/social concepts like Common Ground with us in Tübingen!

English speaker? Ten minutes to spare? Help a BA student collect some data! Specifically, data on reactions to mental health messaging in social media posts www.soscisurvey.de/presupp-study/ thank you bonus: otter cuddle pile!

Make your 2025 words-of-the-year nominations for the only vote that matters! bit.ly/2025WOTYNOMS

Still a week to get those applications in! Know anyone who might be interested? Send them our way!

don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone smash the East Wing to build the Epstein Ballroom

Cool project as part of an even cooler Collaborative Research Center, focused on "Common Ground" What even is it? (Many takes abound) Can there be a cohesive version which does what it has variously used for? Can we square it with modern psycholing/cog psych theory? Come help us figure out!

PostDoc position (re-)available in Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground" (3.5y) at @unituebingen.bsky.social in a project with @toddthelinguist.bsky.social Philosophy of Language | Cognitive Science | Pragmatics | Logic | ... Apply, share, or reach out for details! tinyurl.com/y33vjwj2

What would you call a house that a Wug lives in? 🎶"Well the wuuuug shack is a little old place where we can get together! Wug shack babyyyy"🎶

In a new exciting collaboration with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social and @profgerhard.bsky.social we think about how studying ambiguity in human and great ape communication can advance our theories of language evolution. Paper out at doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Truth and reconciliation, across the entire society, top to bottom

Someone is being sensible on this whole affair, but surprise surprise it isn't the administration www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

Not a single one of our institutions has any intention of protecting its faculty or defending the integrity of intellectual inquiry at this moment. This is of the most disturbing versions of that story I’ve read: it keeps getting worse and worse as you go

Meanwhile the Bechdel–Łoś–Vaught–Voight–Kampff test determines, for 𝜅-many women for some infinite cardinal 𝜅 ≥ |𝜎|, how many of them are human

In honor of The Adventure Zone using Neal.fun's Infinite Craft to create their Evokemon, some of my own first discoveries from back in the day

Can't believe that neither Google's lawyer nor the DOJ's knew about C octothorpe

The royal "everyone"

lots of thoughts about last night's charlie kirk tribute

They call this 'catnip for todds' (instant purchase)