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)

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Call for European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 2026 Lectures and Workshop More information here: 2026.esslli.eu Submit here: easychair.org/my/conferenc...

Is this right? Contemporary analyses of slurs tell us that slurs: 1️⃣ ascribe membership (their truth-conditional content) 2️⃣ derogate (their expressive content) 3️⃣ are offensive (their social effect) 4️⃣ achieve 2️⃣&3️⃣ by means of relating to (ongoing/historical) practices of bigotry and discrimination

I think we shouldn't put flags at half-mast for neo-Nazis, actually

this is my supreme court

Truth & Reconciliation Commission when

7. the kinda appealing, but substantively indefensible, idea that somehow AI is different to other technology, like calculators, in a pedagogical context — but we totally ban a great deal of technology in the classroom. (Section 3.7 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 9/n

Join our interdisciplinary team that combines computational linguistics with cognitive neuroscience! Our center is located in the beautiful Trentino region.

If an Austrian cow's calf is facing the wrong way in the birth canal, does it get a Kaiserschnitzel?

a song of ICE and fire

factive presupposition × (responding directly to an) indirect speech act

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Anyone know anything about Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics?

Who wants to work down the hall from me?

the most fun i've had making a spreadsheet in recent memory!

Semantics teachers! The Fall 2025 version of "Invitation to Formal Semantics" is now available. It has major changes to Chapters 1-5 driven by new exercises and visualization of cases. Solutions to exercises soon available upon request. eecoppock.info/bootcamp/sem...