We're organising a workshop! It's on non-canonical questions! If you're working on NCQs and are looking for a venue to present in, please do consider submitting. Dates: March 2nd-5th, 2027, at DGfS49 in Jena, Germany Submission deadline: July 15th More details: uni-tuebingen.de/en/298455

Singing my niece Apples and Bananas with the entire vowel space so she has an easier time in Field Methods

The UK has really been testing my commitment to delighting in language change this week...

"You there, good sir! Would you mind giving me the time?" "But of course, my good man. It is now time t." "Is It really?! Time t already? Then I'm afraid I must be off, for at time t I must Φ!"

Free paper topic, if anyone wants to write about reference tracking Another great example of how futzing with the rules illustrates them

New paper out! 🚀 We've compiled and shared an open-source battery of cognitive tasks measuring inhibition, working memory, and processing speed—all in one accessible resource. 👇https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/17163 #OpenScience #CogSci #Psychology #Linguistics

Beautiful Gricean contralexical use of "unrelatedly"

Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.

Hiring in syntax/semantics. 1 year position at @ox.ac.uk. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

positively lovely example of using stress to disambiguate, and on a preposition no less! (from the webcomic DRIVE, written by Dave Kellett)

nobody tell him, or the next book will be fully insane

Greg and I wrote a thing! We present a reasoning-based analysis of projection of the content of the complement of negated "know"-utterances. The analysis also predicts that the belief attribution is weakly projective, a result that is confirmed experimentally! www.meaning-journal.org/index.php/Me...

🐦🐦 Semanticists and the semantics-friendly: If you like thinking about what we mean when we write down a semantic variable, and if you like talking to (other) semantics-adjacent folks about it, join us for OASIS 6 in Lisbon!

Nuremberg or Piazzale Loreto or better yet, Nuremberg and then Piazzale Loreto

when your conversational implicature becomes so conventional that its absence is disappointing

You can now register for the 37th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, which will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 3rd to August 14th. For more information and to register, please visit: 2026.esslli.eu

Omg, this was just built last week, it looks amazing!

At this rate, we’ll stop speaking altogether by 2050! (… this has the whiff of statistical anomaly about it, but I’ll have to dig into it later)

This is pure @lastweektonight.com fodder

So who all is going to #CogSci2026 in Rio?

Masterful thread that should be a book

!חג כשר ושמח

hilarious, but also, a great example of a chiastic response structure 🤩

Got a new dark sweater, and being covered in all these tiny wool lint balls is making me lose faith in the entire world I'm totally blackpilled

the year was 2020... Powell: LSA refused the letter's demands! LSA: no we didn't Powell: my reporting was accurate, actually the NYT is at it again, folks—with much higher stakes this time

Will it be a flash in the pan, or will "underbussing" have real staying power? #woty2026?

April 11, 2026: 12-1:50 PDT / 3-4:50 EDT / 7-8:50 UST. Being Trans in Philosophy, a zine for and by trans people in the discipline, brings you a live reading and launch party at the 2026 virtual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. Free online!

You are laughing? The worst person in the world is failing at the job she isn’t qualified for and you are LAUGHING?

it me

New! For robust research, center values, not technology, w/ @nerdpro.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1894... Our commentary on Futrell/Mahowald "How linguistics stopped worrying and learned to love the LMs”, forthcoming in BBS

guy who goes to the crypto conference but only wants to talk about bigfoot

Can't even read the news about the latest antisemitic attack without a triple-whammy of other nearby antisemitism

I will not say

new Gettier case just dropped

By the time you've agreed to the interview, you're already cooked

When you think about conjoined questions (of the form "X and Y?", where both X and Y are questions), as I'm sure you do, what examples come to mind?

the world was simpler when the media bubbles were totally distinct when conservatives would pretend not to understand what intersectionality meant instead of learning the term "moral panic" and applying it to 'criticism of chumming around with a known child trafficker' (meanwhile publishing Singal!)

Franke & de Jager 2011

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💕 Based on a painting of Yael by Artemisia Gentileschi

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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