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...

📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇

I didn't intend to recreate everything about my childhood, but my family *will* be playing the King's Quest and Monkey Island games together for family game night

USA! USA!

eagerly awaiting the upcoming Pinker op-ed about the illiberalism of pierogi vendors

Sweet cheese on a stick every time I read @joellenovey.bsky.social spit devastating truth about how far our community has fallen from who we are supposed to be it breaks me even more: (link seems to be back online:)

(enjoying the interview with Marc Maron on Jesse David Fox's podcast) is there such a thing as solarpunk stand-up? what would that look like? is anyone out there doing things in this direction?

For every like this receives, there will be a response which includes a fact about the semantic scope of quantifiers

yike yet another shanda fur die nit-lingvistn

Why in the hell does the FDNY need access to facial recognition software, or to DMV records?? Last time I checked, fires don't have faces. Or license plates.

You want open borders? Oh yeah? Well

Comply-in-advance, censorious cowards at my alma mater triblive.com/local/fence-... #Pittsburgh @cmu.edu

There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone… Cut Medicaid to build concentration camps

More Ph.D. positions available in several projects related to the #SFB Common ground! Please see the list here uni-tuebingen.de/de/283575

Support: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Tübingen

Our large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative @unituebingen.bsky.social on "Common Ground" now has a website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... We are also hiring! Check out recent postings here and the continually added job ads here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit... #linguistics + friends