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

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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...

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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

PostDoc position (3.5y) available in interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground". 🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground 🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science 📅 Deadline: July 14 tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p Please share! @toddthelinguist.bsky.social

Dems are speaking more forcefully against Mamdani than literally anything that’s been going on the five months in this administration. It’s really disappointing tbh.

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“On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now” I won an Extraordinary Achievement Award from the Critical Care Assembly last month The @atscommunity.bsky.social premier journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social TODAY published the remarks I made on that occasion www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...

We have 2 Ph.D. positions available in a #DFG funded project awarded to @profgerhard.bsky.social and me. We are planning to combine acquisition work with computational modeling to investigate how children and adults understand irony. Deadline: July 20, 2025. Info linguistlist.org/issues/36/19...

DFG approved our CRC on the topic of Common Ground! 18 projects across three research areas (Cognition, Grammar, Communication) exploring how CG is built, encoded, and used in language Look out for new work coming from Tübingen! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... [press release only in German] 🐦🐦

This is now an Absolute Dominion (2025) fan account

I always tell my students, you're going to be shocked and offended by Quantifier Raising and Exceptional Case Marking No trigger warnings here, snowflakes!

[This whole opinion is disgusting and will kill children. Reading the dissent for the righteous indignation, even if it won't make a difference.] Shots fired!

I'm glad the footage is out there, so kudos to the people with their phones out getting evidence But where are the people pressing the elevator call button repeatedly to keep it from moving, or pulling the fire alarm

Hankamer, watching him rip their very last phone book in half:

quick everyone, assign homework!

come for the deconstruction of a pop culture cliche stay for the clips of cute wolf pups playing socially leave with a renewed appreciation for male strength via connection, community, and mutual support