Not my house, but I know my way around

Wow. The CBC is actually using the active voice

In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵

Served Warwick Davis when I was working a movie theatre concession counter. I broke protocol and did not verbally repeat his order… I could not say the word “small” to him, even in context, I respect him too much

Giving students feedback is so much easier when you can call on shared cultural references to make analogies.

May have overdone the baking this year, but the sampler for the last faculty meeting was well-received

Oh THAT’S why I couldn’t find the 2022-23 budget… of course there’s the random year someone did it in Word

That moment when you open this for the first time all day, the top of your feed is sincerity from people who are usually sarcastic, and you know something bad awaits below

A Tyee investigation has found that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s admiration for the popular and polarizing psychologist Jordan Peterson went well beyond her affinity for him as a fellow conservative culture warrior. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli #canpoli

Is “wordsmithery” a word? Eh, why not? But, dear Microsoft Outlook, “wordsmpthery” definitely is not. I’m almost starting to think that these autocorrections might be an emergent artform of improbability of their own

The glorious feeling when your procrastination successfully estimates how long a task will take to get it done just on time, but without panic.

Light Saturday morning reading (Kim 2023)

For all the anglophone Canadians here! Tbh I hadn’t heard some of the candidates until I saw the form, but I’m def gonna be start using them.

Oh hey, I’m in this. And I still use gongshow as an example in my Varieties of English class

Movie that takes place where you’re from (Ok, cheating, this is just filmed there)

A reason to keep the Humanities around

Not sure whether to be proud or alarmed at the fact that in a talk just now, where a slide showed only the inventory of screws, dowels, etc… from an IKEA manual, within a few seconds of counting, I clocked it as BILLY

Yes, Microsoft Word, when I type “open text”, I would love you to change it to “opentex t”. Every time. #enshittification

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

Remember November 12th!!

🚨HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY🚨 1/n www.oregonlive.com/travel/2024/...

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

It ys the seasoun of decoratif gourdes you knaves

Our NEW event, the Linguistics Brownbag Series, starts this Friday! 👏 Friday, Oct 17 | 3pm | CHE 212 During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics! This week, we will discuss Marketing with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from Haskayne School of Business.

For the Canadians youtu.be/SzkT1BAA1L8?...

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

This is a savage takedown of AI writing by showing just how bland and predictive it really is

This amused my way more than it should, but I am also very sleep deprived

Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar Nakhaei who just received his PhD in Linguistics after a great virtual defence of his thesis, “A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian”

Oh hey, I’m on three journal articles in here. Happy to contribute to the machine 🙄. No, not really.

The triumph of going through old papers and actually finding that almost 20 year old handout you were sure was somewhere, and would be useful someday

Children of a Lesser Gorn

Well that’s a garden path headline if ever I saw one

Congratulations to Calgary Linguistics student Francisco Ongay González for his winning presentation at the Canadian Linguistic Association! news.ucalgary.ca/news/linguis...

So help me, I agreed to do a radio spot on new words tomorrow. They’ll ask about skibidi, I just know it

Ok, this is just going to be my “y’all, don’t actually use this stuff, but here, learn how to make it better” slide

Is a film too predictable when, in the first ten minutes, you correctly think to yourself “Ah, Chekhov’s reciprocating saw”

The whiplash of a single Spotify ad block having one about selling blood plasma, and another about how easy it is to become a landlord

NEW: Inside the strangest Canada Day I've ever witnessed. www.readtheorchard.org/p/canada-day...

Linguists are compiling the latest English-language Canadianisms. But what makes a word Canadian?

Welp. Just ran into my first instance of an AI hallucinating an article in Linguistic Inquiry

I’ll be diving into this next time I have to prep for the Varieties of English class

Uber was subsidized by venture capital to operate at a loss with a cheap service so as to break labor, legislation, the transit industry. Same w/ AirBnB, Netflix etc. What is AI trying to break by operating at a loss? What do they need to diminish the quality of so as to make opting out unpleasant?

Huh. Not sure exactly what I was expecting, but a 1.25% drop in rent is a nice development

A good thread, but let's be clear, this isn't just a movement "with" elite leaders, it is a movement largely *created* by elite leaders, based on false premises and a lot of pettiness. The issue isn't "yokels" or stupidity, but selfishness and dogmatic ideology.

Fictional character's death you think was unnecessary (non-Star Trek edition)

Picard science tip: The universal translator is not the end of linguistics. The replicator is not the end of chemistry. Keep going.