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Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Love that BlueSky is just my lil German acquisition diary fr 😂

I've been noticing some really local features in my German lately- I am fully Ich-Laut where you'd expect (z.B. kriechsset? / kriegst du es?), but the one that always stops me in my tracks is hearing myself delete it syllable finally (z.B. hammwa au? / haben wir auch?). Input is a powerful force!

One of my (now) 6yo's favorite bedtime readings.

In small victories, I answered the phone the other day with a “Frau Ross” and my 5yo loudly interrupted “Frau DOKTOR Ross”

I saw this movie 36 hours ago and feel like I’ve been keeping the biggest secret in the universe about how DELIGHTFUL it is. I’m going to see it again tonight!!!!!

Listen to me. The Mandalorian and Grogu is a TREAT, it is DELICIOUS, it is so fun and wild and surprising and sweet. It has ROTJ vibes for me, with critters and different set pieces and laughs and peril. Do not miss seeing it in the theater. Take your kids. This is what Star Wars is all about!!

Published today. The vowel in 'just' is undergoing an independent sound change, separate from any changes to KIT or STRUT. Filed under the ever-growing category of "things that were supposed to be fun little papers, that unexpectedly ended up taking many years" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

“S’il vous plait, das heißt ‘please’” is a real sentence I said to my daughter this week. (She’s starting to recognize acronyms!)

We already have received great abstracts - and we also have 9 days to go! Send your ideas until the 15th of May! #language #trauma

It’s the 4th week of the semester and my Star Wars Language Ideologies class has had about 90% attendance (not required) and is still GAINING new students. Why have I waited so many years to do this???

This has just happened to me AGAIN and I had to say ‘sorry, when your email arrived at 9:30pm on Thursday I was already away from work. I then enjoyed the federal holidays on Friday and Monday and still did not read my email. GUESS YOU’LL HAVE TO WAIT’

They’re actually replaying this on the live feed RIGHT NOW if you want a little moment of glowing joy in your life

Just learned that a former friend —who I soundly scolded in 2020 for promoting ‘gargling with lemon water prevents covid’ pseudoscience— is now an assistant prof at our alma mater. You love to see it 🙄🙄

Almost without fail, every time I start gaining a tiny bit of academic momentum, I am suddenly blindsided by an immigration admin project that consumes my every available resource. So, SO exhausting.

Happy to oblige

Happy Big Boat Stuck Day to those who celebrate!

Langauge spotted ⬇️

Apropos of nothing, I just realized that I have not listened to even one minute of screaming metalcore since September 7th of 2025. 🤷🏻‍♀️

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

I’m currently on leave but was given edits over the weekend that were DUE MONDAY. I did them because I’m a preciously employed immigrant and publishing is what I pretend will someday secure my career but good lord, editors! Slow Science would change my life, fr

Peer review is not there for you to tell experts in the field how you'd prefer the style of the paper to be, or what method or analysis you have a clear bias for. Your job is to check for correctness, spot errors or gaps, protect the integrity of the scientific method, not piss on others.

Chat, are linguists really using ‘decompose’ as a synonym for ‘parse’ these days or is this ChatGPT nonsense?

Can you help my student get participants for their survey? Any English-speakers are desirable! Please boost! www.soscisurvey.de/VGtypes_habi...

My spring/summer course is called “Language Ideologies in a Galaxy Far, Far Away”. There is so much good material, I am so very tired of my students’ media studies being done badly, and this is how I’m going to marry all my many academic loves into a single special interest polycule.

Today I learned that floppen is a stative verb

Isn’t this the ‘complicating action’ that started the Trojan war and sorta resulted in the founding of Rome?

Me: *does too many tasks with like, no food in tummy* 😡 Everything is AWFUL, I HATE this, I just wanna G- *eats one food* -RATEFULLY acknowledge the amazing people in my life 🥹

Float like a glass squid. What might it feel like to reach a state where your body’s density perfectly matches your surroundings? Their buoyant bodies are filled with ammonium chloride, which is lighter than seawater, helping them to conserve energy while traveling. 1,729 m #ArgentinianDeepSeeps

Weekend timeline cleanse! A #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #dog's head. 🐕🐶 Vessels such as this were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down Dating ca. 475 BC. 📷 Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺

I had to take a German test recently, the studying for which brought me to tears multiple times because I was unavoidably confronted with the fact that my German has largely been *acquired* and not *learned* As a linguist, this is my ideal approach to language. As an immigrant, it was damaging.

Paper accepted 🎉 and coming soon in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language: Heyd & Flehmer (2026): Ideologies of English, ideologies of gender: enregisterment of internal and external purism in German language ideologies.

Take a second and think before posting the easy Eeyore reply. You might have something substantive to say instead. Or, even better, you can say nothing at all.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

If you’re a person that celebrates Epiphany, remember that the magi engaged in righteous civil disobedience when they took another road home and didn’t snitch to Herod. The lesson is that the right thing is often the opposite of what elected leaders want you to do.

Someone told me that being my friend was ‘really postmodern’ (I have to choose to read this one as a compliment, which, res ipsa etc etc)

This year I saw someone brand themselves online as a ‘former Professor of English’ and it turns out they were a TESOL adjunct at a community college for one semester. I can’t exactly explain it, but this is the vibe I want to bring in 2026.

This volume provides cutting-edge research on a wide range of questions in linguistics research, centred on Australian Indigenous languages. Written by world-leading experts, the chapters take a fresh look at current questions in each topic, inspired by the work of Australian linguist Jane Simpson.

With alt-text. I laughed.

A bit of mid-week fun: Show us where your #LL16 travel cups have been! Here's one of ours at the Winter Market in Essen, keeping a hot apple cider warm for the evening 🍎♨️❄️

In case you missed it, the call for papers for #LL17 in Limerick is now live! We've updated our website to help spread the word, but please share! www.linguisticlandscape17.com

Today my 5yo asked me if there was such a thing as grape JUICE and I nearly fell out of my chair. Imagine an American 5yo not knowing that grape juice exists 😂

Anyone want to see my German vowel space (ish) instead of scrolling for a second? GOOSE fronting will not be denied in any language!!!

My cue to quit scrolling and do things that matter to me, thanks ❤️

Greifswalder*innen und alle, die es werden wollen: meine schöne Wohnung in 17489 ist ab 03 oder 04/2026 zu vermieten. 1,5 Zimmer mit Wohnküche, Garten mit altem Baumbestand, beste Lage in der Fleischervorstadt. Vollmöbliert: ankommen und loswohnen. Details per DM oder Email. Please share 🙏

Last year, I co-founded a non-profit organization in the US: the Linguistic Justice Foundation. Although I'm really proud of what we've been able to do in the last year, Trump has not made things easy for us. Please read below for more details, and lend a hand if you can. mailchi.mp/linguisticju...

It's out, IT'S OUT!!!!! dialogosuntl.com/index.php/re... I am so proud of this weird little paper. I have been collecting sources on the languages of Timor-Leste for over a decade, and this paper gave me a chance to compile them and give a general overview of the state of TL language documentation