I should probably check in on that Humanities Commons group I created seven years ago to see if there's been any recent activity.

brb, gonna to start a new religion (in a videogame)

*mutters under breath* they’re putting AI into fuckin’ everything, man…

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

RIP University of Oxford (1096–2025).

Changing the seated man determinative next to my name to Gardiner Signlist A29 to better reflect my emotional state.

Alright alright I've already deleted all the content awhile back. I think deleting the account entirely and not being able to access other people's uploads is a small price to pay for no longer having to deal with this sort of shit.

'sickos' vocitantur, de eo quod per fenestram ridentes, 'ha ha ha... sic!' clamant -Isidorus Hispalensis

This hotrodded pickup truck, which I've been asked to drive around Night City in an illegal street race, says trans rights.

I am so close to breaking 3c followers!

saved posts implies damned posts

I'm very proud of this paper, now published in Anthropological Linguistics: "Alfred Kroeber’s Documentation of Inuktun (Polar Inuit)," a study of the earliest substantial documentation of Inuktun (NW Greenland) and what it shows about Inuit dialects and change. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Níl tú id aonar. Tá gach duine tuirseach díot freisin.

Hiding from the internet by starting to play Cyberpunk 2077 this weekend and this seems to have been a good decision.

I’m sure it’s fine

Updated alignment chart: What counts as a #conlang?

Linguistics

What modern technology has taken from us…

Hi.

How to Kill a Lizard: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics

How to Kill a Lizard: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics

A poem by Lydia Davis

Can it even be called a National Museum without horse taxidermy?

Damn the National Museum of Denmark had to display this thing in a manner least conducive for getting a nice photograph of it.

The runic text is taken from the Konungs skuggsjá (The King's Mirror), advising one to "learn all tongues without forgetting your own". The original has "helzt latínu og völsku" 'but first Latin & French', 'völsku', cognate with Welsh, reflecting its use by Germanic speakers to refer to Romance ones

Was in the neighbourhood so I stopped by to say hi to Rasmus Rask.

Tried to avoid awkward questions from people asking me what/how I'm doing right now (technically I'm unemployed) at a party this evening by prompting questions to get them to engage with the labour theory of value and Marxist economic theory. This was only mildly therapeutic.

I fuckin’ hate Alberta, man.

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

nervous twitching anxiously sweating refreshing the nintendo eshop every few seconds to see if i can download silksong yet

How the #Slavic #migration reshaped Central & Eastern #Europe. Ancient #DNA provides new insights into early medieval communities. Study @nature.com by an intl. team led by Joscha Gretzinger, @zhofmanova.bsky.social & Johannes Krause. #HistoGenes More: tinyurl.com/msuys4mu & doi.org/10.1038/s415...

God I hate Wordpress so much.

I just noticed that the eBook is Open Access. 😲

An Old Khotanese Reader Sims-Williams, Nicholas, with contributions by Jonathan A. Silk. 2025. An Old Khotanese Reader: The Tale of Bhadra (Beiträge zur Iranistik 53). Wiesbaden: Reichert. This reader contains the complete text of the Buddhist ‘Tale of Bhadra’, the second chapter of the Old…

Among the other 96 authors on Bluesky that I know are here: @mjkue.bsky.social @mattboot.bsky.social @rhomboidgoatcabin.bsky.social @ibnkato.bsky.social @arashzeini.com I know I will likely have missed some because we are so many on this one.

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published. C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

My blank reaction to the title was to ask myself 'Is Hanuman the name of an Indian Space Programme project?'. But no. Oh no.

Looking at UK politics right now and hearing the phrase "quiet bat-people" reverberating in the back of my mind until it deafens out everything.

Flexing my German muscles by translating Walter Till's Koptische Dialektgrammatik; unfortunately he was an author who apparently strongly believed in subsuming what English would do with subordinate clauses with adjective phrases as much as humanly possible (while still adding subordinate clauses).

Glagolitic! On a tram!

oh no

This article looks at the history and development of Old Irish grammars: the pre-Thurneysian past, Thurneysen's Grammar of Old Irish and its central position in current Celtic Studies, and what future grammars will look like. A preprint of the article: www.academia.edu/143690919/Wh...

forbidden fidget spinner

Protip: If you’ve written a book and you colour-coordinate your books, you can put it next to some other pretty cool books.

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

ya-aš-aš-ša MUNUS.LUGAL

Getting ready for bureaucratic dystopia. This is good education.

Epigrafia. Notes de camp.

i love holding real news in my hands