I have to convince my neighbors to buy another ~50 native plants before I leave for Connecticut on June 5th (doing a mural in Willimantic!!!). I’m worried they’ll die while I’m gone if they don’t get into bigger pots. If you’re a Philly person and want to plant any of these species, get at me!

i LOVE MAKING LACE 🧶!!!!!!

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

One of the best things you can do as an adult is realize that you didn’t actually have to stop drawing, coloring, painting, playing with clay, doing whatever else you loved as a kid. Even if you’re bad at it. Maybe especially if you’re bad at it

It is really very interesting when you realize academia is just like any other job

i love blocking lace

sensory, processing disorder,

you can absolutely call fetterman an evil piece of shit and a disgrace and a disappointment without resorting to ableism btw

This, from Amnesty International, tells you all you need to know about transphobic bias in UK mainstream media.

Linguist pals! (Esp conversation analysts and those of you who do internet interaction) do you know of any recent papers on synchronous group chat interaction? Strategies for turn taking and the like. Please boost your own work too! I'm working on a project!

Linguistics Professor Walt Wolfram Retires After 34 Years of Elevating North Carolina Voices chass.ncsu.edu/news/2026/05...

🎉New article from me on the pronouns man/bro - open access as always! 📝 "Pronominal variation in interaction: the interactional function of man and bro" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Stochastic Clippy

your cat communication will improve if you assume they basically have sensory processing disorder btw. like if you're like "this is a creature who has a fairly narrow window of sensory input that they like, and they'll either seek it out or nope out of something to cope with that"

i love cats. was having shoulder time with forgy and mindlessly stimming his toes and he was fine and purring but then he suddenly hit his limit and left because i did too much toe stuff, and it was so clear, he's so communicative

Congrats to Penn State faculty on unionizing.

important fact about creaky voice #2

important fact about creaky voice #1

bonan matenon

My cats are so triangular

I just heard “my gob is smacked” and I am enjoying this extension of “flabbers are gasted.” More re-analyses please！

Big Year, for shawls,

You also need to read this fanfiction of The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense if you are or preferably were someone who exchanges academic emails

started another lace shawl

Legacy linguistic data can take on new lives when returned to source communities. In this talk, Nicté Fuller Medina explores restitution, stewardship, and the afterlives of archived Belizean Spanish recordings. Thursday, May 14 • 12–1 PM ET. Register today! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Natasha Dow Schull's book Addiction by Design is easily in the top 5 most important books I've ever read. I talk about it at least twice a month. I read it in 2013. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Lego Bricklink Designer Program series 11 is now open for public comment and support! Here's my design: ❄️Crystal Blue Snowflake❄️ The challenge was creating a 6-fold symmetric snowflake design on a square grid. It's not easy! Vote for me! :) #lego #bdp www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-...

The higgledy piggledy, harum scarum, hoity toity style is rhyming reduplication (From @stancarey.bsky.social ) stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/r...

it's ablaut reduplication! aceseditors.org/news/2020/wh...

a class of english words: ding dong, tick tock, flim flam, brickabrack, maybe higgledy piggledy. what else goes in this set?

📣 CALL FOR INTERVIEWS! If you know a recently retired sociolinguist who had a major influence on the field, consider interviewing them and publishing the transcript with the Journal of Sociolinguistics! To propose an interview, just email the EICs with your idea - contact details below 👇

nails and crochet 🧶

Ideas for making up words: Borrow from another language! Combine prefixes/suffixes! Make it a new part of speech (verb a noun!) Stack or smush words together! Make a lil wordplay! Acronym! Shorten an existing word! Use an old word newly! Just throw together something that feels good!

it is literally such bullshit that i get sick when im stressed out. now im stressed out and also sick! gdi

love when I get to blow my linguist friends' minds by pointing out that it's [grilled [cheese sandwich]], not [[grilled cheese] sandwich]

Universities offload their students’ data to corporations because they don’t want to take responsibility for keeping it safe themselves, or for maintaining the servers needed to hold all the contents of the bloated and badly designed LMSs those same corporations sell them.

remember googlewhacking?

TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an interactive R Shiny application designed for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data. It provides a comprehensive, code-free environment for NLP, enabling researchers w/o extensive prog skills to perform text analyses github.com/massimoaria/...

Now on LingMethodsHub, @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social's tutorial on multitaper spectra in R!

new paper!! septentrio.uit.no/index.php/bo...

A thought-provoking article by @celesterl.bsky.social exploring the politics of transcription, language technology & whose voices are recognised — or erased — by AI systems. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4awchped 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #transcription #AI #minoritylanguages

workplace accommodation for my sensory processing disorder where they let me keep a giant me-sized panini press in my office. also they make the train quieter and closer to my apartment and faster

I love all the papers we publish in Glossa Psycholinguistics, but it's a real treat when an article appears on one of my favorite topics, resumptive pronouns! This one's a real goodie - it's an article that you'll wish you had read it sooner 😉

LingMethodsHub has been in need of some devops TLC for a while, and I finally got around to it! To make sure things are working as intended, I've put together this tutorial on using @vincentab.bsky.social's {marginaleffects} package!

and they offer me a hug and a weighted blanket when i have to take a crying meltdown break (not there yet but forecast is looking like at least one of these in the next day or two)

Dear linguists, does any of your institutions have an alumni network and keep quantitatively track of what people do after their linguistics degree? Looking for some quant data... #linguistics

⛹️‍♂️🚴‍♀️ New article from me and Oli Hooper in Sport, Education & Society: "POV: you’re gay in PE – discourses of ‘gay trauma’ in social media narratives of physical education (PE) lessons" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In 2016, I started working on my undergrad thesis where I was looking at ERP signatures for singular 'they'. In 2026, the work is finally published! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... Kudos to Joanna Morris for working on this the past few years and pushing it past the finish line!

workplace accommodation for my adhd where they have to hire someone to come to my house and sit in my living room and watch my computer screen and if i am grading papers they say good job and feed me welches fruit gummy and if im on tumblr they sigh disappointedly

Colleagues, academics, friends! I need your help! I'm giving a lecture this week on data vizualization and I'm looking for particularly heinous viz examples -- can be from academic work, print media, etc., and the more diverse the subject matter the better -- so if you've got something, share it! ❤️