Bird-eaking News: We have an emerging situation here. Birds are *taps earpiece* a go. A going? More at 11.

go birds???

birds? birds situation?

I long for the day when this podcast is no longer relevant. But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.

doing embedded ethnography again (long wait at the barbershop). one barber just paused on a break to take a picture of a (decorative) rack of wooden smoking pipes on the wall.

the sheer fucking gall of Dem politicians who now – in September 2025, as the Trump admin is taking away trans ppl's healthcare & passports & baselessly labeling us as "terrorists" – express their "concerns" about trans ppl & sports. they are trying to eradicate us! maybe be "concerned" about that!

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Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

hashtag #linguistics

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Can anyone direct me to some resources with MRI videos of vowel productions? I know I've seen websites or youtube channels with a collection of them before, but I'm having trouble locating what I'm thinking of. #linguistics #phonetics

bad brain day

Technically it’s not a sabbatical unless you spend your seventh year on the job engaging in rest, otherwise it’s just a sparkling writing retreat

Eel fact: this eel is cute

Keep up the pressure

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I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

The 'short proposal' option here would be a great conference poster for someone doing linguistic fieldwork on an under-described language. Focussed conferences like this are really fun too. It's in Bielefeld, which does exist, I know people who've been there wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/jhartmann25/...

Happy to announce that the La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics are now hosted on the @latrobeuni.bsky.social library repository, which means there's now a DOI for every article in the collection: doi.org/10.26181/c.8... LTU WPL was published between 1989 and 2001, there's 90 articles available.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

icymi, you can now preorder the crip linguistics reader

I don't know how to appropriately communicate "no I don't need anything, yes I'm still really sad and stressed out and kind of hanging on by a thread but I don't know you well enough to get into it, but also I don't really have the energy to put into polite social masking right now, sorry"

i think natural hairstyles are so cool and pretty. instant graham's algo has been showing me videos about installing micro locs lately and theyre really nice

your body makes language but language also makes your body

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨 The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 15 October 2025

I feel this needs to be said again but LLMs are not implementing usage-based theories of language unless one interprets the latter in the shallowest, devoid of their most interesting assumptions, way. “Usage” is not just frequency ffs.

Oh hey I made a fish 🧶

transness is an emergent property of free will !!!!!!!!!

you can't excise trans people from society because transness is an emergent property of free will. if you divide the world up into men and women and say men do this and women do that, some people are going to say that sucks, fuck you, i do what i want. it doesn't get more complicated than that

a gif of a sound wave made possible by combining the new stat_manual, position_nudge aesthetics, and gganimate

In the Spotlight: Dr. Joseph Hill Dr. Hill will be joining us at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting for the Plenary Address! Dr. Hill is Professor of Deaf Studies and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Black Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. Don’t miss this session! cvent.me/9Mdr3G

The University of Arizona is hiring for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor to serve as Director of the French Basic Language Program beginning August 2026. Applications due November 14, 2025. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Please share widely. 💜 [I'm not on the search committee.]

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NEW FROM 54(3) "Discursive scaling of solidarity through difference: Experiences of African women in the African diaspora" by Gorrety Nafula Wawire #BlackImmigrantWomen #Solidarity #StanceTaking #ScalingAndDeixisDifference #AfricanDiaspora #Intersectionality doi.org/10.1017/S004...

sometimes you realize that you're spending an enormous amount of energy on *concealing* your suffering when you could be putting more of that towards *reducing* your suffering.

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if a social media is a town square, one of the things you need to see in a town square is people sitting around eating a little treat. or knitting. or drawing the pigeons

my corner place is doing a special bagel with prosciutto and capers and its very fucking good. having this and their very good vietnamese iced coffee

is there like. more football this year than normal somehow?

happy that all my friends are getting covid shots and flu shots

i love forgy so much

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

me and the train conductor complimented each other's nails at the same time so im gonna be riding that high for at least two days

Deadline Nov 1! Note "Additional expertise in other subfields of linguistics is welcome"

✨ New JSLX INTERVIEWS series In these conversations recently retired scholars reflect on their careers, share personal stories, and give unique insights into the history of sociolinguistics The first three feature Shobha Satyanath, John Rickford & Momoko Nakamura Now in Early View:

ew why are the flags half mast at the train station