linganth about bdsm practices? reading recs?

my annual congenial critical repost of this reminding linguists that generic singular they and specific/nonbinary singular they are drastically different ages and we should think about how to talk about this in our lingcomm. i think i had a poem about it a couple years back too but cant find it rn

I hadn't realized the pronoun labeler was gone, so here's info on the new one to follow!

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

go birds

for Finish Your Shit Feb (FYSF) im working on this tropical fruit scarf again and two different flight attendants complimented it (nails and knitting check)

new-fave now supports both IPA and CMU label sets out of the box

Delightful to read this short piece on the constant language change—how old words can become cool (or fire) again, and how you don't need a word to be cool to use it!

Calling transfeminist researchers! See our call for abstracts below - deadline 1-15th March (with full papers in August)

Here's an idea: what if the IRS just... told us how much we owe in taxes?

#sandhillcrane #milford, #MI #birds #photography #birdphotography #BirdWatching #birdsofbluesky #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

lot of people clowning on this headline but this is a brave thing for a scholarly society to do and im gonna send it to scholarly societies im a member of to serve as an example of what we could be doing

Apply now to participate in the 2026 Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous California Languages, held at UC Berkeley and sponsored by the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival in collaboration with @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! www.aicls.org?page_id=566

'Uptalk, Personae, and the Structure of Social Meaning in the Indexical Field' is out now in the Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social! Find out how Americans perceive uptalk in English when told the talker is a girlboss, Valley Girl, stoner, twink, or butch 👀 Free link: tinyurl.com/cj8w556w

had a fun chat w/ @samcorbin.bsky.social about language change! she cut out i think fully 45 minutes where we just talked about Mean Girls (2004) but blessedly kept in the fun pronoun stuff

Deadline 15 Feb: 2 postdoc positions, neurocognition of bilingualism, UiT Arctic Uni. Norway. Position (1) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Position (2) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

if you are a philly journx following me and you want to come see my incredibly cute apartment and write about it you can email me. obvi i will need a few days to freak out and clean but its really nice even when its messy honestly

they should do one of those puff pieces in the newspaper about how nice my apartment is

I've written a blog post about how commendations serve the whole ecosystem well: www.superlinguo.com/post/8073821... Please consider adding a commendation category for the next award/prize/competition you run!

if you subscribed to the old pronoun labeller, here's a replacement. you can subscribe to the labeller to see the labels, and you can like the posts in this thread to choose labels for your own account

If you are doing, or thinking of starting, a project about language that will (also) teach 'regular folks' about language, you should apply for this grant! Apart from some money, it will also give you publicity and a wider network.

Attention Artists of Philadelphia! The time has come to find an artist for our next Philly Biodiversity Mural! This project will take place in April/May. Pay = $20k The form to apply is as short as I could possibly make it. Please tell your friends and apply! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

'Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology', an #Interspeech2026 Special Session offering a space to build community and provide a foundation for future trans- and queer-driven speech research sites.google.com/view/is-quee...

We are hiring next year in semantics- one year positions of course less exciting and good for the field than straight up tenure track postings, but on the other hand hiring in something that isn’t computational feels like a win anymore in linguistics. Come bring some innovative takes on meaning!

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

thanks as always to @lingcomm.org and everyone who has supported them! i think the grant program is such a fun and cool way to support small independent projects where we share linguistics #scicomm with our communities!

oh btw now that i am not all sick and tragic i can announce that it is that magical time of year: Kirby's Birthday Week. it looks like that will be going on at least through saturday. if you'd like to celebrate with me, i enjoy when people contribute to mutual aid funds

love to go on email to tell my students that im sick and have to cancel class and while im writing it receive three emails from sick students who will be missing class. okay yes glad we're all on the same page lets go take naps and reconvene next week lmao

a thread of grounding techniques for anyone finding it A Bit Much right now. most are a little unconventional; all are things i've found effective. if you feel like you need to soldier on and be fine, no you don't; if you feel like your struggles don't merit using this kind of approach, yes they do.

🚨New article published in Gender Linguistics🚨 Ochs, S. (2026). Die morphosyntaktische Integration neuer Gendersuffixe: Eine korpusbasierte Analyse deutschsprachiger Pressetexte. Gender Linguistics, 2. doi.org/10.65020/061... #linguistics #Linguistik (1/9)

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History of Publishing on Black Language and Culture Friday, February 6, 2025 | 6–7:30 PM ET Join JBLAC for an illuminating conversation on the history of publishing practices surrounding Black language and culture. www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

New article in Language and Linguistics Compass: Who Listens to Linguistics Podcasting? A Survey of Lingthusiasm Listeners It was so great to work with some of the prod team: Martha Tsutsui Billins, Sarah M. Dopierala, Leah Velleman and (of course) @gretchenmcculloch.com doi.org/10.1111/lnc3...

no more yelling triggering shit in my mentions for the rest of the day please

okay i've sent the fucking email. i don't want to be personally responsible for this dude, and if his name is on our website it means i keep getting embarrassing questions from friends about whether that means we think he's, like, good

"bode" is one of my favorite verbs in english, what the fuck is it even doing

multiple friends have asked me if the professional organization im a part of plans to do anything about the chomsky epstein stuff and its like. i mean yeah i guess we could whip up an open letter and remove him as a Fellow but this would not affect him whatsoever. he might straightup not notice

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

I want to get these printed in time for our Valentines Day market, so I'm running the pre-order until Wednesday. That is the shortest pre-order window I have ever run so if you want one of these guaranteed in your size, order ASAP! Squidfacts.net

road salt can be toxic for cats if you track it into your house and they lick it off their paws! fyi!!

nails and knitting (and embroidery) check 🧶

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I'm auctioning off a query letter critique and a year's subscription to Agents & Books as part of the Publishing for Minnesota fundraiser. Bid here! www.32auctions.com/organization...

I've been a faculty member in #Linguistics at a high-profile US university for for over a decade now. Most years I've been involved in graduate admissions. As of this year I'm the Graduate Chair for my department. I thought it might be helpful to share some advice for grad applicants...

ambiguity example for your ling teaching needs

I had the pleasure of writing a chapter on Finnish occupational titles for this exciting cross-linguistic collection on gender-inclusive language. The main result of my study was that Finns still prefer masculine job titles and that language attitudes explain the variation in usage.

oh this should be taught in all methodology classes!!!!!

If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund