I wonder if some day work by painters like Picasso, Dali and Gauguin just won’t be in museums anymore (they were all disgusting)

look I’m sorry but Frankenstein cannot win best film. It can win something else but not that one. thank you Oscar committee

Being a scholar of intertextuality is especially challenging when I show my mom what I think is a cool intertextual reference in the art/film world, and she responds “it’s a rip off! No originality!”

So in case people don’t know yet, ICE officially can use those ring cameras to assist in their operations, and there is a large boycott of Target, Home Depot, Enterprise, Delta, and Hilton due to their collaborations with ICE. More info on the boycotts here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

so I help run the social media accounts for our local immigrant defense network, and lately we’ve been getting a lot more interesting engagement on our posts—basically people questioning our tactics & events that we promote. I guess cuz this is such a hot news topic rn & everyone is freaking out.

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...

if…consummated?

So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

The program for GURT 2026 ("Futuring Linguistics") is live! Gonna be a good one docs.google.com/document/d/1...

And isn’t it ironic. Yeah I really do think www.cbsnews.com/news/chongly...

I stg this timeline is so disorienting (and in part that’s by design)

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

I just tried to watch like 2 minutes of Emily in Paris and I don’t think I can do it. The opening scene is literally the “girl who is going to be ok” trope. I guess I’m going back to Call the Midwife even though I hate birth scenes

do not put this shit on your house

I knew I was in for a treat when I saw the opening message from my mother in law

polish or perish 💅

this is a nice comment from my fall course student evaluations. my class is really not that hard I don't think but I guess it's all relative 🤷‍♀️

Anyone have any good Italian Netflix shows to recommend (specifically I’m trying to learn some basic conversational Italian)?

Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen. This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?

This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents). uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...

Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

one of friends’ kids recently said her favorite colors were: purple, rainbow, and golden 💜🌈 💛

in the process of returning books I bought with internal grant money so I can instead use that money to fund travel to a conference 🙄

Is anyone on langsky doing linguistics-based discourse analysis regarding urgent world issues? My recent Substack post applies Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Trump’s threats to Greenland.

omg I'm sitting in the cadiologist's office waiting room and just opened my laptop, and what blasts out from my speakers to this poor room full of heart patients but "MOOOOO!" from Doja Cat's "MOOO!" that I was listening to "for my research" earlier 😭

Thought of a new response for the “how many languages do you speak” question that every linguists gets. I’ll try: “I speak two languages, how about you?”

watching Doja Cat's "Mooo!" music video with my chin perched on my fist like this is really some kind of intellectual object of inquiry is a little too much, even for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXnJ...

I have the 1980s/90s evolution of American English to thank for my use of “they like totally cut out his vocals” in a text message

academics, love ya and all, but on the topic of pre-conferences: WHY

so interesting looking thru physical copies of other academic books as I'm starting to write another one, just to see how people do it so differently. Some have really short chapters, some justify all their shortcomings right away, some books on singing in talk have music notation, others don't

me and my partner just now: me: Wtf?! Syracuse dot com…”A man-“ are you ready for this? him: No. I doubt it. But go ahead. me: “A man threw a severed deer head at people protesting against ICE and President Trump in LaFayette.”

new paper - we looked at how assumptions about speakers' gender changed based on neg words. we also found that people still assume professors are male overall!!

I met my writing goal for the day, went to the art studio, went for a walk at the lake, practiced drums, and did my afternoon “reading and commenting on other people’s writing” which has snuck up on me as one of my main academic tasks lately. Now I will wrap myself in warm blankets in bed and snooze

be the millennial thesis advisor you want to see in the world

My student puts it in her own words in the conclusion of her thesis which she just finished drafting

today's cursed insight from working on my Gen Z singing in conversation data set is there are a lot of popular songs about women having big butts, big butts being alluring to men, and moving those big butts in an enticing manner. my women students love quoting these songs in their conversations 🫠

My lil brother is part of this strike and was just shown on the news 🥰✊

hilarious thing that happens when I’m teaching about creaky voice, I get really creaky without even trying, which i probably just always do teaching anything but I become more aware of it while talking about it, then I’m always able to say “actually I’m getting really creaky right now if you listen”

I always get frustrated that there are so many movies still being made about mediocre white men and so relatively few made about actual amazing women and other minoritized ppl. They literally just made up Marty Supreme so they could do it yet again

remembering the following conversation with my friend colleague Hanwool Choe me: “do you know what the one conversational universal is that CA scholars have identified?” her: “huh?” me: “That’s it! it’s ‘huh?’!” (also you should read and cite her work, all of it is amazing)

I so want to read this book 👀 John M. Swales Other Floors, Other Voices, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: A Textography of a Small University Building a.co/d/iAiiguF

This a really cool book that just came out! It has chapters from a really diverse set of linguists, and will make a nice gift for students (also a nice upgrade from the ominously titled “Surviving Linguistics” book that my professors gifted me at my graduation 😆) www.routledge.com/Becoming-a-L...

kinda heart-warming/heart-breaking? that my MA student wanted to write a thesis about identity in rural white blue-collar conversations (her family/friends), but thru the analysis has learned she is positioned as an insider/outsider, due to grad school, her research, & moving a lil closer to a city

My linguist brain struggles with many representations of language in fiction of all kinds. Latest example is ep 1 of Call the Midwife, in which a Spanish woman & English man have been together for ~25 yrs with like 22 kids, yet neither one speaks the other’s language. they “understand one another” 🙄

I just finished writing a lot of stuff about Olivia Rodrigo lyrics being quoted/sung in everyday conversation among college women in 2023, and the reproduction/recirculation of heteronormativity, please clap

Corpus-based narrative analysis: Bridging lexical patterning and narrative structure in large-scale discourse journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The ICE shooter’s father said of his son “You would never find a nicer, kinder person”. If you can’t find a nicer kinder person than one who shoots someone else in the face 3 times at point blank range we are truly fucked

The American Dialect Society has chosen its word of the year: slop…used as both a freestanding noun, and a productive suffix! Check out all the words we nominated at the link! And while I nominated “that’s AI” (and it won for most useful), there’s no fake news here!

Learning from @jessgrieser.com 🫡

Learning from @jessgrieser.com 🫡