Very happy to announce that my alma mater Bielefeld University (Germany) now offers an international linguistics master's program, 100% taught in English! Here's a link with more information: linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough

Very happy to announce that my alma mater Bielefeld University (Germany) now offers an international linguistics master's program, 100% taught in English! Here's a link with more information: linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Nice one, Spidey.

You can’t “fix” X, The Everything App by going back and posting there because the owner has this thumb on the scale of the algorithm to promote the worst ideas and people. It’s not a viable solution, you have to let it go.

Does anyone know any really good, deeply interesting and fun books on etymology? Asking for a 15/16yo boy with niche interests.

Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night

Day 1 of #ThatsMyJam! Blueberry & Maple Syrup, with Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary You can listen to us get enthusiastic about the relationship between the different varieties of English here: soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm...

I've recently signed up for Face Blind UKs newsletter: faceblind.org.uk/about/ As someone who has struggled with face blindness my entire life, I really appreciate their goal of informing the public about prosopagnosia

Bought a Japanese Nintendo 3DS, strictly for research purposes of course!

Sometimes people are like "aren't you worried about the kids and their nonsensical new brainrot memes" But like, the thing is, I can still spot a member of my internet generation by how they respond to "badger badger badger badger" Playing with language and rhythm is fun, it'll be fine!

Oh my goodness, it gets earlier every year. The Word of the Year thread starts here with the 2025 German Youth WotY: das crazy uk.news.yahoo.com/das-crazy-vo...

The proportion of female to male dialogue in Final Fantasy. #advx25

World Linguistics Day is coming up on November 26th! Have you made any plans yet to celebrate? lingcomm.org/2025/10/26/w...

Hold up

When I woke up today, the first thing I did was explain to one of my students what an accusativus cum infinitivo construction is Wish I could send a screenshot of that email to my high school Latin teacher 😆

When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

In this week's post I make the case for an #AI #metaphor observatory tracking how we think and talk about and act on GenAI and LLMs makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/14/m...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast. Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:

Very happy, despite not being able to attend in person!

Wrap your head around this: The loanword "Survey" in German is masculine (der Survey) The four German synonyms given here are all feminine (die Untersuchung, die Studie, die Erhebung, die Vermessung)

Friend's child didn't know the word "linguist", so he called me a "languager" I hereby gratefully accept that title 😆

Love that they used "horseplay" on this poster at our local gym, no tomfoolery allowed!

Very excited about having our article published in the journal Studies in Linguistics and Language Education (SLLE) 😄

Is anyone aware of research on how character limit influences word choice on social media? #linguistics #langsky

I am incredibly happy to share that our paper "CompoST: A Benchmark for Analyzing the Ability of LLMs To Compositionally Interpret Questions in a QALD Setting" has been accepted as a research track paper at ISWC @iswc-conf.bsky.social! Stay tuned for the paper and see you all in Japan!

One of the great street names.

The first article of our first issue is available now! Check out Johannes Kreiselmeier's article on structural coherence and the Great Vowel Shift: srel.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/srel Talk to your students about publishing with us! 📣

Come on guys just use the robot, pay money to use the robot. You can trust the robot, just believe what the robot says. Nothing could go wrong, just give money to the people who make the robot work so they can fire you it'll be fine nothing could go wrong.

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Can't even pretend to be shocked, once you noticed you couldn't unsee all the weirdly specific references to (foreign) nationalities

The pomodoro method never let's me down when it comes to working through monotonous spreadsheet maintenance

Sunday afternoon is glossing time

Does anyone know of good resources for conlanging? For a v. creative HS student that I'd like to help work through the process a little more methodically. I'm thinking smthg that introduces the ideas of phono inventory, typology of possible morph and syntax systems, etc. Thx! #linguistics #conlang

There is a local hospital system here that does a gun safety PSA with the tag line “kids are safe when a gun is locked in one” and I just want to say that it’s important to hire good copywriters

Happy weekend! 😆

Got absolutely garden path'd by this YouTube thumbnail

We’re absolutely elated to release the inaugural issue of Racial Justice in Multilingual Education! All open-access, peer-reviewed, with authors who put so much heart into their work and their words. Enjoy! @rjme-journal.bsky.social www.rjme.org

If you're looking for people who love language and linguistics, @superlingo has a starter pack for that!

Sounds like I need to write a book so people stop calling me Raúl 😆

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

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signing up for the hot new linguistic dating site

I'm having a very amusing morning, came across this book called Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect from 1879

Had a quick little interview with Dr. Michelle Ho (@michellehsho.bsky.social) about her book Emergent Genders. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHi4...