I got a new keyboard cover and it feels like I got a whole new computer

Less than 3 weeks to submit an abstract for ICCG14! please pass it on: iccg14.oa-event.com June 4-7, 2026

Does anyone have a good way to add meaningful alt text for syntactic trees, phylogenetic trees, and typological maps (like those on WALS)? 🐦🐦

The citizen app in Phoenix-Tempe keeps producing the gold standard of syntactic ambiguity: from “police in pursuit of pickup truck with three wheels” to “report of man with gun inside bag making threats”. I’m sad I’m not teaching syntax this year.

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026 Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Stay tuned for updates!

This was my first time at an lsa summer institute. It was a lot of fun. Will go again

The Oregon Institute was an incredible experience. Do it again, Volya! #LSA2027

Snapshots from the LSA 2025 Summer Institute! Here’s a look into a few incredible courses this week ✨ 🌐 Linguistic Variation and Social Networks – Robin Dodsworth 🧒 Child Language Acquisition – Zara Harmon & @carorowland.bsky.social 🧠 The Relationship Between Language and Thought – Idan A. Blank

Join us this summer — 80+ courses, 8 conferences, and linguists surrounded by Oregon’s nature. Don’t miss it! 📅 Sign up now: bit.ly/3CSbbHC 🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025 📧 Questions? [email protected] #LSA2025 #Linguistics #SummerInstitute #UOregon

With more than a week to spare, I finished stats and plots for a talk in the trans alpine typology thing next week. It’s the first Tibeto-Burman languages talk I’m on.The main author is giving the talk, which explains the week to spare part…

Any one knows of and wants to recommend good LATEX 94 Overleaf intros / tutorials specifically for linguists? I learned by trial and too many errors, but it doesn’t have to be that way

It’s a cool museum, on a cool campus, where a cool institute will be held. It is also in a cool city in a beautiful, often cool, area of the world. You should also take my and Jordan’s class, and probably some others while you’re at it.

I’m trying to come up with a pun for a paper title and nothing really sticks and I am frustrated

I filled it up (I think) and so should you

📣 We still need participants for our survey! 📣 Please help us understand how linguists develop as educators! We are recruiting current or recent graduate students in linguistics or related fields to participate in a survey about their experiences developing as educators! bit.ly/teachling

My usage? Based!

🚨 🚨 Last call for abstracts: Usage-based Approaches to Phonology welcomes papers using diverse methods to explore the emergence of phonological patterns from language use. Plenary by Joan Bybee (U of New Mexico). Come hang with us at U. of Oregon, July 12 & 13. sites.google.com/view/usage-b... 🐦🐦

I’ll be there, at least for the first half, and it will be fun

SSILA this year was both online and fun

I am biased about this paper. It was fun to work on and write, at least for me (not sure about Becky).

I’m co-organizing this. It will be fun. Let me know if you want to participate!

While I think that obsessing over minor patterns in any language is good and worthy (plus, it’s one of my favorite things to do), this is a smart advice for everyone to follow, even if we think we understand cross-linguistic diversity

One thing that has stuck with me from my reading this fall is a point that Jeff Mielke makes in his 2008 book: "linguists often confuse their shared assumptions with linguistic universals." Since I care about features, I thought I should read Jeff's book in more detail. A thread. 1/n #linguistics

Can’t say how many times I’ve read Labov and Waletzky 1967, but I’ll read it again tomorrow. What a blessing.

I learned a lot by going to the university’s subreddit. I encourage everyone to periodically check what’s up there. It’s also really funny at times, which is nice.

I just said that coincidences happen for a reason and I wanna get it on a sticker

Just made a “happy news year” typo and really, happy news will also be excellent this year.

Dan Everett has a paper in his own Festschrift and my new goal is to cite it.

On the other hand, I felt so bad about this that I accepted most review requests. Mostly fun papers.

My very popular opinion: large conferences should enable remote access to talks and have them recorded. It’s cool that linguists upload and share detailed handouts and presentations, but c’mon, we can do better.

Posting on behalf of the blueskyless Marina Zhukova: 'do you use emoji 😀? do you live in the US🇺🇸 ?if so, please participate in our study of how emoji affect the interpretation of messages and take a short (10 min) survey 🧑‍💻 bit.ly/3Xnz0ew -- repost please! 🙏'

This one's for the linguists AND non-linguists: what would you want to learn from a short fact sheet about endangered languages? What are some key pieces of information that would be useful in learning, teaching, or advocacy? 🐦🐦

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Let me just say that deaf scholars would welcome the opportunity to present their research, not to educate hearing scholars about how to make the field more inclusive. I don’t know how to say this more plainly.

Charlie is correct, as almost usual. Really nice reads in there!

Delighted to learn that @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and @superlinguo.bsky.social did an entire podcast episode structured around explaining two words—“morphosyntactic alignment”—in one of my comics (xkcd.com/2421)

I’ll eventually post stuff here. I kinda promise.