Working while ill: a full-time job

Deflate the Pats #BillsMafia

‪Everyone in academia should know about this research on "non-promotable tasks" and gender by Ritwick Banerjee and @priyomam.bsky.social (thanks @renwoman.bsky.social, via @thecscce.bsky.social, for the tip!) www.linkedin.com/posts/rosali...

An article titled something like "disability in higher education" with no mention of how disability affects people working in higher education is like an article titled "disability in Europe" that only talks about Germany.

Presuppositions in the news

That is a grown ass man, stop messing up his hair #f1

David Coulthard: "You've made a lot of people cry" 🤣 #F1

What a finish of the season! Winner: Lando's mum. All these fancy ladies show up dressed all fancy-like, but she rocks up in her kick-ass pigtails and her son wins the championship #F1

This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing. THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.

3 sur 3 ascenseurs dans notre bâtiment de 30 étages en panne et le numéro d'urgence de l'agence nous racchroche au nez

Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ #ShareGoodNewsToo

Things have been getting sassy between Airbnb and the City of Paris. Airbnb says Paris's crackdown on the website has done nothing to ease the rental nightmare. They have come brandishing numbers. Is Airbnb right? I did a little digging for my brand-new newsletter: substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is poor user interface design, especially when there IS a part of my brain that wants to just delete the whole thing

What it looks like when a Blue Tit flies straight at you! 😳😁😍🐦 Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊 #birds 🪶 Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here; www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️

Declaration of use of AI in writing this grant: In section 1.1, I used it to search for synonyms of "transformative"

👀 yikes, and here I thought it had gotten better in the last 20 years since I moved to France... guess not (or maybe so! in which case double yikes!)

You know you're in peak procrastination when you have the thought "Hmm, I could clean my windows"

For a second I thought this was noun phrases in the news

"And we carried our bits in a bucket, And our mainframe weighed 900 tons, And we programmed in ones and in zeros And sometimes we ran out of ones." (Frank Hayes)

Very surprised as a not-Verstappen fan to find myself rooting for him to pass Russell #F1

Somehow I decided to have dinner with my family instead of watching Q1 in Brazil. What could possibly happen in Q1 that would be of interest? 🙃 #F1

At this year's @lingcomm.bsky.social conference, we learned that the UK has been celebrating National Linguistics Day on November 26th, and everyone immediately went, hey, can't we make that World Linguistics Day? Well, now it's only 20 days away, so time to get your celebration plans in order!

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Verbs and an adverb in the news

The pragmatics of having my husband's name, which I have never used, appear on my identity card in France, where I never asked it to be put? Hint: it's having people insist to me that it's literally the law in France that that's my name 🤦‍♀️

"[I]t is a rebellion against modern society, which requires the ceaseless exercise of cognitive inhibition and control, in order to evade exploitation, marginalization, addiction, and stigma." josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-f...

HAM ten-second penalty nooooooooooo

I'm looking for scenes where one character tries to shift the blame onto another character to make themselves look blameless, anyone got any in their back pocket?

wait guys are we doing a heist

Hey, do I know anyone who knows anyone who works on disinformation?

Like any linguist, I have my own list of cringey usages I can't abide, because linguists are human and humans are social and language is social, but also, butt naked won and that's ok

npr: so, no kings tyrannosaurus rex: yes npr: how shall I put this trex: this interview is over

Imagine considering doing something USC wouldn't.

You did it! You scrolled far enough to find the dopamine!

"The University of Chicago’s architecture once paid homage to the medieval trivium and quadrivium—the bedrock of the liberal arts. Now it pays homage only to money." I mean, sure, "now," but somewhere in there was Milton Friedman, so it kinda kicked its own self in the butt there

"Trust science" doesn't mean blind faith. It means we look to the community of scientists to determine who is a scientific expert. We don't just pick them a la carte off of podcasts.

This essay discusses how movements can achieve their goals, not simply through mass awareness, but requiring the "boring" work of showing up to policy discussions with solid, reasonable proposals for change.

The Asahi has a new simplified Japanese news site, to help language learners, children and the elderly. Around 3 articles a day are written with easy vocabulary and grammar. There are also options to toggle furigana, and spacing between words. yasashii.asahi.com

"AI slop" seems to be everywhere, but what exactly makes text feel like "slop"? In our new work (w/ @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Diego Garcia-Olano, @byron.bsky.social ) we provide a systematic attempt at measuring AI "slop" in text! arxiv.org/abs/2509.19163 🧵 (1/7)

Bonjour SAV, je voudrais un autre remplacement pour ma république, elles n'arrêtent de casser.

λx λs . P(x)

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history. A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone. Even the smallest acts can echo through time. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/dcGWTR4

at my most charitable, i have said that tech people believe that they can do a kind of currency exchange of fundamentally social problems into technical puzzles, and that belief motivates and underwrites all sorts of elaborate arbitrages that obscure basically human dilemmas as "technical" details

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

📢PhD fellowships The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships Potential PhD projects can be related to: 🗣️Speech perception 🧠Language learning ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3 📆Deadline: October 30

Poste de prof substitut en phonétique / Visiting assistant professor of Phonetics www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichagePro... 🗣️💬 #linguistique #linguistics #phonétique #phonetics www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichagePro...

I love me a good squalid. Moreover "disingenuous, squalid, and dishonorable" is chef's kiss

Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly? Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use! Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this: