Seven slides in the bag. 30ish more to go.

Six slides done 🔥

School district of Phila TBI talk this Friday. Five hours creating this figure and only have five slides done. Learned how to bend and distort shapes in Illustrator though so they look kind of egg like and eccentric. I can send these to anyone who wants them for their classes.

Have any of you switched from hosting courses on Canvas to GitHub?

I agreed to do a pediatric TBI presentation for the School District of Philadelphia for SLPs next Friday thinking it wouldn't be a wild stretch from adults. I was very wrong. I also can't believe that Lawn Darts once existed as a toy.

Confession I’ve never taken a semantics course. I would like to though

I quaked to think of it.

When I was in college there was this kid who was an engineering major who used to hang around our apartment. He asked me if I knew what a bending moment curve was. I said no. He said I suspected you wouldn’t know it. I’ve thought about that for 30 yrs

They say single line drawings of naked people is the way to learn - not allowed to look at what you’re drawing or lift the pen. It’s fun, and you get some interesting results

2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data

@luciapattullo.bsky.social for a split second I thought this was Nadine martin

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Does anyone know of any good reviews of semantics in non-human animals? Do these fools even think? jk but I really am looking for this.

Quin gold and indigo mix into a really interesting green.

@emilymyers.bsky.social for PRESIDENT

Big storm coming. Get out there and walk those dogs, people!!!

I still can’t believe that the same guy who invented that room key system that turns on the lights in European hotel rooms also invented two factor authentication (2FA)

@joss-openjournals.bsky.social anyone out there having luck getting the rticles::joss_article template to successfully knit with including png figures inline with the text? We've had no luck with pandoc errors and have strippped figures out of our article(s).

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I'll never understand why people shovel their sidewalk while it's still actively snowing. Also just wait until summer and it'll probably melt on its own at some point.

I just made a Hans and Franz joke, and I can promise you that it’s been a while

Teaching semantic distance in my NLP class. Here's a super simple graphic on how to calculate Euclidean distance between work and play in a 2D semantic space constrained by valence and dominance.

A bar that also sells donuts called Drinkin’ Donuts

‘I hope you didn’t use chat gpt to help with your college essay because they have a special machine that checks for that.’ — they what? ‘a special machine’

Planning trip to Milan for a talk on 3/9 with Marco Marelli's computational linguistics group. Hoping to visit Italy the week before and meet w folks. If anyone is in the vicinity of Rome and would like a guest lecture or lab visit on about March 5-6, please give me a holler. No $ needed.

sending out the bat signal to you speech scientists out there.

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Today I shall make vegetarian chili topped with avocado and sour cream. There will be cornbread (not blood). The secret to the chili texture is scooping out some, pureeing it, and dropping it back in. That is all.

Rainy day watercolor experiment. Make your own greens. Fully factorial design. My favorite combinations are marked with little red dots. Most combinations with quin gold seem to look pretty natural. Lemon yellow looks hideous

@bergelsonlab.bsky.social what’s that developmental phenomenon when kids talk about things and assume you were omnisciently there? Is that private knowledge? I have a friend in his 50s who still does that

Somebody write an R script that relabels days and dates on a syllabus table for the same course but the most recent semester indexing your university calendar,

I joined a water aerobics class with 80 year olds in a hot pool in Mt airy. It’s fantastic.

Oh R’lyeh? Very few people will get this joke but to those who do, I salute you

Kidnap and prosecute a foreign president in US courts by a domestic president who is immune from prosecution in our own courts? This is fucking insane.

When I started college. I was still under the impression that engineers were people who drove trains and was surprised that so many people were studying how to become train drivers

Must finish syllabi and finish a farking paper, but I start a doodle of something sitting around in my room and the hours fly by.

Say hi if you’re still up

Wasn’t up but now up.

Happy New Year everyone!

Only 15 days to get that abstract submitted for the 1st ever International Conference on Primary Progressive Aphasia @icppa.bsky.social Did you know Prof Gorno-Tempini is our keynote speaker? With Dr Chris Hardy & Dr Cathy Taylor-Rubin as invited speakers! www.speechtherapyppa.com/icppa-confer...

Drawing a human booty and its connections to the back and legs from simple landmarks

@premeemohamed.com reading your short story The Night Birds tonight. It’s terrific so far!

Betty & Nancy Debenham twin sisters on #BSA motorcycle which they promoted with dog Poncho. 1928 wrote Motorcycling for Women describing motorcycle as the "magic carpet of the town dweller" Competed in trials events Nancy won gold medal @ Brooklands Recetrack en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_a...

Step 7. Wet the paper. I used waterproof India ink to draw the rings

I love contour plots and have an idea to try and replicate the viridis color palette in watercolor on an imaginary contour plot. I’m going to try it now. Wish me luck

Split, Croatia 🇭🇷

Perfect right angles and straights are unusual in nature but common among manufactured artifacts (houses, pencils etc). Has anyone done an eye tracking study examining these lower level visual cues in semantic judgment tasks (eg natural kind vs manufactured artifact)? Maybe in bloblike 3d shapes?

For your PI Only License to Bill You only live 2FA Concurfinger

Am I the only person on earth who gets out of sorts on breaks? I’m not a workaholic but definitely a creature of habit and routine. A few days at home and I get like jack nicholson in the Shining - well not that bad but still

@carlzimmer.com We modeled brain activity word-to-word during your Fresh Air podcast with Terry Gross in this paper.