Just did a talk at #CoLang 2026 (Reno) on open-source children’s books. Check out storyweaver.org.in for an open-source lang revitalization and maintenance tool that deserves to be better known! #langsky 🐦🐦

All killer no filler!! Point about practice depends somewhat on talk length/experience level. Everything else is as true on talk 100 as talk 1

I’m in the American Southwest and somehow it is hotter in London than here

Spending most of June stateside and I am honestly enthusiastic to celebrate the 🇺🇸 people, even if I would never celebrate the nation/1776 at this specific moment. July 4 will be in 🇵🇪 though and the World Cup is for 🇧🇷, count me in for all of the Americas!

QEPD Raúl Pacheco Vega. Blog was a wonderful source of writing advice and process ideas for me

Delighted to see this from U of A 🌵 Many communities need similar resources in Spanish too - anyone with plans to write, adapt, translate? 🐦🐦

Me every time I talk to a Brazilian

This moment doesn’t compare favorably to ‘Laudato Si’ (so far) and that - unfortunately for Leo - is a very natural comparison to make Time will tell about how the laity/grassroots receive this in comparison to LS

The New York Times is now parody of itself. Universities that focus on what we do in our day-to-day lives that resonates with people beyond ourselves? My dudes, have you ever been to a regional public university or any campus that isn't Harvard?

This institution, which is awesome and which I personally support as a board member of an affiliated org, is funded almost entirely by federal farm subsidies. You will be shocked to know that this does not make it into the NYT.

This is the only day I’ve ever been glad to have Blackboard

hold onto your wallet anytime someone claims a human behavior is ‘natural’ without defining what that means, but *clutch* it for ‘x is natural, y is not, therefore ban y.’ truly natural behaviors - eg walking, using language - don’t require incentives, far less coercion

Wondering about the transatlantic distribution of “one-on-one” vs “one-to-one” (as abbreviated 121) as referring to social or business interactions, eg “i wanted to give you this update one-on-one”. Had never heard “to” before coming here! @lynneguist.bsky.social ?

This is awesome. At the same time, I am always somewhat surprised by the idea in the UK that centralized government agencies should be responsible not only for funding, but also actually programming, language revitalization (see also Gaidhlig). No one believes this in other endangered langs

Never been gladder to have a passport valid to 2030. With extra pages.

@catscoffeecats.bsky.social on this: “Blessed are the meek, for they will be called soft on crime”

The grandfather of Elbridge "Bridge" Colby was William Colby, OSS veteran and CIA director under Nixon. Also very staunch and devout Catholic. (And controversial in many ways, which you can look up.) Trying to imagine what he would make of this.

I expect more from Marco, he was a lapsed Catholic before he was a convert

Grammar xkcd.com/3229/

Have listened to the entire Taylor Swift discography while writing this damn book. *1989* alone was enough for dissertation, unfortunately this thing is 3x as long

My lates paper in LD&C with @chirila.bsky.social is now out! This tutorial teaches you everything about video-based fieldwork on spoken lang 🗣️ that I learned the hard way, from buying peripherals to archiving. 🐦🐦

What are we saying instead of “citizen science” these days? Not loving the term when “citizenship” is fraught. Distributed science? 🐦🐦🧪

Imagine working at a political science department and thinking you have something to teach @emilymbender.bsky.social about language technology Mansplaining is a hell of a drug

How do you distinguish *in spoken english* between ‘American’ = from the Americas and ‘American’ = from the USA? People write things like ‘USian’ but I’ve heard that actually get said maybe once ever, and ‘languages/etc of the Americas’ is a) wordy + b) implies indigeneity (not always intended)

Pls spare a thought for me. Born and lived 17 yrs in a place (AZ) with no DST. Just barely figured it out then went another place without it (Peru). Now need to call 3 time zones in the Americas every week from the UK. Time Warp is hell and in the spring it is THREE weeks long!!

Interoperability definitely a better choice than everyone being poorly served by 1 system or everyone trying to write their own system. One of the actionable points from our paper on FLEx 🐦🐦 (Ling research software). “Malleable software” exists in that space but ends up being brittle

Someday this will be done, maybe even someday soon

WW2/Korean War/general contractor/Franciscan lay tertiary. Had 10 kids (still all alive). WW2/100% disabled vet/only further info known to me is that he met grandma at a Communist Party USA meeting in 1952. That 2nd one wouldn’t hit so well in the election ads ;)

lol, my data is not even transcribable with TTS, which is entirely normal in child language research/lang doc 🐦🐦. Good luck LLM. But to this dude “social science” apparently means poli sci and econ based on English words and numbers only. Has someone told him about psych

That incredible efficiency of laying off so many staff, that you then need to hire again

I sent FOI requests to all 34 members of the Russell Group and Research Plus to collate this data, though only 24 replied on time. Still a decent sample. Not happy reading.

This game is the most hockey I have ever watched and it did NOT disappoint

The job ready thing is amusing (and terrible) because if it were real everyone would have to study humanities to meet what most employers want and need in terms of skills - teamwork, communication, ethical decision making, leadership, systems thinking, lifelong learning, and critical thinking.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

This is very cool, but also shocking to me that cacao drinking started in Amazonia when AFAIK no contemporary Amazonians drink it? All I have ever seen or read: domesticated cacao 1) eaten as a fresh fruit, or 2) processed for sale, same for other Theobroma species like cupuaçú. #anthrosky

Accepting BILABIAL and rejecting FORMANT. What does the Times have against acoustics?? 🐦🐦

Jobs: General Linguistics, Phonetics: Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching & Scholarship), Queen Mary University of London

Was just at a conference party hosted by a Texas public university. They had an open bar and in general, did not seem to be hurting for money. Only people who aren’t. Does Abbott want UT/A&M to be comm colleges or moneyed conservative think tanks? I suspect the 2nd 🧪

I could name 1,000 other improvements to LaTeX more useful to me than embedding a synthetic text generator into a TeX editor. Then improvement 1,001 would be that we stop using LaTeX because we have a half decent technical word processor for 🐦🐦. Sorry not sorry!!

PBS KIDS bringing the multimodal analysis and also a great framing. 10/10 #lingcomm 🐦🐦

Every old imperialism is new again this year

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

oh shit tomorrow is circle back day already

Passing a swim test. I failed so many swim classes 🏊‍♀️🚫

Language champions from 18 countries will be joining the 2026 Ready to Revitalize program - and we have just TEN DAYS left to raise funds for their grassroots #languagerevitalization projects! 🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?

“A Head Start program located on a Native American reservation was told to remove sections from its application that are necessary for the program to prioritize services for tribal members and their descendants – something allowed by federal law.”

The holidays came early 🎉:*Bridging Child Language Research to Practice for #Indigenous #Language #Revitalization* is officially out! Makes great reading for your spring semester courses 🐦🐦, especially because it’s free to read forever with LD&C/U Hawai’i Press.

Bottle feeding is only unsafe if you lack access to clean water or a way to clean the bottles. That does happen in the world (and I have seen it) but not often in America. Unless RFK is going to make untreated water great again next?

5 year postdoc position here at Edinburgh with my colleague Bert Remijsen 🐦🐦

Love that small government supporting women by telling the Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) they can’t let in trans girls. Me and all the tomboy little girls who will now be interrogated about their haircuts feel very supported