Continue the joyful resistance. Join this sing along with Desert Voices on November 8th & 9th.

Buying conference goodies feels so gluttonous. "That's a lot of muffins!" "...uh yeah"

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Flight last night got cancelled and the earliest they could get me back out was THURSDAY!!! So I'm getting on a shuttle to the larger town for another (extremely expensive) flight at 3 am. Grrrr.

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

I had a professor tell me that there was a gender divide in terms of liking syntax. There's probably social stuff going on there to cause it. It felt bad because I struggle with syntax and didn't need dysphoria ANS syntax-based self esteem issues. But I do wonder if HRT would make me a syntactician

*big deep breath* Literally it all has to work out okay because this stupid baby who lives in my house wants to get a lizard who is sleeping on the other side of the window

Awesome, so if universities “proactively” agree to sell out their students, staff, faculty, and academic freedom, the administration will let them keep money that has already been appropriated. And shame specifically on UT for the proactive boot-licking. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

If you can come to the conference I've been planning that would be really cool! You can register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/arizona-li... You can see the current schedule (subject to change) and information about our sessions on the website: sites.google.com/view/alc-18/...

Being brought into a meeting of an established group is always so interesting. Like you can see how the personalities kind of mesh and work together. Little inside jokes and I'm just there, probably 30 years younger than everyone else like 🙂 it's 7 am for me and I'm sleepy but also hello

🎧 lo-fi microfiche digitization (to study/relax/preserve gov docs to) Back online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This just in, being mentored is almost as cool as having mentees. Neat shit

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Mentoring people is one of the things that I get to do that sincerely just makes me so happy. It fills my proverbial cup and giving that up is the thing that bothers me most when I think about how I might not be able to find an academic job.

They’ll ask you to mourn the deaths they mourn, and no others. They’ll ask you to cherish the lives they cherish, and no others.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

Being in the southeast comes with so much more gender than the southwest. If I get a ma'am one more time I may cry in the bath tonight. Please I'm in an oversized colorful button up shirt and my hair is short. I have a septum piercing. What more do you want from me?

I love it when not hearing back from people turns from "Oh they're probably just busy" to "they definitely think this is big trash garbage and are trying to figure out how to ask me to leave the field" Visiting my mother-in-law certainly has nothing to do with the increased anxiety here...

This is a crazy way to find out that a man whose ideologies are responsible for hours I spend in therapy and so many mental health struggles to this day has died. If you're not familiar with the influence he had, especially in evangelical circles, you're lucky.

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

The creature is on the desk. She needs attention. I need to send emails. A tale as old as time. #cat #cats #academia

Like the album cover for Unreal Unearth

Its one of those days that I wish to lie on the ground and slowly sink under it while like moss consumes me

I am concerned by the speed at which stars seem to be evolving. How many more spikes with they grow in another decade? 🔭

So I've thought my posts just don't show up on bluesky for my followers but maybe my faculty just only interact with them late at night, lol. Thanks for sharing @amyfou.bsky.social and @heidiharley.bsky.social

I once again request that you please submit an abstract for the conference I'm planning. Pretty please?

Why is it that mostly small tasks can accumulate so much dread that they seem impossible. If I was worried about like my entire IRB proposal that would make sense, but no it's the like 10-15 citations I need to add to my prospectus that make me feel sick.

A pattern. Someone says, "I know stuff about AI, when I talk about refusal don't lecture me about the difference between big tech AI intrusion and localized use of LLMs—those big tech chatbots are useless." There will be a response: "Ah, you said chatbots don't have uses, you are AI illiterate."

Extremely convenient how English occasionally overlaps its kinship terms with birth order so I can just refer to my nonbinary ass as “so-and-so’s oldest” with relatives I haven’t seen in awhile

Come share your research at our graduate student-run conference this year! I'm co-chairing it! easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/A...

While you're at it you could also celebrate by reading my paper about gendered morphology and being non-binary. Really do a read-a-thon in nonbinary linguistics. uplopen.com/chapters/e/1...

Foundational Approaches to Celtic Linguistics is finally out! This volume is a collection of works from amazing linguists cross-discipline. It was an amazing opportunity to edit this! The online version is entirely open access! langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

so i’m supposed to contain multitudes and wolves? this is starting to feel like a lot

You know what's worse than that? The university system you have to do everything in again that uses completely different terminology and random undefined acronyms for everything so they can double check it. Ahhhh, another like 6 hours of my life I'll never get back.

No one warns you properly how hard the process of writing an NSF grant is. Like the writing bit is obv hard but all the wild tiny pieces of tiny paperwork that have to go through some asinine system are wacky. The tiny pieces have taken me like 6 hours. Not even the actual grant content

the reason these trucks look “silly” is that they have large windshields and a low hood, which increases visibility and reduces risk to pedestrians. trucks like this should look normal and F-150s should be the silly ones

Literally just drove from Pasadena to Anaheim and you’d have no clue that any of this is happening. And I was in that tiny square for 3 hours today before the LAPD lost its mind and started trapping people in for standing on sidewalks. LA is absolutely not burning. Tell your Midwestern family.

Hey didn’t they lose their minds when the president of Harvard was accused of much less, and didn’t it cost her the job? Weird how no one remembers that anymore.

Thrilled to launch a #journalism resource written by myself, @nabelew.bsky.social & Amanda Holmes: tinyurl.com/languagejour... We appreciate the growing attention the #media is giving to #language endangerment & revitalization, but issues are often covered in ways cause unintentional harm. How? 🗞️

Relatedly, I am still a little bit short on employment for this summer, so if you know of anything, please message me. This is your last chance for my expertise for the next year and a half.