This is a list of ways to do a really shoddy job as a journalist. As a friend just said to me, if you get AI to summarise a big report you’re almost guaranteed to miss any story that might be lurking in the detail. www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-can...

Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features. Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As an archivist, this keeps me up.

Arrêtez-tout ! Mon truc c'est l'alchimie médiévale, pas les herbiers... Mais... Ne peut-on voir une ressemblance entre ce dessin dans une marge du Livre des miracles de Sainte Foy (MS022, XIe-XIIe s. Sélestat) et les plantes imaginaires du fameux manuscrit Voynich ? #medievalsky

I am so grateful to the editors of Diachronica for letting me write this piece in memoriam of Bill Labov. And so grateful that they let me write what I most wanted to - a piece about Bill's *goodness*, his love for humanity, and how those things *resulted in* what we think of as his genius 🐦

A great opportunity to (re-)listen to episode 38 of our podcast, in which James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) speaks with Dan Everett about the life and work of Charles Sanders Peirce. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2024/04/01/p... #Histlx

The @wired.com video that @mixedlinguist.bsky.social and I did a while back on the life cycle of slang got featured today on @upworthy.com! www.upworthy.com/linguists-ex...

Artificial intelligence will never be a good substitute for genuine stupidity

Super proud of this work and very grateful for all the amazing people who provided valuable feedback along the way @remivantrijp.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @cedricboeckx.bsky.social @inbalarnon.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️🙏

Have you ever wondered what goes into making a map, or though about how maps wind up in the books you love? I draw maps for living, and every week I write about how they come into being. The posts are free and available for anyone to read. So come give them a read! patreon.com/SurprisedEel...

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... is now out, @betsysneller.bsky.social 's beautiful tribute to Bill Labov

Falling in love with humanity benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...

Haverford College is looking for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of #Linguistics, with a primary specialization in #Sociolinguistics, secondary specialization(s) open -> www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

Did you miss yesterday's #CoffeeWithACodex with @lisafdavis.bsky.social, featuring the realistic facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript? Fear not! It was recorded, and I just posted it to YouTube. Take an almost-look at one of the world's most inscrutable manuscripts. youtu.be/LlwjwLYTJug

Coffee with a Codex: Voynich Facsimile (Beinecke Library (Yale) MS 408) SchoenbergInstitute youtu.be/LlwjwLYTJug?...

Excited to see Gender Linguistics officially launched during LILG 2025 here at @hhu.de – and to share this moment with so many colleagues passionate about language and gender. Looking forward to your submissions! #linguistics

STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics star-linguistics.org

OPINION: Witch hunts could not have had the reach they did without the media machinery that made them possible: an industry of printed manuals that taught readers how to find and exterminate witches. religionnews.com/2025/08/04/f...

I don't understand why people are making fun of the PhD-like thinking of ChatGPT. It's only been around a few days and already it has discovered letters in the word 'blueberry' that professional linguists never found.

Our new piece is out in @nature.com big mihi to all my co-authors it was a pleasure to work with you on this @lanipai.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social @napaaqtuk.bsky.social @sereananaepi.bsky.social @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social Bradley Moggridge and Brittany Kamai tinyurl.com/yc4y9kfk

Discover Magazine did a nice feature on the Voynich Manuscript. I had a delightful conversation with Sam Waters, and here's the result. (there's also a print version in the current issue) #linguistics #Yale #YaleLibrary #BeineckeLibrary #conlangs www.discovermagazine.com/was-the-worl...

"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic. You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.

I spent the last 24 hours finetuning Dots.OCR with different datasets. Here are some of the things I learned... TLDR Don't sleep on this model! If you do HTR or OCR try this.

Please let there be a new joke about the bar-dog.

Linguists! Is someone here aware of a documented/proposed change retroflex stop (phonemic or allophone) > implosive? (Not the other way round!) thank you! 🤗 #linguistics #phonetics #historicalphonology

2) "The Voynich Manuscript: Past, Present, Future" (ARC Humanities Press), a scholarly volume of latest-research essays with contributions from myself, co-editor Colin Layfield, @chirila.bsky.social and others.

Going to Santiago for #ichl soon! What should I do when not conferencing? What should I eat?

Pleased that this co-authored articulatory description of Blackfoot has been published! We also summarize the current study and point out areas for future research. scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/c453bb...

New paper! #linguistics Tonogenesis in the Naduhup family of northwest Amazonia Mark Simmons | University of California San Diego Patience Epps | University of Texas at Austin

New paper! #linguistics benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Learning to be (un)hip in panel data Exploring quotative be like across the adult life‑span Anne-Marie Moelders, Isabelle Buchstaller | Sociolinguistics Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen

New #linguistics article! Late Malayo-Polynesian A new model of Austronesian linguistic relations Alexander D. Smith | Fudan University benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Keywords: Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian, subgrouping, linkages, language contact

Are you working on topics related to the history of linguistics?🫵 Consider submitting an article to ✨Language & History✨, the journal of the Henry Sweet Society! It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published 3 times per year both online and in print. www.henrysweet.org/language-and...

New article in our tone special issue #linguistics benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Tonogenesis A diachronic typology Lilja Maria Sæbø | Oxford University Eitan Grossman | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Steven Moran | University of Neuchâtel | University of Zurich

New article in the tone special issue #linguistics benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Accent and tone The double origin of the Paicî prosodic system Florian Lionnet | Princeton University

Opinions have not been exhausted before likes but time is running short

Come hang out with me and @leoba.bsky.social as we work our way through this life-size and brilliantly-detailed facsimile of the #Voynich manuscript! www.library.upenn.edu/events/coffe...

At 40 likes, that'll really learn me! I think I'm up to 15

Ditto on Australian languages but strongly doubt that opinions will be exhausted before likes

Veda Rigden, also among other scholars like Wulf Beoden

hello world. new paper out!

Me and my book project

Another great open source project from Ben Lee!

Are you able to use your language online in all the ways you want to? Do you have keyboards you can easily type your language in? If the answer is "no", ELP Governance Council member Dr. Craig Cornelius can help for FREE! Contact the Keyboard Creation Project:

An analysis of 16 Australian TV series (2012-2021) featuring Aboriginal characters and creatives explores how language is used to represent Aboriginal English, cultures, racism, and colonization. It offers insights often missing from mainstream media. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0726... #AJL

🙋🏾‍♀️ Presenting collaborative work with @savithry.bsky.social @linasigns.bsky.social and Laura Horton! #linguistics

Loving @kirbyconrod.bsky.social's piece on #writing a paper! 🗣💬 Pre-writing: stuff to do before I can write Writing: the part where you make blank pieces of paper less blank Post-writing: stuff to do after the pieces of paper are quite full #academicsky @academic-chatter.bsky.social t.ly/_-pd0

#Lingule #1166 "mākutu": 2/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛↘️️️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz #linguistics

Join us on Thursday! 👇 #BLinguistik #linguistics