Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

A book I wished I had found in the first month of my PhD and not in the last: Toulmin (2009), From linguistic to sociolinguistic reconstruction Chap 3 is a superb discussion of reconstruction and subgrouping in dialect continua (aka everywhere) 1/3 openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/c30644...

🗣️ La collection #Pangloss offre, en libre accès, des documents linguistiques sonores, avec une spécialité de langues rares ou peu étudiées. 🎙️Explications avec Alexis Michaud, directeur de recherche CNRS au LACITO, qui assure la gestion de la collection Pangloss ⤵️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

It seems @oxfordunipress.bsky.social no longer cares about bibliographic metadata. The way they do their handbooks these days is they rob all individual chapters of bibliographies, meaning cites go undetected and the crossref metadata for chapters is the biggest mess possible 1/n

Hawaiian Language Schools Grow As DOE Shrinks. There’s One Big Problem The state doesn’t have enough teachers to keep up with demand for schools taught in Hawaiian. Upcoming retirements are expected to add to the challenge.

I don't mean to seem alarmed, but it appears Google's book search function is, just...gone. In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.

"Caouissin ... would like to think the language will follow a similar path to Welsh, which has enjoyed a revival over the past half-century and is spoken by 538,000 people" People keep getting this wrong about Welsh! There has not been a "revival". Let me explain. 1/

This is what profit-oriented publishers with several hundreds of years of experience give you. What you see there should be an AVM. But it is just gibberish. #degruyter

How to turn off Gmail's AI "summaries" while retaining the helpful inbox category tabs--finally!

Want to see something no one's ever seen before? (barring 160~ people who watched it live a few minutes ago)

I'm hiring! 2 x PhD positions to work at Uni Zurich with me on "Evolutionary Semantics" for an ERC-funded project. semantically curious MA grads from linguistics, cog psych, anthro encouraged to apply evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...

good riddance to Minister Judith Collins, who orchestrated the present gutting of New Zealand's science funding establishment I've not seen or heard any coverage today that mentions this tiny detail, affecting 100s of millions of public dollars and endangering NZ's entire intellectual community

Evergreen reminder that this was something she came up with, not something she was advised to do. In fact she was pretty specifically advised it was a terrible idea (it was) but she went ahead with it anyway because something something Not Real Science

Slashing all Marsden grants to social science and humanities another Judith Collins legacy www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

📣Out today! Volume 2 of LANGUAGE CONTACT: AN INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK, edited by Jeroen Darquennes, @joesalmons.bsky.social and Wim Vandenbussche. 50 chapters covering the linguistic, (inter)individual, and societal dynamics of language contact & multidisciplinary language contact studies.

Any recommendations for books in Irish that are not of a difficulty that makes them impenetrable for a learner but challenging enough to give plenty opportunities to look up words or phrases? Not textbooks, more like novels etc. - I've a few graphic novels but ideally something longer. #Gaeilge

Come work with us! 🌟 3 Postdoc & 5 PhD positions – deadline for applications: 20 February. www.curlew.info/jobs

I’m convinced that there is no longer any way in LaTeX to draw autosegmental representations with delinking or multiple association lines. In my dissertation, I just used pstricks, but that is a hornet’s nest of incompatibilities now. I’ve fiddled with forest and tikz on CTAN, but...

Fantastic thread!

Muñoz Pérez, C., (2026) “Stylistic applicatives: a lens into the nature of anticausative SE”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo... #linguistics

Burukina, I., (2026) “Lexical P or functional Mood? Grammatical categories and mechanisms of clausal adjunction”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo... #linguistics

Pettenon, E., Sanfelici, E. & Mateu, V., (2026) “Featural Relativized Minimality in silence: the acquisition of sluicing in Italian”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo... #linguistics

The world’s largest asset management firm has quietly abandoned plans for a multibillion-dollar climate fund to help New Zealand reach 100 percent renewable energy, just years after saying the initiative could serve as a global model. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/16/b...

Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen. This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?

#langsky #UtLinguaeVitamHabeant Vanuatu mentioned! 🇻🇺 This thread has several linguistics articles about the world's most linguistically diverse country per capita.

Windows 11 PowerShell script to remove all AI features from Windows: https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

Some interesting linguistic insights about typing www.mpi-talkling.mpi.nl?p=2803&lang=en Cc @atrubek.bsky.social

When one of my pals suggested reaching out to Naomi to help with this, I immediately face-palmed for not thinking of her myself. Because Naomi is the author of one of my favorite stories/tiny novellas, the one I recommend to ANYONE who likes our books. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

New on the blog: Requiem for writing town ideophone.org/requiem-for-... On the co-working space we had for our team in corona times, what we learned about interactional affordances, why surface realism is overrated, and how we created a sense of connectedness (also ft. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social)

Wee waiata number 2 for #jamuary from that silly kaiwaiata Perspex Window ##originalmusictrcks youtube.com/shorts/pwowh...

Roll call for all linguists, language researchers, and language enthusiasts across the Asia-Pacific regions 🌺

It's been a silly few months with the move back home, submitting the thesis, and starting a new role, I feel like I'm now in a better space (and place) to re-connect with everyone on here! Hope everyone's had a chance to take a break!

It is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.

Nollaig mhór mhaith, a chairde. Seo crann Nollag na Nua-Shéalainne daoibh.

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New preprint on prosody in the brain! tinyurl.com/2ndswjwu HeeSoKim NiharikaJhingan SaraSwords @hopekean.bsky.social @coltoncasto.bsky.social JenniferCole @evfedorenko.bsky.social Prosody areas are distinct from pitch, speech, and multiple-demand areas, and partly overlap with lang+social areas→🧵

Extremely proud to have contributed to this amazing three-part Special Issue on Vanuatu languages, out now in Te Reo! Especial thanks to the wonderful editors for pulling off this major achievement. You can read my contribution here: nzlingsoc.org/journal_arti...

Do subtypes actually exist in speech sound disorders? Errors: are they disorders or are they compensations? A dimensional framework. Rethink our foundational knowledge: New paper www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum... @tricmc.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @thespeechprof.bsky.social

The first ever monolingual Irish dictionary has been launched www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

I'd like to see more articles on the meaning of terms usually translated as "language". The concept of community languages as a way to keep secrets is definitely not unique to Vanuatu...

Very glad to say I contributed to two articles in these special issues. Will post links and summaries tomorrow

Very excited to announce that our three Special Issues on Vanuatu languages are out in Te Reo. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers, my co-editors, our brilliant typesetter, and NZLingSoc. 43 authors, 5 introductions, 25 articles and a book review... nzlingsoc.org/journal/curr...

Very excited to announce that our three Special Issues on Vanuatu languages are out in Te Reo. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers, my co-editors, our brilliant typesetter, and NZLingSoc. 43 authors, 5 introductions, 25 articles and a book review... nzlingsoc.org/journal/curr...

if you liked the lenition hypercube, you'll love the phonological feature crystaline entity

i am still in shock but I have won a Philip Leverhulme Prize. starting in autumn 2026 for 3 years, i’ll be looking at linguistic justice in schools, particularly in how children and teachers engage in radical, grassroots activism for structural change. it's such an honour to receive this funding 🌸🩷

A lot of laughter during linguistics talks, especially after playing or reading out interview extracts, is problematic

Could I politely suggest, that with how Arts & Humanities research funding has been pulled from all of these, that political interference has already occurred.