Made these energy bickies after the recipe of a medieval mystic to share at work today. They’re super spiced (nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves), so apparently consumption should be limited to 2-3 per day. This version made gluten-free so all can partake.

Yes, buttermilk can give you an almost crazy oven-spring.

Well, unless the library thinks that sponsoring might be an idea to go and this you end up with stickers from a local beer brewery on every book. (Library of a Law Faculty at a university I attended many, many moons ago).

I have a linguistics joke but it gets lost in translation.

No-knead rolls today. #breadsky

Made this oat crust on Monday. Thanks to sourdough, last sliced today still very nice. #sourdough #breadsky

This 7.6cm terracota figurine shows a woman baking bread in a tandoor style oven, right? Very accurately as well. Where is it from? Cyprus, 600- 450 BCE It's amazing how far and wide georgaphically, and time-wise, this style of baking encompasses! Check the air hole at the bottom too!

America I do think when your President can't even remember that he's President and calls someone else President, that really should be all you need to remove him from office.

Sustainable home baking. Been too productive and some of your bread has gone stale? Toast, grind and replace 5-10% (of flour) in your standard recipe with this (having soaked over night in some of the water, boiled). Improves aroma and crumb texture. #breadsky #sourdough

Got the hydration wrong on this one, but taste is alright. #breadsky #dourdough

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Research Assistant/Associate to play a key role in the ESRC/NSF-funded project, "INvestigating and Treebanking Scots And Yiddish Together (InTSaYT)" at Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU472/r...

Interesting opportunities for people who can see themselves contributing to the creation of corpora (Scots and Yiddish). Please re-post www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU472/r...

Umfrage zur Wahrnehmung von Bedingungen am Arbeitsplatz 10-15 Minuten. Sie ist Teil der Qualifikationsarbeit eines jungen Menschen, der mir am Herzen liegt. Bitte teilnehmen und/oder Posten. survey.uni-hannover.de/index.php/84...

EyeBench is a mega-project providing a much needed infrastructure for easy loading & preprocessing of eye-tracking-for-reading datasets, and for addressing super exciting modeling challenges: decoding linguistic knowledge and reading interactions from gaze! Check it out here: eyebench.github.io

Opportunity for a PhD candidate in English linguistics. Please repost. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Post-doc position at Basle :-) jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Listened to a woodpecker foraging while clearing the dead leaves around the spring flowers. #gardening

#SFSidewalkHaiku #248 Winter’s twilight, thaw complete This coast wakes to Spring © Rick Ehling ✍️ 03/07/2026, 📷 02/27/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (twilight), #Haiku #bspp51 (winter boundary, frost line) 🌱 #CaliforniaPoppy #SanFrancisco #springforward (ugh) not much of a lion this year

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Here’s a petition against shutting down the Far Eastern museum and the Mediterranean museum in Stockholm kampanj.skiftet.org/medelhavsmus...

Today’s yellow wheat, emmer and oat rolls. #breadsky #sourdough

Some are clearly less key than others: once dialect differences have emerged, they can serve to signal identity.

In the early 2000s, there was a debate between Trudgill and Schneider on the role that identity plays in new dialect formation. I recently elicited usage data and followed up with a survey, and it turns out that norm orientation (part of identity construction) is relatively separate from usage.

Good to know that Democratic attorneys generals took the threat of project 2025 seriously and planned ahead

We knew they were doing this at the time, which is why you saw grants elsewhere that mentioned things like “biological diversity” get cancelled. I’m horrified at how bad these people are, but I’m astonished at how lazy and incompetent they are at everything.

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The Study of Time is a series of peer-reviewed volumes of select collected essays invited after each triennial conference. Time and Measure, Volume XVIII from the 2023 Conference in Yamaguchi, Japan is now available. brill.com/display/titl...

Wonderful episode on women’s voices and song to celebrate International Women’s Day podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/a...

Really interesting, but this hightened the anxiety… podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/t...

Combined anxiety baking and cooking made for a nice lunch spread today. (Roast aubergine spread and flatbread with yellow wheat, some sourdough discard).

Just realized it's only three more weeks until the first day of #DigitalPalates 😱 & 🤩 www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/we06/digitalpalates #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

A great job opportunity for doctoral candidates at the university of Cologne: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

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I mean we've been in a five alarm constitutional crisis since Jan 20 2025. But yeah, this will add to it.

It’s been a delight & an education working with @randyallenharris.bsky.social on this paper in @rhetstm.bsky.social POROI on LLMs ability to synthesize rhetorical figures & linguistic constructions. Worth saying nothing I poast should be construed to reflect the views of my employer or supervisor!

"Thirty Tamili and Prakrit inscriptions reveal 2,000-year-old India-Egypt trade." Such amazing evidence about this cultural contact! #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky www.deccanherald.com/india/thirty...

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Interesting read on the conceptualisation and ‘creation of identity’ of GenAI.

Bullet Interpreter I’m talking about you, o war, o war, o war! you cease all languages Baktash Abtin tr Nasim Basiri Abtin, awarded a PEN/Barney Freedom to Write award, died in an Iranian prison aged 47 wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @wwborders.bsky.social

A major Pentagon–Anthropic showdown is underway. The Pentagon is pushing for Claude to enable mass AI surveillance + autonomous drones, threatening a supply-chain-risk label or a defense production act takeover if they don’t. Ultimatum was issued for tomorrow. Anthropic just refused.

🚨 Job alert in my group: Want to do a PhD in Computational Linguistics working on figurative language (metaphor), on social media data, and in an interdisciplinary digital humanities environment, at one of the largest universities in Germany? Apply by March 30, 2026! Contact me with any […]

Wheat, emmer and rye. Can’t wait to dig in - sourdough bliss :-)

The founding meeting of the non-tenure #MCRHumNetwork on Tuesday February 24 at 6pm on Zoom - a monthly online lecture? - e-mailing list? - survey? - British Academy Small Grant? - ambition: a COST action? - funding networking? - article workshops? Message me or e-mail ulla.rajala (a) antiken.su.se

Neuer LInk, noch der Löschung dirch YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89k...

Nach den Professor:innen das Chörli der Musiker:innen! Super Ohrenwurm. Bitte Teilen! Und am 8. März : Nein! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Km...

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.