1. Air Force One 2. Conspiracy Theory 3. Spawn 4. George of the Jungle 5. Men in Black Not looking good

I really hope that Marcus the Worm somehow produces the ADS' Word Of The Year next year

What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.

I’ve seen two kids post that the Brown University shooting is the second school shooting they’ve survived. This should enrage and radicalize everyone. Kids shouldn’t have to survive one shooting, let alone two. No more thoughts and prayers. It’s time to address the guns.

What a time to be a university professor, huh?

i can't imagine any unforeseen negative consequences to a policy like this. it's downright bulletproof

With Clair Obscur sweeping Game Awards 2025 I'm envisioning a future generation of Francophile otakus

Chilling. Where are the free speech advocates?

Had a pretty good day, especially since it was last day of classes of the quarter. Got home around 11 PM to find my door wide open and my cats missing. Anyway, it's 2:40 AM now and the cats are indoors after hours of me sitting outside with cat treats and a blanket trying to coax them out of hiding

discussing today in seminar: Ross, L. E., Kinitz, D. J., & Kia, H. (2022). Pronouns are a public health issue. American Journal of Public Health, 112(3), 360-362. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.... #linguistics

Just learned that Arabic for Tamil uses complex vowel ligatures, like the Indian abugidas, which include the harakaat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arwi

What if there was a whole league of legends

Really big announcement! See @wtimkey.bsky.social's thread for the details on an exciting new preprint from the NYU-UMass Syntactic Ambiguity Processing group. It is the culmination of the team's research efforts over these last couple of years, and we're really happy with it.

this is what it feels like to be a professor

i actually feel pretty fucking negative about the like. glee some of my acquaintances and colleagues are expressing about famous dudes in our field having ties to serial rapists. i think its actually not funny or exciting to find this out

I need there to be a Yorgos Lanthimos adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray ASAP

'how drunk can I send you something?'

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Jaw is on the floor watching election results. There's actually some hope

Love that the Bravely Default HD Remaster has a whole-ass rhythm minigame for Love In the Crossfire

There's a guy standing near the student union on UCSC campus with a giant banner that says 'POLYAMORY' and he's handing out flyers

Happy Halloween from Count Noun! 🧛

Why does this sound like Elsevier is breaking up with me

If English were head final the childrens’ joke would be “why is 5 afraid of 6?”

some pronouns for you 'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.' 'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'

Glad that the new Pokémon games don't require players to adhere to a strict gender binary; still odd that my natural hair color is a secret unlockable that I have to purposefully seek out

Last week we hosted the 4th Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI)! This is a small gathering of early career researchers in the Bay and Northern California who work in cognitive neuroscience of language and psycholinguistics to share their work!

Unbelievably racist video, but of the 30 seconds, about half of it is claiming that Latinos (not specifically immigrants, even) are "too stupid" to speak English. English-only and English-superiority narratives are a bedrock of this regime's racism. They know nothing about how language works.

“does not predict p” is very very different than “predicts not p”

Revealing new insights into how the mind represents and processes language, this book gives a full overview of linguistic illusions. Linguistic Illusions by Dan Parker, Coming Soon #LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 https://cup.org/4mwHEnC

UCSC Linguistics and Psychology are very proud to host the Fourth Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI), which gathers together young researchers focusing on language from a diverse range of perspectives from the Bay and Northern California. Come join us Fri, Oct 10!

“Technology companies are not shy of falsely claiming that students are lazy or lack writing skills. Such a mantra serves only to sell products (…) We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 19/🧵

30 minutes into wearing hearing aids for the first time. The world is louder and more annoying than I remember

Sometime in the last few years my sneezes have been phonologized as the word 'chewy', which I utter with perfect enunciation every time

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

I went into academia to live my dream of doing training modules and figuring out what a “teaching table” is

One of my bffs bruised his patella about a month and a half ago and I have been gaining great joy by asking him “knee how?” regularly

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Our paper is finally out online! Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #linguistics

@rmc-law.bsky.social Ryan Law presenting on a unified framework for semantic memory and semantic composition in the ATL. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025

Fotos lindas of UCSC PhD student Subhs Shrestha presenting her project on structure building and agreement processing in Spanish! #snl2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

Spectacular talk by SNL Early Career Award winner Esti Blanco Elorrieta! Much NeLLab pride, congratulations Esti! 🎉🎉 #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

As I’m away at #snl2025 learning about new research in neurobiology of language, Olly is at home learning about neurons too

Some good conclusions from David Poeppel’s Distinguished Career Award talk #snl2025

If Kirk's speech is protected, then everyone else's should be too.

somali syntax is neat also, "cup of coffee" is a v-final subordinate clause: koob bun ah wux-uu cup coffee be-3Sg FOCUS-3Sg ku kac-ayaa saddex dollar in cost-3sg.Prog 3 dollar

✨New preprint out! With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval. 👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal 👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors osf.io/preprints/ps...

Amazing resource ⚡️ 🧠 Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#JNeurosci: Abrupt, unpredictable events trigger powerful neural activity in the mammalian cortex that allows for rapid behavioral reactions. Perovic et al. discovered that this quick-acting neural system influences early stages of sensory processing. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1815-24.2025

Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....