Where to publish research on #lingcomm: www.superlinguo.com/post/8207037... An annotated and non-definitive list of some suggestions. If you have other suggestions I'd love to add them!

this is part of the linguistic society of america's committee on lgbtq+ issues (WHEW) blog posts for pride, which also includes two great pieces on being nonbinary in russian and queer pedagogy in the language classroom 🌈

for pride i wrote about teaching linguistics while queer, and ended up talking a whole bunch about pronouns and also bad textbooks and how great it is to have queer students

This is a very fun post about French grammar www.reddit.com/r/French/com...

Just four days until Everybody's Perfect comes out! My first new novel since 2020, a story in nine hands of fantasy Venice. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

GUYS. Today’s pod is glorious. Lovely! Dare I say it could possibly change your life?! The great @jpbrammer.bsky.social joins to talk about how he got himself to read way, way more. It’s a conversation about attention and how to use curiosity to help our addled brains. youtu.be/QT_XAplb4IQ?...

Someone suggested today at @labphon.bsky.social that academic posters need a QR code going to an email signup for "please send me the official version of this paper once it's done and citable" And all I could say was YES PLEASE CAN I HELP TWEET THIS INTO EXISTENCE

The most important thing I've learned giving out the new @lingthusiasm.com zines at three conferences in a row this month is it's super fun to give people zines and see how they react to them! Excited to make a few tweaks that we've learned from field testing and then make them available online!

okay I know I joke about this every year during the Eurovision Song Contest but it's not April Fools Day, Canada is apparently actually becoming a full member of the European Broadcasting Union

The most important thing I've learned giving out the new @lingthusiasm.com zines at three conferences in a row this month is it's super fun to give people zines and see how they react to them! Excited to make a few tweaks that we've learned from field testing and then make them available online!

I appreciate the current speaker giving us a pause to all try saying the thing

I'm enjoying how #labphon has a norm of "students ask questions first" including in plenaries, there's a little longer of a pause after the talks but they don't turn into the "more a comment than a question" thing from senior scholars that's so common at academic conferences

Today I learned at the phonology conference that not only can you feel your vocal folds vibrating by putting your hand on your throat, as any LING 101 student knows, but you can also feel them by putting your hand on your cheeks, and even the top of your head!

I love that thing in any linguistics talk where the speaker says something about phonetics and immediately everyone in the audience starts trying to produce whatever it is ALMOST subtly (this is definitely not me and my #labphon #labphon20 neighbour catching each other going /p/ /t/ /k/)

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

nêhiyawak soldiers bent their language to help secure the Allied victory in the Second World War, but their service is often forgotten. Learn more about the Cree code talkers of the prairies in a story by Kayla MacInnis: https://bit.ly/4aHZEIw

Also I've received confirmation from the organizers that local linguists don't need to be registered for LabPhon in order to attend my workshop (and that LabPhon registrations themselves are still open) So if you'd like to be doing something 10-12 Thursday and/or this whole weekend, that's a thing!

Getting ready for my workshop on Thursday at @labphon.bsky.social Linguistics Communication Through Zines! Does anyone have any sample linguistics-y zines they'd like to share with me that I could bring to the workshop? 🐦🐦

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

I love this

We've unlocked this episode so I can make all the academics who are trying to write a pop book listen to it

Everyone should give this strategy a try by following the 💰 and drawing attention to it👇

This month's bonus episode is about linguistics podcasting with Helen Zaltzman, host of @allusionistshow.bsky.social podcast! Help us keep the show running and get access to over 110 bonus episodes by becoming a patron:

We've unlocked this episode so I can make all the academics who are trying to write a pop book listen to it

These are useful tips! Additionally, I'd add that the style of lingcomm I do (podcast/book) is often more interested in perennial findings that have stood the test of time rather than brand new research papers (which your university's communications folks can help with!)

Just in time for Pride, we have news about the notorious "pink planet," a billion year-old gas supergiant that's 57 light years from Earth. Turns out that this old, pink planet is extremely salty, which feels relatable. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

Aha, it was three newspapers not three universities! Thank you for chasing down the reference for me!

Feeling heartened by the Fireside chat with Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC Ideas, at #SWCC2026 "We're making hour-long episodes for people who want more depth than is possible from a 2 minute video"

yeah if you're going to make gatorade recipe anything, obviously it ought to be an aspic

Scientists are fantastically unwilling to think of publicity for another subfield as publicity for science more generally.

Same gap at two scales. The public sees categories; practitioners see distinctions. Linguistics envies 'science' because the public files it elsewhere; subfields ignore each other's wins for the same reason, one level down. The boundary you defend is invisible to the audience you defend it for.

How to structure your debunking: -Start with an actual fact. -Then warn about the existing myth/give readers reasons to distrust the myth. -Explain why it's incorrect. -Reinforce the fact.

Was able to catch @gretchenmcculloch.com's excellent presentation at SWCC, and she had these great tips on how to debunk misinformation as a journo or communicator: Don't repeat the misinformation you're trying to debunk. Reference it once, and that's it. (1/2)

What I'm learning at #SWCC2026 is that much as linguists have science envy about how much the general public knows about science generally, scientists have space dinos envy about how certain fields are better represented in #scicomm

Excited to be attending my first @swc-can.bsky.social conference today and tomorrow! If you want to chat language, linguistics, or mythbusting, do say hi! Also giving a talk about mythbusting and emoji this afternoon #SWCC2026

I believe it was this one! purl.stanford.edu/xh142vq4981/...

I really wanted this to mean "it is solved by going for a little walk to think about it" because that's so often true for me Solvitur ambulando - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvitu...

Free virtual event with @spotlightpa.org book club coming up on June 25! ASL/English interpretation. Registration link in article www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/06...

Sometimes people are following me for a while and don't realize I have a podcast If that's you, hi! I make @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! If that sounds like something you might like, give it a follow? And if you think your followers might like it, give an RT?

I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

I love @lingthusiasm.com! It was such a great resource as I worked on my own degree at @brooklyncollege.bsky.social and it turns out a member of the department, @danielleronkos.bsky.social worked in a field adjacent to @superlinguo.bsky.social

Sometimes people are following me for a while and don't realize I have a podcast If that's you, hi! I make @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! If that sounds like something you might like, give it a follow? And if you think your followers might like it, give an RT?

"Here's my new protagonist Benjamin! Their hobby is getting handed 100 dollar bills in unmarked envelopes."

Happy feast day of St Gottschalk, patron saint of linguists, languages, translators, and lost vocations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottsch...

(chanting softly) zines zines zines zines

Le Passé Surcomposé was hard to find, and when you finally made it there, they had *just* closed the kitchen.

Le Conditionnel, on the other hand, is one of those farm-to-table places where you get whatever happens to be available based on the ingredients

Le Subjonctif is entirely avant garde cuisine where everything is foams and hypotheticals

Les Hipster in the know go to Le Subjonctif...

passé simple would be a raw juice bar