Slightly diminish a band: The Beetles

Congrats to @vshirazy.bsky.social for winning a NSF GRFP! Venus is writing a fascinating honors thesis on Farsi complex predicates, and has long been my editorial assistant at Language. She's amazing, and I know she'll excel at her next adventure in the Linguistics PhD program at U. of Chicago!

All these people having a problem with the ADS word of the year being “rawdog”, wait till they get a load of the word “sucks”!

I have to do cybersecurity training again. I have an idea: UT should send everyone an email with the subject line "CHECK THIS OUT!!1!" and the body is a long, ugly-ass link. If you click it it takes you to the training module and it becomes mandatory. If you don't click it, you don't have to do it.

Back at UT at last, but it was an honor to spend three weeks at Rochester as the first Ivan A. Sag Fellow! What a fantastic group of faculty and grad students they have! For anyone interested, here're handouts and recordings for the Sag Lectures. sas.rochester.edu/cls/sag/curr...

Come present your research at the Texas Linguistics Society 2024! It's gonna be lit!

Did not have “brain-eating amoebas” on my bingo card.

Ohio State Linguistics seeks to hire an Assistant Professor in language variation & change or sociolinguistics w/ a specialization in language & race or marginalized languages particularly African American English & language varieties arising through contact.   academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25772

Come and join my department! Penn Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track position in Syntax at the rank of Assistant Professor. Follow the link for details. apply.interfolio.com/131974

Being someone who works on language and who edits a journal called Language I really hate the fact that one word I consistently misspell is "language".

University of Kentucky Linguistics is hiring for a syntactician!

The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin is hiring! We are seeking an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Study of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Click the here for details: apply.interfolio.com/131710

Tomorrow I start my term as Chair of Linguistics at UT Austin, and in preparation I spent this summer retraining myself on email to be faster and more efficient. I'm not perfect at it, but I've gotten a lot better. And tonight I'm proud to say I got my inbox down to 0 for the first time in years.

This looks ... a lot like Twitter.