me, halfway through rewatching The Devil Wears Prada: ok, so the reason "Get me a table at the restaurant with the good review" does such a good job at conveying Miranda's egocentrism is that it suggests she constructs a "common ground" based only on what she herself knows

Wrote about the elections for the paper (which went to press last night): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

thinking about that time my french coworker thought that Kyoto was just verlan for Tokyo

🐦🐦 Semanticists and the semantics-friendly: If you like thinking about what we mean when we write down a semantic variable, and if you like talking to (other) semantics-adjacent folks about it, join us for OASIS 6 in Lisbon!

Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

paper out, hope it's useful doi.org/10.1017/S009... #linguistics

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hey if you need something to do over this long weekend, have a go at my PhD student Anna-Merete’s survey. It’s sentences to rate, you just need to have any English variety as your first language, and it’ll take you 10–15 minutes. #linguistics docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

PhD and teaching job in English anyone? 🐦🐦 In Namur, with ME 🥹🥹 and wonderful colleagues 😊 (Working knowledge of French 🥖 is required, though.) Six-year contract (2 x 3). Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/417075 or in French here: jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2026-...

Philosophy was mostly "armchair" in the mid-20th century—but it's not anymore! Philosophers have increasingly cited empirical sources and discussed empirical data and evidence. In fact, as of the 2020s, non-empirical philosophy has become the minority.

Frank O’Hara

Proofreading, or How many times can one PhD student misspell "felicitous" as "felictious"?

Promotionsstelle (100%, E13) am Sprachlabor der Universität zu Köln bei Axel Bohmann, in den Bereichen Mehrsprachigkeit, English as a Medium of Instruction und Digital Literacy:

This needs to be done because Sylvia Townsend Warner deserves all the remembering we can manage

Thank you Kit Marie for the invite and thank you for the chat! I really enjoyed the topics we discussed and the questions people asked!

This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.

my copy of Ragged Band of Travellers: writing from the threshold of dungeons & dragons is here! I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.

My own ideas around this topic are shaped by my personal experiences with colonial history, settle in for a bit of story time if you want to follow along this tale of three parts. 1. How to say “tired” in Bislama Bislama is the national language of Vanuatu. 1/x

The LingComm Grants are back! These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown" They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!

(linguistics) pals, a student of mine is conducting a short (<10 minutes) perception study on Child Directed Speech -- open to all L1 speakers of English who have grown up in & live in the UK! 🐦🐦 please share and/or complete: essex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!! open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

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

it's twelfth night, time to celebrate by finding a loyal sea captain to save you from drowning and fall hopelessly in love with you, then abandon him to rot in jail so you can marry your sister's star-crossed girlfriend

Caedmon’s Cross, erected in honour of the earliest English poet whose name is known, in the graveyard of St Mary’s Church in Whitby in 1898. Cædmon (657–684) cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda (657–680).

Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

The next Henry Sweet Society (@henrysweetsoc.bsky.social) Colloquium will be held on 2-4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social). Thematic focus: (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas CfP: hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/08/c... #Histlx

Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground". Share, apply, or reach out for details! tinyurl.com/y2av9hhd

has anyone written about the process of conversational repair in analog games? specifically thinking about stuff like: - "i move my meeple 5 spaces" "i think it's 6 spaces" - "oh, last turn i should've given you an extra 3 tokens. do you want them now?" - "it's too late now, but for next time..."

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨 The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 15 October 2025

I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

corporations on july 1st:

Our large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative @unituebingen.bsky.social on "Common Ground" now has a website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... We are also hiring! Check out recent postings here and the continually added job ads here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit... #linguistics + friends

There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575

'BRITISH PLATFORM' 'PUBLIC HOUSE COFFEE' 'Travelcard' and more here on this cold coffee brand which links Britain, subways, travel, and coffee in ways I find a bit surprising. All part of the coffee #LinguisticLandscape of Korea!

Wolfram: “the best studies are those that combine quantitative study and case studies, because we don’t want to lose the people who tell us what’s going on in their lives” ❤️ #NWAV52 #linguistics

In a move surprising Probably No One, I have written about syntax pedagogy! This time for COZIL's blog: here's my five quick tips on how to make your syntax #linguistics classroom more LGBTQ+ friendly! lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/m...

Trying to explain to my partner why I find the sentence "In my opinion, can you really mess up sushi?" (uttered in a podcast by Saoirse-Monica Jackson) so interesting, and realising I'm making zero sense to him 😅

Pius Akumbu, in the roundtable on decolonization in linguistics at #SLE2024: "If funding agencies are funding an outsider PhD student to do work on a minoritized language, they could also be funding -- and linguists could be pushing for this -- training for a community member in linguistics."

I did some math last night and if @skypeascientist.bsky.social sells 5000 advent calendars, between our other fundraisers and patreon, we would fully fund our program for 2025. It’s a lot…but I’m going to attempt to do it. Get one here, tell your friends 👇🏻 Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

New on Language on the Move: the communication challenges faced by autistic people and why they result in lower life expectancy, by @geraldroche.bsky.social And why are applied linguists generally not interested in autism? #AutismAcceptanceMonth www.languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-...

Hey, I'm finally recruiting for a paid study! This is for anyone over 18 and fluent in English who uses neopronouns (like "xe," "fae," "thon," etc) as their personal pronouns. If you're interested, you can sign up to receive more information at the link below! Please share far and wide!!

No spoilers, but really fascinated by the density of logophoric reflexives that come up at the Round Table in The Traitors UK. Just in the last few minutes it's been: -I'm voting for yourself -I've had suspicions about yourself -You've been spreading rumours about myself

Hey Science feed! 🧪 I'm doing a #linguistics study that requires a *lot* of people, especially from places I don't normally have access to. It's volunteer (unpaid) only at this stage, but if you've got 10-30(ish) minutes, I'd really appreciate if you took the survey and told me about people's names!

Sitting in Spanish class, idly wondering what the agreement with the syntactic subject of the particple in passive constructions (but not active) tells us about the syntax of agreement, and what people have already written about it

The missile knows where it is macaulaylibrary.org/asset/202662...