There are many famous fans I associate with the Patriots, but New Jersey’s own Jon Bon Jovi is … uh … not among them.

If Jeremy Fears wants to avoid comparisons to Grayson Allen, he could consider going a single game without intentionally tripping a player on the opposing team.

A new paper from the lab! This time with wonderful collaborators Charlie Nagle, Mark Amengual, and @casillas.bsky.social. We had a great time working on this piece around how we think bilingual research can and should be done going forward! www.jbe-platform.com/docserver/fu...

There are few things in this world I hate more than Chicago’s hockey team (eg, fascism, the Yankees, icy sidewalks). However, this standing ovation was super classy and made me cry.

What. Was. That?

I literally cannot believe Caleb Williams is a human person.

I love sports so much and would go to basically any game. But it is so absolutely miserable in Chicago right now that there is no way I would agree to be outside for this game.

I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy new year, friends

Spontaneously went to a jazz show tonight and the JOY in this venue, in this city is unparalleled. I am ending my year full of hope and confidence in my community, which is a lovely way to feel.

The Going to Bed Book has the animals taking a bath and putting on the pajamas before going up to exercise, which just seems like a bad decision.

I’m at the Illinois/Alabama basketball game at the United Center, and I cried so much when they brought the Illinois starting line up out to the iconic Bulls music. Yay sports!

Linguists! Write time Friday is hosted this Friday again by the stalwart Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social ! 10-12 ET -- come get some work done! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Love to see a Ducks win 🦆🦆

Come write with meeeee!

Watching my favorite sport* (*wondering if I'll die tonight)

I regularly state I want As Much Baseball As Possible, so I apologize to all the Dodgers and Blue Jays fans, as this situation is clearly all my fault.

I have zero rooting interest in this game and STILL feel like I’m about to have a heart attack.

I love Dave Roberts as much as the next Red Sox fan, but I really don’t think they need to interview him in the middle of an inning in Game 7 of the World Series while he’s trying to do his job.

I do not love an intentional walk, but I think the one to Vlady was an especially bad decision.

There’s nothing better than a Game 7 where I do not personally have to feel like I’m going to be ill for 3 straight hours.

@m2b2.bsky.social hosting tomorrow at 10aET!

Every night at bedtime (and often to strangers during the day), the three year old announces “I’m sad mommy works”, which is really a great way of ratcheting up mom-guilt.

I wish I had one eighth the confidence of the man at the hotel pool who insisted that Pearl Jam formed from Nirvana in the late 90s and ALL THE PEOPLE WITH HIM believed him.

I love baseball so much. #flythew

Them: How’d you spend your Thursday night? Me: Staying up to late, voluntarily watching a sporting event that makes me nauseated and have heart palpitations while trying not to scream and wake the sleeping toddler.

I love going to a show during playoff baseball where people are screaming updates to each other from the bathroom stalls.

I’m so glad the cubs get to play baseball tomorrow and they respectfully ended the game before this concert starts. #flythew

Oh, what am I up to? Just quickly recovering from one 3 hour barf fest before the next one gets super barfy. #flythew #gocubsgo #dirtywater

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We are writing tomorrow!! Come join us in quiet camaraderie!

Game 1. Game Won. 🗒️ bit.ly/3IpeXLv

I love playoff baseball so much, but I’d sort of forgotten the specific brand of nausea it induces for me. #flythew

Good sports weekend! #scoducks #gocubsgo etc etc

The Ducks game is on in a family friendly restaurant with my toddler. What could go wrong??

Both my teams are in the playoffs and it’s a weekend of meaningful regular season games. What more could my baseball loving heart want?!

We had guests today so I’m just now catching up on the Rizzo retirement extravaganza and doing my best baseball crying.

My kid (2;10): “I want the children to laugh. I want them think me funny.” Apparently, he’s channeling me before teaching.

It’s nights like tonight that I’m reminded the Cubs gave up Kyle Schwarber for literally nothing.

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

I have a very very good memory for names and faces and learned the names of the (10) kids in my kid’s preschool and their parents on the first day, which led to this from my husband: “You’re so good at names, it’s a shame you don’t like people more”

Linguistics is the best! (And maybe also helpful!!)

Why are we watching so much of this child cosplaying as umpire?

The Wrigley organist playing Hamilton is the MOST in my wheelhouse thing ever.

Wrigley Field’s pregame hype video is unparalleled.

Just discovered today my baseball obsessed kid will not be allowed to be a Paw Patrol fan because they have some sort of Aaron Judge/Yankees propaganda which he discovered today. This clearly cannot stand in our house.

The nicest thing you can do if asked to review a paper to say yes (and do the review). But a very very close second is to say no as quickly as possible and to suggest another person or two who might say yes.

A new paper from the lab! My former student, Jonathan Wright, led this project. Tone learning! Implicit learning! Segmental familiarity! Demonstrating that middle-aged and older adults can learn language stuff too! This paper has it all! doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Three players in Cubs history have hit three home runs in a single game vs. the Cardinals. Each of them accomplished this feat on Independence Day 🤯 ◽️ Hank Leiber — July 4, 1939 ◽️ Moises Alou — July 4, 2003 ◽️ Michael Busch — July 4, 2025 H/T JesseRogersESPN/X

In the span of, like, 6 minutes, Pete Crow-Armstrong made a fantastic diving catch and then hit an absolute tank 452 feet just an unbelievable player