I don't like my neighbors' smoke drifting into my apartment but they probably don't like me listening to the same three vinahouse songs over and over so I guess it's fair

haven't made banh chung in a long time and certainly can't find the ingredients here and I'm so sad

my entire discretionary spending budget this month is allocated to girl scout cookies and girl scout cookies only

I am someone who has consistently been masking and who will continue to mask! it's not too late to start again! practice community care :)

I keep thinking about this!!

Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

I wish people would stop saying they're "in a very {asian} time of their life" or that "I'm {asian} now" when drinking hot water and instead go read something about our history in this country!!!!

You don't have to dirty your soul to be a successful academic or a scientist. Have some fucking pride. Have some fucking principles. If you think you DO need to do that, all I can say is that I beg you not to go into academia or science.

mathematics in language (my beloved) dinosaurs life in the universe women in Scandinavian history Intro to ethnomusicology

leading my 14 RAs through the halls like some sort of research pied piper

carefully selected and unwrapped my teabag and then immediately chucked it straight into the trash??? brain??? why????

lost my reflective leg band while cycling to work today :( Maybe I'll see it on the way home (but probably not :/ )

making my students generate lists of slang is alwayssssss my favorite class

you can also turn off trending videos too.

deleted my last post because I am afraid people didn't realize I was being good natured about it, I really actually don't care how people enjoy their literature except that I do think we should support public libraries as much as possible!!!

I am begging both asian americans and everyone else to learn the history of asian americans in this country - from mass killings in the West to southeast asian diaspora resettlement in the Midwest. we are not white. solidarity always with my kin & oppressed people!!

trying to stop chugging the bad news juice and instead like sip at it or something? this metaphor is bad

the oversized reaction to earthquakes in Illinois is so funny. the correct response is to text everyone "did you feel that" and then immediately go back to sleep

so wild to me how many people just willingly posted photos of themselves from 2016 like yeah just give the algorithms training data!! who cares about biometrics or anything!!

did marr's levels this morning and about to do the "what is a language" talk with my next class 🙂‍↕️😈😼

biking in today: wow so many little white flowers or something in the wind it's January, dear readers. that's snow.

new paper - we looked at how assumptions about speakers' gender changed based on neg words. we also found that people still assume professors are male overall!!

uhhhh I suddenly need to teach an entire class on this book

anyway the downside to teaching a very smart cat puzzles is that I've actually just given him the skill to open basically anything

out now! the Crip Linguistics Reader has some really important stuff in it, and I hope every linguist will engage and find something to take away from this volume

apparently I wrote 9.1k words on bluesky this year

When a student says I made them feel like research is for them, and that academic spaces are for them my heart grows 1828281892 sizes

my lab will be presenting FOUR posters at MPA in Chicago!! one is a undergrad capstone project on sarcasm and three are grad projects: a corpus analysis of new discourse markers, a study of accomodations on campus, and an examination of dialect & discrimination! so proud of the work my lab does.

I did this for the first time this year and it was really fun and also a great exercise in thinking

missed a meeting bc it wasn't on my calendar, couldn't get into said meeting bc it was locked???, updated calendar, developed a migraine

yesterday I took my research lab bowling to celebrate our graduates and the end of the semester! good thing we're all scientists because we would not make a good bowling league 😂

trying to introduce the salute emoji (🫡) into the dept ecosystem

I was strong and brave and I did it

I am strong I am brave I can go into work today even though there's a wind chill of 1° outside

me when someone says they liked my class 🥹 and thought it was fun 🥹🥹🥹

the mountain bike and six inches of snow 🥰

all these nonprofit orgs sending me emails with the subject line "It's Giving Tuesday" sure read different now that I've been infected by the kids these day slang. [looks out window at gray skies and slushy roads] yeah, it's giving tuesday. slay, queen.

We also interviewed Julie for @lingthusiasm.bsky.social which was really fun! www.patreon.com/posts/121619...

this has been a pretty {adjective} year - y'all have really helped me feel not so alone through it all

sorry guys the pope said no ai this semester

Excited for my short story "A Cup of Forgetting" to appear very soon in Issue 99 of Fantasy Magazine! 🌲🌿🍵

I'm poster #077 🫡

if you walk by my poster and make eye contact with me tonight at 6 pm I'll tell you all about authority and hedges and language use #psynom25

I miss the psynomnom hash tag

me when my poster presentation clashes with my favorite psynom event 😭

tbh I love the pre conference buzz and todo

phrenology????! in 2025??????

Excited for #psynom this week! @alisonvguthrie.bsky.social presents her work on language framing & accessibility Saturday at noon and I'll present my work on authority & language (that's now a paper wow!!) Saturday evening!

my students asking me such FUN questions about language the Joy I Am Feeling

We're excited to re-launch the journal "Innovations in Linguistics Education", a forum for evidence-based research in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in linguistics! We open for submissions in January 2026. journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/