Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

Shake it, baby! 🐢

normalize 👏 telling 👏 tech 👏 companies 👏 to 👏 keep 👏 their 👏 grubby 👏 mitts 👏 out 👏 of 👏 schools 👏

It’s here!! I can’t believe I had the good fortune to get to write an introductory #linguistics textbook with two of my favorite people. I’m very proud of this book and wish I could teach with it—but I hope that other folks will let me live vicariously through them!

Altitude Sports unwittingly has aired my second favorite show, Ryker in the Truck They're also airing my favorite show, Avs Trounce Another Hockey Team #GoAvsGo

GREAT SCOTT 🤯

Val Nichushkin (no. 13) tied the game with 13 seconds left for his 13th goal of the season. We will let you sit with that one for a minute.

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

Spot on. If you don't know about Clever Hans, the "equine mathematical genuis" it's worth reading up on him.

We need antidepressants built for this era, not the ones built for an era where everything was more or less fine. I need Turbo-Powered Lexipro. Prozac Extreme™. I need god to spit directly into my mouth

This is making the rounds again, and I was amused to reread the thread and see that it was shortly before our book came out. Lots has happened in the past 10 months, but the message of this thread still holds.

PLEASE I don't want a "smart" fridge, or a "smart" TB, or a "smart" anything they're not smart at all, they're just data mining tools, and I don't want any of them

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology doi.org/10.1017/jlg.... I hope people find it useful!

don't forget to take a break from doomscrolling to press your fingers against your closed eyelids until you can see the beginning of the universe

missing even one paycheck like this would have ruined me and my young family when I was an NSF postdoc. This is heartless

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

I gotta say, I'm getting pretty tired of hearing "he can't do that!" when he very clearly is doing that.

this is good, practical, and worth bookmarking for the next time someone you love insists that a myth like "immigrants bring drugs" is a fact

About links, bluesky loves them. Please unlearn the link-in-reply tricks you've been doing elsewhere and proudly share your blog posts, videos, or any other external link in your top posts so we can all go and visit your fancy websites and then get back here to discuss and repost them. Thanks!

For those interested the World Health Organization is on 🦋. You can stay informed @who.int

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

I mean right off the bat, ’idea generation’ is laughable. LLMs cannot come up with new ideas, LLMs can only reformulate ideas it already has access to. Using an LLM for idea generation is plagiarism and no one with ever convince me otherwise.

sometimes while watching hockey, the checks into the board will jostle the dopamine vending machine so i get all the stuck ones at once

if you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. bestselling fantasy novelist 2. creative writing 3. "For the Love of Words" (ling + slhs) 4. conversation design

let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

well. i was just laid off. i'm reeling and sad and am very much not looking forward to another job search. i am really upset to be leaving my team and the company. however, i am very happy to report that my resume still looks slick as hell, especially with some new fresh experience on it 💅

10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system: The Measles vaccine The Mumps vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Tetanus vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Polio vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine

i'm touching a computer for the first time since wednesday and it's a good feeling better yet, i'm at a cute cafe with my partner and i'll be working on a paper from my postdoc that i think is sooooo close to being done

Whatever justification the incoming administration is giving for wanting to dismantle the Dept of Education, please know that the end result will include students with disabilities losing their right to an education, including losing support & services like speech therapy that they receive at school

Survival tips from the family of Coretta Scott King:

Figured it was time we had a language revitalization & documentation starter pack to supplement the #linguistics one - please tag any other folks working in language revitalization and general stuff around Indigenous and minoritized languages! 🐦🐦

Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :) Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)

lolsobbing i got mad at a byline. It passed the Committee and will go up for full vote. Please contact your Reps. This bill needs to die on the floor. nonprofitquarterly.org/bill-threate...

Want to learn/teach R? I'm still actively developing my package of learnr tutorials at github.com/profandyfiel... Just added a tutorial on multilevel models and repeated measures.

A lot of folks have been lamenting that now so many people are here and their accounts are growing they can't shitpost anymore and I say: No, friends, shitpost harder! Be the shitposter you want to see in the world! Lean the fuck in!! Protect the Bluesky vibe at all costs!

I have my first cold in 8 months (I blame the election; ALL my defenses were down), but I do get to do one of my favorite mindless tasks: process data from one tab in a spreadsheet to several more Next, though, I have to actually read things, which is deeply annoying with a brain full of snot

the important question isn’t “did Harris lose because the left is too woke?” it’s “why isn’t Donald Trump in federal prison?” We’re being subjected to lectures about politics by the people who held all of the power and let this dipshit slip through their grasp.

no DoE plus vouchers = a good chance that a child with special needs just doesn’t get an education

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now: - doughnut salesperson - artist - front desk receptionist - file clerk - babysitter (newborn thru intoxicated adult) - academic advisor - writer

You can find me on there! I would love some more friends I already know! (I am still snd1101 there too)

Now that bluesky is booming, I'm going to repost my study on TikTok language! If you are over 18 and use TikTok, please take my survey on language use on TikTok! Link here: pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #linguistics #langsky #tiktok #internetstudies #anthropology

I’m grateful to have been followed by so many people, but I want to say that it is extremely okay to unfollow! With starter packs and everyone getting re-established, that has to be normal