Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change. Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)

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I think in this particular case, I would do the strategic vote even if I felt strongly for the green or NDP candidate ONLY because it is PP and it would be so glorious if he lost his seat.

Hahaha

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

This is pretty ridiculous

I made the front page of #sshrc #crsh today, for the Journée internationale de la francophonie :) www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/home-accueil...

And it was a big day for linguistics in the Conversation today :)

Wrote a little piece for The Conversation that got published today

On the plus side, at least we know that the 2025 Canadian Word of the Year will be ‘Elbows up!’ #woty #cwoty

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Biking to work in March in #Winnipeg feels like a coup. Few icy/treacherous patches this morning but they should be puddles by the afternoon

Guiness cake meant to look like a pint of Guinness for book club. ‘Pull of the stars’ for the Irish theme

This is going to happen in more and more places. Zip tying and carrying off people who express opposition

That’s a good trajectory let’s keep it going

Perfect headline, no notes

This rings pretty true…

How fun is this!? Does everyone know that your local #Winnipeg public #library has book club kits?? Signed this one out for next month’s book and put us on the list for Vermette’s The Break after. Libraries are the best ❤️❤️

Poll. What is more unifying for Canadians: our hatred of trump and his tariffs or our disdain of MAGA Wayne Gretzky?

Snowflake, he is.

I’m available to write or speak about the fentanyl border theater if any outlets are looking for someone. Have been covering fentanyl and drug policy for about a decade and have great sources

Go Bob! Not getting dragged into the talking points, well done www.foxnews.com/video/636822...

They’re the best! A large independent bookstore in Winnipeg!

Trying out a few new-to-me glaze combinations for some #pottery pieces I made recently. Sort of hard to see the iridescence and breaking of the round rainforest/seaweed vase over the chattering but it’s really pretty in person.

I’ve often thought our transit routes were strange. I can’t imagine the change but am hopeful that it will be positive! Will definitely take a lot of getting used to and Winnipeg gets are NOT going to like it

This is excellent advice! Canada sells many of the same products as the U.S. and we import a lot of produce etc… We’re still issuing public health alerts for recalls and threats to safety. Sign up below.

Fascists

Check out our teaching in linguistics issue! Lots of good stuff to read www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

1984 isn’t supposed to be a playbook

“Watching his Nigel-no-friends attempts to be popular, his endless pathetic tweets that read as though they come from the brain of an 11-year-old poser, has made me start to believe we should bring back bullying”

SHOCKED I tell you

hahaha don't even need to read the article

Seems like he's got some conservative(s) nervous www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Look, someone is demonstrating what many of us know!

Starting to think the WOTY for 2025 is 'cooked'

Maybe I shouldn’t be, but I’m surprised a finance/economics guy is sort of charming and funny.

Real link to our job ad! Please circulate and/or apply! www.academicwork.ca/jobs/po49438...

Everything is bigger in America whether it be making coffee or serving up steak #lsa2025

This was a sleeper nomination whose proponents really sold it during the vote. I was skeptical but am now on board

In Philadelphia for #LSA2025 and asking whether there’s cream cheese for the bagels at the hotel cafe (it wasn’t on the menu) They say yes and give me two little packs that says PHILADELPHIA on them. Oh, right.

It’s hard to read these anymore

January 8, 2025:

Since I’d like to see more pottery pictures here, I guess I should also post more #pottery pictures. A few things I’ve recently made. A lot of the holes on the orchid pot got filled in with glaze, so will do better next time, or if anyone has any tips? Was a first attempt

I just can’t. Truly the worst timeline. www.editorialboard.com/trump-wont-i...

The Hill Times open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

Hey that’s me! And a bunch of other smart people

August 2016 U of Alberta symposium on archives for Indigenous languages. Wow, lots of changes, and lots the same.

After a research-heavy week using DuckDuckGo instead of Google, I can say the former is not as good as Google was in its heyday, but is vastly better than what Google is now. So much less scrolling past crap to find what I’m looking for, hits are much more directly pertinent to my searches.