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Aniello De Santo

@anids.bsky.social

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The mystery of the Universe is its comprehensibility. Computational psycholinguist, I guess, but not a professional account. Opinions etc etc my own. he\him (pfp cc. Dustin Nguyen)

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Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Album cover from Fiona Apple’s When the pawn

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I underestimated how tricky this pierce was gonna be for my level and now I have to learn it in three weeks 😭😭

A picture of a Piano sheet for Shiita no Ketsui, a song from the Movie Laputa Castle in the sky

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Burn a forest to do what a bigram model could do

Screenshot of a skeet by Ethan Mollick.

Pretty awesome result from the new version of Gemini 2.5.

I changed one line of War and Peace, inserting a sentence into Book 14, Chapter 10 (halfway through), where Princess Mary "spoke to Crab Man the superhero."

Gemini 2.5 consistently found this reference among 860,00 tokens.

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

two of my favorite slides!

A slide with two stick figures: one is labeled a linguist, and it is excitedly saying to the other one (a non-linguist) “don’t judge people’s speech!!”

A slide with a stick figure wearing headphones, meant to be a participant in an experiment listening to instructions. Grok the headphones, they are listening to the sentence “Please judge this speech. XOXO linguists”

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Obsessed with my new laptop sticker

A sticker of C-3PO and and R2D2, the droids from Star award, hugging and staring lovingly into each other’s eyes. Little Hearts are coming from them

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is still on my office wall :)

Picture of an office wall, town a poster advertising the “what makes a good theory!” Workshop

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Right there with you!!

A plate with kale, mozzarella, some cold cuts, olives, and flour tortilla

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

A popular request

To panels from Sailor Moon. In the first one Usagi, a blond girl dressed in a japanese school uniform, is throwing a dumpling at Tuxedo Mask, a black haired man dressed in a tuxedo. She is saying "You can't eat a dumpling wearing a tuxedo!". In the second panel, the man bites into the dumpling and, chewing, replies "This dumpling is not wearing a tuxedo".

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

Crying over proofs but at least the view is nice

An open laptop on a white table, the sea in the background

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Italy day 2, (homemade) typical street food from my home town: melted caciocavallo with shaved truffle

A red ceramic bowl filled with melted yellowish cheese and covered in shaved truffle. Next to it, a toasted slice of bread.

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

Y’all deserve to see this beautiful Buffalo Mozzarella Treccia

A plate with a braided mozzarella surrounded by tomato slices and basil leaves

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

View of Canada from Detroit!!!

Water in a sunny day and across it, some buildings with a Canadian flag

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Great first slide @phonotactician.bsky.social

Slide centering in big text “there is a LOT of linguistic variation” in a cloud of words like “sexuality, salience, age, structure, authority, formality, noise, style, and many others”

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

I saw the chonkiest squirrel

A big squirrel

A big squirrel from a different angle

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

New book in the mail!

A picture of the book “Inference and Representation” By Mauricio Suárez

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Friends commenting on my research interests

A screenshot of an instagram DM that says “oh god, you are always a glutton for punishment”

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Here, have this gorgeous Andrea Gibson poem

Wellness Check

In any moment,
on any given day,
I can measure
my wellness
by this question:

Is my attention on loving,
or is my attention on
who isn’t loving me?

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

A view from slc (phone pics through cheap cardboard glasses 😂)

Picture of the sun partially covered by the moon, it kinda looks like a very Red Crescent moon

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

😬🙃😬

A vignette from a Scrooge McDuck comic. Scrooge is talking to Gyro, who is looking closely at some kind of mechanical device. Gyro says, over four panels “ there must be a simpler way to foil those burglars than by moving all your hoard of money. I have written the problem on this piece of paper, which I drop into water in which I boiled an encyclopedia. Now I pour in some alphabet soup mix. And—presto!out comes the answer onto a blotter”. The last panel shows gyro pouring water over a table, with sentences surfacing from the water.

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Name a fictional character you would give an invite code to

A picture of Diane Nguyen, an animated character from the show Bojack Horseman.

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

Went back to double check 😂

Still from a tv show. A white body with curly hair is smiling goofingly into camera, talking with someone not in the picture. The subtitles say:

-Can you stop taking selfies of me?
- [Nick] Absolutely not.

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Linguistics

Screenshot of a tweet. The content: A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. For example:

1. Jane ate her friend’s sandwich
2. Jane ate her friend’s colon

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Joy

A picture of an hard copy of the Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

Spotify tempting me

Screenshot of an email by Spotify, with a picture of Margo Robbie as Barbie. The text says “Thanks for being a fan
To celebrate Barbie The Album, out July 21st, you have access to a white vinyl of the Barbie soundtrack and limited-edition poster bundled exclusively for Spotify listeners.“

Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

A screenshot from the anime “spirited away” showing three green heads, looking kind of grumpy, stacked on top of each other!