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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New blog post about what happens when you send your paper to a linguistics journal -- this is based on my experiences at Natural Language Semantics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and most recently Semantics of Natural Languages... profling.beehiiv.com/p/what-happe...

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What happens when you send your paper to a journal

with charts & graphs & strongly held opinions

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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

big picture-y blog post this morning: three ways to contribute to science 1. be right 2. be wrong in a useful way 3. organize people profling.beehiiv.com/p/three-ways...

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Three ways to contribute to science

try to be right; expect to be wrong; remember the people

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you don't think humanistic learning has value in its own right, no amount of instrumentalization is going to save it that epochal decline coincided with the hegemony of the "employable skills" pitch, including earnings data and all the trimmings, ought to have taught us that

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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

new blog post about the academic job market and its strange ability to cause linguists to believe that "everybody must be exactly one thing" -- meaning, no one can be both a syntactician & a semanticist, a theorist & a fieldworker, etc etc

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The paradox of strategic interdisciplinarity

the job market perils of "Everyone Must Be Exactly One Thing"

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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A funny thing about academic meeting culture as I have experienced it: we think of the *junior* person as the one requesting the meeting and therefore the one who is supposed to set the agenda. On my blog this week I wrote about one specific kind of meeting where this dynamic is in play.

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How to talk to a visiting speaker

share a result and ask a question

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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

my blog Professing Linguistics is back with more linguistics professor-ing things specifically, I wrote about office hours and how they can be helpful at the graduate level

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Why I have opt-out office hours (in grad classes)

(in grad classes)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 17/08/2026

If you're wishing you could go back to school for linguistics, here's your annual reminder that Crash Course Linguistics @thecrashcourse.bsky.social exists! I worked on it with linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social and @jessgrieser.com, host Taylor Behnke, @complexly.org and @thoughtcafe.bsky.social!

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What is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1

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John Ewing @avimentor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Me, hopefully in the near future, when I forget a bottle opener while visiting my favorite Berkeley shops on Hopkins.

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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 02/07/2026

please remember to adopt a medium posture today in the middle of the day and go uhhh for World Schwa Day from our episode about real and silly linguistics holidays www.patreon.com/posts/142860...

Lauren: I think we could also have a go at making World Schwa Day happen.
Gretchen: What day would you propose for that?
Lauren: It would have to be the very middle of the year (which I now realise I’m not sure if that’s the 1st of July of the 30th of June), and it would have to change on a leap year.
Gretchen: According to Wikipedia it is July 2nd.
Lauren: Right, July 2nd. So, July 2nd at midday, peak schwa day.
Gretchen: July 2nd at midday everyone just stand outside and go /ə:/. That can be schwa day.
Lauren: Schwa Day – it’s extremely mid. You can’t make it too much of a big deal because it’s schwa. It’s unstressed. It’s not a big deal.
Gretchen: It’s just sort of chill. I think that’s particularly good in the North American context because a lot of border cities between Canada and the US will celebrate both July 1st, which is Canada Day, and July 4th, which is American Independence Day, and they’ll have fireworks on both of those days. It’s nice to have a lull day in the middle.
Lauren: Oh, I was gonna say we’ve got a new holiday for them where they could just do both at once.
Gretchen: But they have to put off incredibly quiet fireworks if it’s Schwa Day.

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Semantics of Natural Languages @semnatlangs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We're thrilled to announce the launch of Semantics of Natural Languages, a new diamond open access journal - the scholar-owned and -led successor to Natural Language Semantics, published with OLH under the auspices of LingOA. snl-journal.org The Editors Amy Rose Deal, Clemens Mayr, Florian Schwarz

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 24/01/2025

When longtime homeowners stand up at a community meeting about proposed zoning changes and say “we should not allow apartments in this neighborhood because it will hurt my property values,” they are colluding to jack up rents by creating artificial housing scarcity.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

strange to read that my approach to [phenomenon x] cannot be correct because it strays from SYNTAX RECEIVED WISDOM in a paper that then goes on to reject SYNTAX RECEIVED WISDOM

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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

why do 10% of my undergrads not know the word "belch"

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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

the simple dream of learning, sometime this decade, who won to 2024 Berkeley mayorial election

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