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Laura A. Michaelis

@congramqueen.bsky.social
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Mom, Professor of Linguistics @colorado.edu. 1st gen Construction Grammarian, Fillmore protégée, using social semiotic syntax to combine climate-change action & meaning construction. Feet planted in Boulder, heart still in Berkeley

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 08/09/2026
Here's an idea, make a car that is just as good or better.
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Sebastian Sauppe @sebastiansauppe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Do you want to work towards a PhD degree in a project on negation processing and learning across languages and modalities? Are you interested in crosslinguistic experiments (behavioural and EEG)? Apply for this position and come work our project team at UvA! www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3635...
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PhD candidate within a multi-methods project on negation across languages
Do you enjoy working in an interdisciplinary research environment? Are you interested in applying multiple methods to advance research in linguistics and cognitive science? If you imagine yourself in ...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/07/2026
Once upon a time, industry was powered by rivers. Once upon a time, industry was powered by coal. Things change. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Catherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This is good news as in two years I plan to turn in my manual transmission and leap right over several decades to an EV.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Repeat after me. A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies. Pass it on. #ActOnClimate
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Just back from the exhilarating Rhetoricon symposium at Waterloo rhetoricon.uwaterloo.ca/events/1. Organized by the great @randyallenharris.bsky.social Next up: ICCG14. My Berkeley sis carries the construction torch! @adelegoldberg.bsky.social
PosterMartin PhamWaterloo presenters
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
For no one I’m Looking through you Sexy Sadie And your Bird can Sing Julia Tomorrow never Knows Dear Prudence Blackbird The Long One A Day in the Life
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! Grateful Dead (Winterland) Rolling Stones (Candlestick) Zappa (Berkeley CT) Dylan (Warfield) Devo (BCT) Joan Baez (SM fairgrounds) Dead Kennedys (Fab Mab) Radiohead (Redrocks) Lil Wayne (CU Coors event ctr) Macca (Coors field)
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Can’t wait!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I think about this all the time.
@depthsofwiki

The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire. One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Today is my gotcha day too! #blackdogs #chiweenies
Amica is a little black Chiweenie pup wearing a white harness
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Big Oil is no longer trying to convince us they want to preserve a safe & stable climate Now, they're focused on convincing us that the world is only safe & stable if they're in charge That's the thesis of a new @cleancreatives.bsky.social report analyzing 2000 oil ads, exclusively in HEATED today
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Fossil fuel propaganda is evolving
A new analysis of nearly 2,000 fossil fuel ads finds Big Oil has moved from green promises to insisting oil and gas are inevitable. (They're not).
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Lawsuit calls NCAR "collateral damage" in the Trump administration's "widespread and coordinated campaign of punishment and coercion" against Colorado and its institutions.
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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 15/03/2026
Old-school impeachment
Roman guy in a toga with a dagger. Text reads "People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups..."
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Boulder and climate friends, please write in support of NCAR🎈
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 01/03/2026
Why are Democrats afraid to talk about climate, when so many people already connect the dots between fossil fuel polluting emissions and their family’s financial costs? Home insurance is a HUGE cost for so many families, and getting worse fast!!
A graph displaying poll results revealing that a majority of Democrats, Independents, Republicans, Non-MAGA Republicans and non-conservative Independents/Republicans link climate change with rising home insurance costs.
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Exhort with a novel denominal verb! A highly productive strategy in English is use of names of historic persons! This is the similative pattern. Run with it🏃
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Nice zeugma
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/02/2026
This orchestrated surrender to burning 19th century fuels gets framed as Very Serious, Adults-in-the-room realism rather than a weird, baffling choice to cause entirely avoidable suffering. I am so sick of it.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
our recent #PNAS article "The intensification of the strongest nor'easters" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/11/2025
You’ve probably heard this claim: Climate’s always changing! It's true, Earth’s climate has changed before. But not this fast, and not for this reason. Introducing Cold Facts, Hot Takes: my new series of evidence-based replies to common troll takes 🔥 Want the whole episode? Links below ⬇️
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The Monterey Peninsula is turning out at Del Monte beach! Largest mass mobilization in its history. Y E S on 50
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/06/2025
Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies theonion.com/idiom-s...
Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies
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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics! Asst or Assoc. We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.) faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793 🤘
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UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/10/2025
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act. Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/10/2025
China remains way ahead in clean energy growth, adding more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 05/10/2025
Data analysis by @sentientmedia.org, a CCNow partner, finds that less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as a source of carbon emissions despite the fact that “food and agriculture contribute 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to the burning of fossil fuels.”
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Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
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Joseph In THEE OC 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈 @ocjoseph424.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
G’mar Chatima Tovah to all of my global mishpocha who are observing Yom Kippur.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Anyway here's the real article, please share this one and not that one heated.world/p/charlie-ki...
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Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Nice illustration of the Pseudoconditional construction (Kay & Michaelis 2012) in quote from Rob Reiner: "'If I’m Jimmy Kimmel, I’m suing the Trump administration,” Reiner said. “I’m suing them for abandoning my First Amendment rights.'" www.thedailybeast.com/rob-reiner-t...
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Rob Reiner Predicts He’ll Be Next After Slamming Kimmel Axing
He made the remark after launching criticisms over Jimmy Kimmel Live! being pulled off the air
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Yes, but who allowed “4 bridges in the Bay Area”? They’ve got GG, Bay, San Mateo and Dunbarton (pronounced wrong). But what about Richmond-San Rafael? Benicia? Carquinez?
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Abstract deadline changed to *December 1, 2025*
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
there's no room for political violence in america like there's no room for newspapers in a hoarder's house
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Quote from NZ Police Commissioner Jill Rogers in CNN story on NZ fugitive dad proving Oceania doesn't use the present perfect like AmE speakers do! "The quad bike has run over the spikes. The two occupants have been on that bike, and it has come to a rest on this rural road. ..." Rogers said.
Quote from CNN article on NZ fugitive dad
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/09/2025
It’s that time of year again. Back to school for the kids. This ad should run during every NFL kickoff, every college football opener, every “Friday Night Lights.” Because school shootings are as American as football now.
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
@ejfranci2.bsky.social is this the craziest relative clause extraposition ever?
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Shouldn't the EPA protect the environment?
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Beautifully stated
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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Sigh, *taps the sign again*
scientificamerican.com
No, Offshore Wind Isn’t What’s Killing Whales
Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all
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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
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Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Here Comes the Sun: A Win on Climate Is Still Possible, and Every Generation Must Pitch In, McKibben Says www.theenergymix.com/here-comes-t...
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Here Comes the Sun: A Win on Climate Is Still Possible, and Every Generation Must Pitch In, McKibben Says
There’s no guarantee that we have time to reverse climate change and dodge its worst impacts, but renewable energy gives us our best shot, says U.S. author, speaker, and climate organizer Bill McKibbe...
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Started in Berkeley at dawn of millennium, ICCG14 will be 1st in US since 2008 & only 3rd US site. As US stumbles, the courageous Ivy steps in as host. “In the service of the Nation & Humanity”. Meanwhile 💕 to these world cities for keeping the ICCG dream alive 🌏😘
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Can’t wait!
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇
puwebp.princeton.edu
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Similative (intrans) denominal verb from John Oliver (S12E20) “It…says a lot about the chaos of this administration that the president just fully Snoopied on national TV.” Images of Trump on WH roof vs Snoopy on his doghouse. Is that a full Snoopy though? Snoopy lay on his back!
John Oliver comparing Trump to Snoopy
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