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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @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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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We have a Steve Lamos connection! He and I co-advised a wonderful CU Boulder PhD student, Rebecca Lee. He’s great at his day job. I can’t opine on his other one, but I know he has devoted fans 😃

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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 · 09/06/2026

I so agree that usage phenomena explorable thru LLMs go beyond frequency. In my ICCG plenary on verbing nouns, I showed LLMs can model both figurativity, via ‘source-noun alignment,’ & the rel btwn figuration & syntactic complexity—the latter a bell curve peaking at metaphorical tokens!

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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

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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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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.

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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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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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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 · 20/10/2025

Indeed! The fastidious 20 minute non-verbal heist scene in his 1955 Les Hommes chez Rififi (watch for creative use of umbrella) was motivated by Dassin’s not knowing French! I used it for a psycholinguistic experiment that needed a silent sequence

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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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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My tired 15 yo (and friend) after 83 yo Macca exhausted everyone with his exhaustive repertoire at Coors Field last week: this song says it’s the end! No dear the song says it’s getting very NEAR the end. Three more encores to come!

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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Nope. It’s an act. He did the same glaring, head shaking routine after the Live and Let Die pyro in Denver, 4 days after ABQ. I truly thought he had injured his ears. He was in fact ok but my 3 chihuahuas walking past Coors Field with my husband at the moment the boom boom started—total terror

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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...

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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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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 · 18/09/2025

And what 22 year old American uses the past perfect? It is not used in American English formal written genres anymore, let alone in text msgs

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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. spice 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.

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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Often wondered: the Latin word for hedgehog is ericius, so how did it become IGEL in German? English borrowed French hérisson as URCHIN, whence street urchin (hedgehog of the street) 🦔 🏘️ and sea urchin (hedgehog of the sea) 🦔🌊

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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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