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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

my unfinished paper draft watching me start a new paper

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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

🚨 Job alert in my group: Want to do a PhD in Computational Linguistics working on figurative language (metaphor), on social media data, and in an interdisciplinary digital humanities environment, at one of the largest universities in Germany? Apply by March 30, 2026! Contact me with any […]

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Completely unsurprising, but also, what is happening when all the Waymos get stuck in a traffic jam of their own making and endlessly circle each other? Are the behind-the-scenes workers just messing around? (If so, good for them.)

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Me: I really need to log off social media and stop following the news so obsessively, so I can concentrate on my research Also me: My research involves reading the news and social media I probably should have thought this one through…

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This is not how “men behave”, it’s how predators behave. Also, if you know a potential boss will enquire about an applicant’s appearance, maybe consider steering your student AWAY from that job, instead of pushing her toward it?!

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Last call for abstracts for the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America Conference #CLANAC2 in Kelowna, BC this May 27-29, 2026. Any topics related to Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. Deadline has been extended to Jan. 30 and can be submitted here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The CBC NYE coverage is truly unhinged - the Vancouver feed is a half-empty roller rink in the PNE, a reporter in Regina just attempted an aerial dance move live on air, the NL feed closed with drunken sea shanties, and the co-host in Edmonton keeps putting on more jackets (he’s up to 10 layers)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 30/12/2025

Just noticed that @lingthusiasm.bsky.social is very close to a satisfyingly round number of followers on here If you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics, maybe head over there? And if you think your followers might like to, give this a RT?

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The LSA Awards Committee is excited to announce John Rickford as the winner of the 2026 Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award! John Rickford is Stanford University professor of Linguistics, emeritus & was LSA President in 1985. Join us in celebrating at #LSA2026! web.cvent.com/event/d45318...

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I just watched a grown man chase a baby seagull around until it ran into the street (thankfully it was not hurt) And yes I yelled at him to stop but he didn’t hear me over the sound of his own rain boots stomping around Wtf is wrong with people

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UBC News @news.ubc.ca · 01/12/2025

🇨🇦 What’s the ultimate Canadian word? Earlier this year we told you about UBC scholars who had updated the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Now, you can help crown the Canadianism of the Year! Cast your vote: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Canadian English Dictionary: Word of the Year (CWOTY) 2025

The Society for Canadian English is choosing a 2025 word of the year from the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Have your say here. The poll will close on December 5, 2025, 11:59 p...

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This is of course fucking grim and all I can say is that Satan will be going to work in a snow plow before I turn a student away from my class for wearing niqab or anything else. Fuck that forever. (great column by @nolore.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/noralore...

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Quebec's new secularism bill expands the scope of who the government officially hates

Today, the Coalition Avenir Québec is introducing, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec (the name is better in French, surely).

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

When I was in high school, the local classical radio station KUAT hosted a show called Desert Voices, broadcast in Tohono O’odham. The show went off the the air when the Nation got their own station - which was great ofc, but a bit sad that it was no longer integrated into the “regular” programming.

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Happy World Linguistics Day from Vancouver, BC, Canada!

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

My cat is losing her hearing, so we decided we should use some basic gestures when talking to her. It took her one (1) day to understand the sign for “food”. 😹

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andrewcgrant.bsky.social @andrewcgrant.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The verb "table" having opposite meanings in #Canadian and #American #English is just another example why speaking the same #language doesn't mean we speak the same #linguistics #antonyms #dialect #meaning

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

My mom sometimes texts me book recommendations, and it’s so sweet of her to think I have time to read for fun 🥲

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Anyone else remember this? Turns out it was all of 5 years ago. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lette... (aka “the Harper’s letter”)

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A Letter on Justice and Open Debate - Wikipedia

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The Onion headlines are writing themselves again

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Michael “Cool” Powell also posting lots on twitter, remarkably silent on this.

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I ventured over to twitter to see what Conor Friedersdorf has to say about this. In the last day he’s had time to post about Burger King and a 1907 car race, but has remained mysteriously silent on his favorite topic, suppression of academic freedom of speech.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

it has been 4 years and these guys simply cannot stop acting like the LSA letter was the same thing as a McCarthy era black list or a maoist denunciation rally or some shit

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Fading
"Even when you take out the canines of a tiger, his heart remains that of a carnivore."
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The strategy relied on punishing the powerful to terrify the rest. In 2020, hundreds of scholars urged the Linguistic Society of America to strip Harvard professor Steven Pinker of honours. But Pinker understood the real target--it was a warning shot aimed at every graduate student, junior academic, and untenured professor watching from the sidelines, telling them to keep their mouths shut.
As Pinker memorably put it, the atmosphere resembled The Sopranos: "Nice career you've got there. It would be a real shame if something happened to it." Often the problem wasn't that people were being cancelled for expressing outrageous views, but that they were cancelled for expressing views that might very well be correct.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I am pleased to report I successfully flew into and back out of the coal mine

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I’m descended from those who were fortunate enough to escape the pogroms and come to America in the early 1900s. My Bubbe (z’’l) would be roiling, roiling, roiling today.

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

One of the first CDs I bought as a kid (and anyone who remembers how expensive they were, knows that was no easy decision) - and now we can all enjoy his work for free in the public domain. That CD was later possibly the only reason I passed 10th grade chemistry…

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Tom Lehrer outlived Kissinger, and I think that is evidence that there are at least some good forces in the universe. “I do have a cause, though. It is obscenity. I’m for it.” -from the intro to “Smut”

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

and "weekend" is banned by the Office québécois de la langue française, which clearly means use of the term in French is woke virtue signalling that you're pro-bilingualism 🤷‍♀️

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The internet: “Latinx is made up by English speakers, no one actually says that” Meanwhile, all over Buenos Aires:

Front of a restaurant named Rabia. On the window it says (in all capital letters): “En Rabia todxs son bienvenidxs”.

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Amy Plackowski @linguistihawk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Sending out a bat signal for linguists: I’m trying to get my high school Linguistics and Media Studies class approved as an ENG101 course for early college / dual enrollment. The English dept at this community college keeps sending up roadblocks because there’s “too much linguistics,” (1/3) 🐦🐦

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I've been living in Canada for almost 6 years now and as far as I can tell this is how Canadian geography works

Map of Canada that I've added red labels to. The three northern territories are collectively "THE NORTH". Alberta has a box drawn around it and it's labeled "Western Canada". Ontario and Quebec are circled together and labeled "Eastern Canada". There are question marks all over BC, SK, MB, NB, NS, PEI, and NL.

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Me: “oh, they called Nunavut!” @kennybaclawski.bsky.social: “I’m sure they called some of it” …can you believe I just live with this

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My DEL-DLI award #linguistics has now been terminated as part of the DOGEing of NEH. I'm a little surprised by this because the funding is part NSF 🧪, but the award was administered by NEH. No award- or program-specific info in the letter. They are not even trying to pretend it's legal.

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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I’m pretty sure Elon Musk has actually become exactly who conservatives thought George Soros was.

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

You just know Grace Hopper is absolutely cackling from the great beyond at the thought of Elon Musk's DOGE boys trying to re-write the SSA COBOL codebase

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This isn't even out of context, the man himself literally said this after watching an AI-generated element in the Year of our Lord 2017.

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

just FYI, in case anyone happens to be developing a show about humanities academics in a bog-standard public university my consultation rate is really cheap

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Please tell me I’m not the only academic whose suspension of disbelief stops right at the depiction of any professor’s office in tv/film Severance was the most recent offender, but I also remember Arrival being especially hilarious

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