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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's a new survey at work about Copilot.

(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

General advice: Just say no (to whatever: opportunities, drugs, blah blah blah) Interaction analyst: Saying no is utter hell and feels like tearing valued relationships into shreds

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For the third or fourth time since April I have gotten not just the time wrong but the DAY wrong (and for the second time the MONTH wrong) for a meeting. What is HAPPENING to me.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Get yourself a partner who finds a unicorn rainbows colouring book for the 4 year old that ALSO somehow has pages of hijabi engineers, female presenting chemists & astronauts, and wheelchair athletes. I don't know how he found it but my woke little millennial heart is astonished this exists.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Anyone else finding that a bunch of slightly older windows machines won't output audio to hdmi? Or, more specifically, they can't seem to find an hdmi connected audio output?

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don't want to be the academic trope of 'no picture in the last 10 years' but literally the only pics of me ALONE in the last 10 years are: - The one here on bsky - Pregnant as the main point of the photo - Can't see my face much (lecturing in the distance, doing fieldwork in distance)

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is the best thing I have read since Shulist’s paper on the universal translator.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Can anyone else download CallFriend files? I'm getting 11kb files that do not work. Has it been moved private and I missed something?

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't need new glasses I don't need new glasses I don't need new glasses *puts on ruby slippers and clicks 'enlarge' three times*

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Because the article I'm reading on collaborative gaming happens to have a game called 'Hivemind', the sidebar is full of recommendations for articles on bees. Another day, another automated fail.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Google scholar emails full up de-anonymizing authors I am peer reviewing by suggesting I 'follow' them and triggering realization of which author it is. I hate this.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

So many amazing people I have met this summer, who have all been so lovely. But I need to crash soon. I have seen more of the 401 highway this summer than I have in the past 15 years together.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Had the huge honour and pleasure of another brilliant night hanging out with some lovely climbers. Time constraints have kept me from doing my belay test at all the places I’ve visited & my fingers are Itching from playing it cool on the sidelines. Cannot wait to put the inspiration into a climb::::

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

When the autosync works on adobe I feel like I've put in a cheat code to the universe. Though I still have to manual sync so many things. Is there a point in making a how-to on that? I feel like I'm the only person who has such noisy data. Which can't be true but I never meet folks with that issue.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Kid's fourth 'word' is something like [ɖɛɹjgo͡u] = there you go. Perfect union of physical (passing an object) w. verbal component. I know nothing about language development but this seems like a way to investigate if action packages are acquired in tandem with, & equivalent to, traditional words.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Driving to fieldwork yesterday, which was outside, so lucky that some diehards came out and were up for recording.

Driving along mid-highway in Toronto, but the sky is all cloud and the air is yellow.

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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

@sorensorensen.bsky.social is talking TODAY about grammar in action! #icca2026

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is so much fun to use. Thank you so much Keith.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Today at lunch #icca2026 a handful of us are gathering to talk about sustainability and emca- both how our research can contribute and how our community can adapt. Come join us! Sitting somewhere with my bright red/orange jacket at 12.50 or so!

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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

@tillyflint.bsky.social is presenting on day two of #icca2026 which is TODAY!

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Watch this space, all ye non-conference dinner folks. We will likely do something ENTIRELY disorganized & just descend on a restaurant (or two, hopefully near each other). Will write here where we're headed.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#icca2026 representing Canada with not one but Two Timmies kiosks at the venue.

Inside a building, two separate Tim Horton’s coffee kiosks.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Because Adobe's select text is no longer blue and I can't find a way to change it, I have to read like this now, with a random empty window I scroll behind to block the extra text. Why did they change it Whyyyy. I don't even know what my problem is called (either technologically or with my eyes). 🫠

A pdf article text, with a blank word document partially in front of it on the screen, with the word document being used to underline text and hide upcoming text so things are readable.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's weird what's giving me culture shock and what isn't. Being able to smile at/have small interactions with strangers feels relieving. Being 3 feet away from 50kmph death machines while waiting for the bus feels like insanity.

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

So for folks arriving to Edmonton for #icca2026 and looking for some local stuff to eat, watch & do, here's a 🧵. Fellow YEGers, feel free to add your own faves...

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#icca2026 Just to start on it early, who else is not going to the conference dinner & wants to find some cheap eats? Gather ye friends, so we may eat dim sum. (or whatever).

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The algorithm bs age has already had an influence (whether purely based on suspicions or legitimately) on several reviews I've been part of & just...it'd be one thing if we all resisted such interference in research, but the way unis & publishers welcome it, I can't even. Old news, just sighing.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

LiU: Copilot for everyone! LiU staff: We are most seriously not all our board with this AI nonsense. Deans crossing arms, leaning forward, and smiling at camera*: HAVE YOU NOTICED OUR PLAN TO BE THE TOP AI UNI IN SWEDEN YET YOU WILL GET ON BOARD. *Reader I do not exaggerate even a little.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Well I finally got the kick I needed to switch to LibreOffice I guess.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Jag har bestämmt mig att halv tio nu betyder kl 5.00. Halv ett betyder som vanligt 00.30. Då kan vi gå över till en 48 timmars klocka, så att vi har möjlighet till hela 24 timmar i en dag. Enkelt.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Backing up data today. Have you checked your backups recently? Are you, perchance, travelling with data internationally, and have you backed it up and made your presentation available digitally for yourself? With love, a cheeky researcher

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Help with Adobe? I can't seem to find the right keywords to find help. When I read, I select text as I go (accessibility thing, I have problems with line changes). This used to 'highlight' the text. Now it turns it light blue, making it HARDER to read. Same goes for searched words. How to change??

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This morning the hagberry bloomed, spreading the first jasmine-like smells throughout the woods on my way to work. 'Mellan hägg och syrén' - between hagberry and lilac - is an idiom here. Slowly warming, popcorns of lime green leaf buds bursting, birds singing. This short time is magical.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Living through 'hallucinations all the way down'. The work isn't magicked away. Someone else has to do it, and with twice as much effort and care.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Not sure I can describe how outsized an effect the original Magic School Bus has had on my life.

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DOTE and DOTEbase @dote.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

ARE YOU READYYYY!!!!?

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

SURPRISE SURPRISE the chunks of a paper I'm coauthoring where some coauthors have used AI to 'fix' their language (or, indeed, mine 🫠) are bad and now someone else spends time fixing them. I wonder who the people are who will spend the most time fixing things back from AI time savers?

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I find it borderline absurd that the voice-to-text function on my phone is so text based that I cannot say 'Gah' and have it put in the right thing (or anything at all). Agh, ugh similarly impossible. Surely there isn't a single millenial coder in Silicon Valley who doesn't say 'gah' daily and yet.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

If you have time, would love to hear your fav research/book/blog about raising premature kids.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

While hippo had a low carnage battle last night #2026MMM, there is nothing my belligerent fav will not do to win. We wait #teamhippo

A hippo in the water, only eyes and ears visible, watching.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The single most stock footagey thing about stock footage is that the camera moves, constantly, for no discernible reason. Please stop.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

She held the baby puking true, She took three paces through the room, She saw the frozen snowdrifts bloom, But then the baby twisted to, Her lips touched hair soaked in spew. And no matter what she tried The incubation time did slide, The curse is come upon me cried This mom with stomach flu

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I figured folks needed to know about Tim Hortons in advance of ICCA2026 and wrote too much and now I feel embarrassed. But uhm, ta da::: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI”

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

So dark brown/red backgrounds w. black font let my eyes relax and it's wonderful...except every time I read a doc I look like I'm summoning a dark god.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

So, like, can I who cannot code chatgpt code my way to a bot-app that downloads period tracker apps and 'uses' them regularly, inputting swamps of absurd data?

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I still quietly sing badger badger badger to myself sometimes and giggle.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It looks like the requirement to register before getting a visa support letter for ICCA has been removed? This would be good if true? I have written to Express Issues about that requirement before but I do not get responses from that email.

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