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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 · 22/09/2026

guh, **valued is a much better way of phrasing that

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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

And then the one professional photo from 10 years ago. In every other shot there is family. Happy life, no new 'professional' photos. (this is even before dealing with the fact that I make a muppet face in 90% of all photos)

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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 · 25/08/2026

Heheh, I greatly enjoyed it. Thank you for writing it!

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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 · 20/08/2026

EVERYTHING IS FINE I AM VERY OLD AND SILLY.

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

See my reply to Rue - I did not use the actual download button, for the love of goodness, I hit 'save link as' because I am OLD and so it was literally trying to save an html link as a wav file and ya. --buries self underground--

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thank you so much, this gave me the push to try again today and see what I had missed. And GODDAMMIT, the button to download in the media folder works FINE, but I had been being super old and doing 'save link as' like it's 2005 and aghhhhhhhhhhhhh Thank you. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

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

MPI told me I needed an MPI account which I admit I assumed meant I needed to work there. But maybe anyone can? I can try

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

(Thought I'd bug the hivemind before emailing the team)

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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

Bless you for picking this one and not a certain horror film.

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

Maybe what I'm saying is I don't need help being distracted by the truly thoroughly irrelevant. At least let me be distracted by the vaguely connected probably not central enough stuff.

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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

But there are plenty of close words occurring that I now instinctively 'don't count', e.g. babba ('fix it/want' also pappa), a sound that approximates Kiddo 1's name.

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

Also, do the parental acceptance levels for 'words' get progressively more stringent? Word 1 was 'da' for Zelda (our cat). Words 2-3 were tack, thank you (both! about simultaneously), & mamma, but 'mamma' means anything from 'mom' to 'i want it' to 'breastmilk' to 'i'm not happy fix it'

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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 · 28/06/2026

@drsarahjwhite.bsky.social did the hard work! I just brought a camera and did an auto sync really. All the proper editing, and the interviewing of course, was Sarah!

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

Since there's several places on Whyte we can go to that have vegan & gluten free options, that's my suggestion. We can bus there if it's raining. We may spread out to multiple restaurants if there's a lot of us.

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

Hey non-conference dinner #icca2026, let's meet in the foyer (where coffee etc gets served) at 5.40 or so. If you are planning on coming, message me or find me today (blue polka dot shirt) so I have an estimate of people. I will try to reserve something on Whyte for every group of 6ish I hear of.

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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 · 27/06/2026

Thank you! I’m so glad we did these!

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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter @emdoesca.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Worse, they're analyzing my serving staff.

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

Tempted to go to Spilt non-alcoholic cocktail bar afterwards?!

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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 · 25/06/2026

oop, just checked schedule, I am in a workshop & meeting until 15.00 basically. THEN I'll be there. XD

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

Sounds good. I have to duck out in the middle of the afternoon for a meeting but otherwise I'm there most of the time. We can find each other there?

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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 · 24/06/2026

Sarah. You, me, registration afternoon on Thursday. 'Red carpet conference research'. I have a camera. Yes??

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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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