exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So I got to talk about structural ambiguity and other issues in the Alberta referendum questions (snappy video and longer form text) www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... 093
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialMichael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Canada invests a lot in faculty, trainees, labs, CFI equipment. Then we waste much of the potential by inadequately supporting its use. Million-dollar microscope + no staff/maintenance = million-dollar doorstop. Million-dollar microscope under collapsing roof = same. 1172
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialcalgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Welcome back, everyone! 🍂 Our first Speaker Series talk of Fall 2026 is just around the corner — and this one's a collab with the Philosophy Speaker Series! 👀✨ Do Real Patterns Really Save Linguistics From LLMs? Dr. Ryan Nefdt (University of Cape Town) Friday, Sep 25 | 3:00 pm | SS 1253 144
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Sadlystatic.klipy.comStar Wars Anakin: It's Working!ALT: Star Wars Anakin: It's Working! 020
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Today in unexpected flavour combos: Cachaca, Ancho Reyes, Lemon & Mustard Cordial, Lemon Juice. 120
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialcalgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Celebrating success at #UCalgaryLING! 🎉Congratulations to Charys Russell on the successful defence of her master's thesis, “Examining the Effects of High- and Low-Variability Training and their Interaction with Level of Task Processing.” 112
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialAirplane! (1980) @airplane1980.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This? Why, I could make a hat or a brooch. Or a pterodactyl, could eat your... 012
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialPicard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Picard management tip: Conducting an experiment with an unknown outcome is time well spent, even if the result disappoints you. 211615
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialUofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026LING 302: Language in Humans & Machines will be taught as a no-prerequisite block-week course August 24–28 by computational linguist Brooklyn Sheppard. Don’t miss out! LING 302 is only offered every two years or so, and it’s already over half full (65/120) calendar.ucalgary.ca/courses/1663... 123
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialUofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The new course LING 599: Mathematical Linguistics (Formal Properties of Grammars) will be taught by Prof. Diego Gabriel Krivochen in Winter 2027 (MWF 12–12:50). This is a seminar for advanced students in LING, but students in other programs (CPSC, MATH, etc.) are most welcome to enrol and benefit! 134
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026One of the lines that my friends and I invoke to this day just by hitting the right prosody on “good ones” in random conversation 110
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It still weirds me out that campus becomes a giant LDS summer school at this time of year 030
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/07/2026helluva subordinate clause in that first sentence 1644240
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Some Canadian culture to mark the day 120
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026name a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you 130
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Having stuff to talk about when your abstract was based on a third of the data is always a huuuuuge relief 010
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Latest from the SFU/Toronto/Calgary team, using experimental psycholinguistics to determine whether resumptive pronouns aid in the comprehension of ungrammatical sentences (and hinder grammatical ones) escholarship.org/uc/item/54r8...escholarship.orgResumptive pronouns form on-line dependencies with fillers in English: Evidence from the Maze taskAuthor(s): Han, Chung-hye; Block, Trevor; Gendron, Holly; Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan; Weir, Jesse; Williamson, Sara; Moulton, Keir | Abstract: We investigated the processing of resumptive pronouns in En... 120
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 25/04/2026One of my favourite episodes of Star Trek Discovery 051
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026media.tenor.coma woman in a purple suit and brooch is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .Alt: Lucille Bluth judging 020
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!” 16475112089
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026That ys me yn the corner That ys me yn the spot lighte puttinge lyke fyve paragraphs of texte on an individual powerpoynte slyde 418127
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 03/03/202650/50 on references today: Landed a tossed-off comment about not obeying the laws of thermodynamics in this house, but nobody could figure out a Magic Eye image when I used it as an example of something that was really big in the 90s, but not anymore 230
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/02/2026This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self. 361079197
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Post your favourite Star Trek character but wrong answers only. 020
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026ChatGPT ys to intelligence as monopoly moneye ys to diamonds 29110
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026TFW the R script you wrote five years ago just works (after installing one missing library) on new data from a replication of an old study 020
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Registration for the North American Computational Olympiad testing site at the University of Calgary, hosted by our Linguistics program, is open! Visit naclo.org/university_s... and look for University of Calgarynaclo.orgNorth American Computational Linguistics Open Competition 010
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialcalgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Join us this Friday for the first talk in our speaker series in Winter 2026, from the new colleague who joined the Linguistics Division this month :) Quandaries and the nature of grammars Dr. Diego Krivochen (University of Calgary) Friday, Jan 23 | 3:00 pm | CHE 212 122
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Not my house, but I know my way around 140
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Wow. The CBC is actually using the active voice 120
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialAnna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 09/12/2025In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵 16226
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Served Warwick Davis when I was working a movie theatre concession counter. I broke protocol and did not verbally repeat his order… I could not say the word “small” to him, even in context, I respect him too much 010
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Giving students feedback is so much easier when you can call on shared cultural references to make analogies. 110
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 17/12/2025May have overdone the baking this year, but the sampler for the last faculty meeting was well-received 380
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialLee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 16/12/2025 821039
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Oh THAT’S why I couldn’t find the 2022-23 budget… of course there’s the random year someone did it in Word 000
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 15/12/2025That moment when you open this for the first time all day, the top of your feed is sincerity from people who are usually sarcastic, and you know something bad awaits below 010
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialThe Tyee @thetyee.ca · 10/12/2025A Tyee investigation has found that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s admiration for the popular and polarizing psychologist Jordan Peterson went well beyond her affinity for him as a fellow conservative culture warrior. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli #canpolithetyee.caJordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The TyeeThe premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation. 46523
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Is “wordsmithery” a word? Eh, why not? But, dear Microsoft Outlook, “wordsmpthery” definitely is not. I’m almost starting to think that these autocorrections might be an emergent artform of improbability of their own 010
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 04/12/2025The glorious feeling when your procrastination successfully estimates how long a task will take to get it done just on time, but without panic. 110
exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Light Saturday morning reading (Kim 2023) 030
Reposted by @exolinguist.bsky.socialAmos T @mossinante.bsky.social · 27/11/2025For all the anglophone Canadians here! Tbh I hadn’t heard some of the candidates until I saw the form, but I’m def gonna be start using them. 011