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@exolinguist.bsky.social
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Linguist by trade, flâneur by choice, sarcasm appreciator, amateur cookie baker, aspiring traveller, occasional haver of a good idea, friend of desoto slightly embarrassed to know entirely too much about trek 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🖖(he/him)

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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Captain Dathon, his eyes alert
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So 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...
Me in my lab with CTV News chyron showing name and title
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Canada 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.
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Mmmkay
Screenshot from a journal archive where a paper about given/new information has been paired with an abstract about a knitting machine
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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Welcome 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
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sadly
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Star Wars Anakin: It's Working!
ALT: Star Wars Anakin: It's Working!
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today in unexpected flavour combos: Cachaca, Ancho Reyes, Lemon & Mustard Cordial, Lemon Juice.
A lemon and mustard based cocktail
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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Celebrating 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.”
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Airplane! (1980) @airplane1980.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This? Why, I could make a hat or a brooch. Or a pterodactyl, could eat your...
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Picard management tip: Conducting an experiment with an unknown outcome is time well spent, even if the result disappoints you.
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
LING 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...
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The 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!
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
One of the lines that my friends and I invoke to this day just by hitting the right prosody on “good ones” in random conversation
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It still weirds me out that campus becomes a giant LDS summer school at this time of year
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
helluva subordinate clause in that first sentence
Assassination
Kiddnapping and murder 
On 1 June 1924, the police chief Emilio De Bono ordered Otto Thierschädl, the spotter of the assassination squad who is unanimously considered by investigators and historians to be a timeless liar who lived by his wits,[72] to be released from prison with a telegram signed "for the Minister of the Interior"; at that time, the Minister of the Interior ad interim was Mussolini.[73] On 10 June, around 4 pm, Matteotti was bundled into a black Lancia, more specifically the Lancia Lambda limousine model,[74] by five men while he was walking to Parliament to work. They were Dumini, Albino Volpi, Giuseppe Viola, Amleto Poveromo, and Augusto Malacria, all acting as members of Mussolini's secret political police.[75] Matteotti had left his house and was heading towards the Chamber of Deputies to prepare his speech on the authorisation of the provisional exercise of the state budget.[76]
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Light Friday reading
Cover page of an article titled “Tense in a vectorial model for the conceptualization of time”
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Some Canadian culture to mark the day
Adam with a burnt nose on a hilltop beside a small fire. Snake laughing.A baby with pacifier hold up and looks at a lot match while standing in a playpen A man brandishes a fork over a toaster with anger on his face. Alarmed woman reaching out to stop himAnthropomorphic fire emerges from an oven.
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
name a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I didn’t know it was this easy!
Screenshot of an email inviting the recipient to the illuminati. Outlook has flagged it as phishing
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Having stuff to talk about when your abstract was based on a third of the data is always a huuuuuge relief
A line graph from a self-paced reading study
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Captain Picard takes a telephone call with Data’s help. LaForge looks on.
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Latest 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...
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Resumptive pronouns form on-line dependencies with fillers in English: Evidence from the Maze task
Author(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...
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
For anyone who may need this
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
One of my favourite episodes of Star Trek Discovery
A young Anthony Rapp with his face pressed against glass that looks similar enough to the kind of glass magic mushroom chamber, evoking another more famous glass wall scene, that this could be a homage via temporal wackiness
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a woman in a purple suit and brooch is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
Alt: Lucille Bluth judging
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Eize 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!”
I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you see this, post a robot 🤖
Crow T Robot aboard the Satellite of Love
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
That ys me yn the corner That ys me yn the spot lighte puttinge lyke fyve paragraphs of texte on an individual powerpoynte slyde
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
50/50 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
A magic eye (stereographic) image that does resolve on my phone screen
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This 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.
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Post your favourite Star Trek character but wrong answers only.
Dr. Sam Beckett-Westheimer
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
ChatGPT ys to intelligence as monopoly moneye ys to diamonds
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
TFW 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
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
It’s only been a year
Captain Janeway after the Year of Hell
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Registration 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 Calgary
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North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition
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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Join 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
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Not my house, but I know my way around
Exterior of a Torquay hotel. Don’t order the veal. Or the sausages. Or the kippers.
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Wow. The CBC is actually using the active voice
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
In 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...🧵
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Served 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
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Giving students feedback is so much easier when you can call on shared cultural references to make analogies.
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
May have overdone the baking this year, but the sampler for the last faculty meeting was well-received
Tin containing shortbread, lemon-mincemeat cookies, oat squares, haskap jam thumbprint cookies, ginger snaps, Mexican style polvorones, cocoa cookies, and orange biscuit  cookies sandwiching melted Terry’s orange
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Popular mechanics headline: 
The world is running out of sand
— and thieves are willing to kill for itAnakin Skywalker from Episode III smiling
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Oh THAT’S why I couldn’t find the 2022-23 budget… of course there’s the random year someone did it in Word
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
That 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
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 10/12/2025
A 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 #canpoli
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Jordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The Tyee
The premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation.
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Is “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
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The glorious feeling when your procrastination successfully estimates how long a task will take to get it done just on time, but without panic.
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Light Saturday morning reading (Kim 2023)
Formal definitions of null type shifting operators proposed for Korean
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Amos T @mossinante.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
For 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.
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