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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 8m

It’s the kind of seasonal change day that might bring Mary Poppins to your door keep an eye out

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry is gone after a long life. I dare you to read or listen to this and not be overwhelmed by something

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The Peace of Wild Things

A poem by Wendell Berry.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I accidentally on purpose made perfectly toasted pine nuts for my salad tonight 🎉

Salad greens with golden brown pine nuts on top. Not one is burned.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I miss the feeling of being inside a cozy house in Newfoundland when the weather outside is truly shitty. I mean shitty for Newfoundland, which is like seventy times as shitty as the shittiest weather available down here in the lower 48.

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Canaan Breiss @canaan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Come be my colleague! I'm not in the committee, but can try to answer (or at least suggest routing for) questions! linguistlist.org/issues/37/27...

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LINGUIST List 37.2706 Jobs: Syntax: Assistant Professor in Syntax, The University of Chicago

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My three chicks have grown up into beautiful pullets, though they’re all dumb as a box of rocks compared to my previous generation of bantams. Eggs coming any day now.

Delaware pullet Hunter, aka Fanta. Big red comb and wattle, classic chicken look.

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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026

I think about this a lot.

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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

between medical bureaucracy and secondary education bureaucracy and travel bureaucracy I feel like I'm floating through a blizzard of forms and choices, some of which are mandatory, some optional, some not relevant to me at all. I can't tell which is which and am just flailing and hoping.

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Journal of Sociolinguistics editorial board extends sincere thanks to Yoshiko Matsumoto for a fitting tribute to the life & work of Robin Lakoff, whose contributions to our field & advocacy for marginalised groups in society will be long remembered. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Robin T. Lakoff and Her (Socio)linguistics

Click on the article title to read more.

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Peat @planetjackanapes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Shroud of Turing.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Going through the third grade detritus in preparation for the upcoming school year and found this, made my non compositional heart very happy 🐧🐧

An elementary school assignment on idioms including an illustration of the meaning of “as cool as a cucumber” featuring three cucumbers in sunglasses

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Embracing the concept of rooting for America. Human rights! Big science! Prosperity! Freedom! Come on team, we can do this!!

A selfie in a rhinestone-covered US flag ball cap in front of a giant public art statue of the word BELIEVE in Reno Nevada.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I swear if the school district parent communication team doesn’t stop sending multiple messages to per day I am going to bury my phone at midnight in an unmarked grave. It’s summer vacation ffs!!

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

F’ing Claude hallucinated a clinical trial for an aggressive cancer that a family member has. “This is very interesting — there are actually two distinct next-generation developments coming out of City of Hope that may be what you're hearing about.” Reader, there aren’t. There is only one.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I am going to watch the sh*t out of the future sports movie about this Cape Verde team. Can you imagine the little subplots of the story, the team’s-eye view of this surreal experience… just IMAGINE if they beat Saudi Arabia and Spain beats Uruguay and they make it out of the group.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

9yo, finally drifting off to sleep after tumultuous bedtime with yelling on all sides: <yawn> I have a question. Me, ready for anything: Ok! 9yo: What is the opposite of soaking wet? Me: Bone dry. 9yo: Ok. <falls asleep > Me: ….

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Beautiful Istanbul street kedi and a random guy helping a kitten with eye drops on the hood of his car.

Large man holding tiny street kitten’s head in position while the eye drops he just gave it soak in

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In Istanbul for the first time. Mulberries, salty cheese and peanuts for me recover-from-redeye dinner. Successfully used two Duolingo Turkish words in the transaction. Amazing world.

Peanuts, mulberries and cheese on a hotel room table

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 14/05/2026

The academic equivalent of always reblog Tom Holland lip syncing to Umbrella is always reblog The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If vaccines did not involve injections, do we think they would be the subject of conspiracy theories?

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“Through these revisions, the rule would ensure equal access to qualifying facilities would be provided in accordance with the sex of an individual based on his or her immutable biological classification as either male or female rather than the ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity…

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Twelfth Night, sure why not, and Peer Gynt (?) with Judy Collins (!) and Olympia Dukakis (!!)

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

gemini can't entertain counterfactuals

A screenshot of an interaction with the Gemini LLM. The prompt said, "If birds can swim, can robins swim?' Gemini answers, "The short answer is NO, robins cannot 'swim'..." and goes on for ages.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

If the University of Arizona tries to do this I’ll…I’ll… I will do such things—what they are yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth 🤬

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I don’t like this. A test for taking a test. Recursive standardized testing for 8yos. I mean, I do test my students on the content of my syllabus, but maybe I shouldn’t. I don’t like it. (See alt text for actual linguistic worry about it).

A sheet with questions about how to use the equipment to take an ORF test (Oral Reading Fluency). It’s clear by the end that it’s a one-shot attempt at creating a recording with no backsies for technical difficulties. Almost certainly autograded by a machine, I imagine. Hope it can cope with different varieties of English. I bet it can’t.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Morning walk birds, and morning Fairy Castle cactus blooms in our front yard. Waiting to hear quail, mockingbird, thrasher. Surprised no hummers showed up this morning.

List of birds heard in Merlin app: mourning dove house sparrow gila woodpecker verdin white winged dove house finch Lucy’s warbler northern cardinal. Also heard yellow-rumped warbler but it didn’t fit on the screen

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

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If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you.

The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta…

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This is the NSF program that funds all of linguistics (and which funded my graduate study). Because of course knowing about how language works is woke nonsense that couldn't possible be in anyone's national interest 🫠

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My 13 year old’s YouTube algorithm served him info about how gas prices are high. I think trump may really be in trouble this time?

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Generous scope interpretation or stingy one?

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Is uptalk still a significant sociolinguistic variable, linguists of bluesky? How about vocal fry? I feel like there's less metalinguistic commentary on both now than there used to be. What's the next big thing the young women are cooking up? @vocalfriespod.bsky.social 🐦🐦

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I made a midterm Jeopardy board for my English Words students and got them donuts. We had fun. (YMMV, of course; it's a bit specific to the course content we've discussed so far and some of my idiosyncratic terminology choices.) jeopardylabs.com/play/advance...

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Advanced Jeopardy Template

A sound that involves a significant constriction in airflow., Consonants of English are described in terms of place, manner and this. , The IPA symbol for this unstressed vowel looks like an upside do...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

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Acting ethically in an imperfect world

Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somew...

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

cognitive reframing ahead of quals: ❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me ✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Sometimes everything depends on the kindness of one stranger from Colorado in the most tricked-out Jeep you ever saw.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Met with one of my international doctoral students today, close to finishing a really interesting dissertation, and they have decided not to apply to any academic positions inside the US after finishing. Not unexpected, just a sad reflection of our national self-sabotage.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Set up first phone for 12yo about to be 13. Felt like a big moment. 🥺

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Driving north through the desert in Nevada we stopped to pee and explore a ghost town and found a microcosm of American culture wars playing out in an abandoned cement factory building. I took some photos. The star: a charred teddy bear wearing an American flag sweater we named Roosevelt.

A cream-colored teddy bear wearing an American flag sweater. He has been in a fire and is singed light brown and his fur and sweater are partly melted.

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Arne Ekstrom @adekstreme.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Assistant Professor, Psychology (T/TE)

Duties & Responsibilities:Publishing peer-reviewed scholarly works.Maintaining an active research program.Obtaining extramural funding.Teaching un...

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