heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 30/12/2025In TX, the rattlesnakes store themselves. #syntacticambiguity 000
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Finalizing the details on an undergraduate-friendly course on bilingualism based on these texts. Let me know if you want a copy of the syllabus! 030
Reposted by heidilorimor.bsky.socialNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy... 45740310
Reposted by heidilorimor.bsky.socialMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 24/07/2025In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgWhy AI chatbots lie to usA few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr... 719880
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Sometimes an author's joy leaps off the page. This is from Cromer (1987) in an addendum, in which he describes trying to demo the effect ("the wolf is easy to bite") for Princess Di, only to have the model participant behave exactly opposite of how Cromer had predicted. "Serious hypotheses. None" 000
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 04/07/2025HSP folks - does anyone remember who had the poster with comic book format? - I have a student working on a project looking at syntactic complexity in books a 2nd grader might read, and we wanted to consider this poster format. 030
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 14/05/2025I'm on the board of the Dyslexia Reading Center. We fundraise to keep tutoring affordable! (More than half of our operating budget comes from donations. We also provide need-based scholarships.) Currently fundraising as part of a local giving event! 000
Reposted by heidilorimor.bsky.socialMaryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Video of a talk Mark Seidenberg & I gave to teachers+ at Planet Word Museum @planetworddc.bsky.social. We urged ⬆️ focus on child learning and sentence comprehension in reading instruction. Questions from teachers at the end are phenomenal! Please forward to educators! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfeF...youtube.comEyes on Reading: What’s Next in the Science of Reading? with Mark Seidenberg and Maryellen MacDonaldYouTube video by Planet Word 044
Reposted by heidilorimor.bsky.socialAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/ 571468434
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Bucknell University (in PA) is hiring for a 1-year VAP in Behavioral Neuroscience! If you like teaching, have a PhD (or ABD) in psych or neuro, and are looking for something to do next year, please consider us! bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... 000
Reposted by heidilorimor.bsky.socialHeidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Why Official English is a terrible idea for the United States, from @lingsocam.bsky.social. Like and share! www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...lsadc.org LSAFour Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un 210762
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025My 5 yo is fully committed to “No I Amn’t” as a grammatical form. #linguistbabyphotos 130
Reposted by heidilorimor.bsky.socialJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18/12/2024Sad news from the linguistics community: the great sociolinguist William Labov has died at age 97 languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399 5316105
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Update: I showed this to my 4 y.o. as I was prepping a parsing activity for class, and her response was “why would you want to clean flies?” 040
Reposted by heidilorimor.bsky.socialWord Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · 04/10/2024Counting down the days to #DLDday, the day when we raise awareness of Developmental Language Disorder. Get involved and speak up for DLD! If you've never heard of it now is the time to find out more! Ask me here or go to radld.org 056
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 16/08/2024How I’m preparing for the semester. (Hat-tip to the tea for teaching podcast!) 020
Reposted by heidilorimor.bsky.socialChristina Bergmann @chbergma.bsky.social · 06/06/2024Articulation and phonemes, my faves! Our communication organs are marvellous 001
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 06/06/2024apple.news/Az48CBmtZRzW... Buzzfeed just published a great collection of familect examples!apple.news23 People Who Didn't Realize Their Childhood Habits Were Super Weird Until Wayyyy Later In Life 010
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 17/05/2024Ann Arbor is bringing great attachment ambiguities! #hsp2024 050
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 10/05/20244 y.o. (C) comes up to me, puts her head on my lap, and says: "I don't feel like myself." me: "Really? I ask, "Are you feeling sick"? C - "No. I feel like Clara". me: "And how does she feel?" C - "Happy." 010
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 08/05/2024I'm on the board for a dyslexia center in Central PA. In order to keep our tutoring affordable, more than half of our operating funds come from donations. Sharing this for anyone who wants to help support our students! 010
Reposted by heidilorimor.bsky.socialPedro Gonnet @pedrogonnet.bsky.social · 05/03/2024Original paper: Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character, employability, and criminality Valentin Hofmann, Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, Dan Jurafsky, Sharese King arxiv.org/abs/2403.00742arxiv.orgDialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's...Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from serving as a writing aid to informing hiring decisions. Yet these language models are known to perpetuate... 067
heidilorimor.bsky.social @heidilorimor.bsky.social · 22/02/20244 y.o. asked me today if I had "mom knees". I was so confused, because I had never talked to her about my knees. But after some discussion, it became clear that she was asking about the grown up version of "kid knees" (kidneys). #linguistbabyphotos 030
