Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026have been teaching an intro FLT and automata class this semester, and I feel like I haven't had this much fun in ages 250
Reposted by JulianAaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 15/09/2026Super cool paper by my student @pkuchmiichuk.com that synthesizes Dylan Bumford and @simoncharlow.com's work on effect-driven interpretation with probabilistic dynamic semantics to understand how slack regulators like "exactly" and "approximately" work. 062
Reposted by JulianPavlo Kuchmiichuk @pkuchmiichuk.com · 15/09/2026New preprint: In Ukrainian, several approximating devices can stack on a single numeral, and the result conveys the same interval as one device alone. I argue that a numeral introduces the resolutions it can be read at, and that approximators operate on that set the way indefinites and definites do.chive.pubRestricting resolutions: effect-driven semantics of numerical approximationApproximators such as *approximately* or *exactly* have been analyzed either as operators that manipulate a numeral's denotation, or as devices that select a granularity level at which the numeral is 0123
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 11/09/2026a course instructor is a device for turning markers in the department office into markers in the classroom 000
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Realized the reason I like phantom thread so much is that it’s basically just of a two hour episode of curb 000
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 05/09/2026feel like watching 'drive my car' by myself might be bad idea 110
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 23/08/2026you seem pretty unacceptable for a sentence so grammatical 050
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 21/08/2026When this happens in philosophy, they call it “unresolved resolved uncertainty”. 030
Reposted by JulianC.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 20/08/2026I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students! Come work with me on all things multilingual and low-resource NLP! NLP background welcome, but commitment to scientific study of language is essential. My recent work has included ASR for field linguistics and compact LLMs for heritage languagessas.rochester.eduGraduate Program 185
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 13/08/2026someone should start a podcast about the daily linkedin zip puzzle 020
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"Did you know that as an Appliance Warehouse customer..." No, whatever you are about to say, I did not know that. 010
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Check out the poster I'll be presenting next week at SALT 36 with @aaronstevenwhite.io: osf.io/cwy4m/files/...osf.ioOSF 182
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Sometimes to make an omelette you have to break a few eggs. Where “make an omelette” means assemble a new piece of furniture. And “break a few eggs” means not assemble it correctly. 040
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Conveniently located across the street from Santa Fe lettuce 010
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Anyone talked about those uses of comparatives without explicit standards like, 'he's a taller guy'. I think these are only good attributively (#he's taller)? I have this vague intuition that the standard degree is being existentially quantified. 210
Reposted by JulianJay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 20/06/2026It will be seven years, on June 24th, that my 20-year-old daughter Robyn lost their life doing bicycle messenger work in New York City, when a for-hire driver blocked the bicycle lane and the speeding distracted driver of a box truck knocked them to the ground and then crushed them into the road. 521088137
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 17/06/2026when Avis emails you a reminder about your reservation, they call it an "e-reminder" 110
Reposted by JulianHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"please include names of possible reviewers" sure, which other parts of your job do you want me to do for you 4727
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I’ve been 7000 feet above sea level for a few weeks now, and lifting weights is a whole different game up here. 130
Reposted by JulianAaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 15/05/2026quivers is a functional probabilistic programming language that compiles to pytorch.github.comGitHub - FACTSlab/quivers: A functional probabilistic programming language that compiles to PyTorch.A functional probabilistic programming language that compiles to PyTorch. - FACTSlab/quivers 2184
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Has there been much discussion of performatives featuring non-1P subjects. Was just reading some predatory academic emails containing 'you're invited to ...' and thought to ask. Thanks, predatory academic emailer! 130
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 03/05/2026practicing Canvas feedback on Test Student: Wow, great - you absolutely nailed it! 010
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Not sure which I like better: drinking coffee or smelling coffee. 010
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 30/04/2026have a student with a CS background referring to acceptability and inference tests as "benchmarks" 030
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 18/04/2026are kids these days familiar with the anti-German pejorative discussed in McCready 2010? 020
Reposted by JulianScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Can the person sitting behind me on the train please talk louder into her cell phone? I missed a sentence or two. 101545
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 01/04/2026gonna write an essay to my landlord in the style of Bertrand Russell called 'Why I am not renewing my lease' 160
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 30/03/2026has anyone worked out the pragmatics of "oh yeah, let's get coffee sometime" when everyone knows it's never gonna happen 030
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 20/03/2026*coming to the part of the textbook called 'X in the real world'* hell yeah, this shit is gonna be relevant to my life 050
Reposted by JulianMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Deadline Apr 15: Postdoc, "using computational methods and EEG to study predictive processing in multilingual populations", at U Michigan w/ @jonrbrennan.bsky.social and @edithkaan.bsky.social careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... 01114
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 13/03/2026every 10 years, linguistics textbooks need to be updated with new references. that is, take out all the Obama references and put in Sabrina Carpenter references 160
Reposted by JulianHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Claude is short for Jean Claude Van Damme. Are you saying Jean Claude Van Damme does not have consciousness? Because I agree with you. 1161365
Reposted by JulianAaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 27/02/2026Been tinkering with schemas for sharing language data over ATProto (the technology that underlies bluesky). Trying to support everything from acceptability and inference judgments to interlinear glossing to syntactic parses to eye and neural recordings. Discussion and comments appreciated. 🐦️🐦️ 2186
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 20/02/2026They should do a remake of the 2001 Steven Spielberg movie and get Haley Joel Osment to play chatgpt 010
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Talking about Discourse Referents this week. A student says they think (1) Mary expects to have a baby. The baby's name is Sue. is fine, and I'm not sure I disagree. I wonder what might be going on there. 220
Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Wrapping up Katzir 2007 in my pragmatics class. Man what a fun paper. 210
