iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Big news: LSA membership is getting more equitable. October 1, dues will be income-based -- so your capacity to pay determines what you pay. More linguists, more voices, more community – no questions asked. Join or renew today! www.lsadc.org/membership   #LinguisticsCommunity #LSA #MembershipEquity

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there was an article in the inquirer today about a far-right group sueing a school for failing to tell a trans kid's parents they're trans. buried in the middle of the article is a throwaway line that acknowledged the parents wanted to do conversion therapy. I'm really frustrated and disappointed

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Send heartfelt *not angry* messages about why the Academy should stay open. She needs help demonstrating wide community support. Send your personal reasons why Academy has been important to you and your family, as well as Philadelphia as a whole.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want you to think about the kids in your life. Maybe those kids are 8. Maybe they are 32. Do they know enough about snails? Hard to imagine anyone truly knowing *enough* about snails. Help those kids learn snailhood. Get them a Snail Facts advent calendar. SquidFacts.net.

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just got very jumpscared by seeing a reference to seeing a "30" appended to the end of a student's name in the student newspaper (where they put the class year of students and alums as a like honorific suffix). yeah i guess this year's incoming class is the class of 2030 but what the FUCK

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Delighted to be working with TransActual on this! We know that responding to this consultation was painful for many trans people and our supporters. We'd like to use these responses to find out more about our community's thoughts and experiences. Please read the info and contact me if you have qus

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

got my boosties, cvs let me make an appointment online and they made it VERY easy. hope yall get yours soon!

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

hi I've been offline for a bit. maybe going to share a blogpost or two soon, but also if i missed any important cat pictures or linguistics papers please share them in the replies

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

sometimes art waits until the exact right time to come be seen by you

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

why does water taste better through a straw

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 17/08/2026

If you're wishing you could go back to school for linguistics, here's your annual reminder that Crash Course Linguistics @thecrashcourse.bsky.social exists! I worked on it with linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social and @jessgrieser.com, host Taylor Behnke, @complexly.org and @thoughtcafe.bsky.social!

youtube.com

What is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1

YouTube video by CrashCourse

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

we should high five everyone in the airport who has the same cpap bag as us

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

last morning in iceland! this has been such a fun trip, ill try to write a lil bloggy for y'all about my language learning adventures

a beautiful scenic view of a fjord, the glassy water reflects blue sky and green mountains. blurrily in the foreground my white hand w a green coffee mug

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

omg the lingule today kicked our asses. not gonna past my results bc i dont want the screen readers to have to hear 30 black square emojis in a row lol lingule.xyz

lingule.xyz

Lingule

A fun little language game

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Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New blog post where I talk about how to make overlappy arrows, among other LaTeX tricks: theycallmezeal.me/article/two-...

A syntax tree with an arrow. The arrow overlaps other parts of the tree, but the portions that overlap are removed.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Found a teddy bear out front of my house. Tiniest teddy bear I've ever seen. Couldn't believe it.

a jumping spider looking so cute oh my god. All balled up so cute. on a leaf.

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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We have four open positions at @stanfordeducation.bsky.social : teacher education, early learning mechanisms & interventions, Social Sciences/Humanities of Education in a Rapidly Changing World, & K-12 Ethnic Studies Education! Spread the word! ed.stanford.edu/faculty/jobs

ed.stanford.edu

Open Positions | Stanford Graduate School of Education

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Something is Being Born @nabelew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Go check out @geraldroche.bsky.social's review of @sophiasgaler.bsky.social's "How to Kill a Language" for a surgical dissection of the history of language oppression denialism, clear and informed reminders of its political nature, and a buncha links to good research (incl. by @chirila.bsky.social):

theconversation.com

Languages are disappearing, and the problem is political

Language loss is often a reluctant choice made to escape violence, not a willing choice made to gain benefits.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

sorry, you want me to *revise* and then *resubmit* this shit? dog, i sent it to you because i never wanted to see it again

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

writing a book is so fucking scary, dude. apparently you have to let people read it? and they notice when you leave little "note to self, insert example here" holes in the draft you send them?

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We're excited to announce the programme for LavLang32, 2-4 September at the University of Edinburgh. It's (potentially?!) the biggest LavLang yet! - 5 Keynotes - 140 attendees - 95 papers The programme showcases the breadth and diversity of queer linguistics research: shorturl.at/6nKn7

shorturl.at

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

hæ! í dag er ég þreytt. mér finnst gaman að prjóna sokka. sokkinn sem ég prjónaði er bleikt 💖

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

clomb up to the Naustahvilft (troll's seat)

kirby with devin sitting on their shoulders in front of a big mountain that has a big scoop out of it

looking up at a big mountain with hikers in the distance far above

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm feeling like maybe I should write something on: how to start a community. You start with you and one friend trying to live near enough to each other that you can walk to each other's houses. You host a regular meal for other friends who live nearby, at home or somewhere local and cheap.

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

there's TWO cruise ships in town today and i think the population has been literally doubled

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

everyone at the icelandic school loves my linguistics shirts. today is a kiki bouba one and ive gotten 3 compliments in the first 5 mins upon arriving

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

what if chatgpt discovered an actual way for you to shit gold nuggets that you can exchange for infinite ice cream cones? Would your interest not be piqued?

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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 27/07/2026

📣‼️🔔Introducing VoxHumana: a "spiritual successor" to DARLA. 🎉 🗣💬 Upload an audio file to VxH and it'll transcribe it with Whisper, do forced alignment with MFA, and extract formants with new-fave. It's not live yet, but I hope to get it up and running soon. joeystanley.com/blog/voxhuma...

joeystanley.com

A teaser for VoxHumana – Joey Stanley

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

i'm always saying this

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

people keep talking about how hard and confusing icelandic is and i feel like im cheating by knowing a bunch of syntax. but yeah i also totally get why there are disproportionately many icelandic syntacticians / syntax papers. this isnt that bad if you already know about lik, dative experiencers

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

hot iceland tip: oh my god it is fully fully light out, huh. 3am huh

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

need a response button for journal review invitations that's like "no, and this is so far astray from my subfield that the very fact of you asking me makes me doubt the legitimacy of this journal; flag this for us to audit for papermillinery"

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

if i didnt have a smartphone i think thered be a lot of times in my life where i would be like "oops i got stuck somewhere" (autistic shutdown) and then id be like so. i guess i just live here now?

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

on a bus to a different airport lol

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

okay I'm on my way to Iceland (in the cab to the train station)

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

reminder that "fuck you, make me" is a surprisingly effective strategy that more institutions should try once in a while 👀

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

as im sure you can tell i am absolutely relishing this, my first summer of my first sabbatical. i havent answered an email in at least a month. i read a book for fun and i will not be reviewing it or otherwise trying to squeeze any respectable content out of it. i have sandal tan lines

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

my landlord is doing minor surgery on my toilet which is fine but i desperately want to take my pants off and lie down, neither of which i can do while landlord is doing toilet surgery

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 21/07/2026

It's not untrue, but this feels like such a dystopian way to describe books: "curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative.” www.404media.co/ai-companies...

404media.co

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fewer libraries & more surveillance is a helluva sales pitch to potential students / families

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