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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some reasons why you should read about Beja: - Uses more internal morphology than any other Cushitic language; - Earliest recorded Cushitic language (in an ostracon of ~6th c. AD) - Classification still controversial - is it really Cushitic, or a separate branch of Afroasiatic?

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The thing about p hacking is every knows "p hacking" is bad; but everyone LOVES saying "well what if I try this?"

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Calle, om jag får tenure nånstans, vill du joina mig i att lobba för att våra respektive universitet lugnar ner sig och normaliserar sig åtminstonde inom norden? Detta är GALET

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

meanwhile, nordic universities: here's a 6-8 page document outlining the exact structure we want of the scientific, pedagogic, outreach & admin/managerial portfolios. yes, we all want our pedagogical philosophy essays to have a slightly different flavour. well, at least you know what to do 😅

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Peachcry Peachmad: Angry Cat Doing Homework

ALT: Peachcry Peachmad: Angry Cat Doing Homework

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Germany universities sometimes have cryptic instructions for job applications 😅, they literally say "send us the usual documents (CV, list of publications, list of courses taught, research profile)". You just gotta keep your fingers crossed you meet whatever unwritten rules they're judging you by

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Miley Cyrus's Charming Nervous Smile

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I had totally forgotten that in 2014 I wrote a debate article with 400 other people... I guess no-one should have been that surprised that I was able to herd 104 co-authors in 2023 😅 I'm apparently good at managing HUGE author teams. lol

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you know what they say, if you meet 3 assholes before lunch maybe you should reassess if you're an asshole? well, if your academic collaborations keep falling apart maybe you need to up-skill... (this is about as hot as my takes get)

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I spent over 20 years building a body of journalism and non-fiction work about #language. The best part of Sept. was talking with Daniel Midgley and @laserhedvig.bsky.social about my collection of some of that work. My second time on the pod! becauselanguage.com/147-the-lang...

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147: The Language Beat (with Michael Erard) – Because Language

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Survey of German academics finds restrictions on academic freedom are rare and not associated with academic position, discipline or gender, but expectations of restrictions are higher among precarious academics. Hope this paper gets attention, as it does not confirm media stereotypes of academia

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Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · 22/09/2026

Wondering why it's called pickleball? It's because it uses equipment from other sports. In rowing (which the inventor was into), a "pickle boat" crew is made up of a bunch of players from different teams. Here, @merriam-webster.com explains. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/why...

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Why Is the Sport Called ‘Pickleball’?

The origin story is clearer than most sports

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interdisciplinary research is great and necessary, and also has consistently lower funding success www.nature.com/articles/nat... #academiclabourmarket #academia #research

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

jahaaa.. för bra för finlandsfärjan alltså? jag förstår 😅

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ja jag håller med @blockstensmannen.bsky.social , 9-5 är en bra låt med bra text. man måste inte vara så edgy hela tiden 😅 våga vara basic @olasoderholm.bsky.social

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olasoderholm.bsky.social @olasoderholm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Det går inte att titta på ljud. Det är en bug och en feature i plattformsverkligheten. www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/M7p...

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Videoterrorn gör att poddarna blir sämre

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

oh no, the bots have found zenodo 😥

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Paula Rubio-Fernández has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project COMMON_GROUND. The grant will allow Paula to test and develop a new theory of how people build and manage the shared understanding that makes communication possible. www.mpi.nl/news/paula-r...

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Paula Rubio-Fernández receives ERC Advanced Grant for research on common ground in multimodal communication | Max Planck Institute

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

give a fellow researcher a professional compliment today! most academics deal with much negativity, which can really wreck havoc internally & externally. at the same time, we also encounter work that we really like but we don't always let the authors know. why not do so?

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Please Be Nice To Me Mentally

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I suspect it's worse in tbe US of A, that it's not as crazy elsewhere. I might be wrong though.

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Jeffrey Perkel (he/him) @jperkel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The policy change was “necessitated because of financial realities”, says @briannosek.bsky.social: it costs US$4-5 million annually to manage the OSF. New @nature.com, @cos.io to stop hosting data & code, plus private data, from 16 Nov. By @dalmeet.bsky.social 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Changes to the Open Science Framework’s policies will come into effect in November, forcing researchers to reconsider their workflows.

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

exactly. i just found out George Clooney uses a flowbee. Presenting this as evidence to my husband that the matter should be re-assessed. youtu.be/hTDkfp5XdGA?...

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George Clooney on His Twins Speaking Italian, Quarantine Cooking & He Cuts His Hair with a Flowbee!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

speaking of, have you heard about "flowbee"? it's a combined hair trimmer and vacuum. I want to buy one for cutting my husbands hair but he has vetoed it. boo.

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Map projections are in the news again with the UN voting to promote the Equal Area map from 2018 by Šavrič, Patterson (@MtnMapper) & Jenny. Here is a cool video by van Wijk from 2008 showcasing the problems with turning a 3D globe into a 2D plane. #maps #cartography www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMKa...

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Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

YouTube video by tubes

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have a Dyson vacuum and a Dyson hair drier. I could see them being one thing.

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The R Consortium is now accepting submissions for the second 2026 technical grant cycle. We fund projects that strengthen R’s technical and social infrastructure! Applications close Oct 1, 2026 Submit your proposal: r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #rstats #opensource #grants

graphic with text that says "Technical Grants"

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

some commonalities in the talks by Gray and Levinson

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Language Science Press is supplying the world with free and open, high-quality linguistic research. This is only possible because a wide range of libraries world-wide subscribe to this open-source publisher. Does your library support LSP? Ask your librarian how you can help.

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Funding | Language Science Press

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Tipsa alla! Fri entré med lånekort från bibliotek längs busslinje 540 www.nrm.se/besok-museet...

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Fri entré med lånekort | Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A conversation with @damianblasi.bsky.social about linguistic diversity and what it can tell us. Linguistic diversity is a precious part of our species' heritage. It also offers a wellspring of clues about history, culture, and the human mind. Listen: disi.org/the-natural-...

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

lol, new word for "young" just dropped: "new gen"

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Here is another example of *automated cryptogyny*: LLM removed my co-authors, *three of whom were women*. Instead, LLM states I published the paper with a *man* with whom I co-authored *other* papers. 🧵

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Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

AI is a marketing term. What is being sold? GHOST IN THE MACHINE is coming to @pbs.org and YouTube September 14th at 10pm ET / 7pm PT!

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

omg the stick shape is revolutionary. here are things I have in stick form: eyeshadow, foundation, sunscreen, concealer and nail oil.

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

yeah the beauty industry has really got advanced. have you tried eyeshadow sticks? so good for lazy girls like me 😅

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

see also Evans, Nicholas. 2012a. Even more diverse than we thought: the multiplicity of Trans-Fly languages. In Nicholas Evans & Marian Klamer (eds.) Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century. Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication No. 5: 109-149.

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There's more! Pat McConvell coined the term "Shibbolethnonyms" for these. There's also Gamilaraay in Australia which comes from "no" and more "what" based ones in southern New Guinea (Nen, Nama etc) poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

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PEETERS ONLINE JOURNALS

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A New Language Game has Entered The Villa: Glottle! glottle.app Try to guess the target language and along the way you get clues from its position in a language family tree and its geographical position. #languages #linguistics

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

posted in the lefty folk group chat

Karl Marks, the communist manifesto, Dolly Parton, 9-5

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thanks! Aha, hm. I don't use Slack.. but, maybe I can whip up an account just for this

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I want to register for email alerts for scientific journals, just the table of contents for new issues. I registered for alerts with @johnbenjamins.bsky.social and @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, but they're not exactly what I'm looking for. Is there by chance any third-party service that does this?

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@jonthegeek.com what's your best advice for non Greenwich cantering of worldmaps with #ggplot2? for example, Pacific centred and van der grinten projection? I have a hacky way, but I suspect you have an elegant one! github.com/HedvigS/pers...

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personal-cookbook/R/Worldmap_plotting.R at main · HedvigS/personal-cookbook

Contribute to HedvigS/personal-cookbook development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Apparently, Germaine Tillion wrote a note in Chaoui describing the person who had betrayed her Resistance cell to the Nazis and disguised it as part of her field notes. www.inumiden.com/germaine-til...

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Next week in Berlin (31st August, 2nd September), MPI-directors Russell Gray and Steven Levinson will be giving public talks. More details in flyers below.

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