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Olivia

@linguistolive.bsky.social
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Linguistics Ph.D.: sociolinguistics, linguistic landscapes, language access Just an olive that loves languages! 🫒

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 31/08/2026
hi this is to make you aware that I've just coined "lolp" it's like welp but for lol okay carry on
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Inés Vañó García @inesvano.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Super excited to finally see this work out! 🎉 My new article on building a community-engaged Spanish internship program is now out in Foreign Language Annals—and it’s open access! ❤️ doi.org/10.1111/flan...
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<em>Foreign Language Annals</em> | ACTFL Language Teaching Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article illustrates the implementation of a pilot internship program for Spanish language students with a public-facing component at a small, predominantly white, private liberal arts college in....
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 18/05/2025
Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945).
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Taiwan's Yilan Creole: Revitalizing the only Japanese-based creole language in the world
Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonizat...
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 08/05/2025
Games can be sense-making tools, allowing players to vicariously experience the risks of contracting COVID-19, recognize #LongCOVID’s most challenging symptoms, and connect with others amid an ongoing public health crisis. Read more from @kaatefishman.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iQhmuE
A graphic titled: “Long COVID Mode, Real-world Long COVID symptoms translated into in-game effects.” Below the text, a video game character is shown hunched over, as though struggling to manage a symptom. Energy bars above his head indicate that he is facing reduced vitality, cognitive dysfunction, and reduced stamina. At the bottom of the image, the graphic shows that this mode was created for Elden Ring, The Witcher, and Minecraft, through collaboration with Long COVID Europe. The text reads, “The Sick Times. “Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games. By Kate Fishman.” TTHE SICK TIMES: "If a bad outcome will only happen if you roll a one, that doesn’t mean it’s not gonna happen." -  Zoyander Street, Artist and designer based in the United Kingdom
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
oof job search
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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 04/05/2025
I’m nearly done with the Yiddish course (which was a volunteer-led effort that feels especially important to support now because only humans could have done that.) but I’ll be done after that.
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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Hey if you or your language and #linguistics students are looking for some end-of-term de-stressing, I put a couple more pages from my coloring book project up here: tinyurl.com/coloring-gre...
Coloring sheet. Block letters in the middle of the page read “There’s no such thing as ‘lazy’ language.” The text is surrounded by illustrations of snails.Completed coloring sheet. Block letters read "Every body has an accent," with one word on each line. A forearm palm up shows three tattoos in an homage to American traditional style: A rose; a horseshoe with '[ɡʊd lʌk' written on it, and a heart tattoo with a banner reading "[mɑm mam mʌm mɒm]]". In the space around the arm, a pair of hands meant to represent the ASL sign for "sign" and a mouth. The negative space is filled with stars.
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Today is Oday's 18th birthday! Please join me in contributing to his campaign if you can, or share it around for greater visibility.
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
chuffed.org/project/1235...
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Meals for Oday's Family in Gaza
Oday and his family have endured unimaginable suffering over the past 15 months of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Their home was bombed by the occupation, forcing them to live in a makeshift tent, wher...
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
tfw “think of the children” refers to a subset of children so small you could fit them in one absurdly expensive private school classroom
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
But just as much can be learned from actions that have gone largely *unopposed* (see table). Unsurprisingly, given the orgs fighting back, there are few unopposed actions in the civil rights or labour rights spheres. So what is there? 7/24
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for *meaningful* opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24
chart showing groups of opposition to Trump. Broad groups for lawsuits are Blue states, labour organisations, civil rights organisations, NGOs. Then there is a separate group for international rsponse and another one for non lawsuit response. A table of all actions is available here with any oppoistion highlighted: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing (worksheet "Actions with links")
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
looks into camera like i'm on the office
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Richard @ R. Rook 🔜 Sleep @rrookstudio.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace. If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 21/01/2025
As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
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People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years
It's nothing new.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/01/2025
I'm on my university's tenure and promotion committee, and I spent half the day yesterday discussing the cases of scholars whose brilliant, groundbreaking, and life-saving work was made possible by federal research grants. And it's devastating to think of how much knowledge we'll lose going forward.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
he was given profiles in major newspapers and magazines, he is still a senior fellow at the manhattan institute and edits their magazine. you can get pretty far by telling obvious lies and making rich white people feel powerful
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."
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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 06/01/2025
Trying to decide where to start with our back catalogue? Or do you want to convince a friend to listen to the podcast? Take our 'Which Lingthusiasm Episode Are You?' quiz and use the power of ⚛️science⚛️ to help you make your decision! bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
White test on a green background reads 'Which Lingthusiasm Episode Are You? A Highly Scientific™ quiz that tell you which episode of the podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics matches your personality best!'. Dark blue stars decorate the heading and there is a white lingthusiasm logo in the bottom right corner
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Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#linguistics Blue Sky-ers -- check out my book with Paul Reed, 'Language and Place', coming out *OPEN ACCESS* Jan 16, 2025! It's part of the Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics series, & offers advice to sociolinguists looking to engage more with place theory www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Language and Place
Cambridge Core - Sociolinguistics - Language and Place
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
whenever i open terminal on my mac to do even the most baby command line stuff it gets me feeling mr. robot-levels of coding savvy
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
I read this essay, "Against Cop Shit," in 2020, and it's one of the pieces of writing that has had the largest influence on my thinking about how I teach out of almost anything. It's very short - if you haven't read it, please do. jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-02...
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Against Cop Shit
Thesis: abolish cop shit in the classroom.
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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 14/12/2024
すぎる (sugiru), also written. 過ぎる, means “to pass” or “exceed” and gets attached to word stems to mean “too much.” Eg 強い, “strong,” 強すぎる, “too strong.” Anyway, I think it’s charming when people have the same image in their heads when languaging. That’s it, that’s the whole post.
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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 14/12/2024
So in English, at one point, it was common to use “passing” to mean “exceedingly,”or perhaps, “next-level.” It’s survived in a couple set phrases, like “passing fair,” (next-level hot) or “passing strange” (weird af). And I mention this because Japanese does the same thing with the verb すぎる /1 🐦🐦
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
linguistics.....
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I'll be presenting at #mla25 on Friday, January 10th! Looking forward to meeting people there!
Graphic for the Modern Language Association in New Orleans, stating that the user will be presenting at the convention. The presentation is titled "Effects of Tibetan (In)Visibility in Jackson Heights" and is part of Session 251: The (In)Visibility of Minoritized Speakers: Digital and Corpus-Based Approaches.
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bites u @snuffbait.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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Japanese Talk @japanesetalk.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Learn Natively is a fantastic website for finding books, manga, and anime suitable for different levels of Japanese! They've also started listing Korean, German, and Spanish books, and it's free! learnnatively.com
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Natively | Find native books, movies and tv shows at your level
We'll help you find books, movies and TV shows at your level!
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
seeing an email from the school president about the date for commencement and then realizing this will be MY commencement
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a man in a white shirt is sitting at a table with his hands folded and smiling .
Alt: a man in a white shirt is sitting at a table with his hands folded and smiling, then his eyes widen suddenly in realization
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Japanese Talk @japanesetalk.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
The famous green owl app Duolingo is going even harder into AI made by stolen content. It's not curated by native speakers so you have no idea if what you're learning is correct. Their algorithm overall tries to hit the happy brain juices instead of helping you learn. So here are some alternatives!
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
looked up dissertation deposit deadlines and now i have turbo anxiety
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Nick Gulotta (he/him) @nickgulotta.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Grateful to Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez from the Street Vendor Project for sharing her wisdom and the struggle of street vendors in NYC with my students from the Colin Powell School students last night at CCNY. #VendorPower
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Simon Holmes @srsholmes.com · 23/11/2024
Don't forget to encourage people to enable the alt text setting to require them to use it when they post! A lot of people dont know this setting exists. Please share 🙂
Require alt text on images in accessibility settings!
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
not me casually using the word "incongruity" in my dissertation and then looking up the meaning because idk if I have the authority to use such a word
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Finally, we also work to bridge the gaps between academia and “real-world” language work. Academia has often not valued or listened to the expertise of grassroots practitioners. And too often, academic research stays in a silo, without being of use to people who are doing community-centered work.
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
ELP offers free online courses, workshops, and gatherings to build skills and knowledge for language work. We believe no one should be excluded by cost, geography, or accessibility. Anyone should be able to find and share knowledge that can help people protect and sustain their languages.
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello, Bluesky! We’re happy to be here! We’d like to introduce ourselves: The Endangered Languages Project (ELP) is an organization supporting revitalization, reclamation, documentation, and advocacy of Indigenous, minoritized, and endangered languages all over the world. How do we do that? 🧵
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Something is Being Born @nabelew.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
now a starter pack and not a feed: go.bsky.app/RMRRRQU
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
my mechanical keyboard is doing so much heavy lifting in managing my motivation to write 😭
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Paul Meighan | Pòl Miadhachàin @pauljmeighan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Starter pack for sociolinguistics. Let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/SN3TdzY
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Something is Being Born @nabelew.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reminder that if you would like nonprofits to continue existing in the US, contact your reps all day every day to vote NO on HR 9495 when it comes up for a House vote on Thursday: The bill was drafted to target Palestinian rights orgs, but can/will be used to shut down anything.
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CAIR ACTION ALERT: Urge Your Member of Congress to Vote NO on Nonprofit Killer Bill Aimed at Silencing Palestine Activism
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Jamila • جميلة Hammami 🧿 @jamilahammami.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We must resist the disproportionate targeting & punishment by institutions of Palestinians, Arabs, & Muslims who exercise their First Amendment-protected right to dissent in solidarity with Gaza and for a #FreePalestine. ⚠️ TAKE ACTION! SIGN THE PETITION IN #SolidarityWithAisha: bit.ly/SupportAisha
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Sign the Petition
Support Aisha: Stop the Defamatory Smear Campaign
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀
Reddish orange background with white text workshops for Gaza cascading down the square
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Jamila • جميلة Hammami 🧿 @jamilahammami.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Yep, tbh, I’m pretty disappointed I don’t see more folks posting about Palestine here. I also can’t even find a starter pack of pro-Palestine folks. I’m about to create one. I hope there will be more radical voices speaking out against the genocide and for a #FreePalestine.
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Olivia @linguistolive.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hi there! My name is Olivia and I'm a sociolinguist researching the visibility of Tibetan in the linguistic landscape of Jackson Heights, NY for my dissertation! Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues from linguistics and beyond! 🌐
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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Starter pack of people doing LGBTQ+/queer linguistics (writ large)! Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added :) go.bsky.app/2mjmgqt
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