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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 18h

For “cucumber” obviously.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 18h

Today in creative child spelling: QKMFR

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I honestly cannot believe any person who saw the game yesterday believes that one game suspension is warranted given the hit AND the celebration after. Just astonishing.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not even watching the game and I’m weepy about this.

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Ander Egurtzegi @egurtzegi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There's still some time to apply to our PhD position! Feel free to share it among any interested students and/or let me know if you're interested in applying yourself and you have any kind of doubt!

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Sara Sanchez @bcbsara.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ron Swanson immaculate inning😤

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you are interested in intersections between language change and (second) language acquisition, check out this call for a fully funded PhD position at CNRS IKER jointly supervised by me and Ander Egurtzegi! emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - PhD student in acoustic and perceptual phonetics of Basque (L1/L2) M/F

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We are at the point of the season where I say “guess what happened” and my kid (3.5) says “Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a home run?!”

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We are hiring! I’m not involved in the search committee this year, but am happy to answer questions about the department and university! linguistlist.org/issues/37/27...

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LINGUIST List 37.2706 Jobs: Syntax: Assistant Professor in Syntax, The University of Chicago

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Friends! My lab is hiring a lab/project manager to start this academic year! This position is 1 year with a possibility to renew. Please share widely. This position is appropriate for recent undergraduates and will be in person in Chicago. uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

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Lab/Project Manager

Department AHD Staff: Linguistics Administration 2 About the Department The Speech Perception and Production Lab asks how people perceive and produce speech, with a particular focus on communication a...

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My kid (3.5)’s narration of the cubs walk off today: “First Pete took third base and then he took home plate and then everyone gives hugs and high fives and then they put soap in his hair because it’s bath time and then they go to bed.”

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I can’t imagine how much Cardinals fans hate PCA right now.

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hoping that our talk connects more people with some of the fantastic organizations enacting change in our communities *right now* including Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social Bilingualism Matters www.bilingualism-matters.org and the ROLE Collective www.rolecollective.org #CogSci2026

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I was literally about to respond to your previous post to say “are you sure it’s the Red Sox and not just Contreras?”

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hey #CogSci2026! I'm so honored to be receiving this year's Elman Prize! Please join @m2b2.bsky.social and me Friday 2-3:30pm in Gavea A for two joint talks: "Multilingualism in Cognitive Science" and "Multilingualism for Cognitive Science and Society" 1/4 @cogscisociety.bsky.social

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Friends at #CogSci2026! @mattgoldrick.bsky.social received this year's Elman prize (BEYOND well-deserved) and now he and I are giving joint talks as part of the Elman Symposium at this year's meeting! Friday 2-3:30pm in Gavea A! Multilingualism, cognitive science, and society! Come see us!

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The catcher. The ump is “the yeller”, usually. Or sometime the ref (hasn’t quite gotten the cross-sport nuances and we’ve also watched a lot of World Cup lately.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My child (3;8) is becoming obsessed with baseball (shocking I know). His favorite positions include the pitcher, the batter, and the hider (guy who hides behind the batter and is in a “hiding costume”).

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

wheeeeee!

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’m thrilled to be giving a keynote lecture this morning @eurosla.bsky.social. I’ll be talking about speech perception, speech production, the messy results in the field, what that might mean, and where I’m going next. Excited to meet new faces at the meeting!

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

PCA hitting for the cycle and immediately being caught stealing is the most PCA behavior possible.

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

[W]heeeeeeee!

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Great! If you DM me your email address, I can have my student send you the info!

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My student is looking for participants for her dissertation experiment (done online! Paid!). DM me if you're interested: Looking for native English speakers in the US between 18-35 years old learning Mandarin / Korean as their second language to participate in an online linguistics study!

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Unfortunately, my kid (3;6) really wants it to be his turn to “hit the baseball so far”. And the kid’s zone with tees is “for babies”. He wants the real pitcher to throw him a pitch.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

At my kid’s first baseball game! White Sox vs Royals! Neither is a favorite team but I do love baseball and may have cried twice already.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

As fun as 3 straight walk off wins are, I would sort of like the Cubs to just get a lead and maintain it and win in a less nausea-inducing way. (But yeah, fly the flag and sing the song!) #flythew #gocubsgo

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This Cubs team is so fun. Fly the flag! Sing the song! #flythew #gocubsgo

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KU Linguistics @kansaslinguistics.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This annual lecture series is named in honor of our department's founder, Dr. Frances Ingemann. Each year we host a distinguished scholar at the forefront of their area, giving our community a chance to learn more about their research and also share about the linguistics happening here at KU 🌻

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Very excited to visit KU this week for the Ingemann Lecture!!

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This Illinois team is so so fun!

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

My favorite pastime is considering Chicago.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I do not agree but will allow it.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I can’t tell if this is affection. Or violence.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We are thrilled to welcome @canaan.bsky.social to the department this fall!!

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Yeah this is all department stuff too. I’ve just taken initiative to get rid of the useless stuff everyone is responsible for making sure they have the things they need for their stuff. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I did a lab clean out of the lab I sort of inherited. There were so many useless cables, so I made a similar box and labeled it “use by June 2026 or garbage”

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

There are many famous fans I associate with the Patriots, but New Jersey’s own Jon Bon Jovi is … uh … not among them.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

If Jeremy Fears wants to avoid comparisons to Grayson Allen, he could consider going a single game without intentionally tripping a player on the opposing team.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

A new paper from the lab! This time with wonderful collaborators Charlie Nagle, Mark Amengual, and @casillas.bsky.social. We had a great time working on this piece around how we think bilingual research can and should be done going forward! www.jbe-platform.com/docserver/fu...

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The first three. Physics of Music, Cosmology, and pirates.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I took three of your five classes. Must’ve been something in the water in the linguistics department.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

There are few things in this world I hate more than Chicago’s hockey team (eg, fascism, the Yankees, icy sidewalks). However, this standing ovation was super classy and made me cry.

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Joe Posnanski @joeposnanski.com · 19/01/2026

What. Was. That?

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I literally cannot believe Caleb Williams is a human person.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I love sports so much and would go to basically any game. But it is so absolutely miserable in Chicago right now that there is no way I would agree to be outside for this game.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Finding our ROLE: How and why to reframe essentialist approaches to language

Essentialist categorizations of language users, such as native speaker, are widely used but lack empirical validity and reinforce social inequities. T…

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