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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On behalf of pragmatics I officially endorse this 🐦🐦

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Occasionally, Bollywood gives little slivers of advice. From Kaanten.

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it's not Vera Tobin, it's some kind of Thing @vtobin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yessss! Another entry for the collection. I love these so much. (Please join me in calling them "Outerbridges".) #linguistics

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Guy in a car yelled “Brown N-word” (hard R) as I crossed a road yesterday. I haven’t experienced anything like this in AZ, wasn’t expecting it in MD. Was more surprised by the tired, mildly annoyed,🖕 that just reflexively happened as a response to this unoriginal and misplaced slur.

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mannnn I would have never found this research because “imitation” isn’t one of the terms I search. 🫩

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Heddwen Newton - English & Dutch @heddwen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Heard in a podcast: Asking “what is the hardest language to learn?” is like asking “what is the farthest town?”

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Things not to say to a knitter 🧶 when you meet them for the first time: “wow you can knit in a dark theatre, guess it’s not very difficult, huh”. 💀

green and yellow knitting. embroidered letter अ

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New paper out now in JPhon! 🐦🐦 Do listeners make use of coarticulatory information as early as it becomes available in speech? We used eyetracking to test the perception of long-distance anticipatory nasality in American English, German and French. Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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The perception of anticipatory nasality in English, French, and German

The goal of the current paper is to study the perception of long-distance anticipatory nasality in three languages – American English, Northern Metrop…

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Waveform. (other replies and quote posts are much better).

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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It’s been 9 news of the Vocal Fries! Enjoy this celebratory episode with the Fries and our friend Erik Singer @dialectcoacherik.bsky.social! 🍟🎉

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 09/07/2026

I desperately need some real historian of technology to write about the history of dictaphones and what the vibecoders are doing with steno mics

Dictaphone ad from 1960

This is an idea harness
The function of the Dictaphone TIME-MASTER® is to put ideas to work as fast as possible... to cut the time lag between idea and action. It does this with superb efficiency because of the exclusive, red Dictabelt* record.
Unlike invisible recording media on which you see nothing. Dictabelts record risibly. You can sce your place easily, play back in seconds. Recording is permanent, too. You can't erase accidentally and lose valuable dictation. And every word is unmistakably clear.
Dictabelts cost only four cents each so they're never re-used. You have a fresh, clean surface every time you dictate. You can file a Dictabelt casily, or throw it away if you wish. How can you afford to use anything else?
Controls are under your thumb. Just press a button and think out loud. Other buttons on the microphone control play-back, corrections and letter length. The Dictaphone TIME-MASTER is the easiest dictating machine to use. It never dis-tracts. You concentrate on what you say.
Most automatic. dictating machine. .. simplifies office communications... helps you get more work done in less time ... frees your secretary for other chores while you dictate. To find out how efficient a TIME-MASTER is, phone your nearest Dictaphone oflice for a demonstration.

a young man at a laptop speaking into a mouth-covering stenography microphone

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Baby blanket, knitted with 2 fun stitch patterns. 🧶 I figured potentially trilingual babies deserve some fun letters to look at.

knitted blanket. 9 squares red yellow green. 3 with letters “a”, अ, அ

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Anything that reminds people LLMs are not human, don’t have interiority, and cannot think is an unfettered good. Interestingly, companies being cheap might prove to be the solution to some of the psychological harms of these systems. And @404media.co hmu if you want to talk about ethical design!

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Alexandria is delightful. Saw this really cool yarn/craft space with this delightful mural on the outside. Featuring my hand-knit cotton cardigan, and the latest WIP.

woman in a black dress and black sandals, red bad and a yellow cardigan with blue trim. holding green knitting. standing next to a blue building with the words “fibre space”, along with a mural of a woman in a space suit holding knitting, sitting on a giant ball of yarn.

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Tip on reviewing ARR papers in 2026: - Check the references FIRST. I wasted 40 minutes reviewing a paper before realizing the references were LLM-generated.

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Brooklyn offers some magnificent knitting spots. 🧶

green knitting metal needles held by a brown hand. Brooklyn bridge, river, NYC skyline in the background.

green knitting metal needles held by a brown hand. park, river, NYC skyline in the background.

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Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026 @efleisig.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Remember the backlash against all AI voices being feminine—Siri, Alexa, etc.? Now, companies use a wider range of AI voices with ambiguous names like “alloy” and “shimmer.” Bias solved forever—ha, no. What happens when people hear these supposedly neutral voices?👇

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Belated Worldwide Knit in Public Day to all fellow crafters. 🧶

grey knitting, and needles. helped by brown hand. Bar in background, a dark cocktail with a green rubber duck swimming in it. oranges in a bowl, and a bartender.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

They’re called ‘academic journals’ because they’re where you write your private thoughts nobody else is allowed to read

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Out now in International Journal of Applied Linguistics, my new paper, "Unrealistic Feedback in Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies". tl;dr LLMs are terrible at evaluating speech, and you should not use them unless you'd like a class-action lawsuit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Unrealistic Feedback in Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 07/06/2026

My mother, Avis Cohen, analyzing data on coupled oscillation in 1976; and retiring, having been the founding director of U. of Maryland's Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Program, and helping to bring central pattern generators into robotics. She died today after a long illness and I miss her.

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Social media words I encountered this week: “Infra-chod”: Hinglish, tr. “infra fucker”, “a person with an unhealthy compulsion to stan highways and other govt. infra project”. 1/2

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Lmao, sure, Panda Express Fortune Cookie Fortune. 2026 sounds like a great year for international travel on an Indian passport.

Fortune cookie fortune:
“now is the time to fulfill your dream of traveling abroad”
-Panda express

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Looking for something to do in DC? Consider this gorgeous exhibit of Pahadi miniatures at the Smithsonian Asian Art Museum!

“of the hills” wooden floor, yellow lights. mughal miniature style giant cut outs of hills. 3 paintings in the distant background. museum setting.

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Clone voices aren't just generally 'native-like', but specifically, sound Americanised. I listened to these examples with great interest, and check out the code to play with these tools!

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Regarding the new ArXiv regulations for hallucinations in the citation section, I learnt my lesson about checking citations well before the AI Deep Hallucinations crisis. The culprit wasn’t bad LLMs: it was Google Scholar’s shitty crawler and aggregator. 1/4

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Working on a knitted Red Cape for my Roman TeX Löwe, with the hood and cape in one shot. 🧶

a stuffed lion in a roman toga and sandals with the word Tex on it, wrapped in a knitted red hood and cape work in progress

a stuffed lion in a roman toga and sandals with the word Tex on it, with a knitting project semi circle attached to a ball of yarn and needles, work in progress

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Linguistic Entrainment/Accomodation/Synchrony/Coordination/Alignment mention alert! 🧠💬 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Even in our own languages, changing our accents is challenging. An American who moves to Surrey is unlikely to ever sound truly English. Instead, they might develop what Fridland calls a "blended dialect"
"When people are long-term residents of a dialect area that's not their own, we do find something called speech accommodation that happens, which is where they move closer to the norms of that region without actually replicating the norms very well," Fridland says. They don't sound quite like a local in their new home town, but they don't sound like a local from their birthplace, either.
The effect intensifies the more we make friends and build community in a new home; listen, for instance, to the writer Bill Bryson, who grew up in the US but has spent most of his adulthood in the UK. (This phenomenon can even occur ever so slightly in the span of a conversation: "You and I talking, if you measured us at the beginning of our conversation from an acoustic standpoint, and then someone measured us at the end of our conversation, our speech would have started to converge" in pitch, accent and vocabulary, Fridland says.)
Given the deep roots of our accents, it's all the more unfair to judge people according to them. Unfortunately, we do, consciously or unconsciously.

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Paging Dr. @gretchenmcculloch.com @lingthusiasm.com for an emoji discourse moment...? I (millennial) was asked by a friend (Zoomer) about my “old person thing” emoji useage. Wondering if this use is idiosyncratic or generational…? 🗣️🧠

Megh why you keep using this emoji is it an old person thing what does it mean
Surprise?
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hahahahaha. Yes, it's a "woah" or
"i'm taking this literally and may not completely agree" or "I'm not happy/sad about this but have a non-neutral reaction"
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Naice, good to know
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Didn't the co host of lingtusiasm right a book about how emojis are used, i remember hearing about it
"Because Internet" has a chapter on it.
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I use it when I'm stumped by something, like if you gave me a trivia that seems absolutely implausible
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"Because Internet" has a chapter on it.
Nice. Haven't read it. On my list
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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

What every Tamil Nadu election analysis sounds like.

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I still think it's bizarre that so many papers at the "Association for Computational Linguistics" have absolutely nothing to do with language or linguistics.

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Looking for some reading to celebrate #internationalworkersday #MayDay? The Journal of #Sociolinguistics has a brilliant back catalogue of research on #language, #labour and #workers 💪 Take your pick from the suggestions below, or visit our website for more!

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

ok. This inspired me to cast on The Frog, 2 months after buying the pattern.

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"For students in Puducherry, these opportunities are tangible. French proficiency has historically facilitated access to scholarships, higher education, and migration pathways in Francophone regions...This restriction is unlikely to affect all students equally." www.thenewsminute.com/news/how-cbs...

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How CBSE’s three-language policy excludes French, erasing Puducherry’s cultural memory

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), in alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, has introduced a revised three-language framework t

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Tension? Both what the thread in the picture is maintaining and what the walker is managing? 🧶

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Désirée Kleineberg @dupetitmont.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

📢 Publication alert! Why do some linguistic innovations decline again first spreading throughout the speech community? 🤔 Find it out in my paper on the French verbal periphrasis <aller + V-ant>! 🤓 doi.org/10.1515/zrp-... #RomanceLinguistics #CRC1646 #DiacronicLinguistics #LanguageChange

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Évolution de la périphrase <aller + V-ant>

While research on language change generally focusses on “successful” innovations, “failed” changes are often neglected. This study examines such a case: the French verbal periphrasis < aller + V- a...

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This was my first experience vibe-coding an end-to-end demo app with Claude Sonnet 4.6. It took a whole bunch of iterations, but I had a simple app in 48 hours. The “paired programming” generated human-readable, modular code that I can understand and edit. Weekend plan is to analyse the chat log!

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Synchrony. Entrainment. Alignment. Accomodation. Coordination. Conducting a lit review is an absolute nightmare because so many terms get used 🤓 🧠💬

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Happy Maryland Day! Check out the Language Science booth near Tawes Hall to learn more about all the cool work language scientists do. Here is a small demo I built for today using Streamlit: github.com/meghavarshin... 🧠💬

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

New cotton cardigan, fresh off the needles. I won yarn chicken but had to skip ok the icord edging for the sleeves. Thought the colour combination would make for a good memory of an interesting year. 🧶 #knitting.

yellow and blue cardigan laid on a carpet.

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Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Biswa Kalyan Rath is an honorary linguist. Every time I lose hope and question why I devoted my life to this field, he gives me a fucking reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea-f...

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Biswa Kalyan Rath | Pakistani Accent | Stand Up Comedy

YouTube video by Biswa Kalyan Rath

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 11/04/2026

#language

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi @chjoshi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Paper alert 🚨🐜! Fire ant foraging looks remarkably robust until you perturb their communication. @dornhaus.bsky.social and I tested how fire ants respond to disruptions in pheromone trail communication during foraging. More in the thread below 🧵(1/6). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Persist or give up? Fire ants motivated to search for a high-quality food source even if they don’t know how to find it - Insectes Sociaux

Insectes Sociaux - Finding resources for the colony is one of the most difficult and risky tasks for a social insect worker. A worker on a foraging trip can face a number of challenges, including...

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Prof. EAGZ @emmmilygz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Language really is infinitely expressive (Thread) 🐦🐦

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