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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, because it helps you avoid being a mark and to place accountability in people making these tools. Hope that helps.

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

let me brag: writing my dissertation was idyllic. it was 2015, i was living in san diego, millennial optimism was in full effect. i wrote in big blocks 2x a day, with 10k+ steps and a nap in between. i’ve been chasing that for years! this semester i’m on sabbatical, and so far so good (considering)🤞

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:

Slide header: Premises/values: Cards on the table

Bullet points:
* I care more about students’ learning than about the “accuracy” of grades or the prestige associated with a specific degree
* I want to work collaboratively with my students, rather than policing them
* I don’t want to spend any time reading, much less providing feedback on, something nobody wrote
* Science is a human, communal process; there is no knowing without knowers; and our work cannot be autocompleted
* Deep thinking and human connection are always more important than polish, speed, or “productivity”
* Research agendas should not be set by & for industry

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 06/08/2026

great little visual summary of how enshittification hits a supermarket gelato over the course of a decade

ingredient list for talenti vanilla gelatos: the first two have a best-by date of 2017 and have milk, sugars, cream, and various flavorings along with carob gum. the latter two have best-by dates of 2024 and 2027 and contain multiple other thickeners and stabilizers, like lecithin, guar gum, tara gum

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Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Excited to reveal cover of forthcoming book, 6th edition of "Linguistics of American Sign Language" (LASL6), w/ @gallaudetpress.bsky.social Cover design by @michelvrana.com, original art "When Grammar Mood" by @christine.lol Preorder coming soon! @ryanlepic.bsky.social @jaceyhill.bsky.social

Book title on top of cover: Linguistics of American Sign Language. There’s blue and yellow watercolor wash behind LINGUISTICS at the very top of the cover. Below the title is a drawing by Christine Sun Kim: the top text of the drawing: WHEN GRAMMAR MOOD. Below the text is a Venn diagram: three circles: top circle labeled “American Sign Language”; right circle labeled “Speech Therapy”; left circle labeled “Written English.” The top and left circles overlap in a left portion labeled “Deaf English”; the top and right circles overlap in a right portion labeled “Simultaneous Communication”; the left and right circles overlap in a bottom central portion labeled “Sign Exact English.” The three circles overlap in a central portion labeled “Mood Swings.” The text below the drawing: An Introduction; Sixth Edition; Julie A. Hochgesang, Ryan Lepic, Joseph C. Hill, Pamela Decker-Wright, and Miako Villanueva.

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 20/06/2026

New Cambridge Element, ASL Signbank by Julie A. Hochgesang, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at cup.org/3SBnjUN

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 18/06/2026

In academia, we rarely appreciate the fact that we have all survived and escaped an education system built for uniformity and mediocrity, and that it is an incredible freedom to work at a public university. The question is what we do with this freedom. Uncritical "AI" adoption renounces it.

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Stude @studeproblems.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Time to smash this motherfucker up

A screenshot from Xenoblade Chronicles with the text 'Location- Data Centre' appearing on screen

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Today I was awarded tenure at Gallaudet! This summer marks 10 years since finishing my PhD, and this fall I will be on sabbatical, trying to write a lot and to redesign my undergrad syntax class. I’m so grateful to keep doing what I love. Pic is me at the recent #ICCG14 at Princeton #linguistics

Ryan presenting in a dark auditorium, wearing a black shirt behind a tan lectern. He is demonstrating the ASL sign ‘what’ that is formed by pinching thumb and index finger. The projected slide illustrates varied ASL ‘what’ signs with ASL Signbank images.

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 10/06/2026

Wake up y’all new structure ambiguity exercise just dropped. #linguistics

An image of a Health poster hanging on the wall. It shows a variety of fruit organized in rainbow order. And reads “download advice on feeding newborns to teens”

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

At #ICCG14 in Princeton (huge thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social & team for a brilliant conference!) we announced our plans for the International #ConstructionGrammar Association (ICGA), to be officially founded at #ICCG15 in Kiel in 2028. See here for more information: construction-grammar.org

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International Construction Grammar Association

Visit the post for more.

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Joe Dator @joedator.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I would like a personal apology from every man who called the station or emailed me personally to gripe about my voice during my time on public radio but never did the same to Ira Glass.

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

In the first @gallup.com survey on the topic, 7 in 10 Americans oppose the construction of data centers in their area, including nearly half who strongly oppose it. news.gallup.com/poll/709772/...

Line chart showing that 7 in 10 Americans oppose the construction of data centers in their area, based on a March 2026 Gallup survey of U.S. adults.

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Journalists, let’s be careful about the language we use when writing or talking about AI. Here’s a thread — @emilymbender.bsky.social, I know you pay attention to this, too, so feel free to chime in. (1/x)

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"Predictably, the huge spike in productivity that these companies claim their own AI products have enabled hasn’t resulted in more or better products, shorter work weeks, or better consumer experiences." www.404media.co/software-dev...

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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/05/2026

"The recent change to our course-management system has meant that I need to re-upload every document and assignment and reassign every homework. I will be attending three two-hour training sessions to help me do this." buff.ly/lv7w8kf

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Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job

4/29/26 Our most-read piece of 2024.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy May Day. They can’t kill us all.

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

i once saw a book review that described skimming the references of a book as seeing “who is cited and who is slighted”. anyway, today i observed that a new book “in my area” has zero bybee citations, and i think that explains a lot

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Just released & free to download for two weeks: "Constructions, Networks and Linguistic Change" by Graeme Trousdale and Elizabeth Closs Traugott in the Cambridge Elements Construction Grammar Series #language #linguistics doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Constructions, Networks and Linguistic Change

Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - Constructions, Networks and Linguistic Change

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Version 1.0 of the Grammaticon is now online! This has been in the making for over eight years. Quite a few of the entries are still preliminary, but I hope to expand and improve it over the coming months and years. Comments are welcome! An intro text is here: dlc.hypotheses.org/4316

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

file this under “getting old”: can we all agree not to use emoji to react to emails? who thought that was a good idea?

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Meanwhile, the people I see complaining about this usually use the term "AI" without saying what they mean by it. In other words, they're starting the conversation form a non-nuanced position. >>

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Computational Papers (CPs) are always Annoying To Read (ATR) because of their Extensive Use of Abbreviations (EUA). After Some Time (AST) reading a CP, there are No Words (NW) left TR due to the EUA, and I Almost Give Up On Even Trying (IAGUOET) TR the CP because it is so ATR any text with EUA.

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If I had a nickel for every time I decided to stop using a “cognitive linguistics of ASL” paper because my students get too distracted by problematic examples, I would have two nickels. …Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

here’s the thing, I’m not going to make an account just so i can decline your review request 👻

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

the absolute nerve of my electric company to jack up prices to subsidize energy-hungry data centers AND THEN SEND ME automated messages about how much more i am spending on electricity year-over-year as though i had just left the lights on 🪫🤬💸

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I’m behind the trend on this one but I’m about halfway through Enshittification and enjoying it. Aside from the inherent dissatisfaction and frustration of the phenomenon, that is. Going to continue to be mindful about where I spend my money and attention in 2026 us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

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Enshittification

Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

thank you to my non-linguist friends who texted me this photo because they remembered that i do not like him

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Gallaudet University Press @gallaudetpress.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Now available! THE CRIP LINGUISTICS READER is a wide-ranging and groundbreaking collection that challenges normative ideas about what is considered “good language.” Visit our website for more information on this latest release from GU Press! gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading. This is one of those cases.

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

“it’s *giv*ing season 🍁 😊” “it’s giving *sea*son 💅 💃“ #linguistics

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/11/2025

Breaking news: Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is elected as the next mayor of New York City, defeating former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and becoming the first Muslim and first of Indian descent to hold the office. wapo.st/47rlrDf

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

even with the -ai trick and scrolling down past the first several results, google still hides automatically generated misinformation on every page. it’s unusable. can’t wait for this bubble to burst

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Every time I sit down to write a piece I feel certain that I would rather die than actually write it and yet somehow I would rather die ten times harder before I ever let the word machine write for me.

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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

“I watched Snow White when I was a kid but I ain’t give a bitch a poison apple yet” is just an objectively great line. 😂

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

10 years ago this month, i defended my dissertation. i scrounged up two pictures from the day. linguistics is an odd, sometimes challenging field, but i’ve been incredibly privileged to learn and travel with great advisors, colleagues, and friends along the way 😌😌

Savi, Ryan, and Tessa smiling. Savi and Tessa have matching black rompers. Ryan has a blue tanktop that reads “Carol & Farrell & Karen & Sharon & Rachel”.

Ryan looking at his computer while presenting to an audience. His dissertation committee members are sitting in the front row.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 08/08/2025

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said. “Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

A GPT-5 generated diagram of US presidents since Franklin D. “Roesevelt” to “Goorge W Bush”, “Baruck Obama” and Donald Trump. No George HW Bush (though Ronald Reagan looks a fair bit like him), LBJ, or Joe Biden.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 07/08/2025

Sunk-cost fallacy and cheating students are the only things keeping AI in business at this point. Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.

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Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

So glad this is out! Still wish we had the data processed in time for @jmhenner.bsky.social to use but pleased to have his contribution in more ways than 1. See below for a brief commentary re Jon, deaf linguists & participating in SiL research and doing it in a way that disrupts or crips it all

Series of 3 images of Jon during Zoom session expressing full support for open access in ASL

Zoom window of 4 participants - top left to bottom right - Frank smiling, Jon with two-handed heart gesture, Leeann smiling and Julie holding heart over heart with 🥹 face

Twitter thread showing Jon’s belief in open access work and recognition of the work it takes. Text:

Jon Henner @jmhenner - Paying participants. Assistants. Language Coders. Web coders. Web maintenance. Web systems. Technology.
This scales. If I want a project with 10 people I need to seed it thinking ahead.
5:15 PM - Dec 15, 2021

Julie A. Hochgesang, PhD @jahochcam Dec 15, 2021
Exactly

Hoping that #MoloASL will be released this upcoming summer and part of
#05S5ASL in the spring with more as the year progresses

Jon Henner @jmhenner • Dec 15, 2021
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I don't want to collect good data and let it die on a VHS tape on my shelf like two generations ago. It needs to be available and accessible.

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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

i love reading old ASL syntax papers. everything is so straightforward. a star for this, a checkmark for that, no need to know what the signs even are or what the context was… 🫠🫠🫠

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/07/2025

Ten Percent Of U.S. High School Students Graduating Without Basic Object Permanence Skills

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