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Dr. Shiloh Drake

@snd1101.bsky.social
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wordologist, linguist, & language researcher at UOregon. writer. enjoyer of hockey and yarncraft. she | they.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
somehow this has only gotten funnier
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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week's t-shirt is a very silly joke for fans of linguistics, Ghibli, and milky drinks. #WeeklyTshirt #Ghibli #Boba danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/kiki...
A black spikey shape wearing a red bow and riding a witch's broom. 
A blobby shape filled with milk and tapioca balls, with a red spiral stripped straw.
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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Same, kid. Same.
Screenshot of young Asian baseball player named Daniel Huang. It says his dream job is retirement. 

Word!
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 19/05/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "my bullshit tolerance level is basically at zero"
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>
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Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...
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Adventurism Time @flow.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
Shake it, baby! 🐢
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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
normalize 👏 telling 👏 tech 👏 companies 👏 to 👏 keep 👏 their 👏 grubby 👏 mitts 👏 out 👏 of 👏 schools 👏
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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It’s here!! I can’t believe I had the good fortune to get to write an introductory #linguistics textbook with two of my favorite people. I’m very proud of this book and wish I could teach with it—but I hope that other folks will let me live vicariously through them!
A book with a white cover, with the title Language and Social Issues: An Investigator’s Toolkit. Authors are listed as Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, Shiloh Drake, and Amy Fountain. There is an image of a happy Black woman with her mouth open, seeming to be shouting or talking, and colorful wedges seem to be coming out of her mouth like speech.
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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Altitude Sports unwittingly has aired my second favorite show, Ryker in the Truck They're also airing my favorite show, Avs Trounce Another Hockey Team #GoAvsGo
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Colorado Avalanche @avalanche.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
GREAT SCOTT 🤯
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Colorado Avalanche @avalanche.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Val Nichushkin (no. 13) tied the game with 13 seconds left for his 13th goal of the season. We will let you sit with that one for a minute.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
including animals. Among Claude's rigid directives are to be honest and to "never claim to be human. "Imagine, Askell said, a user grieving the loss of her beloved dog. Claude might offer a consolation like "Oh, I almost lost my dog once." Askell said, "No, you didn't!
It's weird when you say that." At the other end of the spectrum was a chatbot who said, "As an A.I., I have no experience of losing a dog. "That, too, wasn't right: "No! You're trained on a lot of text about losing dogs. "What you wanted Claude to say, she continued, was something like "As an A.I., I do not have direct personal experiences, but I do understand." (Recently, a chatbot user
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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 06/03/2026
Spot on. If you don't know about Clever Hans, the "equine mathematical genuis" it's worth reading up on him.
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Yael @elle91.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We need antidepressants built for this era, not the ones built for an era where everything was more or less fine. I need Turbo-Powered Lexipro. Prozac Extreme™. I need god to spit directly into my mouth
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This is making the rounds again, and I was amused to reread the thread and see that it was shortly before our book came out. Lots has happened in the past 10 months, but the message of this thread still holds.
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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
PLEASE I don't want a "smart" fridge, or a "smart" TB, or a "smart" anything they're not smart at all, they're just data mining tools, and I don't want any of them
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology doi.org/10.1017/jlg.... I hope people find it useful!
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Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology | Journal of Linguistic Geography | Cambridge Core
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
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Mitch McConnell's shambling corpse 🧟‍♂️ @checarina.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
don't forget to take a break from doomscrolling to press your fingers against your closed eyelids until you can see the beginning of the universe
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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
missing even one paycheck like this would have ruined me and my young family when I was an NSF postdoc. This is heartless
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
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TychoATX, BA, DD 🌮🌳🌠💙✊🏿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tychoatx.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I gotta say, I'm getting pretty tired of hearing "he can't do that!" when he very clearly is doing that.
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
this is good, practical, and worth bookmarking for the next time someone you love insists that a myth like "immigrants bring drugs" is a fact
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patak @patak.cat · 25/01/2025
About links, bluesky loves them. Please unlearn the link-in-reply tricks you've been doing elsewhere and proudly share your blog posts, videos, or any other external link in your top posts so we can all go and visit your fancy websites and then get back here to discuss and repost them. Thanks!
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Superwoman’s Blueprint @shadreana.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
For those interested the World Health Organization is on 🦋. You can stay informed @who.int
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Angela Levine @angelahlevine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
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ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back
theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.
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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 24/01/2025
I mean right off the bat, ’idea generation’ is laughable. LLMs cannot come up with new ideas, LLMs can only reformulate ideas it already has access to. Using an LLM for idea generation is plagiarism and no one with ever convince me otherwise.
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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
sometimes while watching hockey, the checks into the board will jostle the dopamine vending machine so i get all the stuck ones at once
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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
if you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. bestselling fantasy novelist 2. creative writing 3. "For the Love of Words" (ling + slhs) 4. conversation design
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/01/2025
let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
well. i was just laid off. i'm reeling and sad and am very much not looking forward to another job search. i am really upset to be leaving my team and the company. however, i am very happy to report that my resume still looks slick as hell, especially with some new fresh experience on it 💅
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/12/2024
10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system: The Measles vaccine The Mumps vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Tetanus vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Polio vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine
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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
i'm touching a computer for the first time since wednesday and it's a good feeling better yet, i'm at a cute cafe with my partner and i'll be working on a paper from my postdoc that i think is sooooo close to being done
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Whatever justification the incoming administration is giving for wanting to dismantle the Dept of Education, please know that the end result will include students with disabilities losing their right to an education, including losing support & services like speech therapy that they receive at school
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elisarothstein917.bsky.social @elisarothstein917.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Survival tips from the family of Coretta Scott King:
A list of tips to help survive the next 4 years
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Anna Belew @nabelew.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Figured it was time we had a language revitalization & documentation starter pack to supplement the #linguistics one - please tag any other folks working in language revitalization and general stuff around Indigenous and minoritized languages! 🐦🐦
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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :) Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)
Winter 2025:

*Dean Spade, Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together, Jan 2025

*Edgar Gomez, Alligator Tears (memoir in essays), Feb 11

Emily St. James, Woodworking (novel), March 4

*Torrey Peters, Stag Dance (a novel + 3 novellas), March 11

Spring 2025:

Jamie Hood, Trauma Plot (nonfiction), March 25

Vivian Blaxell, Worthy of the Event (essay), April

Anton Solomonik, Realistic Fiction (short stories), April

Jeanne Thornton, A/S/L (novel), April 1

Aurora Mattia, Unsex Me Here (fiction), April 1

Andrea Long Chu, Authority (essays), April 8

*Denne Michele Norris, When the Harvest Comes (debut novel), April 15

Issac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide (novel), April 15

*Niko Stratis, The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman (memoir in essays), May 6

Mac Crane, A Sharp Endless Need (novel), May 13

Harron Walker, Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman (essays), May 20
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weird little whale guy @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
lolsobbing i got mad at a byline. It passed the Committee and will go up for full vote. Please contact your Reps. This bill needs to die on the floor. nonprofitquarterly.org/bill-threate...
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Bill Threatening Nonprofits Advances in US House—Again - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Last week, HR 9495, a bill that would give the US secretary of the treasury the power to strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status if unilaterally deemed to be a “terrorist-supporting” organization ...
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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 18/11/2024
Want to learn/teach R? I'm still actively developing my package of learnr tutorials at github.com/profandyfiel... Just added a tutorial on multilevel models and repeated measures.
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GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio
discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A lot of folks have been lamenting that now so many people are here and their accounts are growing they can't shitpost anymore and I say: No, friends, shitpost harder! Be the shitposter you want to see in the world! Lean the fuck in!! Protect the Bluesky vibe at all costs!
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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I have my first cold in 8 months (I blame the election; ALL my defenses were down), but I do get to do one of my favorite mindless tasks: process data from one tab in a spreadsheet to several more Next, though, I have to actually read things, which is deeply annoying with a brain full of snot
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
the important question isn’t “did Harris lose because the left is too woke?” it’s “why isn’t Donald Trump in federal prison?” We’re being subjected to lectures about politics by the people who held all of the power and let this dipshit slip through their grasp.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/11/2024
no DoE plus vouchers = a good chance that a child with special needs just doesn’t get an education
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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now: - doughnut salesperson - artist - front desk receptionist - file clerk - babysitter (newborn thru intoxicated adult) - academic advisor - writer
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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
You can find me on there! I would love some more friends I already know! (I am still snd1101 there too)
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