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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most people who talk about at-issueness talk as though exactly one thing in an utterance is at-issue, and everything else is not-at-issue But is that necessarily the case? And do the Q-, P-, and C- notions of at-issueness all agree on that count? New open-access paper! www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/11...

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we've edited* your manuscript, please approve all changes in 72 hours, thank you *introduced all sorts of errors without highlight/commenting, so good luck finding them all! also we made up publishers where there were none, so fact check those. we also changed all "semantics" to "semantic". happy?

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

is this recent 4-set of papers on lingbuzz (& philpapers) the new timecube? or just a new crest of AI "agent" slop? (or both?)

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you want to read about anankastic conditional harmonizing, you've got to read this article

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Linguists! What are some sociophonetic variables typical among contemporary adolescence at extremely elite cosmopolitan boarding school-type institutions? Iconic New England WASP schools if we have to narrow.

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Folks are rightly celebrating this Data Colada post I just wanted to point out that Fig7 reports 85% of reproduction participants gave round numbers but the only 'exceptions' are: 5, 15, 25, 45 (rounded to 5s) 2 (no need to round; stand-in for 'very few') 69 (nice)

Header text: Red Flag #4: No Rounding In Self-Reported Minutes

Body text: As you’ll recall from a minute ago, Ariely and Wertenbroch (2002) purportedly asked participants to “estimate how much time they had spent on each of the three tasks” (p. 223). When people provide estimates like this, they tend to round. They usually say “20 minutes” or “30 minutes” instead of “17 minutes” or “32 minutes”. And, indeed, when the replicators asked people to report how many minutes they spent on each of the three tasks, 85% of them gave a round number:

Figure: a bar graph with red and grey vertical bars; x-axis is "reported minutes spent on proofreading tasks" and y-axis is "frequency". Nearly all of the bars are red, and tall; there are only few grey bars. Notably, all of the red bars are at round numbers: 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, etc., up to 180. All of the grey bars are at: 2, 5, 15, 25, 45, and 69.

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I hope we see as many cover tributes of Anything Can Happen on Halloween as we do of Jolene

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

aw shit rule of threes watch out, other greats

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026

Friends, I think Ghent University should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This letter is from academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk You can add your name👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...

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sob proof @schneeca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

to wish someone good luck with a publication without jinxing it, just say 'doi doi doi'

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm sorry, but "deep fried" is not a flavor! They just want to avoid saying that it's an oreo flavored like a deep fried oreo

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...

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Postdoctoral position – NYU Neurolinguistics Lab

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

but Woman has evidence that, if nothing else, R is compatible with the presuppositions carried by the vocative use of "my love"!

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Disturbing lack of speech act theory in the replies

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.

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Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

good morning!! it's day 2 of #cogsci2026, and we're so excited to hear about new work from Seo-young Lee, Jess Mankewitz, Polina Tvilodub, Jinyi Kuang, and Karla Perez!

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We're organising a workshop! It's on non-canonical questions! If you're working on NCQs and are looking for a venue to present in, please do consider submitting. Dates: March 2nd-5th, 2027, at DGfS49 in Jena, Germany Submission deadline: July 15th More details: uni-tuebingen.de/en/298455

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Workshop: Non-Canonical Questions under the Microscope

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Singing my niece Apples and Bananas with the entire vowel space so she has an easier time in Field Methods

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The UK has really been testing my commitment to delighting in language change this week...

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"You there, good sir! Would you mind giving me the time?" "But of course, my good man. It is now time t." "Is It really?! Time t already? Then I'm afraid I must be off, for at time t I must Φ!"

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Free paper topic, if anyone wants to write about reference tracking Another great example of how futzing with the rules illustrates them

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Maria Lialiou @marialialiou.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New paper out! 🚀 We've compiled and shared an open-source battery of cognitive tasks measuring inhibition, working memory, and processing speed—all in one accessible resource. 👇https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/17163 #OpenScience #CogSci #Psychology #Linguistics

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A Test Battery for Measuring Individual Cognitive Ability: A Brief Practical Tutorial| Europe’s Journal of Psychology

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Beautiful Gricean contralexical use of "unrelatedly"

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.

Screenshot of article which reads: This is how you end up with an elite university where the president can drive his car into a group of students and be lauded by the board. The president and the trustees are on the same team. The students are on the other team. The trustees know Kotlikoff will reliably enforce their agenda, including cracking down on protests that might be bad for cashflow. It almost doesn’t matter what he does; if there’s any conceivable defense, they’ll keep him in place. (If not, they’ll replace him with someone else who can talk about loving free speech while moving to crush it in practice.) Kotlikoff, after all, has already proved his worth: It was on his watch that Cornell agreed to pay $60 million to the U.S. government to get Trump to unfreeze its research grants.

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Daniel Altshuler @danielaltshuler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hiring in syntax/semantics. 1 year position at @ox.ac.uk. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

positively lovely example of using stress to disambiguate, and on a preposition no less! (from the webcomic DRIVE, written by Dave Kellett)

three panels of a webcomic, where a large spider-like creature is issuing commands to a subordinate, who responds fearfully. Most relevant here is the following exchange:
"Take the meats from all the senior hunters who did not come to me with such brilliance!"
"F-from the hunters, or *from* the hunters?"
"Yes."

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

nobody tell him, or the next book will be fully insane

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Judith Tonhauser @judithtonhauser.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Greg and I wrote a thing! We present a reasoning-based analysis of projection of the content of the complement of negated "know"-utterances. The analysis also predicts that the belief attribution is weakly projective, a result that is confirmed experimentally! www.meaning-journal.org/index.php/Me...

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Predicting within-utterance projection variation | Meaning: a journal of linguistics and philosophy

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🐦🐦 Semanticists and the semantics-friendly: If you like thinking about what we mean when we write down a semantic variable, and if you like talking to (other) semantics-adjacent folks about it, join us for OASIS 6 in Lisbon!

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Nuremberg or Piazzale Loreto or better yet, Nuremberg and then Piazzale Loreto

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

when your conversational implicature becomes so conventional that its absence is disappointing

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

You can now register for the 37th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, which will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 3rd to August 14th. For more information and to register, please visit: 2026.esslli.eu

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Omg, this was just built last week, it looks amazing!

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

At this rate, we’ll stop speaking altogether by 2050! (… this has the whiff of statistical anomaly about it, but I’ll have to dig into it later)

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Masterful thread that should be a book

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

hilarious, but also, a great example of a chiastic response structure 🤩

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Got a new dark sweater, and being covered in all these tiny wool lint balls is making me lose faith in the entire world I'm totally blackpilled

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

the year was 2020... Powell: LSA refused the letter's demands! LSA: no we didn't Powell: my reporting was accurate, actually the NYT is at it again, folks—with much higher stakes this time

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Will it be a flash in the pan, or will "underbussing" have real staying power? #woty2026?

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