Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Feeling a little too old for this Berkeley cafe work from floor setup 040
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026i think that if you need to rely on an LLM to write your argument you don't actually have an argument. 070
Reposted by Tyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026i suppose i’m not surprised that it is difficult to make people care about something that is low visibility — the vast majority of people have no idea who piker is — and low salience. i think we’re also going to find, for similar reasons, that the anti-trans messaging isn’t working either. 852247241
Reposted by TyLinguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Big news: LSA membership is getting more equitable. October 1, dues will be income-based -- so your capacity to pay determines what you pay. More linguists, more voices, more community – no questions asked. Join or renew today! www.lsadc.org/membership #LinguisticsCommunity #LSA #MembershipEquity 0164
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Linguists! 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. 176
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Absolutely horrified to find newborn voles in my bike pannier this afternoon 😬 130
Reposted by TyLouis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The real question is why did those who regard themselves as the reasonable ones go along with letting the fear of left authoritarianism become the justification for right-wing authoritarian action. 231933
Reposted by TyMark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Very excited to share this preprint from me, @emmatempleton.bsky.social, @lindseytepfer.bsky.social & @thaliawheatley.bsky.social! "Friends and strangers engage in distinct regimes of body motion synchrony during conversation" osf.io/preprints/ps... 29736
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 16/07/2026After weeks of tormenting the baby chickens, Kiwi has decided that she wants to be a mother and she’s taken her business outside of the coop and become broody. Updates via @markthornton.bsky.social (I’m in Chile) 020
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I miss before AI when students used to write about (some variation of) “Since the beginning of time” all the time that was so fun 060
Reposted by TyMark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026We're engaged! @tyanna.bsky.social 7541
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Today was the little girls’* first day out in public (the garden). The big girls were huffy and puffy about it. *one is a tiny baby rooster 130
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 15/06/2026students are very creative when they're not using AI. i gave someone podesva (2007) and eckert (2008) and he talked himself into a whole theory of (political) language socialization vis-a-vis a rational economy of indexical value. 041
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Moved the monstera so that the cats can follow the chickens’ journey to and from the front yard more closely 🐓🐓🐓🐓 0211
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 27/05/2026For a transcription assignment, a student organized her data (line numbers, speaker, text) into cells in a table & then hid the lines of the boxes & I pointed out to everyone in class today that this is a good idea because look how organized her lines are and then we were all like 🤯🤯🤯 women in STEM 081
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Kira told me to read this book in like 2014 and men in groups has been my pipe dream of a side ethnography project ever since 140
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I give the students bespoke reading lists based on their data (the Ivy League experience is me only having 12 students at a time and everyone gets hella attention) and I end up sending at least four students a @pittprofdude.bsky.social article every quarter 030
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I haven’t seen the transcripts for the last one yet (we’re doing one-on-one data meetings this week) but it’s about leadership, race, tone policing, and apology/accountability. 170
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026One is focusing on the queer faction of his frat! It’s an all-man frat (there are also gender inclusive frats here & this is not one of them). 1/3rd-ish of the members are queer. The analysis is about creaky voice (!!!), “girl”, limp wrist, and more senior members socializing novices into the style 150
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026One is extremely ritualistic, like coordinating embodied participation in weekly meetings via chants. The student has theories about why they have to coordinate synchrony so hard (members seem to not feel socially bound to each other) but he’s still working on the analysis 160
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026All three of them are just completely different ways of doing being men in groups. There’s so much variation. Who knew!!!!! 260
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026three of my students this quarter are doing their ethnographic language and politics projects on their fraternities and I'm learning so much about masculinities. 2172
Reposted by TyJessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 20/05/2026One of my grad students accurately summarizing the value proposition of AI assistants: “Give me access to everything and I might be able to help with something.” 03212
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Carrot, Peach, Crocus, Goji Berry, Tulip, Asparagus, and Primrose in the garden 🐣 Kiwi, Eki, Barb, and Squash staying far away 🐓🐓🐓🐓 031
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 14/05/2026People need to stop telling students it’s cheating to use AI to write their papers but it’s ok—even encouraged—to use LLMs to brainstorm/organize their ideas. Having your own ideas and organizing them is literally the point. Vibe writing kills ideas. 040
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Important chicken update: there are 7 more! Tulip, Asparagus, Peach, Primrose, Goji Berry, Crocus, and Carrot 020
Reposted by TyNick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education 251553356
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 08/05/2026They’re always hacking grades and medical information but never hacking student loan debt smh 082
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I’m not convinced that Threads isn’t being propped up by mostly bots. 020
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Big fan of the sugar shack owner/guide who guided us in English but gave us commands only in French 🍁 130
