everyone, meet Hugo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing'

Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.

bbc.co.uk

Child language development expert here. No. The answer is absolutely not. So-called baby talk is culturally specific. Developing language is not. #linguistics

Linguistic Discovery@linguisticdiscovery.com · 4mo ago

Did language evolve because of baby talk? The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a recent study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

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!

authors' copies just arrived! Textbooks are a scam but we worked hard on this one and in spite of the ai-cover art I'm pretty proud.

That time Rex Lee Jim read at the Poetry Center at UT Austin youtube.com/watch?v=gLuh...

Rex Lee Jim Poetry Reading

YouTube video by utlibraries

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In 2000, Rex Lee Jim had the idea for me to do research on Navajo poetry. In 2006, I published this short paper on one of his poems. And for 26 years, he and I kept talking about poetry and other things. He was a poet's poet's poet. His poetry lives on. www.jstor.org/stable/20739...

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

This story also involved the funniest quote I’ve ever gotten in an interview.

Outside Magazine@outsidemag.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I’m terrified of leeches, but desperate to stop avoiding lakes. So I called a leech therapist, learned what a leech facial actually involves, and discovered that exposure therapy isn’t always what you expect.

Here's a great article about Eddie Sweat and Secretariat horsenetwork.com/2022/03/a-wo...

A Word for the “Unidentified Handler”: Remembering Secretariat Groom Eddie Sweat

During the same month Eddie “Shorty” Sweat lay dying of multiple ailments, including cancer and heart disease, Western Horseman magazine released its December 1997 issue with an article commemorating ...

horsenetwork.com

Hey, so one thing to do for Black History Month is sign this petition for Eddie Sweat to be inducted into the Horse Racing Hall of Fame: www.thepetitionsite.com/540/203/619/... Eddie was a Geechee Gullah man from South Carolina and arguably key to Secretariat's success on the track.

Sign Petition: Induct Eddie Sweat in to The Horse Racing Hall of Fame

Eddie "Shorty" Sweat was and is the epitome of horsemanship. Eddie was the groom and care giver to the immortal (3983 signatures on petition)

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Our book is available for preorder! #linguistics #sociolinguistics #linguisticAnthropology #languageAndSocialIssues #TheGenderChapterWillDefinitelyGetMeFired www. cambridge.org/highereducation/books/language-and-social-issues/5C1D0C2F61B4D0ADA69AE7024EF1E1E2

Language and Social Issues | Cambridge Aspire website

Discover Language and Social Issues, 1st Edition, Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, HB ISBN: 9781108837200 on Cambridge Aspire website

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Met with one of my international doctoral students today, close to finishing a really interesting dissertation, and they have decided not to apply to any academic positions inside the US after finishing. Not unexpected, just a sad reflection of our national self-sabotage.

Driving north through the desert in Nevada we stopped to pee and explore a ghost town and found a microcosm of American culture wars playing out in an abandoned cement factory building. I took some photos. The star: a charred teddy bear wearing an American flag sweater we named Roosevelt.

New podcast about @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social linguistics grad student Tyler Lee-Wynant and the work of the California Language Archive. Give it a listen! (You can turn the volume way down when my voice comes on.) news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/b...

For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping one student reclaim his culture. - Berkeley News

For Berkeley graduate student Tyler Lee-Wynant, linguistic materials in the California Language Archive featuring his great-great aunt have opened a portal to his family’s history and led him to teach...

news.berkeley.edu

any body see some good dogs in costumes visit for trick or treating

A new book chronicles one Cherokee citizen’s odyssey of working to revitalizing the Cherokee language.

Come be my colleague! UC Berkeley Linguistics has a tenure-track position in language revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Flame and I are sooo excited to share a first peek at The Day Leap Soared, featuring breathtaking gouache paintings by @oliviawhen.com!!

I once again request that you please submit an abstract for the conference I'm planning. Pretty please?

Linguist List@linguistlist.bsky.social · last yr.

Confs: Arizona Linguistics Circle 18

#NoKings

Semi-feral Post Monger@dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social · last yr.

The $1.25 store was bereft and very tariffed but we made do #NoKings #FuckthatGuy

See you at #NoKings tomorrow #protest #Tucson #noNazis #abolishICE

Also the cattiest dog ever.

Whale vocalizations not only resemble human vowels, but also behave like ones! We previously discovered that sperm whales have analogues to human vowels. In a new preprint, we analyze linguistic behavior of whale vowels.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

This is cool.

Horses have a complex repertoire of facial expressions, just like primates

The study has created a catalogue of horse facial expressions to help people understand how to read these incredible animals.

theconversation.com

Good news, chat. The NSF is temporarily pausing the implementation of the new 15% ICR rate proposal pending a court hearing. I mean, it's good news insofar as good news is possible in this domain. It's less bad news, anyway. #linguistics #highereducation www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

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Go to the link to see some of the current backyard birds in Sierra Vista, Arizona. #bird #birds #birdphotography 🪶

Backyard Birdwatching in Southern Arizona: Cactus Wren and Friends

The cactus wren is the state bird of Arizona.

sierravistahomestead.com

I love this research: "‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin" by Anni Jääskeläinen, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin

Examining archived recorded cattle calls, this article describes the traditional Finnish ways of cattle calling and suggests that these calls were a t…

sciencedirect.com