Me, hopefully in the near future, when I forget a bottle opener while visiting my favorite Berkeley shops on Hopkins.
AR Deal
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Work: linguistics prof @ UC Berkeley | syntax, semantics, language documentation. Life: family, cats, nature, quiet
please remember to adopt a medium posture today in the middle of the day and go uhhh for World Schwa Day from our episode about real and silly linguistics holidays www.patreon.com/posts/142860...
I wrote up some advice for those starting linguistics PhD programs in the fall
Advice for the summer before starting your PhD
get clear on your why; read a whole bunch of stuff
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I wrote up some thoughts on what’s in your tenure letters
What's in your tenure letters?
it's letter writing season
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On the theme of being a late adopter, blog post about how great Zotero is
Zotero for LaTeX people
in case I am not the last person in the universe to know this
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We're thrilled to announce the launch of Semantics of Natural Languages, a new diamond open access journal - the scholar-owned and -led successor to Natural Language Semantics, published with OLH under the auspices of LingOA. snl-journal.org The Editors Amy Rose Deal, Clemens Mayr, Florian Schwarz
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we ran the numbers-- they are bad
The academic job market in linguistics: beyond vibes
the numbers are also bad
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What is even the point of a (linguistics) PhD? profling.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-ev...
What is even the point of a (linguistics) PhD?
normalize finding grad school inherently valuable
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everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
When longtime homeowners stand up at a community meeting about proposed zoning changes and say “we should not allow apartments in this neighborhood because it will hurt my property values,” they are colluding to jack up rents by creating artificial housing scarcity.
remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it
strange to read that my approach to [phenomenon x] cannot be correct because it strays from SYNTAX RECEIVED WISDOM in a paper that then goes on to reject SYNTAX RECEIVED WISDOM
Much I learned from this about why, exactly, Reagan was elected (gift link)
Twelve months that crippled Jimmy Carter’s presidency
A hostage crisis in Iran, unrelenting inflation and a primary challenge from Ted Kennedy ensured Carter’s defeat in the 1980 election.
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the simple dream of learning, sometime this decade, who won to 2024 Berkeley mayorial election
