Alt text: Athena looking at Odysseus with a "why are you doing this to yourself expression"
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d agomy unfinished paper draft watching me start a new paper
Claire
@chirila.bsky.social
Prof of linguistics. 🇦🇺/🇺🇸; Australian languages, historical linguistics, Voynich Manuscript
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d ago
Hey @medievalists.bsky.social, thanks for the signal boost for "Singulion Structure and the #Voynich Manuscript"! #OA in @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social. journals.openedition.org/digitalmedie...
Singulion Structure and the Voynich Manuscript
Introduction The enduring mystery of the Voynich Manuscript (a.k.a. Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library MS 408) lies with its illustrations, certainly, but also with its text, ...
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Medievalist.net@medievalists.bsky.social · 3d ago10 Open-Access Medieval Studies Articles Published in July 2026 www.medievalists.net/2026/08/medi... #medievalstudies #openaccess
I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d agoNotetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary
Overheard today: “I wish my job wasn’t part of the load bearing scam propping up the economy.”
Muppets Kermit & Fozzie Shrug
Alt: Muppets Kermit & Fozzie Shrug
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many, many people are listing the Voynich manuscript here (personally, I like the mystery of it and I like thinking about what different features of the text might mean but I'm not actively trying to "break" it
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
Bad news on that front. I saw someone here a few weeks ago who said they ran a Voynich Manuscript forum and they’ve had to ban AI-created theories because they’re all wrong. Apparently AI frequently tries to do a simple substitution cipher and then makes things up from there.
Haley Stevens's accent has people talking. Is it really a Michigan accent? (spoiler: yes. It really is - tho see the note below) I had fun talking with the New York Times about one of my very specific niches of expertise (Michigan English). www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
How Haley Stevens’s Accent Became a Flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate Race (Gift Article)
How the politics of raised a’s and disappearing g’s briefly came to dominate the Michigan Senate race.
nytimes.com
📣‼️🔔Introducing VoxHumana: a "spiritual successor" to DARLA. 🎉 🗣💬 Upload an audio file to VxH and it'll transcribe it with Whisper, do forced alignment with MFA, and extract formants with new-fave. It's not live yet, but I hope to get it up and running soon. joeystanley.com/blog/voxhuma...
A teaser for VoxHumana – Joey Stanley
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🎥Check out our new #Linguistics Elements in Semantics: Semantics and depiction by Kathryn Davidson 🔗 https://cup.org/4fZH3KU #CambridgeElements
There's still time to register for "Feeding the Digital Fire: Community Memory, and Digital Stewardship" this Wednesday!
Ruth Arr@wrooth.bsky.social · 2w agoJoin us next Wednesday, in Philly or online, for this lecture by Angelina Jumper. 'Jumper and her team developed the Junaluska Museum’s first substantial digital footprint through large-scale digitization, community-based archiving, and the implementation of a tribal Digital Asset Management system'
In this article, years in the making, we show that linguistic diversity reached a surprisingly recent peak, with tens of thousands of languages flourishing a few thousand years ago. With C. Bowern, R. Gray and M. Hamilton
For anyone who’s ever seen one of my talks and heard me say “we’re currently in the worst time for language loss in all known human history”: I’m legitimately excited that there’s now research concretely indicating that is wrong, and I can take it out of my slides 😌
Claire@chirila.bsky.social · 2w agoI have a new paper out in Science today with colleagues Damian Blasi, Marcus Hamilton, and Russell Gray. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
@e-l-p.bsky.social has been shouting into the void about that statistic since c. 2011, with @chirila.bsky.social ‘s enormous help 😅 rosettaproject.org/blog/02013/m...
New Estimates on the Rate of Global Language Loss - The Rosetta Project
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I have a new paper out in Science today with colleagues Damian Blasi, Marcus Hamilton, and Russell Gray. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
science.org
I'm very proud of @melodyannross.bsky.social who's just had her edited volume drop - Space-Time (Dis)continuities in the Linguistic Landscape. A *lot* of work went into this and I can't wait to read the whole thing. tinyurl.com/bddu6t6t
Space-Time (Dis)continuities in the Linguistic Landscape | Studies in
This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, the importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order
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Today's Voynich inbox is largely comprised of the person who is emailing me their conversations with one of the free tier LLMs that pretends to run code and synthesizes what an answer might look like
Forget colorless green ideas. This is the best example of the infinite generative capacity of language
Paula Harper@pch9857.bsky.social · 3w agoIt's crazy how "guys there's a this american life episode about musicology duck's viral bus misadventure" is gonna hit in several different groupchats
I adore the fact that we can tell that the pages are out of order even though we can't actually read any of them
Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · 3w ago"we have found strong evidence that the Voynich manuscript is not meant to be bound in quires at all (as is the norm) but, instead, was originally a collection of individual bifolia meant to be read in sequence (called “singulions”)."
I've received about 200 solutions in the last 18 months
NLeseul@nleseul.bsky.social · 4w agoThe number of solutions to the Voynich Manuscript has nearly 100x-ed in the past year! Exponential progress!! 👍 (AI-generared solutions are now banned on the Voynich Ninja forums, for the betterment of the world.)
But sure why this has come up again, it's from 2021, but it was fun to do!
Knowable Magazine@knowablemag.bsky.social · 4w ago🕵️♀️ The meaning of the cryptic Voynich manuscript has eluded scholars for centuries. Their latest efforts include computational analyses seeking new insights into the medieval enigma. ✍️ Greg Miller: knowmag.org/4vMhT8d
Okay, people, here it is! "Singulion Structure and the #Voynich Manuscript," by myself and Colin Layfield, hot off the presses at @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social! journals.openedition.org/digitalmedie...
Singulion Structure and the Voynich Manuscript
Introduction The enduring mystery of the Voynich Manuscript (a.k.a. Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library MS 408) lies with its illustrations, certainly, but also with its text, ...
journals.openedition.org
Love to read about the latest research on the Voynich manuscript! (Though I am sympathetic to the argument that it's a hoax.)
Lisa Fagin Davis@lisafdavis.bsky.social · 4w agoOkay, people, here it is! "Singulion Structure and the #Voynich Manuscript," by myself and Colin Layfield, hot off the presses at @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social! journals.openedition.org/digitalmedie...
