I love teaching linguistics, and I’m good at teaching linguistics, but the thing I really excel at is teaching undergrads how to save a file onto their hard drive and then locate exactly where it is on their computer
Dee Hunter
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Linguistics PhD student @ University of Arizona | Language revitalization and reclamation | they/them
Living in a college town, every year when the students come back, I mourn what Tucson is when it’s just the locals.
If we could please all just agree that "langauge" is an acceptable alternate spelling, it would frankly save me a lot of time hitting the backspace key.
Today in "extremely low frequency vocabulary items sometimes acquire wildly different connotations in their different paradigmatic forms" Smite, smote, smitten
Finally we have made the long-requested episode that you can share with your overly credulous friend who thinks the button dogs on instagram are actually cracking jokes rather than being highly edited (plus lots of whale facts!!)
Lingthusiasm@lingthusiasm.com · 2mo agoCan we teach dogs to express their needs better by pressing buttons? How about bonobos? What have we learned from the first-ever recording of a sperm whale birth? In this episode we get enthusiastic about how people use technology to enhance our communication with these three animals!
Good news! The deadline to submit abstracts for the 2027 LSA Annual Meeting has been extended. You have 2 days left to submit your abstract—don't miss this opportunity to share your research with the linguistics community. Submit before the new deadline of July 9 at 11:59p! www.lsadc.org/abstracts
There's only one Institute of Cornish Studies. A vitally important cultural hub and research centre, engaging communities at home and abroad. There is nowhere that could replace it if cut. I remember the teaching at Hayne Corfe, before we had a university in Cornwall www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
Institute of Cornish Studies | Institute of Cornish Studies | University of Exeter
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Resharing again because this is seriously important
Dee Hunter@deethelinguist.bsky.social · 3mo agoPlease share! The University of Exeter is cutting a ton of their humanities and social science staff including all of the Institute of Cornish Studies. They had me as a visiting scholar and organize Cornish language classes. Please sign this letter: url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/kputCnGWL0...
The way that this is entirely what this paper is that I wrote: Language development, linguistic input, and linguistic racism static1.squarespace.com/static/558d0...
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Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@ninamarkl.bsky.social · 3mo agosometimes being an academic is waiting 6 years to finally write something snarky about a paper that annoyed you
@gretchenmcculloch.com Also related to recent posts my best bluesky post that didn't get any attention lol
Dee Hunter@deethelinguist.bsky.social · 2y ago
There's also this petition c.org/RGyqC9kkCn
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Dee Hunter@deethelinguist.bsky.social · 3mo agoPlease share! The University of Exeter is cutting a ton of their humanities and social science staff including all of the Institute of Cornish Studies. They had me as a visiting scholar and organize Cornish language classes. Please sign this letter: url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/kputCnGWL0...
Please share! The University of Exeter is cutting a ton of their humanities and social science staff including all of the Institute of Cornish Studies. They had me as a visiting scholar and organize Cornish language classes. Please sign this letter: url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/kputCnGWL0...
Open Letter Against Proposed Redundancies at University of Exeter
Thank you for signing this open letter. This will be shared with senior leadership roles within University of Exeter and shared with other relevant stakeholders (e.g. local MPs). Please note that an...
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The @vocalfriespod.bsky.social book is an official freakin go! I’m so excited and can’t wait til it’s out in the world.
Carrie Gillon@carrieg.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe’ve been accepted to make corrections to our book so let’s hope we finish it much more quickly than the first draft took …. @meganfigueroa.bsky.social
Cervical cancer gets the headlines because it’s the first one they proved was linked to HPV, but now we know it also causes really deadly head and neck cancers, anal cancer, and penile cancer. Every person, please get the vaccine
#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾@itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf you are under 45 in the US, you should get this. Your gender is irrelevant here. Shout out to my one ex who listened to me after we broke up and was like, "I got the shots" It's a series. I got the series, like, eons ago. If you already have HPV, get the shots. It covers many strains.
Never did I ever think I was gonna put myself back into the high school experience again; even if it's only for a month. But let me just say, we do not give teens enough credit for doing: - class 8-4 - M-F - puberty/new hormones - social interaction with new people For FOUR YEARS! I'm so tired!
Imagine you had so much food in your house that, no matter have hard they tried, your family couldn't possibly eat it. Then, imagine what would happen if you continued to buy and hoard more food, filling cupboard after cupboard. You'd be considered mentally ill Why is this never applied to money?
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
listen you can either send me annoying emails or misgender me you cannot do BOTH AT THE SAME TIME
I can see why people are not interested but lobbying leads to influence. A ‚we are better than this‘ is not going to cut it.
Anna Belew@nabelew.bsky.social · 4mo agoi’ve just come back from 4 language revitalization conferences in 3 weeks and one takeaway I’m chewing on is that no one, from any country, identified working with state-level policymakers on language rights as a priority area Pretty much everyone framed gov/policy as something to evade and survive
Did you 🫵 forget to read our April newsletter? 🤨 If so, fret not! 😮 Here it is, hand delivered to your feed to break up the ceaseless scrolling! Read on for details of our latest recommended reading and upcoming public meeting this Fri 15 May, including how to attend! carantes.org/2026/04/21/a...
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Y'all I've been traveling so long and now I'm delayed in Chicago and I think I'm gonna have to evict the man in the Bean and take his job. As like a DEI hire or something but for living in the Bean.
Jobs: Phonology, Syntax: Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Jobs: Phonology, Syntax: Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington
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Speed dating is where you have to tell Keanu Reeves a little bit about yourself or this bus will explode