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Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 2mo ago

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

That means TODAY! Do it! It's not that hard and science will love you for it (and the love of science is a glorious thing).

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4w ago

Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

I just looked up Balogun’s background 5 minutes ago and learned that the only way he plays for the US is on a birthright citizenship technicality 😂

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · last mo.

wait until he finds out how Balogun plays for the US

I was the second person at my polling site to get one today. I watched them open the bag that the BoE had given them 🏀💙🧡 #knicks

As someone who sometimes needs to think about lexical gaps for a living, this list caused me a momentary record scratch. For one thing, I wouldn't have guessed that the -id column would be the most complete one.

arr@arr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Linguists: does anyone know of a study showing that VOT shortens the longer the word is? (E.g., something like the Moon and Lindblom 1989 paper, except for VOT and not whole segments.)

Creaky voice/vocal fry is back in the news, but this time to highlight the scientific research about it :) I'm both happy to be quoted in this article and to be the general editor of the journal that published Jeanne Brown and colleagues' paper to begin with! www.newscientist.com/article/2526...

Vocal fry is more common in men, actually, find scientists

The creaky noise known as vocal fry that people generally associate with young women – and some find irritating – is actually more common in men

newscientist.com

Interesting story on university language requirements and revitalization efforts: nativenewsonline.net/education/co...

Cornell University told her Ōlelo Hawaiʻi did not meet language requirements to graduate. She pushed back, and won.

Cultivating Culture Q&A Kayla Toves spoke with Cultivating Culture about her work in language revitalization and what she's learned living between cultural and academic settings. Kaylah Toves took her...

nativenewsonline.net

Hey #LabPhon community, the Association is growing its social media offerings. Join us over on LinkedIn, as well! www.linkedin.com/company/labp...

Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon) | LinkedIn

Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon) | An international body of scholars committed to advancing knowledge on the phonetics and phonology of human languages | The Association for Laboratory P...

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Gotta love an excrescent stop joke #linguistics #phonetics

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

prints andrew

Yeah but most importantly, is Grogu going to talk in the new movie?

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 6mo ago

After a Super Bowl teaser trailer, Disney drops the full-length trailer for ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu,’ its first Star Wars film since ‘The Rise of Skywalker.’

Just heard a reading of the 4th Amendment at the People’s Filibuster by the Public Theater, right after someone gave me this whistle to put on my keychain. I hate this timeline so so much.

📣 ICE OUT FOR GOOD! 🪧 NYC Stands with Minneapolis 📆 Friday, January 23rd ⏰ 4:00 PM 📍 Union Square, NYC On January 23rd, we will rally and march in solidarity with Minneapolis-St. Paul as they face an expanding occupation and escalating ICE violence. Info: bit.ly/4jPDjw2

I love how New Yorkers are wishing each other Happy New Year and Happy New Mayor all in the same text.

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

I'm not the only one on Bluesky saying this, but maybe together we can bring it into being: Brad Lander for first deputy mayor in the Mamdani administration.

This man hates this city. Imagine running for a mayor in a city where between 600 and 700 languages - some of whom are some of the last speakers in the world - and going "diversity can be a weakness"

no@koshpointoh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Andrew Cuomo interview this morning on MSNBC and he… -said diversity could be a weakness -continued to repeatedly mispronounce “Mamdami” -CONFUSED TWO BLACK ANCHORS WITH EACH OTHER

NYC linguists give the linguistic answer, but also patiently explain why this isn't an excuse: “We can learn hard names. We can do it. We can figure out how the spellings map to the sounds. We can all get there. We just have to practice.” - @laurelmack.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why Can’t People Pronounce ‘Zohran Mamdani’? (Gift Article)

Friends and foes keep getting it wrong. Mr. Mamdani says, “It’s pretty phonetic honestly.”

nytimes.com

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

I assume NYC should be thanking Portland for introducing blow up aliens, animals and characters to the resistance #nokings

In honor of Indigenous People's Day, here's a very brief timeline of the revitalization of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. hilo.hawaii.edu/chancellor/s...

Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi! ʻŌlelo Resource of the Month: A timeline of significant milestones for Hawaiian language - UH Hilo Stories

In the second of a new monthly column, UH Hilo Director of Native Hawaiian Engagement Pele Harman shares a timeline of significant milestones for Hawaiian language.

hilo.hawaii.edu

I'm enjoying this thread about the greatest lyricists, but I can't include John Prine ever since I learned about Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian.

Trixie Belden, Schoolgirl Shamus@trixiebelden1015.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Andy Partridge of XTC, exquisite & erudite wordplay. I agree with Elvis Costello, Gillian Welch, John Prine, and Leonard Cohen. I enjoy the words of Mary Chaplin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Natalie Merchant, & Bowie in all things, “Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow” always please me when I hear it

If you’ve ever asked AI to summarize a paper, you know it provides only a surface-level and uncritical description. Even if you asked it for a review, what criteria would it use to provide meaningful critical feedback? If it said “X is unclear”, how would you know humans would feel that way?

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket. aaai.org/aaai-launche... >>

So I take it we're still not going to get to hear Grogu speak? I've been waiting since 2019 (from before we knew his name!) to learn whether they'd make him sound like Yoda or have him just speak Basic, as he obviously should 😆 slate.com/technology/2...

A Linguist on What Baby Yoda’s First Words Might Be

Even if Baby Yoda lived with other Yoda-style speakers in the past, it’s still doubtful that he would have typical Yoda syntax.

slate.com

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 11mo ago

‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ trailer is light on dialogue, heavy on out-of-context action, and doesn’t give any of the plot away. But boy, does it have weird little guys and weird big guys in spades.

I found an example in the wild on here of a possible suffix usage that we were discussing in class. I want to show my students, but since the post is critical of the administration, I'm worried about potential consequences, even though the content is entirely irrelevant. This is what we've come to.

Did they not see Kaʻiana in **Chief of War**?

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This might be the dumbest fucking sentence I’ve ever seen

The ambiguity of this headline is pretty great. Have we reached the singularity, and this is the only actual proof?

I say aloud often that one of the worst catastrophes of this era will be the dismantling of the American science infrastructure. Sorry to be reposting the NYT, but the wording of this headline is more stark and apt than usual. 🎁 link (via my institutional subscription, which I'm not paying for)

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

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Someday when we can look back at this time, we'll see that there were some profiles in courage. Many judges who made the right call, so many incredibly brave civil servants, labor and immigrant leaders, a handful of college administrator (but a few), even a couple of politicians.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"

I just want something to make a difference so badly. Big kudos to the CDC folks, I fervently hope something comes of it.

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 11mo ago

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)