If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3w ago

The idea that we have a special duty to prevent the death of languages is instantly compelling to anyone who loves languages. But is it true? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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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Ok, this game rules. You see an object and then have to guess when and where it came from! Anthropeum.com · Jun 23 2026 🟨🟩🟦🟩🟦🟨🟩🟩🟨🟩 73,648 · top 13% of players today!

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her)@artefactual.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

Mmm, not bad but today’s game taught me (1) don’t play while cooking (nearly burnt dinner) (2) my knowledge of material culture of most of Asia is a bit rubbish (3) it’s surprising what I do know! Anthropeum.com · Jun 21 2026 🟩🟥🟩🟨🟨🟦🟦🟩🟩🟦 72,652 · top 12% of players today!

Love that BlueSky is just my lil German acquisition diary fr 😂

I've been noticing some really local features in my German lately- I am fully Ich-Laut where you'd expect (z.B. kriechsset? / kriegst du es?), but the one that always stops me in my tracks is hearing myself delete it syllable finally (z.B. hammwa au? / haben wir auch?). Input is a powerful force!

One of my (now) 6yo's favorite bedtime readings.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2mo ago

Perhaps the greatest newspaper editorial of all time theonion.com/i-work-very-...

In small victories, I answered the phone the other day with a “Frau Ross” and my 5yo loudly interrupted “Frau DOKTOR Ross”

I saw this movie 36 hours ago and feel like I’ve been keeping the biggest secret in the universe about how DELIGHTFUL it is. I’m going to see it again tonight!!!!!

Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Listen to me. The Mandalorian and Grogu is a TREAT, it is DELICIOUS, it is so fun and wild and surprising and sweet. It has ROTJ vibes for me, with critters and different set pieces and laughs and peril. Do not miss seeing it in the theater. Take your kids. This is what Star Wars is all about!!

Published today. The vowel in 'just' is undergoing an independent sound change, separate from any changes to KIT or STRUT. Filed under the ever-growing category of "things that were supposed to be fun little papers, that unexpectedly ended up taking many years" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

“S’il vous plait, das heißt ‘please’” is a real sentence I said to my daughter this week. (She’s starting to recognize acronyms!)

It’s the 4th week of the semester and my Star Wars Language Ideologies class has had about 90% attendance (not required) and is still GAINING new students. Why have I waited so many years to do this???

This has just happened to me AGAIN and I had to say ‘sorry, when your email arrived at 9:30pm on Thursday I was already away from work. I then enjoyed the federal holidays on Friday and Monday and still did not read my email. GUESS YOU’LL HAVE TO WAIT’

Dr 〽️elody Ann Ross@melodyannross.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’m currently on leave but was given edits over the weekend that were DUE MONDAY. I did them because I’m a preciously employed immigrant and publishing is what I pretend will someday secure my career but good lord, editors! Slow Science would change my life, fr

They’re actually replaying this on the live feed RIGHT NOW if you want a little moment of glowing joy in your life

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo ago

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

Just learned that a former friend —who I soundly scolded in 2020 for promoting ‘gargling with lemon water prevents covid’ pseudoscience— is now an assistant prof at our alma mater. You love to see it 🙄🙄

Almost without fail, every time I start gaining a tiny bit of academic momentum, I am suddenly blindsided by an immigration admin project that consumes my every available resource. So, SO exhausting.

Happy Big Boat Stuck Day to those who celebrate!

Apropos of nothing, I just realized that I have not listened to even one minute of screaming metalcore since September 7th of 2025. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m currently on leave but was given edits over the weekend that were DUE MONDAY. I did them because I’m a preciously employed immigrant and publishing is what I pretend will someday secure my career but good lord, editors! Slow Science would change my life, fr

Alessandro Ingrosso@aingrosso.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think. We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science. Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com

Peer review is not there for you to tell experts in the field how you'd prefer the style of the paper to be, or what method or analysis you have a clear bias for. Your job is to check for correctness, spot errors or gaps, protect the integrity of the scientific method, not piss on others.

Chat, are linguists really using ‘decompose’ as a synonym for ‘parse’ these days or is this ChatGPT nonsense?

Can you help my student get participants for their survey? Any English-speakers are desirable! Please boost! www.soscisurvey.de/VGtypes_habi...

My spring/summer course is called “Language Ideologies in a Galaxy Far, Far Away”. There is so much good material, I am so very tired of my students’ media studies being done badly, and this is how I’m going to marry all my many academic loves into a single special interest polycule.

Today I learned that floppen is a stative verb

Isn’t this the ‘complicating action’ that started the Trojan war and sorta resulted in the founding of Rome?

Chip Reader@cheatlines.co · 6mo ago

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

Me: *does too many tasks with like, no food in tummy* 😡 Everything is AWFUL, I HATE this, I just wanna G- *eats one food* -RATEFULLY acknowledge the amazing people in my life 🥹

I had to take a German test recently, the studying for which brought me to tears multiple times because I was unavoidably confronted with the fact that my German has largely been *acquired* and not *learned* As a linguist, this is my ideal approach to language. As an immigrant, it was damaging.

Someone told me that being my friend was ‘really postmodern’ (I have to choose to read this one as a compliment, which, res ipsa etc etc)

Lilah Sturges@lilahsturges.com · 7mo ago

Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?

This year I saw someone brand themselves online as a ‘former Professor of English’ and it turns out they were a TESOL adjunct at a community college for one semester. I can’t exactly explain it, but this is the vibe I want to bring in 2026.

Today my 5yo asked me if there was such a thing as grape JUICE and I nearly fell out of my chair. Imagine an American 5yo not knowing that grape juice exists 😂

Anyone want to see my German vowel space (ish) instead of scrolling for a second? GOOSE fronting will not be denied in any language!!!