I hope whoever invented glow in the dark pacifiers is a millionaire. Truly a singular innovation.

"What do you do with a Southerner who doesn’t sound Southern?: Conflicting sociolinguistic cues in geographical classification" -- collab with Annette D'Onofrio now out First View in the Journal of Linguistic Geography (open access! Download away!) doi.org/10.1017/jlg....

Sociolinguistic grad students + socio professors with grad students who wish to attend LSA – consider the Elizabeth Pine Dayton Award, which covers $500 towards registration, travel, & lodging for #LSA2027 in San Francisco!! Deadline 6/30 - SELF NOMINATIONS ENCOURAGED!! www.lsadc.org/elizabeth_da...

Working on a research project that would benefit from feedback before you present it at a conference? Looking for a collaborative, low-stakes venue to talk about your and others’ research? Check out the new American Dialect Society Research Incubator (ADSRI1)! americandialect.org/research-inc...

Am I wrong though?

In retrospect, a strawberry filled cake for our linguistics graduation reception was 🩸🔪a choice🔪🩸

Sigh. This is a depressing but important thread to read through. Students, I get. But fellow academics pulling these stunts? Ugh.

Diachronica journal@diachronica.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Diachronica gets a paper bump every (northern) summer, and we're seeing submissions pick up. This year, there are many more submissions with AI involvement (declared or undeclared). Here's a brief thread about why the vast majority of such #linguistics papers won't make it past my desk:

Have you been asked by a medical provider recently for consent to have an "AI" scribe record your visit? Us, too. And we have **thoughts** buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Why you should refuse to let your doctor record you

By: Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney At a recent appointment, Emily’s physical therapist (who knows some about her research) said, “Before we get started,...

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Obsessed with these little infographics(?) my 9 year old made about spelling frequency for different sounds in American English 🥹🥹 The linguist mama pride is off the charts!

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet. What are we doing here?

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

Lovely interview of Penny Eckert by Annette D'Onofrio - several quotes feel deeply healing to me, but this one in particular really resonated with me: (1/3) doi.org/10.1111/josl...

Sociolinguistics in Practice: Interview With Penelope Eckert

In this interview, Penelope Eckert discusses her life experiences and career as a linguist. Eckert describes a lifelong fascination with language, from her earliest observations of stylistic variatio...

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NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts

Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?

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Chilling 😰

anthony k webster🐿@ethnopoetics.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Indiana University To Discontinue More Than 100 Academic Programs www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

What a great headline

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

In her #NWAV53 plenary, King discusses an example of a juror being dismissed from the pool due to forestressing in the word police (so PO-lice), because the prosecutor claimed that the pronunciation showed animus towards law enforcement. And this is exactly why I study prosody!

Attention #linguistics nerds, the #NWAV53 live feed has begun!

Jen Nycz@jennycz.bsky.social · 9mo ago

On my way to Michigan for #NWAV53 ✈️ flying northwesterly to DTW, like northern cities TRAP

Uhhhh so apparently this is the AI summary of the Southern Vowel Shift when you google it? Submitted without comment 🤡

New open access article! Collaborative work with the wonderful Dana Serditova examining patterning & potential sources of certain local phrasal constructions in New Orleans English - 'by [residence]', 'for [time]', & 'on [temporal deixis]' authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

::slowly stands while clapping::

Apparently 'Chronic Stress' is a journal name. But also: this e-mail subject represents an accurate statement 🤣

Why does the acronym ‘NOLA’ hit such a nerve in post-Katrina New Orleans? Answers touch on the relationship between language, place, identity, authenticity, gentrification, appropriation…all the things I spend most of my time thinking about! www.axios.com/local/new-or...

NOLA vs. New Orleans: Why it hits a nerve with residents

Whatever you do, don't say N'awlins.

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My 8 year old while watching a cartoon today: "What is that noise?" Me, tuning in to figure out what he's talking about: "oh. That's a phone ringing. Phones used to ring and sound like that..." 👵⚰️🪦☠️

The absolute jumpscare that occurs when listening to 'Hozier radio' on spotify and that one song he did with Noah Kahan comes on 😭

Another lovely Labov obit by @betsysneller.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social and Meredith Tamminga. This one takes a birds eye view of how Labov has contributed to where the field is going, which is a nice forward-looking complement to Eckert's obit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word....

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Newest ep of Culture Study is a must-listen: it mobilizes the collective brilliance & pure rizz of 2 of the smartest, coolest women out there (@mixedlinguist.bsky.social + @annehelen.bsky.social) & is JAMPACKED w/ accessible info about sociolinguistic variation 😍🤗 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Ridiculously Interesting World of American Accents

Podcast Episode · Culture Study Podcast · 08/06/2025 · 1h 18m

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Absolutely beautiful obituary for Bill Labov, describing a life rich in insights and in humanity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

language change in the news! h/t all our @americandialect.org PADS contributors... apnews.com/article/migr... @joeystanley.com @drkatcarm.bsky.social @lhlew.bsky.social... 😊

My linguist brain always tingles when I pass this place 🙇🏽‍♀️

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · last yr.

Fifth Ave jammed #handsoff