Had to code switch out of the cot-caught merger last night to keep my buddy from faithfully transcribing “Voyage of the Don Treader” at pub trivia

Just thinking maybe, perhaps, possibly, it’s time to stop putting JK Rowling things in the crossword puzzle

Now I'm wondering whether anyone has ever made an International Phonetic Alphabet crossword. It would take care of the all diacritic/accent mark issues, but I imagine you'd have people coming at you with dialectal difference pitchforks, particularly for vowels (e.g., the /pɛn/ - /pIn/ divide)

AVCX Classic@avcx.bsky.social · 5d ago

AVCX crosswords *do not* treat the letter N as equivalent to Ñ (bc they are different). If you’ve got NIÑO going across, it can’t be PIANO down, it has to be ARAÑA etc. And if you have ANO in the grid, it’s getting clued as “Acapulco Anus,” not “Spanish year.” Need to put this in our spec sheet

Today in New Building Antics, the bathrooms have flooded YET AGAIN (it happens about once a month) and this time! This time!!! THIS TIME there are larvae swimming in the standing water.

Avery Pattullo@luciapattullo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Today in New Building Antics, the bathrooms have flooded!

A Bit of Glottal Fry and Laurie

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 3w ago

Turn a movie into a linguistics article

Pretty egregious typo on the title page of this book 😬

Down the Shore!

I’ve lived in Philly for 12 years and somehow had never been to the Italian Market before today. It’s wonderful!!!

I participated in an fMRI study today and the WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP tink tink tink tink tink tink tink is probably my favorite beat drop

Avery Pattullo@luciapattullo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If this grad school thing doesn’t work out I’m opening a nightclub called Voxel where the dance music is recordings from inside an MRI machine.

There is somewhere in my kitchen a live chipmunk and I have never been closer to abandoning my entire life and taking to the high seas.

Mr. Van Eman - freshman and AP bio. Folksy and brilliant, with a particular affinity for botany. He was so passionate that I still get excited when I think about the Calvin cycle. He had super high expectations for us all year but when the AP exams were over he taught us how to play bridge.

🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐@rexparker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thinking about shitty teachers is a bummer so, what about good teachers? Who’s in your Hall of Fame & why? ⭐️ Mrs. Flam, 5th grade. Colorful polyester suits, orangish hair in an updo. Played guitar & taught us to sing age-inappropriate folk songs. Could see I was struggling & was unfailingly kind ❤️

Each kid in my daughter’s kindergarten class wrote and illustrated a book this spring & they presented their books today. I know I’m supposed to have a slightly more sophisticated understanding of child language development but I’m pretty sure it’s 75% witchcraft

Oh my god this could not have been more perfect if I'd planned it

Every once in a while I will revisit something (a paper, some code, writing, whatever) that I struggled with in the past and the rush of realizing I've learned stuff in the interim that makes it less of a struggle the second time around should be bottled and sold in gas stations.

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

You don’t say, Canvas?!

There is maybe no better feeling on earth than finding a function in R that does exactly what you need (and having it work on the first try)!

It's that time of year again! Just saw my first professional photoshoot in front of the bell tower.

Avery Pattullo@luciapattullo.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s the beginning of Graduation Photo On Campus season which is my very favorite time of year because you’ve got about 600 young women in white sundresses with professional photogs and full glam makeup and one inevitable guy whose mom is yelling at him to just smile normally, dammit

Today was my very last day of classes ever (at least as a student!) A little bittersweet, but only a little.

It's that point of the semester where every conversation with faculty and fellow students goes something like, "Hey, how are you?" "Oh........... you know..........." * thousand yard stare * "Yup." "Yup." .... .... ... "Okay, well, hang in there!" "You too!"

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Don't put off your homework 'til the last minute, kids, especially if your homework involves significant computer processing time. My laptop sounds like it's about to take off into low earth orbit and my homework is no closer to being done than it was an hour ago.

Man, they’re pushing AI literally everywhere these days, huh?

When I worked in a rat lab, we indexed depression by how long it took them to stop swimming when you put them in water. Rats are neutrally buoyant; when they give up, they float. 15 yrs later, I wonder how many trials w/a given rat will be valid. At some point, won't they figure it out & have fun?

Today in nominative determinism, the electrician who came to the house was named Sparks.

Annual photo of the prettiest corner of campus

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

Depluralize a movie: Crow, She Wrote

Jonathan Peelle@jpeelle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Depluralize a movie: One monkey

What I intended as I was typing: "Sorry, I've been off my computer all weekend." What Outlook predicted I wanted to say:

Re-read the original Harry Harlow paper and it reminded me that when my daughter was an infant and absolutely captivated by lights, we called the elaborate light fixture in our kitchen The Wire Mother because it was the first thing she started to smile at.