Scott Kiesling
@pittprofdude.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh. Sociolinguist, Linguistic Anthropologist, Discourse Analyst. Language, GENDER, and Sexuality. Trying and failing to keep up with just about everything. GENDER: Ambivalent masculine Assigned male at birth
Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published. C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.
The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset
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a passel of masked goons refuse to identify themselves, beat up a man, and throw him in an unmarked vehicle = they can do this to anyone + anyone claiming to be a federal agent can do this
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 12mo agoFederal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
Don't mess with CMU students! www.instagram.com/p/DMaogIgMPS...
AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI. For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you. Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.
Terrible. Notice the priority is always securing the mask. Happy July 4th.
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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So much for "Leges sine morobus vanae."
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations. This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
Yep. And they'll have less alumni contributions too. Not that I ever gave them anything but it's a 'nope, never' at this point.
Doc000@doc000.bsky.social · last yr.If UPenn thinks that Trump is now going to just go away and leave them alone since they gave him their lunch money today, they're gonna be in for some serious fucking disappointment.
Does R have any packages for constructing implicational scales? #linguistics #stats #academicsky
The White House's proposed FY26 budget would cut NIH funding by >40%. Our new #SCIMaP report projects the budget would lead to economic losses throughout the US with $10M+ lost in almost every House district. scienceimpacts.org/fy26 @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
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The extreme enthusiasm some folks in higher ed have for AI is strange. They truly see it as a source of potential liberation from the impossible bind they're living in. The reactions when you pour cold water on it is like you farted in the elevator. My fart: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
More Than Words
A veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last yr.I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥
Why write, and why hold on to Dad's writing? open.substack.com/pub/sfkiesli...
The Pen and the Hand that Holds It
On physical writing
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Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
University is not a business, education is not a product.
I’ve seen a few variations of this making the rounds. I like this one best. I don’t know who the original artist is but thank you to them.
Don't forget!!! Abstracts for NWAV53 are due June 15. There will NOT be an abstract deadline extension; this is in an effort to bring NWAV in line with other large linguistics conferences and we aim to continue it in NWAV 54 and beyond. Get your abstract in today! nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu
UM | NWAV53
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I know there's a lot going on right now to overthink, so here's a little distraction about overthinking. open.substack.com/pub/sfkiesli...
Overthinking 'Overthinking'
Cognitive identities and cognitive habits
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
As someone who has tried to keep this argument alive, I find that it still resonates with most people! It’s just drowned out by all the screaming from the right. But we have to keep making it.
Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · last yr.kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
Great read on limits of LLMs/AGI with lots of receipts. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
A knockout blow for LLMs?
LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb
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There's so much to dunk on in this NYT piece and so little time, but I gotta start here: Some law profs at U Chicago did a study to see if the chatbots could answer questions based on specific materials and found, unsurprisingly, that they make shit up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t... >>
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
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Sorry @thenewrepublic.bsky.social but the Inquirer is NOT Fetterman's hometown paper. He's from Braddock (which it says in the article), which is outside Pittsburgh. SMH. John Fetterman Trashed by Hometown Paper in Scathing Critique newrepublic.com/post/195976/... via @newrepublic.com
John Fetterman Trashed by Hometown Paper in Scathing Critique
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board held nothing back in its condemnation of the Pennsylvania senator.
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The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is HABEAS CORPUS/PROHIBIT/MIDRIFF #wotd #HabeasCorpus #prohibit #midriff
Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
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