also like, non-linguistically, I beg your fucking pardon?

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Sociolinguistics, Open Rank - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Linguistics at Stanford University seeks applicants for a junior or senior appointment at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor, tenured Associate Professor, or Full Professor...

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I’m sorry but that new dialect quiz is wack

Just spent some time refining this transcription of a graduate student conversation, using it as an example of how singing can shift topic. I usually don't put the length of silences in like this but a grad student brought it up the other day so I thought I'd try it here, seems relevant

“The satisfaction of having communicated successfully goes beyond the pleasure of being understood in the narrow sense. It is a ratification of one’s place in the world and one’s way of being human.” (Tannen, 1981, p. 145) a quote a student excerpted from tomorrow's class reading :)

My department is hiring: “Candidates must have expertise in Rhetorical Studies with a focus on politics, such as (but not limited to): social movements, political campaigns, advocacy, activism, etc.” www.sujobopps.com/postings/114...

Assistant Professor- Communication and Rhetorical Studies

The Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor to begin in August 2027. The Department is positioned within the College o...

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New blog post on my website! "Mexican Spanish slang and gender on Netflix’s La Casa de las Flores." This is an outtake from @thedansimonson.bsky.social's & my recently published paper in Spanish in Context (linked in the blog post). Hope folks find this interesting. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

This is also a facet of imperialism and colonization.

Thai prostitution warning as 5,000 US sailors arrive in town after 200 days at sea

The USS Abraham Lincoln will dock at Thailand's resort city of Pattaya where prostitution is legal

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In other news I did some yard work today and now I feel too physically and mentally exhausted to do literally anything else

I dreamt I was going to audition to be in a performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, & I was like I guess I can do this because I know all the songs. And I was thinking I could audition for both Magenta & Columbia but that maybe I would prefer Magenta because it seemed like she had less makeup

My rabbit hole for the day www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2019/01...

Anarchists, Horses, Heroes: 12 Things You Didn't Know about the Great Boston Molasses Flood

The weirder and more notable aspects of the disaster, via Dark Tide author Stephen Puleo.

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I'm excited to teach today 😁 even if I am sleep deprived. I get to talk about linguistic descriptivism vs. prescriptivism, what discourse/discourse analysis is, and more! 🤩

So, what's the etiquette around adding publications "in prep" to a CV? (Obviously in their own section, not with the published stuff!). Does it come across like desperate padding, or can it actually help to indicate you have things in the pipeline?

IMO particle physics is far less practical than nearly every social science, but people act like it’s the opposite. Like, my guy, quarks will never have an effect on your daily life, but you’re going to be involved in multiple stance triangles every day, and you won’t even be aware of them.

I know many of us who were raised by this film now look back on it with complex feelings, but I know that this is what he intended for the film to do, and I’m glad for the people I know whose lives it saved.

Will McKinley@willmckinley.bsky.social · last wk.

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

We’re going to watch Nine to Five (1980) 😎💕

you know what, going back to teaching after a sabbatical has been good so far because actually the students already know that no instructors want to see them on their laptops, with their phones, or using AI. So I had only 1 student in each class today that even had a laptop out at the beginning

Take care everyone. Live your life in such a way that people are genuinely sad when you pass on.

After 12 years, Sylvia and I's paper is finally published! www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... 1/

Gendered variation in Mexican slang

Abstract This study examines how the distribution of two common Mexican Spanish slang phrases — “no mames” (no shit) and “no manches” (no way) — is related to the gender of the speaker. We use data fr...

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you know what I love? is when people say little things to themselves that you know they wouldn’t bother saying if there was no one around. I think Goffman wrote about this, maybe with response cries.

I’m proud that my gray hair growout which has probably been in progress for at least 2 years inspired a friend in her 60s to stop dyeing her hair. Lucky for her, she has very short hair so it happened quickly and she has much less gray than I do!

It’s so weird to me that like a year ago I thought anything to do with Ancient Rome, outside of maybe Pompeii, was super boring and uninteresting…but now I get SO excited when I see or hear anything about Ancient Rome.

I just watched The Truman Show for the first time courtesy of my partner, and damn, that was good

Just reminding everyone to put as little effort as possible into your physical appearance on the first day of class to set the bar low for that shit

It's finally officially published! 🎉 "Gendered variation in Mexican slang: Data from Twitter and speaker intuitions"

I’ll be the first to admit my Goodreads presence is a little unhinged

I am blessed among academics because I just had my first eye exam in 10 years and my vision is 20/20

“The greatest danger facing higher education is not the ‘demographic cliff’ but the loss of its fundamental mission to educate students.” truthout.org/articles/neo...

Neoliberal Policy Hollowed Out Universities. Now They Are Collapsing.

Administrators treat their universities like businesses — that’s why they’re failing.

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my male colleague is so sweet for complimenting my grey hair grow out!