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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Mar 23

It should! ！

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Mar 23

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Mar 23

Exciting to see Dr. Leonard cite Essentials in Linguistics 2nd Ed at the #AAAL2025 plenary! @candershamilton.bsky.social @bron.bsky.social @ludling.bsky.social

A photo of a room full of conference attendees with Dr. Leonard standing on stage on the right in front of a purple backdrop. On the left is a slide that reads "guidance from Essentials in Linguistics, 2nd edition" and a quote from the book.

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Feb 8

My undergrad crip linguists and I LOVE Essentials in Linguistics 2nd Ed ❤️ I've heard nothing but praise for it! @candershamilton.bsky.social

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Jan 27

Started the new semester with discovering I lost my keys who knows how many days ago. This doesn't bode well! 😩

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · Jan 24

There are lots of good step-by-step guides

EFF's is solid: ssd.eff.org
Digital Defense Fund is excellent specifically for abortion related privacy: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides

Wired has a guide: www.wired.com/2017/12/digi...

But the first step is just committing to yourself to take a step

Surveillance Self-Defense

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Jan 24

Getting ready for the semester to start on Monday, I'm both ready to be back and, in a more literal sense, not quite ready because *so much to do*

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Jan 19

RIP

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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.bsky.social · Jan 17

💯 It's our 100th episode! 💯

To celebrate, we're giving you 100 fun facts about linguistics this month

See how many you recognize and tell us about your favourite linguistics facts this month in honour of our 100th episodiversary!

100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics

This is our hundredth episode that's enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we've put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and

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Dr. Henny Kupferstein @drhenny.bsky.social · Jan 9

My colleague is looking for research participants to study workplace experience of autistic women. Please support meaningful Autistic-led research by sharing this research recruitment with your network! Email [email protected] to participate #researchstudy #autismresearch #workplace

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heron (not a fish) @crawfits.bsky.social · Sep 26

i may have a phd but my real passion lies in changing song lyrics to feature my cat.

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Dec 16

I'm using it in the spring! 😁

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Nov 16

The LavLang Summer Institute 2025 is accepting applications! I will be teaching a course in Crip Linguistics🦻

💻 Program dates: June 9 - June 19, 2025 (online!)
Pass along to interested students & colleagues!

🗓️ Priority deadline to apply: December 15, 2024
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Microsoft Forms

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · Nov 19

The Department of Psychology at University of Wisconsin–Madison is searching for an assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share widely!
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor, Computational Approaches to Language - Cluster Hire - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Job Summary: This position is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Psychology at UW-Madison. The search is for a job candidate whose exper...

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · Nov 11

Why aren't you using alt text?

Why use Alt Text ?
6 frame comic describing and illustrating uses and benefits of alt text.

Slow internet
Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images
Drawing of a social media post with a square where the image should be, with words in place of the image.

Findability
Alt text helps to search content
Drawing of a search query box with "dog with banana" in it, and the search return pulls up an image.

Screen readers
Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software.
Drawing of a black computer screen with white text and an arrow points to it saying "alt text"

Translation
Alt text can be translated
Drawing of a google translate web page showing German to English and a social media post with "hahaha ein hund" and German alt text in the photo space.

Readability
Text in images can be made legible
Drawing of a cartoon character with a speech bubble. Arrow and text pointing to it says "a character says hello guys"

Disabiguation
Description helps clarify intent.
A drawing that looks like it could be either a duck with its beak open or a rabbit with its head facing up has a description next to it saying "my pet bunny"

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Nov 16

Seconded 😥

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Nov 16

I did not know this and definitely cited them in my dissertation. 😭

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · Nov 16

The LavLang Summer Institute 2025 is accepting applications! I will be teaching a course in Crip Linguistics🦻

💻 Program dates: June 9 - June 19, 2025 (online!)
Pass along to interested students & colleagues!

🗓️ Priority deadline to apply: December 15, 2024
forms.office.com/r/sFnM0TkM4q

Microsoft Forms

forms.office.com

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Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social · Nov 15

Starter pack of people doing LGBTQ+/queer linguistics (writ large)!

Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added :)

go.bsky.app/2mjmgqt

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Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social · May 31

Updating all my profiles from ABD to PhD is soooooo satisfying 🎓

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American Dialect Society @americandialect.org · Jan 6

"Enshittification" is the 2023 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. americandialect.org/2023-word-of...

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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · Jan 6

At Emily Bender's plenary: Meaning isn't in the form - which means that Chat-GPT, which only sees form, is never going to 'do' meaning - it's not going to 'understand/learn' anything #LSA2024

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