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she/they. cuban american born on the bayou. linguist, artist, general delight. speech perception: social expectation, exemplar models. postdoc working in data science ed. https://sites.google.com/view/ear-scicomm/

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · May 4

Hey if you or your language and #linguistics students are looking for some end-of-term de-stressing, I put a couple more pages from my coloring book project up here: tinyurl.com/coloring-gre...

Coloring sheet. Block letters in the middle of the page read “There’s no such thing as ‘lazy’ language.” The text is surrounded by illustrations of snails.

Completed coloring sheet. Block letters read "Every body has an accent," with one word on each line. A forearm palm up shows three tattoos in an homage to American traditional style: A rose; a horseshoe with '[ɡʊd lʌk' written on it, and a heart tattoo with a banner reading "[mɑm mam mʌm mɒm]]". In the space around the arm, a pair of hands meant to represent the ASL sign for "sign" and a mouth. The negative space is filled with stars.

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 3d

Something that I think is a little funny is that sometimes on large email threads I address it "Dear so-and-so et al.,"

No one has ever commented on it

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking about that post about how grim it is that spam texts used to be about like winning free things without any effort and now they're about like the opportunity to do work

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 5d

Is a band’s best album the one that the most people like or the one that their fans like best? (E.g., Merriweather Post Pavillion is almost certainly animal collective’s most popular album but I feel like fans really like Strawberry Jam and Feels)

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s a group from yesterday. They were back this morning and I totally almost missed them except for someone’s dog being real excited

A group of three female turkeys crossing a residential street. They look like dinosaurs with bald scaly heads and giant clawed feet

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 5d

During the winter they close the main field in the park to humans and it becomes a Canada goose park

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 5d

Of course!

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 5d

We get wild turkeys in our neighborhood just infrequently enough that every time they’re here people just kinda stand around and look at them

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 8d

Kawakami just batting 1000

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 8d

I really really really really really really liked Under the Eye of the Big Bird

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 8d

Love your outfit!!

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 9d

Speculative fiction concept: An alternate world where people read the syllabus

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 14d

On my second ever Amtrak

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 14d

Train time baybee

Selfie of me on the train. I’m wearing an n95 but I am smiling with my eyes

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 14d

I’m on my first ever Amtrak and I’m dedicating the ride to all my train loving mutuals

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 17d

I feel like we should be talking about twin peaks the return a lot more, possibly every day

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 19d

The silver lining of relatively minor earthquakes is the built in small talk

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 28d

Phoning in a terrible teaching statement for a rush application one day and getting a “Writing Impactful Teaching Statements” workshop advertisement the next day like a personal attack

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · Sep 11

I love doing long division, always have, always will

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · Sep 8

the Coco Chanel quote, but it's looking at the email and removing one exclamation point before sending

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CJ @virmalised.us · Aug 31

i can't believe that 2001 came out nearly 60 years ago and tech guys just made chatbots anyway

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · Aug 30

I want to move back to Houston

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · Aug 29

(i'm the guy)

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · Aug 29

guy who thinks vanilla ice cream is boring but gets excited every time they have fior di latte or sweet cream

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · Aug 29

Logging onto the work zoom like sorry I’m crying, everything is fine, I was just listening to adrianne lenker, it’s okay

em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · Aug 29

I like how when you're describing classroom sizes cap is both an abbreviation for capacity and also the cap as in max/limit of the people you can put in the room