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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 14d

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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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 19d

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
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Hannah Treadway @treadwayhannah.bsky.social · 24d

New paper in Isogloss! We look at the role of ambient exposure to code-switching in the processing of contextually unattested, but syntactically licit, switches in L2 learners of Spanish. Implications for experience-based processing are discussed.

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Disentangling grammar and experience | Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you! It turned out to be lots of fun discussion and questions!

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · 25d

I’m teaching research methods in psycho/neuroling today in my Language and Brain seminar, complete with an RStudio tutorial and an Instructional Pilot that my students are going to help me design, and this feels very relatable. I’m so excited.

John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 25d

Teaching graduate statistics is such a wonderful experience - I love being in the position where I can say here are all these cool resources, here's what you can do, here's how to do good science #academicsky #R

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · 29d

Had a great time presenting some exploratory analyses from my dissertation tonight in a poster session at #SNL2025, and looking forward to sharing another poster tomorrow night in poster session D!

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Sep 6

You’d think that after having walked to campus during tornado watches and having experienced multiple severe thunderstorm warnings, tornado warnings, and hurricanes, I’d no longer be phased by severe weather, but alas.

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Sep 6

The jump scare that was my AC kicking on in the middle of a tornado warning.

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Sep 6

I will say that a tornado warning was not on my “moving from Florida to the Northeast” bingo card, but here we are.

Tornado warning from the National Weather Service for the Hudson Valley area of New York.

Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Jul 28

First photo: my first day on UF’s campus, November 1, 2020.

Second photo: my last day on UF’s campus, July 24, 2025. Oh, how the time flies.

(And as you can see from the first photo, it did take me four attempts to find parking and to successfully navigate to/around UF back in 2020.)

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Jul 21

After five years here, I’ve made it to my last week in Gainesville. This week I’m moving to NY to start my new chapter as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Bard College.

How do you fit a goodbye into 200-something characters? Bittersweet, to say the least. I’ll sure miss Gville.

A purple sky at sunset in Gainesville, FL.

Golden hour in Plaza of the Americas at the University of Florida — sun peeking through the trees.

The sun sets in Plaza of the Americas at the University of Florida. The sun rays are shining through the sprinklers.

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a nguyễn @scientifical.bsky.social · Jun 27

I'm looking to recruit participants aged 18+ who are based in the United States and speak English at home. You'll need headphones for this study (it's listening to audio clips), it will last ~30 minutes, and you can receive $5 for participating!
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Reinaldo Cabrera Pérez @reycabreraperez.bsky.social · Jun 24

Looking forward to this important conversation and exchange of ideas! 🤩🤓🙌🏼

Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · Jun 24

LSA Presidential Research Forum

Join us as scholars rethink terms like “native speaker” and “bilingual”— and work toward empirically driven, contextually grounded characterizations of language use.

Register to attend - www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

#LSA #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Jun 11

Last year after I taught SLA, I decided to start up a science communication IG to talk about bilingualism/L2 stuff to non-expert audiences. I shut down my IG in Jan, but have since moved to Substack! Share widely with friends/fam who might be interested in bilingual stuff 🙂

Dr. Grace — Science Communication @gracetalkslanguage.bsky.social · Jun 10

How do you define bilingualism — or can we define it? After struggling a bit to figure out how I want my SciComm endeavors to take shape after IG, I’ve taken to Substack. Check out my two most recent posts and share widely to non-linguists!

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Defining bilingualism (?)

One summer when I taught a Second Language Acquisition class, I asked my students if they considered themselves to be bilingual.

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · May 9

Thank you so much!!!!

Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · May 1

Five years, come and gone.

Laughing in orange and blue doctoral regalia after University of Florida doctoral commencement ceremony.

Posing in orange and blue doctoral regalia after University of Florida doctoral commencement ceremony.

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Mar 12

Thank you!!!

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Mar 8

Tusind tak! Altid sjov at finder nogen anden “i naturen” (in the wild 😂) som kan tale på dansk 😊👋🏼

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Mar 8

But I would argue that everyone is meant to understand linguistics if they’re curious and want to know more! (or, I mean, everyone deserves access to this knowledge and information). Thank you for reposting! 😊

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Mar 8

For example, a sentence like “who did you see on which day of the week?” will be a lot more difficult to process than a simple sentence like “I ate dinner.” So my dissertation zeroed in one type of sentence, and looked at different modalities of processing.

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thank you! I forgot to add the alt-text in my post-defense daze 🤦🏼‍♀️ my dissertation basically looked at how second language speakers process sentences in their second language! Linguistically speaking, there’s lots of different types of sentences, some of which can be more difficult to process!

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thank you so much!! 🎊

Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thank you Jorge!! 🎉🎊

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Mar 8

Defending yesterday was truly amazing because I got to celebrate this achievement with so many people who have helped me get to the finish line. For one last time in this PhD journey, I got to share with my friends and mentors near and far my passion and enthusiasm for psycholinguistics.

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Grace deMeurisse @gdemeurisse.bsky.social · Mar 8

Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation.

When I was 17, I learned Danish and from that point I wanted nothing more than to understand how the brain processes our second language.

What started as just one question became something so much larger. Ten years later, Dr. Grace deMeurisse!

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