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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t really advise students about their degree courses but, my goodness, when it comes to options, tracks, the choices they make en route to their degrees, I tell them to do what they want to do, rather than what they might think they ought to do.

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 9h

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 9h

Congratulations Alexandra! 🥳

Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 14h

Advanced Tongue Route, obviously #IPA #Linguistics

PoPville @popville.bsky.social · 14h

What the Helen of Troy Does this Sign Mean? www.popville.com/2025/10/what...

What the Helen of Troy Does this Sign Mean? - PoPville

www.popville.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

I need people to stop referring to conversion "therapy" as something that's been discredited or doesn't work. That's like saying torture is "discredited" or doesn't work. That they don't work for their stated purpose is secondary to the fact that they DO work for their REAL purpose:

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 2d

"certain types of bodies are indicative of moral repugnance" is a fascist logic. i know you fucking know better! shut the fuck up! your jokes arent even good!

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 3d

Big news! Starting in 2027, @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org will publish the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—a new LSA journal highlighting the richness of Black language & culture across the globe.
Learn more: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... @acharityhudley.bsky.social

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 5d

Thread!!!!

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5d

FINALLY some good fuckin science
www.cell.com/action/showP...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6d

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 6d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 7d

Curious / terrified about peer review? We are here to help! Join @mariamaly.bsky.social and I October 30th!

Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 7d

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?

Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.

9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 8d

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

www.theguardian.com

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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 8d

Eeeeee chapters for this Handbook of Sociophonetics Methods I am co-editing have been rolling in all morning - so exciting!! 🤓

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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 8d

heh well I feel a little impostery about that given this is the ~hundredth time I am re-learning this particular truth, but perhaps that just makes me a relatable role model, an exemplar of how it's very possible to perpetually fall of the writing horse but then get back on it for good stretches

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 8d

oh my god. did you know? writing every day is easier when you write every day

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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 10d

definitely Praat - me and my laptop go into the coat closet (for sound attenuation) and I can immediately see whether what I've recorded has the cues I'm hoping to show

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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 10d

Do you direct a federally supported #UndergraduateResearch program? Consider submitting a paper to a special issue of PURM, which will focus on what has been accomplished with federal funding and how undergraduate research mentoring is being reshaped by funding cuts.
www.elon.edu/u/academics/...

Call for Papers

Call for Papers PURM currently runs on a themed-issue format, but general submissions are also welcomed. The invited guest editors handle the submissions to the themed-issue paper calls, while the...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 12d

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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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 14d

Im begging the NYT to spend time talking to people who actually teach and work at universities. Especially ones that don't have billion dollar endowments.

My issues are AI use, crumbling infrastructure, vanishing staff, unfunded state mandates, a customer service model of education...

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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 15d

Georgetown University is conducting a search for a one-year postdoctoral associate in Applied Linguistics to begin on January 1, 2026. Candidates should apply by October 31 at apply.interfolio.com/174232

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 22d

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 26d

The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus.

We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · Sep 9

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.

I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Sep 9

Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
www.mpi.nl/publications...

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 29d

Life under occupation. 6000 block of 8th St NW, Washington DC, 9/10/25

Outside of a red brick building, a yard sign is stuck in the grass. The text on the sign, in bold white text on a black background: ICE KIDNAPPED A COMMUNITY MEMBER HERE

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · Sep 9

Constantly hearing how our students need to be experts in “gen AI” to compete on the job market, meanwhile the end goal of every executive is to hire absolutely no one, to pay absolutely no one else’s salary, just to let the little machine make something that they can still sell a subscription for

Brett Morris @brettmorris.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Lazy"!

Hollywood Reporter article about Wondery exec Jeanine Wright starting an AI generated podcast slop factory

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Sep 7

I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’m not looking at colleges with my kids for some years yet but the question about staffing in particular is one I think every parent should ask

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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · Sep 2

Y'all! I'm super honored to be the keynote speaker at next year's Georgetown University Linguistics Roundtable Conference.

The theme is Futuring Linguistics!

What does the future of linguistics look like? Come engage w/ us in the big questions!

gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2026-un...

GURT 2026 Call for Papers - Georgetown University Round Table

The GURT 2026 Organizing Committee is proud to announce that the call for papers is now open! THEME: FUTURING LINGUISTICS: Content, Curriculum & Careers What does the future of linguistics look like? ...

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