Dustin A. Chacón
@lingdustin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. {Neuro/psycho}linguistics, syntax, and South Asian languages. He/him 🏳️🌈.
Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats.
www.lingdustin.net
Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats.
www.lingdustin.net
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What if there was a whole league of legends
November 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
What if there was a whole league of legends
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Really big announcement! See @wtimkey.bsky.social's thread for the details on an exciting new preprint from the NYU-UMass Syntactic Ambiguity Processing group. It is the culmination of the team's research efforts over these last couple of years, and we're really happy with it.
New Preprint: osf.io/eq2ra
Reading feels effortless, but it's actually quite complex under the hood. Most words are easy to process, but some words make us reread or linger. It turns out that LLMs can tell us about why, but only in certain cases... (1/n)
Reading feels effortless, but it's actually quite complex under the hood. Most words are easy to process, but some words make us reread or linger. It turns out that LLMs can tell us about why, but only in certain cases... (1/n)
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Really big announcement! See @wtimkey.bsky.social's thread for the details on an exciting new preprint from the NYU-UMass Syntactic Ambiguity Processing group. It is the culmination of the team's research efforts over these last couple of years, and we're really happy with it.
this is what it feels like to be a professor
Serebii Update: Pokémon Pokopia features a unique Tangrowth called Professor Tangrowth
Details @ www.serebii.net
Details @ www.serebii.net
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
this is what it feels like to be a professor
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i actually feel pretty fucking negative about the like. glee some of my acquaintances and colleagues are expressing about famous dudes in our field having ties to serial rapists. i think its actually not funny or exciting to find this out
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
i actually feel pretty fucking negative about the like. glee some of my acquaintances and colleagues are expressing about famous dudes in our field having ties to serial rapists. i think its actually not funny or exciting to find this out
I need there to be a Yorgos Lanthimos adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray ASAP
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I need there to be a Yorgos Lanthimos adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray ASAP
'how drunk can I send you something?'
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
'how drunk can I send you something?'
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Jaw is on the floor watching election results. There's actually some hope
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Jaw is on the floor watching election results. There's actually some hope
Love that the Bravely Default HD Remaster has a whole-ass rhythm minigame for Love In the Crossfire
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Love that the Bravely Default HD Remaster has a whole-ass rhythm minigame for Love In the Crossfire
There's a guy standing near the student union on UCSC campus with a giant banner that says 'POLYAMORY' and he's handing out flyers
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There's a guy standing near the student union on UCSC campus with a giant banner that says 'POLYAMORY' and he's handing out flyers
Happy Halloween from Count Noun! 🧛
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy Halloween from Count Noun! 🧛
Why does this sound like Elsevier is breaking up with me
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Why does this sound like Elsevier is breaking up with me
If English were head final the childrens’ joke would be “why is 5 afraid of 6?”
October 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If English were head final the childrens’ joke would be “why is 5 afraid of 6?”
some pronouns for you
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
October 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
some pronouns for you
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
Glad that the new Pokémon games don't require players to adhere to a strict gender binary; still odd that my natural hair color is a secret unlockable that I have to purposefully seek out
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Glad that the new Pokémon games don't require players to adhere to a strict gender binary; still odd that my natural hair color is a secret unlockable that I have to purposefully seek out
Last week we hosted the 4th Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI)! This is a small gathering of early career researchers in the Bay and Northern California who work in cognitive neuroscience of language and psycholinguistics to share their work!
October 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Last week we hosted the 4th Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI)! This is a small gathering of early career researchers in the Bay and Northern California who work in cognitive neuroscience of language and psycholinguistics to share their work!
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Unbelievably racist video, but of the 30 seconds, about half of it is claiming that Latinos (not specifically immigrants, even) are "too stupid" to speak English. English-only and English-superiority narratives are a bedrock of this regime's racism. They know nothing about how language works.
Donald Trump’s AI posting habit reared its ugly head again Monday amid a looming government shutdown in the form of a racist video featuring top Democratic leaders.
Trump Posts Jaw-Dropping AI-Generated Clip as Shutdown Looms
The post was criticized soon after.
trib.al
September 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Unbelievably racist video, but of the 30 seconds, about half of it is claiming that Latinos (not specifically immigrants, even) are "too stupid" to speak English. English-only and English-superiority narratives are a bedrock of this regime's racism. They know nothing about how language works.
“does not predict p” is very very different than “predicts not p”
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“does not predict p” is very very different than “predicts not p”
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Revealing new insights into how the mind represents and processes language, this book gives a full overview of linguistic illusions.
Linguistic Illusions by Dan Parker, Coming Soon
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
https://cup.org/4mwHEnC
Linguistic Illusions by Dan Parker, Coming Soon
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
https://cup.org/4mwHEnC
September 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Revealing new insights into how the mind represents and processes language, this book gives a full overview of linguistic illusions.
Linguistic Illusions by Dan Parker, Coming Soon
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
https://cup.org/4mwHEnC
Linguistic Illusions by Dan Parker, Coming Soon
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
https://cup.org/4mwHEnC
UCSC Linguistics and Psychology are very proud to host the Fourth Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI), which gathers together young researchers focusing on language from a diverse range of perspectives from the Bay and Northern California. Come join us Fri, Oct 10!
September 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
UCSC Linguistics and Psychology are very proud to host the Fourth Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI), which gathers together young researchers focusing on language from a diverse range of perspectives from the Bay and Northern California. Come join us Fri, Oct 10!
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“Technology companies are not shy of falsely claiming that students are lazy or lack writing skills. Such a mantra serves only to sell products (…) We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.”
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“Technology companies are not shy of falsely claiming that students are lazy or lack writing skills. Such a mantra serves only to sell products (…) We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.”
zenodo.org/records/1706...
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30 minutes into wearing hearing aids for the first time. The world is louder and more annoying than I remember
September 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
30 minutes into wearing hearing aids for the first time. The world is louder and more annoying than I remember
Sometime in the last few years my sneezes have been phonologized as the word 'chewy', which I utter with perfect enunciation every time
September 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Sometime in the last few years my sneezes have been phonologized as the word 'chewy', which I utter with perfect enunciation every time
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
I went into academia to live my dream of doing training modules and figuring out what a “teaching table” is
September 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I went into academia to live my dream of doing training modules and figuring out what a “teaching table” is