Melissa Baese-Berk
@m2b2.bsky.social
Linguistics. Cognitive Science. Academia. Baseball. Music. Cats. Naps. University of Chicago. Opinions (all mine).
A new paper from the lab! This time with wonderful collaborators Charlie Nagle, Mark Amengual, and @casillas.bsky.social. We had a great time working on this piece around how we think bilingual research can and should be done going forward!
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February 5, 2026 at 8:26 PM
A new paper from the lab! This time with wonderful collaborators Charlie Nagle, Mark Amengual, and @casillas.bsky.social. We had a great time working on this piece around how we think bilingual research can and should be done going forward!
www.jbe-platform.com/docserver/fu...
www.jbe-platform.com/docserver/fu...
There are few things in this world I hate more than Chicago’s hockey team (eg, fascism, the Yankees, icy sidewalks). However, this standing ovation was super classy and made me cry.
January 20, 2026 at 4:21 AM
There are few things in this world I hate more than Chicago’s hockey team (eg, fascism, the Yankees, icy sidewalks). However, this standing ovation was super classy and made me cry.
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I literally cannot believe Caleb Williams is a human person.
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I literally cannot believe Caleb Williams is a human person.
I love sports so much and would go to basically any game. But it is so absolutely miserable in Chicago right now that there is no way I would agree to be outside for this game.
January 18, 2026 at 11:40 PM
I love sports so much and would go to basically any game. But it is so absolutely miserable in Chicago right now that there is no way I would agree to be outside for this game.
I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts!
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Finding our ROLE: How and why to reframe essentialist approaches to language
Essentialist categorizations of language users, such as native speaker, are widely used but lack empirical validity and reinforce social inequities. T…
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January 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy new year, friends
January 1, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Happy new year, friends
Spontaneously went to a jazz show tonight and the JOY in this venue, in this city is unparalleled. I am ending my year full of hope and confidence in my community, which is a lovely way to feel.
December 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Spontaneously went to a jazz show tonight and the JOY in this venue, in this city is unparalleled. I am ending my year full of hope and confidence in my community, which is a lovely way to feel.
The Going to Bed Book has the animals taking a bath and putting on the pajamas before going up to exercise, which just seems like a bad decision.
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The Going to Bed Book has the animals taking a bath and putting on the pajamas before going up to exercise, which just seems like a bad decision.
I’m at the Illinois/Alabama basketball game at the United Center, and I cried so much when they brought the Illinois starting line up out to the iconic Bulls music. Yay sports!
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I’m at the Illinois/Alabama basketball game at the United Center, and I cried so much when they brought the Illinois starting line up out to the iconic Bulls music. Yay sports!
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Linguists! Write time Friday is hosted this Friday again by the stalwart Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social ! 10-12 ET -- come get some work done! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with Melissa Baese-Berk
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November 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Linguists! Write time Friday is hosted this Friday again by the stalwart Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social ! 10-12 ET -- come get some work done! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Love to see a Ducks win 🦆🦆
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Love to see a Ducks win 🦆🦆
Come write with meeeee!
Linguists! Tomorrow's Write Time Friday is hosted by Melissa Baese-Berk again! 10-12 ET. @m2b2.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with Melissa Baese-Berk
About Write Time Friday
This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Come write with meeeee!
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Watching my favorite sport*
(*wondering if I'll die tonight)
(*wondering if I'll die tonight)
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Watching my favorite sport*
(*wondering if I'll die tonight)
(*wondering if I'll die tonight)
I regularly state I want As Much Baseball As Possible, so I apologize to all the Dodgers and Blue Jays fans, as this situation is clearly all my fault.
November 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I regularly state I want As Much Baseball As Possible, so I apologize to all the Dodgers and Blue Jays fans, as this situation is clearly all my fault.
I have zero rooting interest in this game and STILL feel like I’m about to have a heart attack.
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I have zero rooting interest in this game and STILL feel like I’m about to have a heart attack.
I love Dave Roberts as much as the next Red Sox fan, but I really don’t think they need to interview him in the middle of an inning in Game 7 of the World Series while he’s trying to do his job.
November 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I love Dave Roberts as much as the next Red Sox fan, but I really don’t think they need to interview him in the middle of an inning in Game 7 of the World Series while he’s trying to do his job.
I do not love an intentional walk, but I think the one to Vlady was an especially bad decision.
November 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I do not love an intentional walk, but I think the one to Vlady was an especially bad decision.
There’s nothing better than a Game 7 where I do not personally have to feel like I’m going to be ill for 3 straight hours.
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
There’s nothing better than a Game 7 where I do not personally have to feel like I’m going to be ill for 3 straight hours.
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@m2b2.bsky.social hosting tomorrow at 10aET!
Linguists! This week's Write Time Friday is hosted by LSA EC member and AAAS Section Z chair Melissa Baese-Berk! Join us and get some work done! #linguistics
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Write Time Friday with Melissa Baese-Berk
About Write Time Friday
This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
www.lsadc.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
@m2b2.bsky.social hosting tomorrow at 10aET!
Every night at bedtime (and often to strangers during the day), the three year old announces “I’m sad mommy works”, which is really a great way of ratcheting up mom-guilt.
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Every night at bedtime (and often to strangers during the day), the three year old announces “I’m sad mommy works”, which is really a great way of ratcheting up mom-guilt.
I wish I had one eighth the confidence of the man at the hotel pool who insisted that Pearl Jam formed from Nirvana in the late 90s and ALL THE PEOPLE WITH HIM believed him.
October 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I wish I had one eighth the confidence of the man at the hotel pool who insisted that Pearl Jam formed from Nirvana in the late 90s and ALL THE PEOPLE WITH HIM believed him.
Them: How’d you spend your Thursday night?
Me: Staying up to late, voluntarily watching a sporting event that makes me nauseated and have heart palpitations while trying not to scream and wake the sleeping toddler.
Me: Staying up to late, voluntarily watching a sporting event that makes me nauseated and have heart palpitations while trying not to scream and wake the sleeping toddler.
October 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Them: How’d you spend your Thursday night?
Me: Staying up to late, voluntarily watching a sporting event that makes me nauseated and have heart palpitations while trying not to scream and wake the sleeping toddler.
Me: Staying up to late, voluntarily watching a sporting event that makes me nauseated and have heart palpitations while trying not to scream and wake the sleeping toddler.
I love going to a show during playoff baseball where people are screaming updates to each other from the bathroom stalls.
October 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I love going to a show during playoff baseball where people are screaming updates to each other from the bathroom stalls.