We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Ma publication dans "the Conversation" sur l'écriture inclusive (theconversation.com/lecriture-in...) m'a valu ma première qualification de "wokiste" ("immonde wokiste"). L'ironie, c'est que le mot "wokiste" est lui-même une forme d'écriture inclusive (forme neutre). "Wokard" serait plus adapté.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Planning my intro to linguistics course at UQTR is more fun this year with this little gem!!

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)

Wow! That’s fantastic! Huge congratulations Maite!

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

❤️ Out in paperback! It has a lovely feel !!

I’m very happy to have received this today! 4th edition

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

How do you decide whether or not to use AI tools in your research? One approach is to judge the extent to which they align with the values that underpin your research - in this open access paper we look at this question of alignment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

OK, here is the site for live by-election results at Battle River-Crowfoot.

enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDis...

Let's hope Poilievre gets at least a bit spanked from the shoe-in riding. Results starting after 8 PM.

The kids are calling it “Quebecmaxxing”: two anglos in Montreal having an entire interaction in French without realizing they’re both anglos

This is a good and quite detailed summary. It sets out clearly just how badly Trump performed in this summit. He lost absolutely everything and has actually managed to make backwards progress in the interests of Ukraine, European security and enforcing international law.

www.ft.com/content/2866...

#Linguistics
2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
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Amber Rynearson and I presented today at @raammetaphor.bsky.social, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification.
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!

Good aggressive journalism.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

🚨Here’s Mark Carney just now, announcing Canada’s (conditional) intent to recognize a Palestinian state in September:

Call for papers: Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics, 15-16 January 2026 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quant...

For followers from China - Tsinghua University Press is publishing an edition of my CUP book, Corpus Linguistics (written with Andrew Hardie) next year. The book includes explanatory notes in Chinese and quite a bit of text from the original version which was lost due to space constraints.

Très fier d’annoncer que notre nouveau certificat en études et expressions autochtones est maintenant ouvert!

La France reconnaît officiellement l’État de Palestine. Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire? Question encore complexe, mais parlons-en. #Québec #polqc #FarnellMorisset

A message from a New Yorker who was arrested while blockading ICE's headquarters.