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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 12h

In the paper! (ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...)
Also, here. The original post was threaded oddly, so it didn't share correctly. bsky.app/profile/chil...

University of Manchester Child Study Centre @childstudycentre.bsky.social · 17h

2/2 🏛️ Museum settings boost decontextualised talk.
📦 Museum resources in classrooms increase rare words & complex sentences.
🏫 Regular classrooms? Less of both.
💬 Richer environments = richer language learning.
#ChildDevelopment #LanguageResearch #EarlyYears #MuseumLearning #UoMResearch #LuCiD

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 15h

This study sets the stage for a lot of exciting questions and we were delighted to have it at Language Development Research (@langdevres.bsky.social).

University of Manchester Child Study Centre @childstudycentre.bsky.social · 17h

🧠 New research from @OfficialUoM shows that where teachers teach affects how they talk to children — and that matters for language development. #ChildDevelopment #LanguageResearch #EarlyYears #MuseumLearning #UoMResearch #LuCiD

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 2d

If you need a good laugh, here you go. (Read Séamas' memoir. It's great!)

If you work with children at all, you should probably also take this as a reminder that their minds are strange and wondrous things and their outward behaviors give us only the tiniest glimpse.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · May 17

When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.

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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 2d

New post from the kiddo over at So Desensitized! This is the beginning of her October series focusing on witches, starting with THE CRAFT. Go subscribe if you like #Horror and great writing about pop culture! #HorrorSky #HorrorMovies #FilmSky

Kids These Days Don't Join Covens Anymore

Hi all, and welcome to the first week of the 2025 So Desensitized Spooky Season Spooktacular! Posts will be out on Mondays and Fridays all the way up until...

buttondown.com

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 6d

📢 My department is hiring! University of Chicago is hiring an Assistant Professor in Phonology! (EOE/Vet/Disability) See the link for more information. 📢

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894671...

Assistant Professor in Phonology - Chicago, Illinois (US) job with The University of Chicago | 37894671

The Department of Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Phonology with an expected start date of July...

jobs.chronicle.com

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 7d

This and the OED are the only LLMs you'll see me using.
(And Teanglann for Irish.)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

66 Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers' room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through to start.
[...] Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke. I can't remember what it was exactly, except it was dirty and loud and
"unladylike"
Jimmy Fallon [...] turned to her and in a faux-squeamish voice said, "Stop that!
It's not cute! I don't like it." Amy dropped what she was doing, went black in the eyes for a second, and wheeled around on him. "I don't fucking care if you like it." Jimmy was visibly startled. Amy went right back to enjoying her ridiculous bit.
With that exchange, a cosmic shift took place. Amy made it clear that she wasn't there to be cute. She wasn't there to play wives and girlfriends in the boys' scenes.
She was there to do what she wanted to do and she did not fucking care if you like it.

Tina Fey, Bossypants

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 8d

The Department of Psychology at NDSU invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in Developmental Psychology, broadly defined. For best consideration, applications should be received by October 10. Questions can be directed to me. Please share widely!
prd.hcm.ndus.edu/psp/recruit/...

prd.hcm.ndus.edu

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 10d

Far too friendly to be HAL. This little guy would definitely have opened the pod bay doors for anybody.

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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 11d

The kiddo has a new article up today at @whatsleepsbeneath.com! Besides being her first paid piece, it's an excellent analysis of Buffalo Bill (from Silence of the Lambs) & Denise Bryson (from #TwinPeaks) vis-a-vis trans representation. Go check it out! #Horror #HorrorMovie #FilmSky #HorrorSky

FBI Agents, Serial Killers, and Red Lipstick: On Denise Bryson and Buffalo Bill

In the '90s, after the precedent was set over the last decade, two wildly different trans characters were brought into existence just two months apart. The first, Special Agent Denise Bryson, DEA in ...

www.whatsleepsbeneath.com

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 19d

We had one in our neighborhood early this summer and I had no idea how big they were! (Never heard it call, though.)

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 20d

Anthony Bourdain spent a weekend with her in New York after the Olive Garden review went viral, taking her around and chatting about being a food writer. He later wrote the introduction to her book and my favorite line in it is "I would not play poker with her for money."

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 22d

When you read the (in)famous Olive Garden review, it's easy not to notice that she says lots about the decor and almost nothing about the food, ergo, she didn't like the food. You learn to listen closely to what people don't say.
Through the same lens, her review of Taco Bell is downright savage.

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 22d

She didn't like it, either, but you'd never know from her review unless you speak fluent North Plains. www.grandforksherald.com/lifestyle/th...

THE EATBEAT: Long-awaited Olive Garden receives warm welcome

After a lengthy wait for Olive Garden to open in Grand Forks, the lines were long in February. The novelty is slowly wearing off, but the steady following attests the warm welcome.

www.grandforksherald.com

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 22d

For a lot of reasons, I found North Dakota a really hard place to navigate socially when we first moved. Mrs. Hagerty's columns were my Rosetta Stone to understanding how people interact here. (Hint: she did not actually like the Olive Garden.) She was a regional treasure.

Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 22d

Oh man - I have to take moment to mark the loss of a local celebrity today, too. Marilyn Hagerty, North Dakota's (and I would unironically argue the nation's) best food columnist has passed away at the age of 99. You might know her from her viral Olive Garden review, but there's so much more. <1/2>

Marilyn Hagerty, Herald reporter and columnist for nearly 70 years, dies at age 99

She wrote for the Herald for more than 60 years and became nationally famous for her work as a food critic.

www.inforum.com

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 27d

I was mistaken. I thought her newest book was already out, but it isn't for another 2 weeks.
No One Is Talking About This came out a few years ago and is devastatingly sad and very funny, often at the same time.

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 27d

Is this regarding her new book? I found Priestdaddy to be a little meh, but No One Is Talking About This absolutely sucker-punched me.

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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 27d

It's been a little while, but I've got a new Science of #Chess post up over on my lichess site - this time about the challenges of trying to estimate a "Chess Personality." Enjoy! lichess.org/@/NDpatzer/b...

Science of Chess: What does it mean to have a "chess personality?"

What kind of player are you? How do we tell?

lichess.org

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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 28d

I'm glad to see our Interim VP for Research and Creative Activity talking to our local paper about what's happening to research at @ndsuofficial.bsky.social. It's important to keep reminding people what will be lost rather than focusing on "abundance." www.inforum.com/news/north-d...

North Dakota university research could see ‘devastating’ cuts, officials warn

Trump administration efforts to curb federal spending have already cost the state millions in research funding, with more loss in the future, UND and NDSU officials say.

www.inforum.com

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 28d

Mine hates it, too, and so do many of her friends, so I take some heart in that.

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 28d

Midwestern mom of a teenage vegetarian here: both Culver's and Sonic have grilled cheese.

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 28d

I actually think most faculty and many students agree on the problems with AI. It's admin and donors who are jumping on the bandwagon, not the rank and file, and we can hold the line and back each other up.

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gwdihwntw.bsky.social @gwdihwntw.bsky.social · 29d

#langsky An interesting find! Some characters in a 1900s Welsh-language scifi speaking #Esperanto, as auxlangs have become commonplace in the world

A photo of a few lines from a Welsh-language novella that includes two characters briefly speaking Esperanto.

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William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · 29d

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:

tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...

Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.

w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

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