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Jessi Grieser

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Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · Nov 9

I’ve gotten a bunch of new followers of late. So hi; I’m a Black
Woman sociolinguistics prof at my alma mater, Univ of Michigan. I skeet social justice, linguistics, productivity, teaching, cats and dogs, and NCAA sportsball.

I contain multitudes.

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 2h

Little sprinkles in my day right now are when I search for someone in my inbox and their NWAV registration (which is otherwise auto-hidden) pops up and then I know I am going to see them soon!

NWAV registration is ongoing! nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu. See you in Ann Arbor!

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 1d

Articles to write: phrase semantics of “, actually”

Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 1d

Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, about whether banning conversion therapy violates free speech rights, were a doozy.
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Christian Law Firm Argues That Conversion Therapy Is Helpful, Actually

Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, about whether banning conversion therapy violates free speech rights, were a doozy.

www.jezebel.com

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 1d

Deadline 11/15 "candidates whose work develops computational methods in any area of linguistics and specifically connects linguistics to artificial intelligence" faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 1d

Writing a dissertation shouldn't be miserable and painful. If it is, seek support.

But writing a dissertation shouldn't be a cakewalk, either. It should feel challenging and at times it will feel insurmountable.

The latter isn't the former.

This message is for both students and advisors.

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 3d

Somebody tried to troll here and went viral asking if anybody ever bought a book because they saw it on BlueSky and I am still struck every time I go “Wow the speed with which I switched tabs and bought that book!” after somebody tells me about one…

Thank you! #booksky #mybudgettho

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 4d

Asking the important questions.

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 6d

Good luck with that, friend.

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 6d

I am in my "Board of Directors" era and I am SO BUSY but I was made for this kind of work and I absolutely love it. I was born to make organizations run.

#CRLT
#LingSocAm
#ELCAChurchCouncil
#butseriouslyIshouldntbeonanymoreboards

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7d

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 7d

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.”

Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

Trump Says a Deal With Harvard Is Close

www.nytimes.com

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 7d

This is only compounded by the fact that pretty much all speech and visual “AI” systems dramatically underperform for minoritized populations due to smaller training data, poor model assumptions, and the fact that tech companies DGAF about black people.

ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 7d

cops are 1,000,000% going to use AI-generated "security footage" to coerce Black kids into confessing to things they didn't do because fighting it will seem absolutely hopeless.

SKEETER Without A Pause @iamgregordeee.blacksky.app · 7d

Shoutout to every stupid MFer embracing & glazing AI but specifically Black people because this kind of technology is absolutely horrifying for us

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 7d

This format is incredibly helpful for reframing debates. It's also pragmatics 101. Negation only operates on the "comment"/focused part of an utterance. If you introduce a presupposition, negation will not be able to eliminate it.
Example:
A: Have you stopped stealing office supplies?
B: Yes/No?

dylan @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 8d

$Across the top of the image is a fractured black rectangle where the left half is labeled "Frame: F is happening!" and the right side is labeled "Negation: F is not true!" left side of the box: "AI*" is so useful, it's revolutionizing everything. *massive, generative commercial "AI" models. right side of the box: "AI" capabilities are overblown, it's mostly slop. Below the box is a large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "Frame F" fragment. In a box next to Kirby is the text: Kirby. K is happening. That's why they're saying F. In the pink box is the text: "AI" is functioning to fuel mass surveillance, exploitation of workers & the environment, and the consolidation of wealth and power on a massive scale.$

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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 7d

New report shows a catastrophic decline in formal language learning

New report shows a catastrophic decline in formal language learning - HEPI

A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, The Languages Crisis: Arresting decline by Megan Bowler (HEPI Report 192), sponsored by Duolingo, shows a big drop in formal language…

buff.ly

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 7d

We’re all going to die but I’ll die in a bikini and so I am ambivalent about it.

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 9d

True. But they didn’t put Underwood on it 😆

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 9d

[white [student athlete] jerseys] not [[white student athlete] jerseys]

But picking a jersey from a Black player would’ve helped here, M Den!!

An advertisement for “white student athlete jerseys” which shows three white colored University of Michigan football jerseys: one with the number 19, one with the number 96 and the name Zvada, and one with the number 44 and the name Bredeson

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 9d

Siren’s Song by Elizabeth Salo. An interesting witchy romance that does a good job setting up the series to come. While the plot was a little confusing in places, a fun twist at the end makes the next book a want-to-read.

A blue Kindle on a black table with the cover of sirens song by Elizabeth Salo visible. The cover has a four part Celtic knot on the front.

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 9d

TY for helping me find another football person to follow!

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 10d

OH NOES! What does this mean for you?

You keep your asset allocation according to when you plan to retire, and invest according to the same schedule as always.

CNN @cnn.com · 10d

Americans have more money in stocks than ever before. But while the market's climb may be inflating their accounts, they are more exposed than ever to a potential market slump. https://cnn.it/48JrlQS

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 11d

Dufour: “Hegseth thinks this is cool”
My tumblr-addicted ass: “More interesting is the fact that neither Dufour nor Hegseth understand the pragmatics of ‘cool story, bro.’”

Nested tweets. Innermost from Gen. Ben Hodges. “ July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.”

Quote tweet by Pete Hegseth: “ cool story, general.”

Quote Tweet by Anna Dufour: What is the cool story? When the German army relinquished its allegiance to the constitution to swear instead an oath to the pure the supreme leader, Adolf Hitler Should a man with the fate of the biggest army in the world, think, worse, write “it’s cool”

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 12d

At dinner tonight I produced the malapropism “Charlie Klein” and yeah that says a lot about where we are right now.

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 13d

But if you would like to experience our Kirby, you can find the info at ling.lsa.umich.edu!

ling.lsa.umich.edu

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 13d

We get the Kirby!

Too bad to those of you who don’t get a Kirby this weekend.

Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 13d

airport

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 15d

I don't remember if it was normed, but @ludling.bsky.social, Lex Konnelly, and Pocholo Umbal created the Diverse Names database at UofT a few years ago: sanders.phonologist.org/Papers/konne...

sanders.phonologist.org

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 14d

Jessi already for the one she was looking for, but for posterity: lmackerman.shinyapps.io/Names_Explor... (though it's been a while since I could update it... I do have big plans though!)

Name Explorer

lmackerman.shinyapps.io

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 14d

Heck yes! Thank you!!!