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Kirby Conrod

@kirbyconrod.bsky.social

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assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · Sep 26

btw i love being transgender and gay and teaching pronoun studies at a prestigious college

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 2h

not yet

Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 6h

yeah it's like. i cannot uncritically recommend my friends and students jump into this without more information, hence decline to boost, i think

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Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · 14h

We're hosting this event at @unikent.bsky.social at the end of the month! So excited to hear all the goss about transcribing the House of Lords bickering! It's free and there is wine, so I'm in #linguistics #language

Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 6d

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 4 weeks to go...
🧑‍🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm

🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

Babel Lecture 2025: John Vice on Hansard

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 6h

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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 12h

Excited to talk to the Language Variation and Change research group on Monday about my ongoing work on style shifting and authenticity in trans speech! Join if you're around, UofE friends!

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 6h

yeah it's maybe a sign that the dept does not have full autonomy over their job ads tbh

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 12h

HI. It's me.

WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.

Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 6h

i feel like we maybe need to. tell them this. idk

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 6h

i had a post drafted on this matter yesterday but decided it was too spicy for main. but like im not holding it against anyone personally, it reads to me as kind of a. hmmmmmmm. not a decision that depts are making on their own

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 11h

Join us at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting as an exhibitor, sponsor, or advertiser. Showcase your organization to linguists, researchers, educators, and students from across the globe!

Interested? Reach out to our team today for the full info and rates → web.cvent.com/event/d45318... #LSA2026

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Federica Formato (she/her) @genderedform.bsky.social · 11h

I've heard great news! LavLang is going to happen (the current climate meant there had to be some adjustments) and in a wonderful place: Edinburgh! Fabulous keynotes too! See you in Scotland in September 2026!

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LavLang32 - Lavender Languages 32

2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 6h

i think uh. i think im not gonna boost your faculty job ad in linguistics if it has ai in it

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 6h

mood tbh

Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 7h

gonna try more positives reinforcement (clapping when a septa train arrives)

Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 13h

in all my free time lmao! (one of the recent lil proceedings papers on neopronouns we did talk about this, tho)

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 14h

*attested. fuck autocorrect forever 💜

Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 14h

this thought brought to you by "oops one of my alums seems to have induced a (previously not arrested) construction in me and some other linguists by including it in a survey"

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 14h

linguists: we have gotta do some serious methodological investigation on whether we are occasionally inducing people to adopt certain constructions by exposing them to it in our surveys

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Bird @hatulimyafim.bsky.social · 14h

uwu I look just like Buddy Holly :3
owo and you're Mary Tyler Moore

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 14h

oh I have to go to “work”? counterpoint: it’s a little rainy and my entire genetic lineage says I should go back to bed

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 14h

the same leave but stretched out

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 14h

straightup i think you should just take the next 20 wensdays off tbqh

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 16h

i love papers like that, honestly

Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 1d

all the high level, most senior expert world leading computational linguists whose work i admire as scientists are absolutely united in thinking that ai is bullshit. i just think you should know that

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 1d

what does this mean, i dont get it