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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · 5d

This is the kind of out-of-the-box forward thinking that we need in academia!

Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · 26d

Hi from Nepal! I'm fine! It has been amazing to see, smell, hear and feel the revolution all around me. While sheltering, made this interactive map of the languages in Nepal. (Sorry it loads slowly.) A beautifully multi-lingual nation! #nepal lislab.shinyapps.io/LanguagesInN...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 6

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’

Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

www.thetimes.com

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Sep 6

Update from Nepal: Social media is shut down, including Facebook, IG, WhatsApp, and YouTube (!). TikTok and Viber still work. Officially it’s because these apps haven’t registered with the government. Local people are saying it’s to prevent political organizing prior to the election.

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Aug 30

Totally agree. In my opinion the difference between intensional and extensional semantics is not whether the metalanguage considers multiple possible worlds (cases) but whether the object language (eg your formal representation language) can talk about more than one world/case at a time.

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today I met Dipak Tuladhar, who started a pre-school for Newar children in Kathmandu in 2003. After meeting with success, he has developed schools in other towns, and has been working with local leaders across Nepal to expand the concept to allow more kids to learn in their mother tongue.

Dipak Tuladhar's quest to preserve local languages of Nepal

YouTube video by Elizabeth Coppock

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · Aug 15

Things that have gone in garbage trucks in sweeps in San Diego:
- All bicycles regardless of condition.
- Painstakingly reacquired ID documents.
- Urns with human remains.
- Tents with people in them.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Aug 14

Press needs to stop repeating govt euphemism of “clearing homeless camps.” I’ve witnessed it in other cities: massive destruction of personal property. Not just bedrolls & tents; family photos, Bibles, meds. Times I’ve seen it people weren’t even given option to move their things.

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Aug 14

Apparently some people are finding an old version when they go to that link. I think it's due to browser cache issues but unfortunately clearing the browser cache has not worked for everyone. Here is a direct link to the current version:
eecoppock.info/Invitation_t....
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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Aug 13

This version also fixes a technical error in the presupposition chapter pointed out to us by Ede Zimmermann. We are very grateful to him, David Beaver, and Edgar Onea for help in figuring out how to solve the problem.

As always, we are grateful for feedback as we continue to improve the book!

Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Aug 13

Semantics teachers! The Fall 2025 version of "Invitation to Formal Semantics" is now available. It has major changes to Chapters 1-5 driven by new exercises and visualization of cases. Solutions to exercises soon available upon request.
eecoppock.info/bootcamp/sem...

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Aug 12

This headline is perfect. It’s very funny, and explains clearly what is happening.

Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Aug 5

Yes, so many people are getting detained despite having proper paperwork, future court dates, or pending asylum status. This monstrous chaos has to stop!!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 4

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility

Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

www.wthr.com

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Aug 1

At least 159 Palestinians in Gaza have starved to death amid Israel's ongoing siege blocking most humanitarian aid from entering the territory. Meanwhile, Israeli forces continue to kill scores of Palestinians on a daily basis, including at food distribution sites widely described as "death traps."

“Designed as Death Traps”: U.S. Veteran Reveals Rampant War Crimes at GHF Sites in Gaza

As more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed seeking aid at militarized aid distribution sites run by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a former GHF security contractor tel...

www.democracynow.org

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hot take: it has to do with models. Lucas and I will release a new version of the textbook with revised chapters 1 and 2 soon and it includes a convention for drawing models.

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 26

“They had their green card interview four months ago and were waiting on the final decision when all of this happened,” Medeiros said.

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 25

It's ironic but not really that insane. Getting eliminated from above by a strongman for failing to show obedience has a very different vibe than being shunned by peers for not being nice to others.

Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 25

New blog post: decoding the first line of a traditional Newari counting riddle. Punchline in the image.
sites.bu.edu/lislab/2025/...

Watch Nepal Bhasa language activist Sunita Junu and her daughter recite this beautiful call-and-response text:
www.tiktok.com/@sunita.junu...

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 24

I have a sabbatical coming up and I'm going to Nepal! Why Nepal? You can read about it at my first blog post about this trip.

TL;DR: linguistic diversity, writing systems (and pretty scripts), classifiers, and a school for Newar kids in Kathmandu.

sites.bu.edu/lislab/2025/...

Field trip to Nepal! | Linguistic Semantics Lab (LiSLab)

sites.bu.edu

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you! <3

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 23

Welcome to almost two years ago when the same stuff was happening

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 16

As far as I understand this means that they get to rescind (claw back) money that has been allocated to things like USAID and PBS.

Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 15

*Queen* Justice Sotomayor, in dissent, wrote that "it is the Judiciary’s duty to check ... lawlessness, not expedite it."

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jul 15

The Roberts court allows Trump's gutting of the Education Dep't in a lawless ruling.

Justice Sotomayor, in dissent, wrote that "it is the Judiciary’s duty to check ... lawlessness, not expedite it."

My Law Dork report on this very bad Monday:

The Roberts court allows Trump's gutting of the Education Dep't in a lawless ruling

Sotomayor, in dissent, wrote that "it is the Judiciary’s duty to check ... lawlessness, not expedite it." Also: In two Sunday essays, a contrasting reality of this moment.

www.lawdork.com

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Lizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · Jul 8

Is it illegal to deny inmates the ability to call their lawyers and families by refusing to provide PIN codes? (Setting aside the issue of whether they have earned their five dollars at a dollar a day of prison labor for the five bucks it takes to call home…)