Sophia Natasha Burnett
@sophiaburnett.bsky.social
PhD in Language Sciences | teaching and research associate at l’Université de Toulouse | Hugs and Learning | Host of sign(e)s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/sign-e-s/id1863518582?l=en-GB
Personal site: https://sophiaburnett.github.io
Personal site: https://sophiaburnett.github.io
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January 5, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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New episode of Sign(e)s podcast just dropped 🎉 Brilliant guest Ghil’ad Zuckermann⭐️ talks us through some Australian road signs #linguistics #semiotics #signs
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January 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
New episode of Sign(e)s podcast just dropped 🎉 Brilliant guest Ghil’ad Zuckermann⭐️ talks us through some Australian road signs #linguistics #semiotics #signs
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Petit extrait de l’épisode inaugural du podcast SIGN(E)S … je ne pourrais être plus d’accord! : youtu.be/JzzPJrOB4rk
#linguistique #sémiotique
#linguistique #sémiotique
Les signes comme outils : une perspective semiotique
YouTube video by Sophia Burnett
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January 3, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Petit extrait de l’épisode inaugural du podcast SIGN(E)S … je ne pourrais être plus d’accord! : youtu.be/JzzPJrOB4rk
#linguistique #sémiotique
#linguistique #sémiotique
Merry Christmas everyone 🎄⭐️🎄⭐️
December 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Merry Christmas everyone 🎄⭐️🎄⭐️
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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🤯 Phonetic Universal Uncovered! 🎤
We analyzed over 60,000 speakers across 75 languages and confirmed a universal phonetic bias: High vowels (like /i, u/) are consistently spoken with a slightly higher pitch (F0) than low vowels (/a/).
We analyzed over 60,000 speakers across 75 languages and confirmed a universal phonetic bias: High vowels (like /i, u/) are consistently spoken with a slightly higher pitch (F0) than low vowels (/a/).
OSF
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December 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🤯 Phonetic Universal Uncovered! 🎤
We analyzed over 60,000 speakers across 75 languages and confirmed a universal phonetic bias: High vowels (like /i, u/) are consistently spoken with a slightly higher pitch (F0) than low vowels (/a/).
We analyzed over 60,000 speakers across 75 languages and confirmed a universal phonetic bias: High vowels (like /i, u/) are consistently spoken with a slightly higher pitch (F0) than low vowels (/a/).
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my buddy @urbancomposition.bsky.social and I did an AMA where we answered a bunch of style-related questions for our menswear pod. you may enjoy it. these are totally free episodes and we'll be doing them every three months.
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pod.link/blamo/episod...
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
my buddy @urbancomposition.bsky.social and I did an AMA where we answered a bunch of style-related questions for our menswear pod. you may enjoy it. these are totally free episodes and we'll be doing them every three months.
pod.link/blamo/episod...
pod.link/blamo/episod...
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« Ma maman est morte dans les toilettes publiques »
Les mots du fils de Sylviane, morte à la rue après avoir été expulsée de son logement.
Sylviane est morte de la loi Kasbarian-Bergé : j’interroge le ministre du logement, M. Jeanbrun.
Les mots du fils de Sylviane, morte à la rue après avoir été expulsée de son logement.
Sylviane est morte de la loi Kasbarian-Bergé : j’interroge le ministre du logement, M. Jeanbrun.
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
« Ma maman est morte dans les toilettes publiques »
Les mots du fils de Sylviane, morte à la rue après avoir été expulsée de son logement.
Sylviane est morte de la loi Kasbarian-Bergé : j’interroge le ministre du logement, M. Jeanbrun.
Les mots du fils de Sylviane, morte à la rue après avoir été expulsée de son logement.
Sylviane est morte de la loi Kasbarian-Bergé : j’interroge le ministre du logement, M. Jeanbrun.
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J'ai vu la bio du monsieur sur LinkedIn, c'est gratiné.
C'est encore un mec pas spécialiste de l'IA qui veut du technosolutionnisme pour absolument tout, et apparemment aussi pour ne pas supporter une rupture.
C'est flippant et franchement quelles seront les dérives du merdier.
C'est encore un mec pas spécialiste de l'IA qui veut du technosolutionnisme pour absolument tout, et apparemment aussi pour ne pas supporter une rupture.
C'est flippant et franchement quelles seront les dérives du merdier.
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
J'ai vu la bio du monsieur sur LinkedIn, c'est gratiné.
C'est encore un mec pas spécialiste de l'IA qui veut du technosolutionnisme pour absolument tout, et apparemment aussi pour ne pas supporter une rupture.
C'est flippant et franchement quelles seront les dérives du merdier.
C'est encore un mec pas spécialiste de l'IA qui veut du technosolutionnisme pour absolument tout, et apparemment aussi pour ne pas supporter une rupture.
C'est flippant et franchement quelles seront les dérives du merdier.
…and a lovely memory prompt nearby of @helendecruz.net singing and playing.
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
…and a lovely memory prompt nearby of @helendecruz.net singing and playing.
A short trip to Catholic heaven
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A short trip to Catholic heaven
First time ever in Portugal (Braga) for DDHUM25, and this place is so full of charming detail that I somewhat regret having left it this long. Also they do a Brazilian style sirloin which is mhmhmmmmm
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
First time ever in Portugal (Braga) for DDHUM25, and this place is so full of charming detail that I somewhat regret having left it this long. Also they do a Brazilian style sirloin which is mhmhmmmmm
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Being proud of being in the Russell Group is largely just cope for not being in Oxbridge, which is itself largely just cope for not being in the Ivy League, which is itself largely just cope for not being Harvard, which is itself largely just cope for not being Charles Sanders Peirce in particular.
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Being proud of being in the Russell Group is largely just cope for not being in Oxbridge, which is itself largely just cope for not being in the Ivy League, which is itself largely just cope for not being Harvard, which is itself largely just cope for not being Charles Sanders Peirce in particular.
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"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
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Literally the last thing she posted here. bsky.app/profile/sfdi...
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Literally the last thing she posted here. bsky.app/profile/sfdi...
Hell yeah!
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abiralsahlaniThe extreme right in the Parliament initiated a debate called ”time to end mass migration now - protect our women and children”.This debate should never have happened. Because it’s wrong. Wrong. Wrong. 1. There is a 66% drop in asylum applications 2. Majority of men who commit sexual crimes are EU-nationals according to EU wide data 3. I have my own voice. Don’t you dare claim to represent it. The gender-based violence is a man problem. It’s not a migration outcome.View all 10,317 comments
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November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Hell yeah!
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Mammogram done ✅ All for the sexy French sum of rien du tout ❤️🇫🇷
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Mammogram done ✅ All for the sexy French sum of rien du tout ❤️🇫🇷
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Rosalind Franklin went to the same school - St Paul‘s in Brook Green, West London - as Cecilia Payne, who wrote the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century and discovered what the Universe is made of. Payne’s name is largely unknown, though she became the 1st woman professor at Harvard.
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Rosalind Franklin went to the same school - St Paul‘s in Brook Green, West London - as Cecilia Payne, who wrote the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century and discovered what the Universe is made of. Payne’s name is largely unknown, though she became the 1st woman professor at Harvard.
The Pentlands today
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Pentlands today
Edinburgh for a few days. Love this city, very happy to be here.
October 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Edinburgh for a few days. Love this city, very happy to be here.