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Scott Fabius Kiesling is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. With the completion of… more

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Reposted by: Scott F. Kiesling, Niklas Johansson, Wolfgang Behr

mattitiahu.bsky.social
Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published.

C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.
The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset
www.nature.com
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by Aaron Sojourner — Reposted by: Scott F. Kiesling, Martin Tomko, W. Andy Knight , and 1 more

washingtonpost.com
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
Yinz in pgh, but the spelling does vary. In undergrad(1987?) I did a project on sammich names, similar results

by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
Columbia University
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Reposted by: Scott F. Kiesling, Fatih Guvenen

davidcorn.bsky.social
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
Don't mess with CMU students!
www.instagram.com/p/DMaogIgMPS...
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spavel.bsky.social
AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI.

For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.

Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.
Auto-complete: real, can't hurt you Super-intelligence: not real, can't hurt you Layoffs: real, can hurt you LinkedIn: not real, can hurt you.
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
Endeavor is the best!

by Equality — Reposted by: Scott F. Kiesling

cajunblue.bsky.social
Trigger warning ‼️ This is one of the grossest - unprovoked assaults on an innocent I have seen to date. The Divided States of America: We the People versus the Police State.
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
*moribus (bad Latin autocorrect)
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
So much for "Leges sine morobus vanae."
yasharali.bsky.social
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jul 1
BREAKING

The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.

This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
• UPenn will restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories; • UPenn will issue a public statement to the University community stating that it will comply with Title IX, specifying that UPenn will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs or occupy Penn Athletics female intimate facilities; • The statement will specify that UPenn will adopt biology-based definitions for the words 'male' and 'female' pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trump's Executive Orders "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism" and "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports"; • UPenn will post the statement in a prominent location on its main website and on each of its websites for women's athletics; • UPenn will rescind any guidance which violated Title IX, remove or revise any internal and public-facing statements or documents that are inconsistent with Title IX, and notify all staff and women's athletics of all such rescissions; and • UPenn will send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer.
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
Yep. And they'll have less alumni contributions too. Not that I ever gave them anything but it's a 'nope, never' at this point.
doc000.bsky.social
Doc000 @doc000.bsky.social · Jul 1
If UPenn thinks that Trump is now going to just go away and leave them alone since they gave him their lunch money today, they're gonna be in for some serious fucking disappointment.
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
Shameful is right.
normcharlatan.bsky.social
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · Jul 1
Jesus Christ, this is truly shameful.
yasharali.bsky.social
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jul 1
BREAKING

The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.

This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
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doc000.bsky.social
If UPenn thinks that Trump is now going to just go away and leave them alone since they gave him their lunch money today, they're gonna be in for some serious fucking disappointment.
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Reposted by: Scott F. Kiesling

normcharlatan.bsky.social
Jesus Christ, this is truly shameful.
yasharali.bsky.social
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jul 1
BREAKING

The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.

This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
• UPenn will restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories; • UPenn will issue a public statement to the University community stating that it will comply with Title IX, specifying that UPenn will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs or occupy Penn Athletics female intimate facilities; • The statement will specify that UPenn will adopt biology-based definitions for the words 'male' and 'female' pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trump's Executive Orders "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism" and "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports"; • UPenn will post the statement in a prominent location on its main website and on each of its websites for women's athletics; • UPenn will rescind any guidance which violated Title IX, remove or revise any internal and public-facing statements or documents that are inconsistent with Title IX, and notify all staff and women's athletics of all such rescissions; and • UPenn will send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer.
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Reposted by: Scott F. Kiesling, Shannon Vallor, Juliet B. Schor , and 2 more

yasharali.bsky.social
BREAKING

The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.

This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
• UPenn will restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories; • UPenn will issue a public statement to the University community stating that it will comply with Title IX, specifying that UPenn will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs or occupy Penn Athletics female intimate facilities; • The statement will specify that UPenn will adopt biology-based definitions for the words 'male' and 'female' pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trump's Executive Orders "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism" and "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports"; • UPenn will post the statement in a prominent location on its main website and on each of its websites for women's athletics; • UPenn will rescind any guidance which violated Title IX, remove or revise any internal and public-facing statements or documents that are inconsistent with Title IX, and notify all staff and women's athletics of all such rescissions; and • UPenn will send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer.
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
It's great stuff. Glad to see when the variationists find some discourse analysis 😀. BTW Jack Sidnell's textbook is a good introduction to the field and carries Sacks' spirit well.
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pittprofdude.bsky.social
Does R have any packages for constructing implicational scales?
#linguistics #stats #academicsky
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Reposted by: Scott F. Kiesling, Jennifer Bussell, Nancy Kanwisher , and 8 more

jenchristiansen.com
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
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Reposted by: Scott F. Kiesling, Barrett

malar0ne.bsky.social
The White House's proposed FY26 budget would cut NIH funding by >40%. Our new #SCIMaP report projects the budget would lead to economic losses throughout the US with $10M+ lost in almost every House district.
scienceimpacts.org/fy26

@joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
scienceimpacts.org
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inquirer.com
Pa. Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick praised the U.S.'s attack on Iranian nuclear sites.

🔗 inquirer.com/news/fetterm...
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
I sent my nwav abstract in a week early. Made me nervous, like I should wait!
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
A reasonable concern - I've seen enough thoughtless cranks for sure!
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
Read Warner's book, it is not predictable, it is human and that's kind of his point! He does not blame the kids, unless you count the tech bros as the kids
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biblioracle.bsky.social
The extreme enthusiasm some folks in higher ed have for AI is strange. They truly see it as a source of potential liberation from the impossible bind they're living in. The reactions when you pour cold water on it is like you farted in the elevator. My fart: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
Why write, and why hold on to Dad's writing?

open.substack.com/pub/sfkiesli...
The Pen and the Hand that Holds It
On physical writing
open.substack.com
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by Scott F. Kiesling

pittprofdude.bsky.social
Marie Flesch's paper on fuck use and gender on reddit is good! doi.org/10.1558/genl...
‘Fuck’ and emoticons | Gender and Language
This quantitative study investigates gender variation online by focusing on two ‘gendered’ linguistic variables: the swear word fuck, which has often been associated with men, and emoticons, which have been shown to be used more frequently by women than men. It is based on a nineteen-million-word gender-diverse corpus, which includes comments posted in English on the community website Reddit by 372 cisgender women, 372 cisgender men, 100 transgender women, 100 transgender men and 100 nonbinary individuals (all according to self-identification). The statistical analyses take both the gender and age of the Redditors into account. Results show that in most cases transgender men do not align with cisgender men; that transgender women mostly align with cisgender women in their use of fuck, but the former produce more emoticons than the latter, and that the use of the variables did not differ between nonbinary individuals assigned male versus female at birth.
doi.org
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erininthemorning.com
Alright everyone, one last push.

If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US

Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.

It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)

trvr.org/survey2025
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trvr.org
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jordanstein.bsky.social
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
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Reposted by: Scott F. Kiesling, Averil Cameron, Stefano Gualeni

calthalas.bsky.social
University is not a business, education is not a product.
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