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Hey you know what's interesting? Pluralia tantum, that's what. Check it out! #Linguistics www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...

We are strong. We’re the US of fucking A, for heaven’s sake. These pathetic, amoral grifters have found some ways to do damage. But they are shallow, spineless, thoughtless, careless, without principles, without direction. They won’t stop until they’re made to. But we will stop them.

Hi fellow LSA members! Join Immediate Past President Marlyse Baptista at 10 ET this Friday for two hours of work time with other linguists! No talk, just hanging out in a zoom room and parallel-working. www.lsadc.org/calendar_day... #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social

It’s a real book! #linguistics

Hi linguists! This week’s Write Time Friday will be hosted by the LSA’s immediate past president Marlyse Baptista April 18, 2025 | 10 am - 12 pm ET. Just sit in a zoom room and work with other linguists, no talking! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social

Hiaki word of the day: huiwa: sense, premonition, especially when an older child senses that another child is on the way and pouts

Apposite advice from a Panda fortune cookie today

Five famous people I’ve met but one is a lie 1) Noam Chomsky 2) William Westmoreland 3) Seth Meyers 4) Temple Grandin 5) Billy Bragg

Hands Off Tucson! #handsoff

Has anyone written an NSF DDRI? I am trying to and it would be really helpful to look at one. Even an unsuccessful one.

Hi fellow LSA members! Join @m2b2.bsky.social at 10 EDT this Friday for two hours of work time with other linguists! No talk, just hanging out in a zoom room and parallel-working. www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social

🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

Hi fellow LSA members! Join me tomorrow for two hours of work time with other linguists! No talk, just hanging out in a zoom room and parallel-working. Hope to see you there! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Over 100 researchers are issuing a statement today that reiterates the scientific consensus that AI can exacerbate bias and discrimination. The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.

Hi fellow LSA members! Join me tomorrow for two hours of work time with other linguists! No talk, just hanging out in a zoom room and parallel-working. Hope to see you there! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Your daily jolt of absolute rage: www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

Why do they always save their most egregious norm violations for the weekend? There’s some theory of the news cycle at work. 🤮

Hi fellow LSA members! Join me for a couple of hours of shared work time tomorrow at 10am EDT. No talk, just a zoom window with other linguists in it doing their own thing. Sign up here. Collaborating groups welcome, can have a breakout room. :) @lingsocam.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Our campus bookstore requires instructors to submit textbook orders, or submit that no textbooks are required. Besides their own regular courses, all profs have their own sections of independent study (Ling X99) for every value of X, 1-9, almost none of which will enroll.

Happy international Women’s Day!

Why Official English is a terrible idea for the United States, from @lingsocam.bsky.social. Like and share! www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

Paralyzed because not one not two but three papers thst have been under review are now back in our laps with revisions requested, which first??

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

I'll be doing this in Tucson on Friday: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

Paging #linguistics 🚨

Proud that @lingsocam.bsky.social is signatory to this: www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

Is "cunt" the worst thing you can call a woman? Is it changing in how "offensive" it is over time? Take this survey to help an undergrad find out! #linguistics