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Dear Manager 1. I went to the doctor 2. I went to the mountains 3. I looked to the children 4. I drank from the fountains 5. And the less I seek my source for some definitive, closer I am to fine.

Hey skeeters! Have any of you ever written alt-text for a tree diagram? How about something like this? “A binary-branching diagram depicting the internal hierarchical structure of “French linguistics scholar” An equivalent bracketed structure would be [[French linguistics] scholar]” #linguistics

Mes ami(e)s français(es)! Je passe un appel de Mme Raffaella Folli ([email protected]) et son doctorant ([email protected]) pour participants dans une étude visée aux enfants monolingues francophones agés de 24 a 36 mois. Transmets-le stp! -- tinyurl.com/b4z9hzx5

LSA joined dozens of scholarly societies in signing a letter that begins, "American science and innovation have advanced humanity for generations... But today, science is under threat." We commit to championing integrity and conveying the importance of science. unitedsciencealliance.org

After a long career involving the organization of many many conferences and workshops, I have finally fully recognized that I will never be any good at it, despite my sincere best intentions. I’m good at other things, but not at that. Never again, and I mean it.

I will say if you’re a student on a visa who is pro Palestine, especially if you’re Arab, I advise you to lock your accounts. Sometimes it’s time to speak up and sometimes it’s time to let others with privilege speak up. Also, whether you’re at my institution or not, feel free to reach out!

It’s a dark day for our country. But also a bright one, because we remember MLK today. He helps us know how to turn it around.

Canadian Linguistic Association Call for papers. cla-acl.ca/news/appel-a...

There are now two weeks to finish your SCiL 2025 submission! Especially excited to see work submitted to the Special Symposium on Computational Pragmatics!

Bye Philly! It’s been real! #lsa2025

So excited to meet not one but two high school students from the Philly area at the Student Roundtable Networking event this morning! High school students! Who know what linguistics is! And are excited enough about it to register and attend the Annual Meeting! Props to Mia and ZJ! #lsa2025.

President Baptista’s recommendations for better teaching about creole languages, and letting go of deficit-centered narratives about creoles in the classroom

LSA President Marlyse Baptista discussing the Cabo Verde language Kriolu during her presidential address. #lsa2025

Sonja Lanehart receiving the Mentoring Award 👏👏👏 #lsa2025

Masa Koizumi receiving the Bloomfield Book Award 👏👏👏

One of the best things about LSAs: old friends #lsa2025

Chris Potts on LLMs and the poverty of the stimulus #lsa2025

Gillian Sankoff is receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. The award will be at 3:15 today (1/11) in conference rooms 407-408 of the Marriott. LINGUISTS: Please join us to help celebrate her lifetime of achievements! #LSA2025

New paper from me! My co-authored presentation at UCLA's Indo-European conference back in 2023 has now been published in the conference proceedings There's now one more bit of Old Irish syntax out there dannybate.com/2025/01/10/n...

Nice chandelier in the Philadelphia Marriott ballroom #lsa2025

Language, conflict and peacemaking panel starting off with a participatory exercise in tech problem solving ❤️

We are so excited to welcome you all to the #LSA2025 Annual Meeting here in Philadelphia! We have been busy preparing for your arrival & look forward to welcoming you on the fifth floor at 12pm for registration. Sessions then begin at 3pm! See you soon! #ExplorePhilly #LSA2025 #Linguistics #Welcome

Penny Eckert kicks off the memorial for Bill Labov, reminiscing about a typing contest he insisted they have when he found out she had worked as a secretary for a year before graduate school. #lsa2025

Jeff life’s reassuress us that language communicates ideas ❤️ #lsa2025