jessgrieser.bsky.social
Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.
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I too received “you like to eat things” as my result.
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I confess I do have a lot of convos that start out with that but with a preamble. “ I’m sorry; I am a sociolinguistic and you just said something very interesting and this is professional curiosity. Where would you say your language background comes from?” 😆
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Also true!
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I forgot that was the credits scene and for a moment thought I had somehow fallen asleep and missed it. #HATM
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I do not understand why people do not understand this. Antisemetic, ableist, transphobic, anti-indigenous—if you are the well-meaning person you imagine yourself to be when you sputter “I didn’t know!” you immediately go “I won’t use it again; thank you for teaching me.”
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Oh and look that’s exactly the methodology.
“we compared each injury’s frequency per state with the national frequency. That allowed us to determine which injuries were disproportionately more or less common in each state, compared to the nation as whole.”
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For instance I used to live in TN and know that a disproportionate large number of young otherwise healthy organ donors are produced there because of car accidents. The heliports at UTK and Vandy are very busy exporting organs.
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I interpret that as “compared to other states.” So the methodology would likely be comparing injuries across states and finding the types that occur in state X at a statistically significant higher rate than that same injury occurs in the general population.
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I keep thinking of the Niemöller “First They Cane” poem and like…No, I am opposed to them coming for the communists! I am not going to wait to stand up until they come for me! But I am not exactly sure how to keep them from coming for the communists?
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And to wit, open to being wrong about the 1:1 analogy here but I feel like I recall this “they’re just keeping the peace” rhetoric being true of the SS, no?
Anyway, go Dodgers. I may be uncertain of my history but signs point to moves like this being the stop.
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I just want to know who is going to do all the work when I send all my kiddos for whom AI committed some other kind of misconduct to student conduct? Because I’m just gonna start sending a spreadsheet if they’re gonna keep hyping this to my students.
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Excellent coinage; I applaud you.
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Confess that I am simultaenously going “ooohhhh I want a vacation” and realizing I am making this complaint while sipping an Americano in Paris. 😆
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Yay. This is such a baller book. My department bought them for all of us and gave them out at orientation.
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The answer is that we are able to sleep upright. I’m sorry! Sending melatonin vibes.
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But also…
That’s like, not what “kind of” is doing in this construction? It’s a tone softener?
Tell me you don’t internet without telling me you don’t internet, Random Person.
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All Systems Red by Martha Wells. Might’ve been a problem caused by doing this as an audiobook, but the world feels very underdeveloped. Murderbot is very funny as a character, but it was tough to get any a sense of motivation. I will still read the next ones. #booksof2025
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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. Suffers from prequel syndrome—trying too hard to set up motivations that don’t exist in the original. And for some reason you get to read the entirety of “The Raven.” Forgettable. Cover is pretty though.
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Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. I hate Austen because it’s too much work for what amounts to an absolute silly rom-com. This P&P retelling is all the silly rom-com without the effort. Funny and thoughtful and the last chapter is absolute 🤌🏽. #booksof2025
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Class by Stephanie Land. On a second read, I like it less. It’s sharp but wanders, and I don’t think I noticed how distracting the sex scenes were the first time. #booksof2025 #reread
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The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. Common sense? Yes. One book theory a la If Books Could Kill? Also true. But still interesting and thought provoking and mantras can be useful. Let them/let me is a good reminder that it’s a responsibility to also take charge of your own response. #booksof2025
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I love that you included the font in your alt text.
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In short: Sweep 1 of the inbox (stacking) is sorting email by type of action required. Sweep 2 (working the stacks) goes type by type so that you reply to all the replies, then pull out your calendar and schedule all the meetings, then add all the longer tasks to your to-do list, etc.
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I sound like a shill for them but this material from them is fully free and it has been life changing for me. I have never paid a dime for any of their other stuff; I’m not even subscribed to their newsletter 😆
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stackmethod.com :)
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I feel like FAFO is kinda *not* how to do academic admin career planning but I guess to each his own.
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I get #1, pronounced /tus/
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Great minds
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What do you want to bet they used AI to generate an image of a Blue Book.