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I love the Agatha Christie podcast All About Agatha ! What I do is I listen to the radio adaptions, preferably by Enyd Williams, or audiobooks, preferably by John Moffat or Hugh Fraser, and then I look up the podcast ep. It's wonderful!

I had half my Japanese linguistics students read a paper that argues that Japanese has no syllables, and the other half read a paper that argues for Japanese having syllables today, they fought it out in Phonology Court

I just renamed the app on my home screen. I haven't seen that black X in ages.

I am excited to announce that Asifa Majid is the 2024 recipient of the international #VigdísPrize, an award conferred for outstanding contributions to world languages and cultures. Congratulations Asifa Majid ! english.hi.is/news/asifa_maj…

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Hi! My new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, comes out March 18th. I'm signing 100,000 copies of it. You can preorder your signed copy today at everythingistb.com or wherever books are sold.

I loved this chat with Julie Sedivy about her new book "Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love". And a discussion with Matt Spike about LLMs and impossible languages. Wherever you get your podcasts. Farrar,Straus&Giroux becauselanguage.com/107-linguaphil…

Germany is a multilingual society, but accessing health care is often frustrating for people who don't speak German. dw.com/en/germanys-he…

I had the great pleasure of talking to Berthold von Maris from NRC about grammatical diversity recently. It was fun and the resulting piece is very well-done! nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10…

It turns out you can’t teach a decades worth of stats experience/learning in a single semester

People usually think replication attempts in science are rare. Journals don't publish replications, so scientists don't do them. In reality there are countless replication attempts (and failures), it's just PhD students assume they did something wrong journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

aotearoa might be the worlds worst abuser of the breaking news banner

Tulsi Gabbard will be Director of National Intelligence. She's in a cult and has deep connections to Indian fascists. Mike Prysner's 2-part QAA episode is full of severely under reported information about her. Part 1: soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous… Part 2: soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous…

Achievement unlocked: Etymonline-editor Douglas Harper agrees with me on something. So, I can't be that dumb.

dearest Christie Aschwanden . I am not here for my semi-regular plea for you to do more podcasts, especially with Clare Malone . I am here to say that the video on your old article is down and please do you know who to poke to fix it please? ty + you're so cool! fivethirtyeight.com/features/not-e…

How are humans able to make sense of time? Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts that render time more concrete. My new paper explores this vast toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and more. 🧵

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