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why does the university feel the need to own one of these

💁🏻‍♀️ regular reminder that my DMs are open if you’re a linguistics (or linguistics-adjacent) phd student/candidate who’s thinking about tech industry jobs

Academics agreeing to exciting new papers & projects…

Students, please just *tell* your professors you got overwhelmed/procrastinated/underestimated. It's not cheating to ask for an extension or help or grace. It *is* academically dishonest to falsify data or plagiarize because you desperately need a shortcut.

The paradox of ADHD: Being so overwhelmed with my current commitments that I take on new, more interesting work, just to feel like I can accomplish _something_. Thus doubling the amount of work I need to do…

Assistant professor vs Editor

TW: Violence. But... yes

So, the thing we've been working on is Linguistics Methods Hub. The hope is for it to be a central place you can publish your tutorials/handouts/etc in a searchable and cross-referenceable way. lingmethodshub.github.io/content/

The answer is always yes.

Being a variationist is stupid. I just wrote the phrase "the amount of durational variability can vary between varieties." How can I fit another derivative of that same word in there? If I can make it even more ridiculous I'm determined to keep it.

When people list the core subfields of linguistics they usually forget the most important one: vibes

It's the exclamation points after sentence fragments. Extremely annoying! Sad!

I got rejected from all 5 programs I applied to my first year. Next year I got into 3 of 5. Now I work in a department that initially rejected me as a student. 🤷🏾‍♀️. You just need to know how to play the game, which isn’t intuitive. It helps to have good advisors.

Oh hey. I got a grant. humanexperience.stanford.edu/research-grant… Gonna be looking at some variation and change in DC along with some other folks who are as of now nameless.

I was interviewed for this excellent piece written by high school journalists for Monte Vista High School's publication El Estoque (El Estoque).

Only lingstitute2023: Workshop July 1st blogs.umass.edu/latinx-lsa/ Invited speakers: Nandi Sims, Mike Mena Mike Mena , Daniel Erker, Kim Potowski Kim Potowski . Call for papers open!!!

I do not know who needs to hear this: but you, fancy tenure-track academic, were not put on this planet to bully and attack undergraduate RAs at UNDERGRADUATE Research Day and make them cry.