Brandon Prickett
@bprickett.bsky.social
Computational and experimental phonologist. My hobbies include watching cartoons and eating at Waffle House. (he/him)
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COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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[Searching through the fanfold printouts of my parents' ELIZA chats, trying to figure out what it told them that made me this way]
December 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
[Searching through the fanfold printouts of my parents' ELIZA chats, trying to figure out what it told them that made me this way]
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they should invent a tamale printer
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
they should invent a tamale printer
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Do you like comic books and want to think more seriously about the linguistics of them?
Are you a social scientist or a linguist who wants to know more about nation-building or language planning in fiction?
HAVE I GOT EXACTLY THE ARTICLE YOU NEVER ASKED FOR, on CAMP Anthropology. 🐦🐦
Are you a social scientist or a linguist who wants to know more about nation-building or language planning in fiction?
HAVE I GOT EXACTLY THE ARTICLE YOU NEVER ASKED FOR, on CAMP Anthropology. 🐦🐦
X-Men, Krakoa, and Linguistic Sovereignty
by Erika Alpert Krakoan national co-founder Magneto explains to diplomats at the new Krakoan Embassy in Jerusalem why mutants have decided to create their own language, from House of X #1 (Hickman …
campanthropology.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Do you like comic books and want to think more seriously about the linguistics of them?
Are you a social scientist or a linguist who wants to know more about nation-building or language planning in fiction?
HAVE I GOT EXACTLY THE ARTICLE YOU NEVER ASKED FOR, on CAMP Anthropology. 🐦🐦
Are you a social scientist or a linguist who wants to know more about nation-building or language planning in fiction?
HAVE I GOT EXACTLY THE ARTICLE YOU NEVER ASKED FOR, on CAMP Anthropology. 🐦🐦
Artificial language learning experiments often explain typology by showing that more common patterns are easier to learn. But this isn’t always the case. In work I recently presented at SCiL, I present a possible explanation for one such mismatch between the lab and typology. 🐦🐦 #linguistics
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July 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Artificial language learning experiments often explain typology by showing that more common patterns are easier to learn. But this isn’t always the case. In work I recently presented at SCiL, I present a possible explanation for one such mismatch between the lab and typology. 🐦🐦 #linguistics
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Lots of great computational #linguistics in this year's SCiL proceedings! (Including an extended abstract from me that I'll probably post more about closer to the conference.) 🐦🐦
openpublishing.library.umass.edu/scil/
openpublishing.library.umass.edu/scil/
Society for Computation in Linguistics
openpublishing.library.umass.edu
July 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Lots of great computational #linguistics in this year's SCiL proceedings! (Including an extended abstract from me that I'll probably post more about closer to the conference.) 🐦🐦
openpublishing.library.umass.edu/scil/
openpublishing.library.umass.edu/scil/
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Linguists! Abstracts for the LSA annual meeting in NOLA in January 2026 are due on July 7! Please submit! It’s going to be a great conference, and a chance to confer and strategize. Would love love love to see you there! #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/abstracts
LSA Annual Meeting - Call for Abstracts
LSA Annual Meeting - Call for Abstracts
www.lsadc.org
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Linguists! Abstracts for the LSA annual meeting in NOLA in January 2026 are due on July 7! Please submit! It’s going to be a great conference, and a chance to confer and strategize. Would love love love to see you there! #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/abstracts
Really nice example to bring up in a data science or corpus #linguistics class about dealing with weirdness in your data!
David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...
The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen
Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer
drhagen.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Really nice example to bring up in a data science or corpus #linguistics class about dealing with weirdness in your data!
Look who I found outside my front door! 10/10, no room for improvement.
May 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Look who I found outside my front door! 10/10, no room for improvement.
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(reading the specs of a clown car) wow 32 cupholders
April 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
(reading the specs of a clown car) wow 32 cupholders
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Humans do representation learning all the time and one of the most tangible aspects of representation learning (from a continuous physical space to mental representations) is human phonology.
Submit to the Special Session at this year's AMP on modeling phonology with deep neural networks!
Submit to the Special Session at this year's AMP on modeling phonology with deep neural networks!
April 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Humans do representation learning all the time and one of the most tangible aspects of representation learning (from a continuous physical space to mental representations) is human phonology.
Submit to the Special Session at this year's AMP on modeling phonology with deep neural networks!
Submit to the Special Session at this year's AMP on modeling phonology with deep neural networks!
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New article out on how infants learn to find affixes in early infancy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New article out on how infants learn to find affixes in early infancy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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One thing that needs to get repeated until it sinks in is that “AI” does not simply function as a tool that people in power are using; it’s even more powerful as a permission structure for the destructive & extractive things they wanted to do in the first place.
Every time someone says they won’t try to use ai to replace teachers, you should put “yet” at the end of their sentence.
Outrage as university says AI tutors will run lectures in course
Three AI programs are set to replace lecture slides in a university course this semester.
www.nzherald.co.nz
March 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
One thing that needs to get repeated until it sinks in is that “AI” does not simply function as a tool that people in power are using; it’s even more powerful as a permission structure for the destructive & extractive things they wanted to do in the first place.
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Baby tapir Ume had her first encounter with the water dish and it’s adorable! 🥰
February 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Baby tapir Ume had her first encounter with the water dish and it’s adorable! 🥰
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It's one of the unwritten rules of civilization: if a child pours air into a cup and offers you tea, you will sip it and say "thank you, it's delicious."
January 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It's one of the unwritten rules of civilization: if a child pours air into a cup and offers you tea, you will sip it and say "thank you, it's delicious."
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wikipedia honestly gotta be top 5 human creations in the past thousand years
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
wikipedia honestly gotta be top 5 human creations in the past thousand years
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maybe my favourite etymology: the phrase “curry favour” originates from a medieval french morality poem about a conniving horse named fauvel who amasses a following of sycophantic humans to groom and tend to him.
over time, “currying fauvel” eventually became “currying favour.”
over time, “currying fauvel” eventually became “currying favour.”
December 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
maybe my favourite etymology: the phrase “curry favour” originates from a medieval french morality poem about a conniving horse named fauvel who amasses a following of sycophantic humans to groom and tend to him.
over time, “currying fauvel” eventually became “currying favour.”
over time, “currying fauvel” eventually became “currying favour.”
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The most epic and dangerous nursery
Isisaurus from Prehistoric planet, study by me #paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart #procreate 🐡
Isisaurus from Prehistoric planet, study by me #paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart #procreate 🐡
December 7, 2024 at 1:04 AM
The most epic and dangerous nursery
Isisaurus from Prehistoric planet, study by me #paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart #procreate 🐡
Isisaurus from Prehistoric planet, study by me #paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart #procreate 🐡
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bok choy is the perfect vegetable. easy to cook, delicious and easy to make more delicious. a perfect side! a perfect side.
November 23, 2024 at 12:34 PM
bok choy is the perfect vegetable. easy to cook, delicious and easy to make more delicious. a perfect side! a perfect side.
She knows I'm taking a picture and she's NOT happy about it.
November 18, 2024 at 12:42 AM
She knows I'm taking a picture and she's NOT happy about it.
Hard to explain why, but there's something very cute about popcorn in a pickle jar.
November 10, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Hard to explain why, but there's something very cute about popcorn in a pickle jar.
Check out this cool paper! It's about patterns of phonological stress, but also (and more importantly) the complex relationship between representation and learning in theories of #linguistics when you're trying to explain typology.
@bprickett.bsky.social, Josh and I have a new paper "Representing and Learning Stress: A MaxEnt Framework for Comparing Learning Across Grammatical Theories".
We celebrated with dinner at the Quarters.
The paper is here (our software is linked in it).
websites.umass.edu/pater/papers/
We celebrated with dinner at the Quarters.
The paper is here (our software is linked in it).
websites.umass.edu/pater/papers/
October 31, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Check out this cool paper! It's about patterns of phonological stress, but also (and more importantly) the complex relationship between representation and learning in theories of #linguistics when you're trying to explain typology.