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BrettC, Ph.D.
@brettc.bsky.social
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http://en.pronouns.page/@brettcnelson
Linguisticking in Mohkinstsis (51° N, 114° W)
Born settler from Bulbancha (30° N, 90° W)
Latest publication: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/469 (Book chapter; Open Access)
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brettc.bsky.social
Language revitalization and maintenance is the topic of both of my courses next week!!!!

And then a whole course on it next semester!!!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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infinitescream.bsky.social
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
brettc.bsky.social
BREAKING: SCOTUS strikes down the Preamble to the US Constitution, striking a huge blow to Schoolhouse Rock! fans across the country.
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
brettc.bsky.social
Honestly one of my birds of all time. The pink spatula.
brettc.bsky.social BrettC, Ph.D. @brettc.bsky.social · 3d
Oxford English Dictionary has a bit more on it, giving historical spelling variants of spartle, spartel, spattle, and spatyl(l), getting closer to spatula as you go back in time!
I also found on OED that the roseate spoonbill was once referred to as the rose-coloured spatula.
A roseate spoonbill (a relatively large bird with red, white, and pink plumage, red eyes, and a spoon-shaped bill) just squatting in some green wetlands in Florida.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
brettc.bsky.social
Fun fact about BrettC: Technology Ethics was one of the first college/university courses I took. I hated it at the time, so much so that I stopped doing the work and got an F, but it's really guided a lot of my thinking ever since.
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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marawilson.bsky.social
If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3d
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
brettc.bsky.social
I'm going back to reading student bibliographies
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
brettc.bsky.social
If I have to write a whole ass series of documents in order to get ethical permission to ask people about what languages they used growing up , surely we can expect a sliver of ethical consideration from companies making robots who can say just about anything to anyone at any time, right?
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
brettc.bsky.social
Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!
A black kitten lying relaxed on a black fabric and mesh office chair. An orange cat standing on a black and orange geometrical rug next to a large orange pumpkin with their head turned backwards looking to the left of frame A tabby calico cat wearing a pink post-surgery shirt lying on a dark green bed pillow next to a blue blanket. The cat's front paws have escaped from the sleeves of the shirt. A tabby calico cat lying next to a sleeping black kitten in a cardboard cat scratching furniture. The tabby calico is perched on their front legs looking directly at the camera.
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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infinitescream.bsky.social
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
brettc.bsky.social
Now I'm checking my students' bibliographies and each one feels like a gift to my reading list (selfish)
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
brettc.bsky.social
Ranted about museums resisting Indigenous repatriation claims in class today. That felt nice
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
brettc.bsky.social
How many instances of teams open when you start up your computer? I think I closed like 4 just now
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
brettc.bsky.social
This reminds me of this shot i took of the sunset in Iximulew (Guatemala) in 2019. I haven't been back since. But I'm done my thesis and I would like to go back soon to share my findings.
Vibrant sunset with shades of orange, yellow, pink, blue, and white over a pair of misty volcanoes. In the foreground there are the roofs of buildings to the left and a corn field in the dark to the right
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
brettc.bsky.social
The eastern parts of the sky this morning were screaming TRANS PRIDE 🩵🩷🤍 and LESBIAN PRIDE 🧡🤍🩷 while the west was screaming BI PRIDE 🩷💜💙.
Big Pride City
A sunrise over some apartment buildings , a field, and a street with some cars parked in it. The sky is partly cloudy with shades of pink, purple, blue, and white while the portion adjacent to the sun in the right half of the photo are orange and yellow. There's also a red stop sign to the right in the foreground. The photo is taken from an orange vehicle, the hood/bonnet of which is visible at the bottom of frame.
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
brettc.bsky.social
Deydies and gentledem da weekend!
A black cat sitting on a carpeted staircase sniffing the stuffed bat pet toy also sitting on the staircase. A black and white long haired cat sitting on tiled floor. A black kitten sitting next to an orange pumpkin about the same size as the kitten. The kitten is sniffing the pumpkin. A calico tabby cat sitting in a beige fabric basket looking quite unimpressed at the photographer.
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
brettc.bsky.social
I love dropping film recommendations (and disrecommendations) in my Intro to Indigenous Studies course. I've done it in three or four consecutive classes now.

Sometimes it's a film by Indigenous filmmakers and other times it's a film about Indigenous Peoples by non-Indigenous filmmakers.
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
brettc.bsky.social
Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!
A black kitten lying on a green blanket with a larger orange cat's tail wrapped slightly around the kitten's face. The kitten has a paw grabbing the tail while looking directly at the camera. A torbie cat lying on a pile of unfolded clean laundry of various colours all on a black wooden table. A calico tabby cat lies inverted on a carpeted staircase. Their head and ears are flat against a stair while looking to the left of frame. A small black kitten and a larger orange cat lie together on a floral green duvet cover on top of a bed. Both are looking directly at the camera.
October 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
brettc.bsky.social
I totally forgot I planned a lesson on morphosyntactic alignment in Indigenous Languages in North America next week. Let's blow some accusative minds!
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!
A black kitten sitting on a green couch with an orange cat sitting behind them. A torbie cat sitting behind a metal food bowl with some brown kibble in it. A calico tabby cat standing in an orange translucent plastic chair looking intently into the camera. A big horn sheep ewe standing on a grassy median with a tree and another sheep behind it and below it, lower on the hill.
October 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
brettc.bsky.social
Deydies and gentledem, I took a Vyvanse at 3pm and totally forgot it was da weekend until now
October 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
brettc.bsky.social
Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!
An orange tabby cat lying down and a black kitten sitting up on a green blanket with yellow and green pillows behind them as well as a red pillow with two illustrated lucky cats on it. An orange cat sleeping in a tight ball shape with a smaller black kitten lying behind them on a yellow upholstered chair.
October 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
brettc.bsky.social
I love how many hats linguistics lets me wear.

There's the social sciences hat, the humanities hat, the data science hat, and even the physics and biology hats!

If only I had more heads to wear all hats at once!
October 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
brettc.bsky.social
Someone or a group of someones is posting these sticky notes with words of affirmation all over campus and the one on my office door has a funny case of misaligned pronoun reference that turns the message into a bit of a humble brag:
"YOU deserve what opportunities are coming MY way!"
A square green sticky note posted to a brown woodgrain door. The note reads, in red ink: "you deserve what opportunities are coming my way!" There is also a printed watermark on the bottom of the note, in blue: "Mount Royal University Healthy Campus".
October 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM