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Claire
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Prof of linguistics. 🇦🇺/🇺🇸; Australian languages, historical linguistics, Voynich Manuscript
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Semantic change
xkcd.com Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 5d
Groundhog Day Meaning

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Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.
February 4, 2026 at 10:34 PM
chirila.bsky.social
Evolution of differential object marking in Macedonian dialects benjamins.com/catalog/dia....
Evolution of differential object marking in Macedonian dialects
By the late Middle Ages, a part of South Slavic, including Macedonian and Bulgarian, had lost nominal case inflection, leading to the disappearance of the old Slavic differential object marking (DOM) ...
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February 4, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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simongreenhill.bsky.social
Demographic shifts, inter-group contact and environmental conditions drive language extinction and diversification.
#linguistics
January 28, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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dgb-linguistics.bsky.social
💡Learn about the use of gender-inclusive language across 14 European languages in this new book edited by Falco Pfalzgraf: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111701608/html#overview

@lhekanaho.bsky.social @sofialampro.bsky.social @genderedform.bsky.social @michael-hornsby.bsky.social
Book cover of the collection entitled "Gender-inclusive language: Findings from 14 languages and open research questions", edited by Falco Pfalzgraf.
January 27, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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IGALA list: Deborah Cameron, one of the greatest feminist linguists ever, has passed away. Everybody interested in the relationship of #language and #gender, please go and read her witty and myth-busting blog: https://
debuk.wordpress.com/ .
#linguistics #GenderLinguistics
January 22, 2026 at 7:20 AM
chirila.bsky.social
Another thread for the ages, it appears!!!
January 22, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI”
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...
docs.google.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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katbamkapow.bsky.social
research thread! i study queer histories of computing -- how LGBTQ+ people seize the means of connection & computation to build community and keep each other safe.

here are a few pieces that might interest you:
January 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM
chirila.bsky.social
Dear Voynichologists,
There is no need to send me your AI generated Voynich "solutions" (or rather, your AI generated letters saying you've generated a solution to 8 pages of the manuscript). I too can generate such letters. I guarantee that one of you have deciphered the Voynich Manuscript.
Yrs...
January 21, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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this program looks fucking phenomenal and if you're within a train ride of DC you should definitely go!!! #linguistics
January 20, 2026 at 11:20 PM
chirila.bsky.social
A thread that rivals the guy whose brother in law ordered a lorry full of rice
musicologyduck.bsky.social Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20d
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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jennycz.bsky.social
Most important practice for learning to write articles in my field? Reading lots of articles in my field! I guess other "tips" or shortcuts or explicit guidance can help but really, if you wanna be a good writer, you gotta be a good reader! (goes for non-academic writing too)
leannecpowner.bsky.social Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social · 20d
When you were learning to produce academic prose, or to write articles in your field, what was the most important thing you did (or didn't do)? Looking back, what was most helpful?
January 20, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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wrooth.bsky.social
Great news - we've extended the application deadline for our Predoctoral and Archives Training Fellowships to Monday, February 9! Please spread the word.
wrooth.bsky.social Ruth Arr @wrooth.bsky.social · Jan 7
Native American Scholars Initiative *Archives Training* and *Predoctoral* Fellowship Applications are due January 16!

Archives Training Fellowship: 2-year fellowship for applicants with an MLIS or PhD

Predoctoral Fellowship: 9-month residential fellowship for advanced doctoral student
CNAIR Funding Opportunities | American Philosophical Society
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research supports community- and campus-based projects related to cultural and language vitality, Indigenous self-determination, and Native American and I...
www.amphilsoc.org
January 20, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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atlathewriter.bsky.social
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.

I have translated some of the highlights
A screenshot of Lala and Po from the teletubbies. The screenshot is clearly taken from someone's phone, as the borders of the tv can be seen, as well as glimpses into the apartment behind them. Po is in bed wrapped up in a blanket. The text below them reads "I know you were high at my mother-in-laws funeral..." More screenshots from the Teletubbies. Lala seems to be upset with a terrified Po. the text below reads "Did you kill the dog? Why would you do that?!" A third screenshot from the Teletubbies, this time the same scene as before. Po is wearing an apron while Lala seems to still be upset at him. The text below reads "You're nothing but a failure of a man."
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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emrem.bsky.social
Are y’all playing metazooa.com
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
metazooa.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
Latest update adds:
- capability to include metadata in TXT files,
- support for IRaMuTeQ,
- support for Sketch Engine

#linguistics
fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org Florent Moncomble @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org · 26d
📣 Major update to X-Scraper, which enables users to create corpora of tweets without the need for a subscription to X's unaffordable API: each tweet's full data/metadata is now available to include in the output file (except for TXT files, for now).

fmoncomble.github.io/X-scraper/

#linguistics
A screenshot of X-Scraper's interface superimposed on a page of search results from X. A message reads: "Your are currently limited to 44 request(s) by the 𝕏 API: to avoid blocking, scrolling will be staggered by several seconds if you scrape more than 880 tweets. Your rate limit will be restored to 50 requests at 09:54:38." Below is a box where the user can set a limit to the number of tweets to scrape, anad a button that reads "Start scraping" A screenshot of the dialog which offers the possibility to select the data/metadata the user wants to include in the output file. Each tweet's full text, author's screen_name and URL are selected by default. There is a checkbox to anonymize teets, a dropdown menu to select a file format and a download button. When you choose XLSX as the output format, a checkbox can be ticked to format the worksheet as a table in Excel.
January 16, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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phono-logical.bsky.social
Cool: “Cyclic reduplication in O’odham: a Stratal OT account of double reduplicationn” presented today by Jeremy Johns at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026
January 9, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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And we are underway on day 2 of #LSA2026! We had an exciting start to the meeting yesterday and we are excited for the presentations, networking, connections, and more to come today! What are you most looking forward to today? #LSA2026 #NewOrleans #Hybrid #Connections #AnnualMeeting
January 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Join us in New Orleans at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) @lingsocam.bsky.social annual meeting! #LSA2026
January 7, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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January 9, 2026 at 11:05 AM
chirila.bsky.social
Lovely start to #lsa2026 with prayer from Chitimacha cultural program #linguistics
January 8, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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gretchenmcculloch.com
If you know a high school student interested in language and/or puzzles, tell 'em about the linguistics olympiads, there are lots of national versions in many countries plus an international competition!
linguisticdiscovery.com Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · Jan 1
The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) is an annual international competition that brings together secondary school students and experts from various fields of linguistics.
January 1, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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standard ebooks does beautiful work with public domain titles and there are a lot of great new ones available today, including maltese falcon, stuff from christie, faulkner, kafka, hughes, lardner, sayers and more standardebooks.org/blog/public-...
Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog
Read about the new ebooks Standard Ebooks is releasing for Public Domain Day 2026!
standardebooks.org
January 1, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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kilagreene.bsky.social
Cannot say enough about how much I love this reading challenge. I’ve participated for the past three years and have learned so many new things that are useful to me as a writer and as a person. #Booksky
quartzen.bsky.social Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · Dec 31
If you're a writer or other creator with a stack of unread nonfiction you bought for research, my Worldbuilder's Book Club reading challenge is back for 2026 with twelve prompts to help you deepen different aspects of your created worlds!

(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
Worldbuilder's Book Club: A Nonfiction Reading Challenge to Deepen Your Fictional Worlds 1: Politics, Crime, and Law 2: Diplomacy, War, and International Relations 3: Travel, Trade, and Migration 4: Urban Life and Architecture 5: Rural Life and Agriculture 6: Work, Labor, and Daily Life 7: Culture and Religion 8: Arts and Material Culture 9: Science and Technology 10: Geography and Cartography 11: Weather and Clmate 12: Flora and Fauna Hosted by @quartzenbooks (Instagram) @quartzen (Bluesky)
January 1, 2026 at 10:38 PM