🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁
@elisestickles.bsky.social
assistant professor of English Language
at the University of British Columbia. cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, gesture studies. she/her, singular they is as old as Chaucer.
http://elisestickles.com
at the University of British Columbia. cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, gesture studies. she/her, singular they is as old as Chaucer.
http://elisestickles.com
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I made a #cognitivelinguistics starter park - please share and let me know who I missed! #linguistics #starterpack go.bsky.app/EtMaSX5
the layers of chronically online context playing out here are fascinating - now we have a UAlberta prof put on leave for a bluesky post referencing a @dril.bsky.social tweet
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
University of Alberta law professor put on leave amid review of online comments made after Charlie Kirk's death
“You do not ... ever have to hand it to the Nazis. I utterly do not care for any ‘virtues’ that someone may perceive in them,” they wrote.
nationalpost.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
the layers of chronically online context playing out here are fascinating - now we have a UAlberta prof put on leave for a bluesky post referencing a @dril.bsky.social tweet
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
My mom sometimes texts me book recommendations, and it’s so sweet of her to think I have time to read for fun 🥲
September 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My mom sometimes texts me book recommendations, and it’s so sweet of her to think I have time to read for fun 🥲
Anyone else remember this? Turns out it was all of 5 years ago.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lette... (aka “the Harper’s letter”)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lette... (aka “the Harper’s letter”)
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Anyone else remember this? Turns out it was all of 5 years ago.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lette... (aka “the Harper’s letter”)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lette... (aka “the Harper’s letter”)
The Onion headlines are writing themselves again
September 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The Onion headlines are writing themselves again
Michael “Cool” Powell also posting lots on twitter, remarkably silent on this.
I ventured over to twitter to see what Conor Friedersdorf has to say about this. In the last day he’s had time to post about Burger King and a 1907 car race, but has remained mysteriously silent on his favorite topic, suppression of academic freedom of speech.
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
September 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Michael “Cool” Powell also posting lots on twitter, remarkably silent on this.
I ventured over to twitter to see what Conor Friedersdorf has to say about this. In the last day he’s had time to post about Burger King and a 1907 car race, but has remained mysteriously silent on his favorite topic, suppression of academic freedom of speech.
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
September 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I ventured over to twitter to see what Conor Friedersdorf has to say about this. In the last day he’s had time to post about Burger King and a 1907 car race, but has remained mysteriously silent on his favorite topic, suppression of academic freedom of speech.
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it has been 4 years and these guys simply cannot stop acting like the LSA letter was the same thing as a McCarthy era black list or a maoist denunciation rally or some shit
September 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
it has been 4 years and these guys simply cannot stop acting like the LSA letter was the same thing as a McCarthy era black list or a maoist denunciation rally or some shit
New Zealand marked safe
September 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
New Zealand marked safe
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![Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster
@merriam-webster.c... • 17h
enshittification noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
...
Gold Yoshi @goldyoshi.bsky.social
[Screenshot of the enshittification page on Merriam Websters website. It says where does enshittification come from and the entire page is covered in ads]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g2p3bnbzcvcbohfpvjxfazqv/bafkreicqj6ceehevsgs4dhtajor6aehaismo6dwhcy4vdrqozqusqptpii@jpeg)
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There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
I am pleased to report I successfully flew into and back out of the coal mine
I’m an American citizen living/working in Canada, scheduled to present a paper on religion metaphors in climate change communication/denialism at a conference in the US this summer. Kind of feel like I’m the canary willingly flying into the coal mine here
Yeah I think it’s really hitting white academics in countries like Canada to have their exceptional status removed. *At best* I feel like they’re going to search my phone and question the politics of an anthro conference, and even that makes me not want to engage with the border
August 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I am pleased to report I successfully flew into and back out of the coal mine
I’m descended from those who were fortunate enough to escape the pogroms and come to America in the early 1900s.
My Bubbe (z’’l) would be roiling, roiling, roiling today.
My Bubbe (z’’l) would be roiling, roiling, roiling today.
Sweet cheese on a stick every time I read
@joellenovey.bsky.social
spit devastating truth about how far our community has fallen from who we are supposed to be it breaks me even more:
(link seems to be back online:)
@joellenovey.bsky.social
spit devastating truth about how far our community has fallen from who we are supposed to be it breaks me even more:
(link seems to be back online:)
Corrections · Jewschool
Three decades after my bat mitzvah, All of my Hebrew school teachers, youth group counselors, rabbis, and that lady with the guitar from camp. They got us all back together to issue some corrections. ...
jewschool.com
July 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I’m descended from those who were fortunate enough to escape the pogroms and come to America in the early 1900s.
My Bubbe (z’’l) would be roiling, roiling, roiling today.
My Bubbe (z’’l) would be roiling, roiling, roiling today.
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Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system
July 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system
One of the first CDs I bought as a kid (and anyone who remembers how expensive they were, knows that was no easy decision) - and now we can all enjoy his work for free in the public domain.
That CD was later possibly the only reason I passed 10th grade chemistry…
That CD was later possibly the only reason I passed 10th grade chemistry…
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
One of the first CDs I bought as a kid (and anyone who remembers how expensive they were, knows that was no easy decision) - and now we can all enjoy his work for free in the public domain.
That CD was later possibly the only reason I passed 10th grade chemistry…
That CD was later possibly the only reason I passed 10th grade chemistry…
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Tom Lehrer outlived Kissinger, and I think that is evidence that there are at least some good forces in the universe.
“I do have a cause, though. It is obscenity. I’m for it.”
-from the intro to “Smut”
“I do have a cause, though. It is obscenity. I’m for it.”
-from the intro to “Smut”
"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."
—Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
—Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Tom Lehrer outlived Kissinger, and I think that is evidence that there are at least some good forces in the universe.
“I do have a cause, though. It is obscenity. I’m for it.”
-from the intro to “Smut”
“I do have a cause, though. It is obscenity. I’m for it.”
-from the intro to “Smut”
and "weekend" is banned by the Office québécois de la langue française, which clearly means use of the term in French is woke virtue signalling that you're pro-bilingualism 🤷♀️
According to this source, it's actually banned from official use in Argentina--which says something. There will always be an underground when something's banned, though. penncapital-star.com/commentary/s...
Stop using ‘Latinx’ if you really want to be inclusive | Opinion • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
As a Mexican-born, U.S.-raised scholar, I agree with the official Argentine and Spanish stance on banning Latinx from the Spanish language – English, too.
penncapital-star.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
and "weekend" is banned by the Office québécois de la langue française, which clearly means use of the term in French is woke virtue signalling that you're pro-bilingualism 🤷♀️
The internet: “Latinx is made up by English speakers, no one actually says that”
Meanwhile, all over Buenos Aires:
Meanwhile, all over Buenos Aires:
July 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The internet: “Latinx is made up by English speakers, no one actually says that”
Meanwhile, all over Buenos Aires:
Meanwhile, all over Buenos Aires:
💡 Climate Change Metaphors: Critical Approaches to Representation in Media and Research
Organizers:
@elisestickles.bsky.social (University of British Columbia), Schuyler Laparle (Tilburg University)
Organizers:
@elisestickles.bsky.social (University of British Columbia), Schuyler Laparle (Tilburg University)
June 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Sending out a bat signal for linguists: I’m trying to get my high school Linguistics and Media Studies class approved as an ENG101 course for early college / dual enrollment. The English dept at this community college keeps sending up roadblocks because there’s “too much linguistics,” (1/3)
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May 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Sending out a bat signal for linguists: I’m trying to get my high school Linguistics and Media Studies class approved as an ENG101 course for early college / dual enrollment. The English dept at this community college keeps sending up roadblocks because there’s “too much linguistics,” (1/3)
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
I've been living in Canada for almost 6 years now and as far as I can tell this is how Canadian geography works
May 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I've been living in Canada for almost 6 years now and as far as I can tell this is how Canadian geography works
Me: “oh, they called Nunavut!”
@kennybaclawski.bsky.social: “I’m sure they called some of it”
…can you believe I just live with this
@kennybaclawski.bsky.social: “I’m sure they called some of it”
…can you believe I just live with this
April 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Me: “oh, they called Nunavut!”
@kennybaclawski.bsky.social: “I’m sure they called some of it”
…can you believe I just live with this
@kennybaclawski.bsky.social: “I’m sure they called some of it”
…can you believe I just live with this
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Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election
April 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election
My riding!
Wade Grant won! Musqueam nation - hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaker (a Salish dialect, the Native language most of Metro Vancouver). The first Coast Salish person in parliament, AFAIK.
April 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
My riding!