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Heidi Harley
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linguistiks knitting kids kats ceramiks and everything with /k/ or 'k', I just decided
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Bad news: Recklessly parking in a 20 min zone on campus on a Saturday earned me a $50 fine today.

Good news: UAZ Parking and Transportartion apparently has partnered with a food bank and will forgive my fine in exchange for two boxes of cereal!
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Linguists! Tomorrow's Write Time Friday is hosted by Melissa Baese-Berk again! 10-12 ET. @m2b2.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with Melissa Baese-Berk
About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
@m2b2.bsky.social hosting tomorrow at 10aET!
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Linguists! This week's Write Time Friday is hosted by LSA EC member and AAAS Section Z chair Melissa Baese-Berk! Join us and get some work done! #linguistics

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Write Time Friday with Melissa Baese-Berk
About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
www.lsadc.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Linguists! Tomorrow’s write time Friday is hosted by LSA grad student EC member John Starr! Come get some work done! 🐦🐦
@lingsocam.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with John R. Starr
About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Who’s your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)
October 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Linguists! This week’s Write Time Friday is hosted by LSA ExCo member Shabnam Alizadeh at 11ET! Shabnam is one of our two student representatives and would love to see you there! @lingsocam.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with Shabnam Alizadeh Incheh
About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It’s raining in our part of the Sonoran desert today. It’s very soothing.
October 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Clickbait headline but informative article

The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
LSA members! I forgot to publicize this week's Write Time Friday, but if anyone wants some work buddies I'm hosting one right now! #linguistics www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with Heidi Harley, LSA President
About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
www.lsadc.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A happy linguist brain day yesterday, teaching Grimshaw 1979 on selection, exclamatives, concealed questions...Wrote 'so cool!' by examples 113-114. Also learned that Markov used text by Pushkin as the dependent data for the first ever Markov chain. @veritasium.bsky.social youtu.be/KZeIEiBrT_w?...
The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
YouTube video by Veritasium
youtu.be
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Reposted by Heidi Harley
Big news! Starting in 2027, @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org will publish the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—a new LSA journal highlighting the richness of Black language & culture across the globe.
Learn more: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... @acharityhudley.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Heidi Harley
"The main function of the compact is to replace such provisions of law with 'the deal'—that is, a piece of paper, signed by the university, that purports to entitle the Department of Justice, on the basis of its own 'finding,' to take away all of these 'benefits'".

#AcademicSky
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Linguists! Write TIme Friday tomorrow with LSA EC member (and AAAS Section Z chair!) Melissa Baese-Bork @m2b2.bsky.social at 10ET. Join Melissa and other linguists in a quiet zoom room and get some work done! @lingsocam.bsky.social
www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with Melissa Baese-Berk
About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
www.lsadc.org
October 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Linguists! Another Write Time Friday with LSA Executive Committee member Kristen Syrett at 10a ET this Friday Sept 26! Come get some work done in a quietly supportive zoom room with other linguists! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social
Write Time Friday with Kristen Syrett, LSA Executive Committee Member
About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
www.lsadc.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Write Time Friday for linguists with LSA Executive Committee member Kristen Syrett tomorrow at 10AM ET! Come get some work done in a zoom room with fellow linguists! #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social

www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with Kristen Syrett, LSA Executive Committee Member
About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
www.lsadc.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Partner off on a prison-to-prison driving tour of southern Arizona to try to help a friend of a friend who was picked up by Homeland Security, me unexpectedly home with 8yo. We made a cake. Partner found friend’s friend and got to see him. Weird day.
September 15, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I haven’t seen this on here but do any immigration lawyers know if it’s helpful for many people to call a detention facility and ask after someone in ICE custody, to let them know they’re on the radar (ala Amnesty International)? If so I might post info for friends to start calling… #ICE.
September 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Come one come all! This Monday! 🐦🐦
Upcoming LSA Presidential Research Forum
September 15, 2025

Tutorial on Logical Phonology (LP)
Featuring Kyle Gorman, Rim Dabbous, and Charles Reiss

Join us for a deep dive into LP! This forum highlights cutting-edge theoretical insights grounded in formal rigor! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
September 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Linguists! Another Write Time Friday coming up tomorrow @10am PT -- join me and others for community during two quiet hours of work time with other linguists in a zoom room! Be there! @lingsocam.bsky.social #linguistics

www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with Heidi Harley, LSA President
About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
www.lsadc.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Holy mackerel.

"The queens store and clone sperm to produce hybrids with M. structor genomes and M. ibericus mitochondria ... [T]he queens rely on M. structor males exclusively for its worker caste, suggesting a “domestication-like process”.

www.404media.co/the-biologic...
The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten—by Ants
Iberian harvester ant queens clone males of a different species in a never-before-seen case of reproduction and domestication.
www.404media.co
September 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Being John Malkovich
Everything everywhere all at once
11. You own a movie theater and it is your first double feature.

What movies do you choose?
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Rabbit Proof Fence.
8. What is the saddest movie you've ever watched?
September 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
September 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM