Dustin A. Chacón
@lingdustin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. {Neuro/psycho}linguistics, syntax, and South Asian languages. He/him 🏳️🌈.
Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats.
www.lingdustin.net
Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats.
www.lingdustin.net
'how drunk can I send you something?'
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
'how drunk can I send you something?'
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Jaw is on the floor watching election results. There's actually some hope
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Jaw is on the floor watching election results. There's actually some hope
Love that the Bravely Default HD Remaster has a whole-ass rhythm minigame for Love In the Crossfire
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Love that the Bravely Default HD Remaster has a whole-ass rhythm minigame for Love In the Crossfire
There's a guy standing near the student union on UCSC campus with a giant banner that says 'POLYAMORY' and he's handing out flyers
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There's a guy standing near the student union on UCSC campus with a giant banner that says 'POLYAMORY' and he's handing out flyers
Happy Halloween from Count Noun! 🧛
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy Halloween from Count Noun! 🧛
Why does this sound like Elsevier is breaking up with me
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Why does this sound like Elsevier is breaking up with me
If English were head final the childrens’ joke would be “why is 5 afraid of 6?”
October 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If English were head final the childrens’ joke would be “why is 5 afraid of 6?”
some pronouns for you
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
October 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
some pronouns for you
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
Glad that the new Pokémon games don't require players to adhere to a strict gender binary; still odd that my natural hair color is a secret unlockable that I have to purposefully seek out
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Glad that the new Pokémon games don't require players to adhere to a strict gender binary; still odd that my natural hair color is a secret unlockable that I have to purposefully seek out
Last week we hosted the 4th Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI)! This is a small gathering of early career researchers in the Bay and Northern California who work in cognitive neuroscience of language and psycholinguistics to share their work!
October 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Last week we hosted the 4th Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI)! This is a small gathering of early career researchers in the Bay and Northern California who work in cognitive neuroscience of language and psycholinguistics to share their work!
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacón
Unbelievably racist video, but of the 30 seconds, about half of it is claiming that Latinos (not specifically immigrants, even) are "too stupid" to speak English. English-only and English-superiority narratives are a bedrock of this regime's racism. They know nothing about how language works.
Donald Trump’s AI posting habit reared its ugly head again Monday amid a looming government shutdown in the form of a racist video featuring top Democratic leaders.
Trump Posts Jaw-Dropping AI-Generated Clip as Shutdown Looms
The post was criticized soon after.
trib.al
September 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Unbelievably racist video, but of the 30 seconds, about half of it is claiming that Latinos (not specifically immigrants, even) are "too stupid" to speak English. English-only and English-superiority narratives are a bedrock of this regime's racism. They know nothing about how language works.
“does not predict p” is very very different than “predicts not p”
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“does not predict p” is very very different than “predicts not p”
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacón
Revealing new insights into how the mind represents and processes language, this book gives a full overview of linguistic illusions.
Linguistic Illusions by Dan Parker, Coming Soon
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
https://cup.org/4mwHEnC
Linguistic Illusions by Dan Parker, Coming Soon
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
https://cup.org/4mwHEnC
September 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Revealing new insights into how the mind represents and processes language, this book gives a full overview of linguistic illusions.
Linguistic Illusions by Dan Parker, Coming Soon
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
https://cup.org/4mwHEnC
Linguistic Illusions by Dan Parker, Coming Soon
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
https://cup.org/4mwHEnC
UCSC Linguistics and Psychology are very proud to host the Fourth Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI), which gathers together young researchers focusing on language from a diverse range of perspectives from the Bay and Northern California. Come join us Fri, Oct 10!
September 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
UCSC Linguistics and Psychology are very proud to host the Fourth Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI), which gathers together young researchers focusing on language from a diverse range of perspectives from the Bay and Northern California. Come join us Fri, Oct 10!
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacón
“Technology companies are not shy of falsely claiming that students are lazy or lack writing skills. Such a mantra serves only to sell products (…) We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.”
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
zenodo.org
September 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“Technology companies are not shy of falsely claiming that students are lazy or lack writing skills. Such a mantra serves only to sell products (…) We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.”
zenodo.org/records/1706...
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zenodo.org/records/1706...
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30 minutes into wearing hearing aids for the first time. The world is louder and more annoying than I remember
September 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
30 minutes into wearing hearing aids for the first time. The world is louder and more annoying than I remember
Sometime in the last few years my sneezes have been phonologized as the word 'chewy', which I utter with perfect enunciation every time
September 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Sometime in the last few years my sneezes have been phonologized as the word 'chewy', which I utter with perfect enunciation every time
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacón
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
I went into academia to live my dream of doing training modules and figuring out what a “teaching table” is
September 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I went into academia to live my dream of doing training modules and figuring out what a “teaching table” is
One of my bffs bruised his patella about a month and a half ago and I have been gaining great joy by asking him “knee how?” regularly
September 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
One of my bffs bruised his patella about a month and a half ago and I have been gaining great joy by asking him “knee how?” regularly
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacón
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
September 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacón
September 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacón
@rmc-law.bsky.social Ryan Law presenting on a unified framework for semantic memory and semantic composition in the ATL.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025
September 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
@rmc-law.bsky.social Ryan Law presenting on a unified framework for semantic memory and semantic composition in the ATL.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025
Fotos lindas of UCSC PhD student Subhs Shrestha presenting her project on structure building and agreement processing in Spanish! #snl2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Fotos lindas of UCSC PhD student Subhs Shrestha presenting her project on structure building and agreement processing in Spanish! #snl2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social