Bridget Copley PhD
moppety.bsky.social
Bridget Copley PhD
@moppety.bsky.social
Parisienne Buffalonian linguist spoonie mom. http://bcopley.com "The line separating good and evil passes...right through every human heart." -Solzhenitsyn
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
December 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Teddy Bear hostage situation at the mairie again this year. Where's Bruce Willis when you need him?
December 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Compositionality in the news
Calling it the Donald Trump-Kennedy memorial center implies that Trump is also dead.
I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:
December 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Working while ill: a full-time job
December 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Deflate the Pats #BillsMafia
December 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
An article titled something like "disability in higher education" with no mention of how disability affects people working in higher education is like an article titled "disability in Europe" that only talks about Germany.
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Presuppositions in the news
lol I love that Habba thinks she can quit a job she never had. That reminds me, I need to resign as the prime minister of Australia.
The Parking Lot Lawyer FINALLY figured out she wasn’t welcome.

And PS: This is a complete and total surrender by Habba.
December 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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That is a grown ass man, stop messing up his hair #f1
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
David Coulthard: "You've made a lot of people cry" 🤣 #F1
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What a finish of the season! Winner: Lando's mum. All these fancy ladies show up dressed all fancy-like, but she rocks up in her kick-ass pigtails and her son wins the championship #F1
December 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing.

THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
I missed this from a couple of weeks ago, but if you're an NIH-funded investigator, please read.

Peer review will exist to make things look legitimate, but can, and will, be over-ruled. Funding decisions, ultimately, will be done by political appointees.

grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions | Grants & Funding
grants.nih.gov
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
3 sur 3 ascenseurs dans notre bâtiment de 30 étages en panne et le numéro d'urgence de l'agence nous racchroche au nez
November 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History
Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Things have been getting sassy between Airbnb and the City of Paris.

Airbnb says Paris's crackdown on the website has done nothing to ease the rental nightmare. They have come brandishing numbers.

Is Airbnb right? I did a little digging for my brand-new newsletter:

substack.com/home/post/p-...
Has the Airbnb crackdown made renting in Paris any easier?
Airbnb says it hasn’t. City hall says it’s complicated. Who’s right?
substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is poor user interface design, especially when there IS a part of my brain that wants to just delete the whole thing
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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What it looks like when a Blue Tit flies straight at you! 😳😁😍🐦

Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
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www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Declaration of use of AI in writing this grant: In section 1.1, I used it to search for synonyms of "transformative"
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
👀 yikes, and here I thought it had gotten better in the last 20 years since I moved to France... guess not (or maybe so! in which case double yikes!)
Not France proudly sitting at second last place in English skills
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
You know you're in peak procrastination when you have the thought "Hmm, I could clean my windows"
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
For a second I thought this was noun phrases in the news
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"And we carried our bits in a bucket,
And our mainframe weighed 900 tons,
And we programmed in ones and in zeros
And sometimes we ran out of ones." (Frank Hayes)
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Very surprised as a not-Verstappen fan to find myself rooting for him to pass Russell #F1
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Somehow I decided to have dinner with my family instead of watching Q1 in Brazil. What could possibly happen in Q1 that would be of interest? 🙃 #F1
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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At this year's @lingcomm.bsky.social conference, we learned that the UK has been celebrating National Linguistics Day on November 26th, and everyone immediately went, hey, can't we make that World Linguistics Day?

Well, now it's only 20 days away, so time to get your celebration plans in order!
Are you doing anything for World Linguistics Day on Nov 26th?

In our latest bonus episode, we get enthusiastic about linguistics-related celebrations, from International Mother Tongue Day to Talk Like A Pirate Day
Bonus 105: World Linguistics Day | Lingthusiasm
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November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM