Sylvia Sierra 🏔️
@sociolinguista.bsky.social
Interactional sociolinguist. Knowledge serf. Author of Millennials Talking Media. Interested in identity, media, literature, art, music, history. Views expressed here are my own; you don’t want to know my employer’s views.
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Onondaga land
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Onondaga land
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Looking for new papers to include in my syllabus for an #EMCA course for undergraduates in health, pre-health, pre-med tracks. Please share new/forthcoming #EMCA (+adjacent) papers on patient-provider interaction (+tech +teams) beyond the well-knowns/wiki. Would love to include newer researchers.
December 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I had a dream RA meeting Fri. in person, brought cookies, we went through on a big screen all the media references from this semester’s class conversations that they had coded & adjudicated to look for any lingering issues or questions, & we were just cracking nerdy jokes the whole time
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I had a dream RA meeting Fri. in person, brought cookies, we went through on a big screen all the media references from this semester’s class conversations that they had coded & adjudicated to look for any lingering issues or questions, & we were just cracking nerdy jokes the whole time
Rereading A Christmas Carol. So many details I forgot! It’s so good
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Rereading A Christmas Carol. So many details I forgot! It’s so good
Anti-AI advertising era
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Anti-AI advertising era
end of semester happiness
December 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
end of semester happiness
yay I woke up with a migraine on the first day my students are presenting their final projects.
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
yay I woke up with a migraine on the first day my students are presenting their final projects.
just turned down a letter of reference request from a student who took 1 class with me 3 years ago...I'm here to tell you it can be done
December 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
just turned down a letter of reference request from a student who took 1 class with me 3 years ago...I'm here to tell you it can be done
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The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview
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Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA!
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Socially prescriptive speech technologies: Linguistic, technical, and ethical issues
Speech technology tools can be powerful and transformative for individuals, businesses, and governments. Socially prescriptive speech technology (SPST) systems
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA!
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
aw, this is from one of my students in his final reading post: "I am very thankful for taking this class to help my communication and thought process when speaking to others and having a professor that is so diverse and able to connect a classroom together so well."
December 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
aw, this is from one of my students in his final reading post: "I am very thankful for taking this class to help my communication and thought process when speaking to others and having a professor that is so diverse and able to connect a classroom together so well."
This is from 2024 but it’s still really cool www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
AI Technology Is Helping Transform Unreadable 2,000-Year-Old ‘Chunks of Charcoal’ into Rediscovered Ancient Texts
How AI has transformed a charred papyrus scroll from Herculaneum into 'a literary book from the ancient world'—and what it could mean moving forward.
www.artnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This is from 2024 but it’s still really cool www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
went through the humiliation ritual of having to download an app at the university gym today because I forgot my ID 🙄
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
went through the humiliation ritual of having to download an app at the university gym today because I forgot my ID 🙄
did I seriously just read something online that said “turn anxiety into an adventure”? fuck
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
did I seriously just read something online that said “turn anxiety into an adventure”? fuck
I don’t have TV so when I go to my in laws for the holidays I watch whatever the recent dvr’d Secrets of the Dead episode is and then I get really obsessed with the topic and read everything I can find. Last Thanksgiving it was bog bodies, this time I’m in my cannibalism at Jamestown era
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I don’t have TV so when I go to my in laws for the holidays I watch whatever the recent dvr’d Secrets of the Dead episode is and then I get really obsessed with the topic and read everything I can find. Last Thanksgiving it was bog bodies, this time I’m in my cannibalism at Jamestown era
this is so fucked (just all of it) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_F...
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
this is so fucked (just all of it) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_F...
So far I’ve had 5 continuous blissful days of not opening my laptop, which also means I have not checked my work email
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
So far I’ve had 5 continuous blissful days of not opening my laptop, which also means I have not checked my work email
saying “I looked under the neath of it” is my signal that it is really time for some coffee
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
saying “I looked under the neath of it” is my signal that it is really time for some coffee
I don’t know how or why they organized this conversation. Bernie is so far of his league if you actually listen to any of it 😅 politics.georgetown.edu/2025/11/24/a...
AI: The Promise and the Peril with Sen. Bernie Sanders and Geoffrey Hinton - Institute of Politics and Public Service
On Tuesday, November 19th, members of the Georgetown community filled Gaston Hall for a conversation on one of the defining questions of the next decade: will artificial intelligence strengthen democr...
politics.georgetown.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I don’t know how or why they organized this conversation. Bernie is so far of his league if you actually listen to any of it 😅 politics.georgetown.edu/2025/11/24/a...
overlooked part of the trump-mamdani press conference: when trump said “the new word is ‘affordability’. Another word is just ‘groceries.’ You know, it’s sort of an old-fashioned word, but it’s very accurate.”
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
overlooked part of the trump-mamdani press conference: when trump said “the new word is ‘affordability’. Another word is just ‘groceries.’ You know, it’s sort of an old-fashioned word, but it’s very accurate.”
pleased to announce that after 12 years together I have finally memorized my partner’s entire phone number. The last 4 numbers were the hardest but I finally got there. the power of the mind
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
pleased to announce that after 12 years together I have finally memorized my partner’s entire phone number. The last 4 numbers were the hardest but I finally got there. the power of the mind
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
Two of my research assistants talk about our work on Gen Z media references, queer references, and singing in conversation! youtube.com/shorts/lLHN_...
Communication and Rhetorical Studies Research
YouTube video by VPA SyracuseU
youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Two of my research assistants talk about our work on Gen Z media references, queer references, and singing in conversation! youtube.com/shorts/lLHN_...
This interview was great for many reasons, but the linguists will love her translanguaging practices in the interview (not to mention on her new album) youtu.be/zk6yIq3-SHw?...
ROSALÍA Sings in 13 Languages on Album LUX, Teaches Jimmy to Sing "La Perla" (Extended)
YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This interview was great for many reasons, but the linguists will love her translanguaging practices in the interview (not to mention on her new album) youtu.be/zk6yIq3-SHw?...
When I’m on campus and not teaching, you can find me roaming the grounds aggressively squeezing a stress ball with a thousand-yard stare
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
When I’m on campus and not teaching, you can find me roaming the grounds aggressively squeezing a stress ball with a thousand-yard stare
me when I’m about to create a monster
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
me when I’m about to create a monster