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Bran[don] Papineau
@branpap.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate in Linguistics @ Stanford University.
Language, gender, politics. cognition, and their intersections. Dog parent to Dionysus, reformed theatre kid.
💬: he/they 🏳️‍🌈
🧑🏼‍🏫: www.branpap.com
🧑🏼‍💻: glossolalia.app
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Dude, this is just a shout-out to @jspsych.org and its flexibility - wanted a quick and fun way to practice some vocabulary late last night so took <1hr to build a memory-game plugin that I can scale for practice now!

Bonus points if you get the language :)
Screenshot of a traditional memory-matching card-flip game. There are eight cards; 4 are face-up, displaying matches of a wolf with the word "bleydh" under it and a snake with the word "sarf" under the other pair. The prompt reads: "flip and match the cards!"
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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At a launch event at the @archive.org for @chucktingle.bsky.social’s new book & this is my new balloon giraffe a nice couple just made for me. Her name is Laverne and she is a literate queen. 🦒🎈
Image of a pew. A purple balloon giraffe is reading the book “Lucky Day” by Chuck Tingle
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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I have far too much fun making fillers for my experiments 🧪 #Linguistics #CognitiveScience
Screenshot of a faux tweet: Austin @austin_fan Parent of three, master of none 'Golden' finally overtook 'Ordinary' on the charts. Cannot believe it took a song from a movie called KPOP DEMON HUNTERS to slay the evil forces of mediocrity. Screenshot of a faux tweet: Emma @emma_unleashed Cat whisperer | Tea addict Literally every brand I follow on Instagram is commenting on Taylor and Travis' engagement announcement. I get that it's a big deal but damn, tone it down a bit please
September 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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If you need cute today, here’s my dog with 4 different pillows and 2 blankets in his little nest
A brown and brindle dog lays on a thick quilted blanket and soft orange one. He is backed up against 2 pillows, a squish mallow, and has his paw on another pillow.
July 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Reaching out to Gen Alpha in my manuscript 🍑🍑
An interlinear gloss of the Finnish sentence "Hän kertoi vadille jääneen persikka/persikan" (S/he said that there was a peach left on the plate). The word "peach" in the gloss has been replaced with the peach emoji.
April 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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To say I love the energy my friends bring to my life would be a grave understatement

(0 people in this group chat are anything close to a theistic Christian or Jew)
Screenshot of an incoming text message that says “omg we should read the Bible for book club”
April 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Helped my colleague Irene with their ggplotting yesterday and today they send me this - I love my job
Image of two ggplot plots side by side. They are position dodged bar plots; the left plot's confidence intervals are placed incorrectly. The right plot's confidence intervals are placed correctly. The caption says "You vs. the guy he tells you not to worry about"
March 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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I only play video games anachronistically (listening to brat and it’s completely different but also still brat while playing Mario Bros on an original NES)
An original Nintendo Entertainment System and a controller sitting on the carpet
February 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Happy Valentine's Day and birthday to the best photo [professor's name redacted] ever put in the Stanford Linguistics Newsletter:
4 "conversation-heart"-style cupcakes that say "B my clitic", "bind me", "feed me", "fill my gap"
February 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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It’s Grad Student Valentine’s Day card making at Stanford Humanities and Sciences and… if someone sent me this I’d propose on the spot.

…though why is it not “squidding”
Valentine’s Day card with an illustration of an orange squid. Under that it says “You’re the best- no squid-ing!”
February 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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This feels offensive, but I haven’t figured out why yet
Notification from astrology app CoStar saying “your day at a glance: your heart is a book”
February 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Someone put up a chip taste-test experiment in the Stanford linguistics kitchen… and we’ve all collectively decided to criticize the methodology and improve it 😂
A table, on which two bowls of chips sit. The left bowl is teal, the right is white. There is a folded piece of paper in front of the bowls that says “which chip is your favorite?” The paper has been folded and written on to include experimental feedback, including: “Bowl maybe a confound?” “I agree, teal is prettier. Bowl position should be counterbalanced” “The chips are the same!!! (I think) (stop trying to trick me)” “Fold and vote after tasting- don’t look @ results and be biased!”
January 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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No one will ever understand my love for Gualala ☀️🌊
Bran (in black jeans and a green and white sweater/jumper) squats, laughing and squinting, in front of a large wooden sign labeled “GUALALA DIRECTORY”
January 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Cali kid gets unreasonably excited seeing the same ocean they grew up next to 🌊🐙
Bran is taking a selfie, tongue out, standing on a wooden structure overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The water is foamy and there is a strip of land in the background.
January 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The happy faces of the Dog Park Baddies- hence the howling in the first photo- who took 2nd tonight in trivia 🥳🐶🐾 proudest team captain 🥲
A group of 11 people sit at a table in a bar, looking at the cameras. They are smiling and howling A selfie of 11 people at a bar table, smiling and looking at the camera
January 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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My sweet boy 🥰🐶
Dionysus, a brown and white medium-large dog sits on a linoleum floor, looking at the camera. He wears a maroon collar that resembles a men’s shirt collar Dionysus, a brown and white medium-large dog sits on a wooden bench, looking directly at the camera
January 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Puppy content for your new year 🐶
Bran and Dionysus, a brown and white dog, looking at the camera. Bran is sticking their tongue out while running their hand through their hair. Bran and Dionysus, a brown and white dog. Bran is smiling at the camera mid-laugh, while Dionysus is positioned looking back and up at Bran.
January 2, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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That’s my PhD Student Mentor (and dear friend!) Lewis Esposito with a standing-room only talk on covariation!
Image of a lecture room with a man presenting. Chairs are full and people are sitting on the floor.
October 13, 2023 at 8:33 PM
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Sorry, but this is the new gender quinary #NWAV51
October 13, 2023 at 3:39 PM
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Opening remarks, let’s do this NWAV!
Auditorium with a projected screen that says “NWAV51 Queens College”
October 13, 2023 at 1:40 PM
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NWAV-bound! Excited to be talking with my colleagues from Stanford about DH variation in California! Come check us out or I will cry because I spent so much time making ggplots for this project 🥲
Bran on a plane, looking at the camera. They are wearing a tie-dye shirt that says “I am Kenough” from the Barbie movie.
October 12, 2023 at 4:22 AM