Brian Gravely, Ph.D.
@drbee.bsky.social
Linguist (syntax), dog dad, wine enthusiast, sourdough baker, vehement sports critic || Galiza ceive xa
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Brian Gravely, Ph.D.
@drbee.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Some quick thoughts about why (I believe) Germanic/Romance generative syntax is cooked for the foreseeable future:
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Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Hilo tremendo. Gracias @mythicaliberia.bsky.social 🙌
February 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Hilo tremendo. Gracias @mythicaliberia.bsky.social 🙌
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My neighbors are great. They don’t mind that the family member that gets the most attention from me is their dog.
January 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My neighbors are great. They don’t mind that the family member that gets the most attention from me is their dog.
My #bakeoftheday wasn’t a loaf but instead my first crack at #sourdough bagels. I need some shaping work, but they are delicious!
#breadsky
#breadsky
January 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
My #bakeoftheday wasn’t a loaf but instead my first crack at #sourdough bagels. I need some shaping work, but they are delicious!
#breadsky
#breadsky
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Hi, ASL interpreter of 30 yrs & a person w/ Deaf family here.
In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around:
ASL and English are not the same language.
ASL has no written form.
Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.
In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around:
ASL and English are not the same language.
ASL has no written form.
Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.
January 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Hi, ASL interpreter of 30 yrs & a person w/ Deaf family here.
In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around:
ASL and English are not the same language.
ASL has no written form.
Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.
In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around:
ASL and English are not the same language.
ASL has no written form.
Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.
My first official #winesky is one of my favorite Old World wines: ‘La Baraja’ from Bodegas Vilano.
75% Tempranillo, 15% Cab Sauv, 10% Merlot; aged 18 months in French Oak
Everything you love about Tempranillo is here but with a tremendous smoothness that the CS and Merlot bring.
An easy 94+
75% Tempranillo, 15% Cab Sauv, 10% Merlot; aged 18 months in French Oak
Everything you love about Tempranillo is here but with a tremendous smoothness that the CS and Merlot bring.
An easy 94+
January 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
My first official #winesky is one of my favorite Old World wines: ‘La Baraja’ from Bodegas Vilano.
75% Tempranillo, 15% Cab Sauv, 10% Merlot; aged 18 months in French Oak
Everything you love about Tempranillo is here but with a tremendous smoothness that the CS and Merlot bring.
An easy 94+
75% Tempranillo, 15% Cab Sauv, 10% Merlot; aged 18 months in French Oak
Everything you love about Tempranillo is here but with a tremendous smoothness that the CS and Merlot bring.
An easy 94+
Reposted by Brian Gravely, Ph.D.
Sometimes all you can do is eat a bagel and lox and hope it makes everything OK
January 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Sometimes all you can do is eat a bagel and lox and hope it makes everything OK
Loaf #7 of 2025
My #Sourdough #Bakeoftheday is an 85% hydration, 270g AP+80g whole wheat flour, open crumb beaut.
Autolyse was around 6 hours, with a bulk fermentation of about 10 hours at ~74F/23C.
#Breadsky
My #Sourdough #Bakeoftheday is an 85% hydration, 270g AP+80g whole wheat flour, open crumb beaut.
Autolyse was around 6 hours, with a bulk fermentation of about 10 hours at ~74F/23C.
#Breadsky
January 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Loaf #7 of 2025
My #Sourdough #Bakeoftheday is an 85% hydration, 270g AP+80g whole wheat flour, open crumb beaut.
Autolyse was around 6 hours, with a bulk fermentation of about 10 hours at ~74F/23C.
#Breadsky
My #Sourdough #Bakeoftheday is an 85% hydration, 270g AP+80g whole wheat flour, open crumb beaut.
Autolyse was around 6 hours, with a bulk fermentation of about 10 hours at ~74F/23C.
#Breadsky
New year, same 2 a.m. kitty snuggles
January 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
New year, same 2 a.m. kitty snuggles
Positive anymore for the win 🙌
Wow Elsevier really is just trash anymore, huh? Have to read more thoroughly tomorrow, but *pretty* sure I just found a 2024 paper straight-up plagiarizing a paper from 2022; like whole tables & paragraphs, basically minimal rewording, no common authors. And this passed editorial. Like… How??? Ugh.
January 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Positive anymore for the win 🙌
Reposted by Brian Gravely, Ph.D.
Illa da Toxa, O Grove, Pontevedra. Año: 1955.
Fuente: TAF (aparece también en el libro “Fisionomía y alma de Galicia”)
Fuente: TAF (aparece también en el libro “Fisionomía y alma de Galicia”)
January 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Illa da Toxa, O Grove, Pontevedra. Año: 1955.
Fuente: TAF (aparece también en el libro “Fisionomía y alma de Galicia”)
Fuente: TAF (aparece también en el libro “Fisionomía y alma de Galicia”)
Tried to order from my favorite Chinese restaurant today but forgot that it’s right beside the biggest Jewish community in ATL. She told me to call back thirty minutes later, but then they turned their phone off because of all the orders they were getting. 🤣
December 25, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Tried to order from my favorite Chinese restaurant today but forgot that it’s right beside the biggest Jewish community in ATL. She told me to call back thirty minutes later, but then they turned their phone off because of all the orders they were getting. 🤣
As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way!
Happy Festivus to all who celebrate!
two men standing in front of an american video store
ALT: two men standing in front of an american video store
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2024 at 11:33 PM
As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way!
Different kind of #sourdough #bakeoftheday:
Sourdough hazelnut babka
Not a discard recipe, so the first time using my starter for something other than strictly sourdough loaves, but it turned out so much better than I had even hoped for. The softest babka I’ve ever had, hands down.
Sourdough hazelnut babka
Not a discard recipe, so the first time using my starter for something other than strictly sourdough loaves, but it turned out so much better than I had even hoped for. The softest babka I’ve ever had, hands down.
December 23, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Different kind of #sourdough #bakeoftheday:
Sourdough hazelnut babka
Not a discard recipe, so the first time using my starter for something other than strictly sourdough loaves, but it turned out so much better than I had even hoped for. The softest babka I’ve ever had, hands down.
Sourdough hazelnut babka
Not a discard recipe, so the first time using my starter for something other than strictly sourdough loaves, but it turned out so much better than I had even hoped for. The softest babka I’ve ever had, hands down.
Reposted by Brian Gravely, Ph.D.
Even though it's not about sociolinguistics per se, this is one of my favorite quotes from Labov (1972:99):
"To be right means that you have finally abjectly, hopelessly failed to prove yourself wrong."
"To be right means that you have finally abjectly, hopelessly failed to prove yourself wrong."
December 20, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Even though it's not about sociolinguistics per se, this is one of my favorite quotes from Labov (1972:99):
"To be right means that you have finally abjectly, hopelessly failed to prove yourself wrong."
"To be right means that you have finally abjectly, hopelessly failed to prove yourself wrong."
Reposted by Brian Gravely, Ph.D.
My cat just came downstairs, hissed at me, then turned around and went right back up so I turned the TV down in case it was too loud and what even is my life right now
December 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM
My cat just came downstairs, hissed at me, then turned around and went right back up so I turned the TV down in case it was too loud and what even is my life right now
There’s not a day where I don’t miss Arizona, but today the nostalgia is almost crippling.
(Taken just southwest of Saddleback along the Tanque Verde Falls trail)
(Taken just southwest of Saddleback along the Tanque Verde Falls trail)
December 17, 2024 at 3:47 PM
There’s not a day where I don’t miss Arizona, but today the nostalgia is almost crippling.
(Taken just southwest of Saddleback along the Tanque Verde Falls trail)
(Taken just southwest of Saddleback along the Tanque Verde Falls trail)
#Sourdough #Bakeoftheday
I dropped my starter last week & had to throw it all away because of the glass in it. This is from revived discard I’ve had in the fridge forever.
~74% hydration, 320 bread flour+80 whole wheat. Cold retard was longer than usual (~17 hours vs 12). Could be worse!
I dropped my starter last week & had to throw it all away because of the glass in it. This is from revived discard I’ve had in the fridge forever.
~74% hydration, 320 bread flour+80 whole wheat. Cold retard was longer than usual (~17 hours vs 12). Could be worse!
December 16, 2024 at 5:35 PM
#Sourdough #Bakeoftheday
I dropped my starter last week & had to throw it all away because of the glass in it. This is from revived discard I’ve had in the fridge forever.
~74% hydration, 320 bread flour+80 whole wheat. Cold retard was longer than usual (~17 hours vs 12). Could be worse!
I dropped my starter last week & had to throw it all away because of the glass in it. This is from revived discard I’ve had in the fridge forever.
~74% hydration, 320 bread flour+80 whole wheat. Cold retard was longer than usual (~17 hours vs 12). Could be worse!
Reposted by Brian Gravely, Ph.D.
I made a #linguistics meme about degrammaticalization
December 13, 2024 at 5:07 PM
I made a #linguistics meme about degrammaticalization
Syntax peeps: Any recommended literature on the Impoverishment operation of person features? #linguistics
December 10, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Syntax peeps: Any recommended literature on the Impoverishment operation of person features? #linguistics
What group of morons continues to promote the use of the Mercator projection for maps that aren’t useful for marine navigation or online mapping services?
December 7, 2024 at 11:29 PM
What group of morons continues to promote the use of the Mercator projection for maps that aren’t useful for marine navigation or online mapping services?