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Fernanda Ferreira
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Psycholinguist @UCDavis. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, living in California. Author of "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction" from Oxford University Press, coming out January 23, 2025.
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Your moment of zen
Foggy morning, an hour or two after dawn. A bike path runs through the center of the image with trees and plants to either side. The trees on the left display beautiful autumn reds and golds.
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Manitoba is expanding its degree programs in Ojibwe and Cree. This is an example of the good that can happen when you elect a progressive, indigenous leader to run things.
Wab Kinew is with the University of Winnipeg and University College of the North. He says: “Every day, all of us speak indigenous languages - even if we don’t realize it. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Now we’re taking action to keep those languages alive. Starting in 2026, new indigenous languages degree programs at UWinnipeg and UCN will train the next generation of Ojibwe and Cree teachers. Let’s lift up our shared heritage and build One Manitoba for all of us.”
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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It's a privilege to work with these wonderful people. Here's the lab, 2025 edition.
About 15 members of Fernanda Ferreira's lab--undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs--posing in front of the iconic UC Davis sign on campus.
October 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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My insurance policy arrived today
A brand new Canadian passport
September 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The final scene from The Way We Were is burned in my brain, probably because I‘ve watched the movie so many times. I love how this scene captures the way they clearly longed for each other while also recognizing their fundamental incompatibility. RIP, Robert Redford.
Robert Redford is on the left, Barbra Streisand is on the right. Her hand is gently touching the back of his neck and he’s holding her arm. They’re looking at each other longingly.
September 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Lunch California style
August 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I laughed out loud at the idea of a 17-year old newborn. Occasionally prescriptive rules of grammar are worth following.
A headline about Lauren Boebert’s son Tyler that says “Tyler’s son was born in 2023 when he was 17 years old…”
July 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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“Best friends forever.”
The cats Bouba (on the left) and Kiki (on the right) on a hardwood floor. Bouba has his left paw on Kiki’s right shoulder and Kiki has her right paw on Bouba’s left shoulder.
July 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Came across this pair of photos showing the University of Winnipeg in 1957 and today. Used to be standard to have all kinds of shops at street level, accessible by foot. The 15-minute city used to be how we lived.

(Photo credit: Darryl Resch, Daily Then & Now)
Two photos of the area around the University of Winnipeg. The one above shows the area in 1957. There’s an old, beautiful building, the original university (then called United College), and at street level is a string of small businesses that can be accessed by foot. The photo below shows a modern building towering over a lower modern building. All the cute shops are gone.
July 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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My Canada slippers are now cat toys and the cats will not be considering any counterarguments.
Bouba the cat in the foreground guarding his green froggie toy and his and Kiki's latest acquisition, my soft Canada slippers, which they retrieved somehow from the closet of my study.
July 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Honestly, I’d only ever do this to the smug New York Times.
Item reads: Breaking news from the New York Times: Angela Paxton Files for Divorce from Texas Attorney General. The announcement could have a significant affect <should be “effect”> on the race for U.S. Senate in Texas. Ken Paxton is challenging Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary.
July 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Me when I hear someone on booktok refer to a novel set in the 1970s as “historical fiction”
Christine Baranski as Agnes from The Gilded Age, looking surprised and displeased
July 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I realize we have much more important things to worry about, but I’ll never understand why US coffee shop coffees have to be so huge. I mean this is a small cappuccino
An absurdly large cup of cappuccino sitting on a suitcase.
July 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Stranger danger
Kitten hiding under a couch and looking nervous
July 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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39 years today.
My partner is on the left and I’m on the right. We look content.
June 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I think we’d all be a lot happier if we appreciated an open window as much as cats do.
Two cats, Kiki and Bouba, looking out an open window in my study. Their view is of trees and plant, and the occasional bird.
June 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The obsolete technology section of my office
An HP printer/scanner and a landline office phone, with voicemail functionality
June 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Your move.
A beautiful grey and white cat lying with front paws crossed right in the center of a sofa, legs dangling off the edge, a chessboard on a table in front of him.
June 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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To him I say
Me in a white dress and sandals on a city bike, purse in a back basket
May 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I'd just like to note that California is stunningly beautiful.
My backyard in Davis, California. It's a beautiful sunny afternoon. In the foreground is a patio with some paving stones, a fire table and Adirondack chair, and some dark pink flowers. Further back is a path surrounded by greenery, trees, and flowers, leading to a bench that's highlighted by the beautiful sunshine. At the periphery are some redwoods.
May 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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New material for the Bouba/Kiki demo
Image of the pronotalist couple Simone and Malcolm Collins. Simone is on the left wearing her bonnet, a black tunic over a white blouse, and her trademark black round glasses. Malcolm is wearing a polo shirt and a jacket together with his trademark black square glasses.
April 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Evidence of a second cat.
Cats in a home study. Kiki is clearly visible, standing on the desk, but Bouba is hiding in the desk chair. All that can be seen of him is his paw sticking up from the top of the chair.
April 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Fun with language: The highlighted sentence gave me a genuine reverse garden-path: the simple NP analysis evaded me initially because I assumed “realized” would be followed by a clause, as it typically is, and even though “dream” is a great object for “realized”. Also, Hacks is a fantastic show.
A screenshot of a review of Hacks in 4/10/2025 Washington Post. The highlighted sentence: “The new season picks up right where the last one ended, with Deborah having realized her career-long dream to be the first woman to host “Late Night,”, never mind that she’s now the storied show’s oldest new house, too.”
April 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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"It's no use - there's definitely a screen in the way."
Two cats near an open window on a gorgeous spring afternoon. One cat is looking longingly outside, the other is looking back in as if resigned to the presence of the screen that prevents them from going outside. Outside the window you can see a beautiful tree already covered in leaves.
April 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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That’s one heck of a garden-path sentence.
Headline in the New York Times, March 26, 2025: “Elmo and Elon Musk are Cited as G.O.P. Lawmakers Lay Into PBS and NPR”. Photo of politician holding up a picture of Elmo accompanies the story.
March 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM