At the end of my Q&A yesterday @scillym.bsky.social asked a Q that I think I got wrong. She sat down thinking she'd misunderstood something but I think I misunderstood her Q. Here's the relevant slide... Can you ask it again, Emma? Apologies!! #uklvc15

This is just cruel. Google Scholar needs a button you can click that's like, hey, stop it, some people are still mourning this person's death. @developers.google.com

An AI "wrote" a review of a book review that I wrote as an undergrad. No I'm not going to read it. Meanwhile, #FreePalestine

I'm sure it's shocking now.

I was curious to find the source, and all I could find was the same graph from a different publication. FYI:

Ayres, R. U., & Ayres, R. U. (2020). The Rise of Corporate Capitalism and Its Champions. On Capitalism and Inequality: Progress and Poverty Revisited, 101-112.

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

Happy belated wishes for International Mother Languages Day

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A photo from the walls of the celebration happening right now in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland.

#Bangledesh #Scottish #Gaelic

I just made this graph and immediately had the thought, "aw, middle class nouns are messing everything up", and now I'm thinking about what an apt metaphor that is for the current state of the world (and I'm no longer thinking about English (-ing) variation).

#sociolinguistics #variation #metaphor

Finding stock images of non-white people is slowly getting better, but if you want to find silhouette icons of 'people' they are still clearly silhouettes of white people.

For example, results of the Google Image search term "silhouette mother"

#race #hegemony #bias #annoyed

Are you in Taiwan? Come say hi at my talk on 11th December at National Taiwan University's Institute of Linguistics: "Indexicality and Language Change"

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #lvc #variation #soundchange #semiotics #indexicality #Taiwan

Karen Beaman with beautiful data at #NWAV52 that makes a point I'm hugely sympathetic to: "Is it accommodation or identity? Yes." (I.e., it depends.)

#NWAV52 If you're looking for a lunch #recommendation we went to a spot on Lincold Road yesterday called Havana 1957 and it was excellent 😋 #Cuban #Miami #MiamiBeach

Jeffery Reesor talks about all the brilliant "that's not linguistics" work that Walt Wolfram has done which has changed and expanded the definition of what linguistics actually IS. #NWAV52

Mary Kohn talks about the importance of staying at land grant universities and leveraging power for change; Walt Wolfram is exemplary of this.

See: the Land-Grab Universities project www.hcn.org/issues/52-4/...

#research #ethics #engagement #NWAV52

Unofficially called the "We Love Walt" Panel 💞 #NWAV52

#sociolinguistics #linguistics #variation #hero #icon #mentor #academic #joy

"An evening of transfeminist poetics"
Friday, 26 April 2024, 5-7pm
The Project Room, 50 George Square

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"...an evening of performances/talks by Nat Raha, Harry Josephine Giles, and Harvey Humphrey."

#trans #feminist #artists #gender #genderidentity #Edinburgh

The Problem with Plastics
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We're in paperback!!! And we're 20% off!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Hall-Lew, Lauren, Emma Moore, & Robert J. Podesva (eds.) 2021. Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

#sociolinguistics #variation #indexicality #books

you've gotta be kidding me, microsoft outlook 🙄

Amusing description of a three-way coding scheme for speech style, based on "vocabulary and phrasing," -- "Colloquial, formal, pompous." (Newman & Mather, 1938, p916) #linguistics