Mykah Moore
@mykahnmoore.bsky.social
Escapee from bird site | Linguistics Student | She/Her | Stumbling my way through Japanese and barely making it in English | Currently Reading: 📚💙
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Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
April 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
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Let's share this again: #LingComm25 is coming!
7–10 April 2025
an online conference for any and all linguistic communicators.
with panels, how-to sessions, and meetups
where you can get ideas, meet people, lift your game, and form the future of ling comm
Check lingcomm.org for more details!
7–10 April 2025
an online conference for any and all linguistic communicators.
with panels, how-to sessions, and meetups
where you can get ideas, meet people, lift your game, and form the future of ling comm
Check lingcomm.org for more details!
November 25, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Let's share this again: #LingComm25 is coming!
7–10 April 2025
an online conference for any and all linguistic communicators.
with panels, how-to sessions, and meetups
where you can get ideas, meet people, lift your game, and form the future of ling comm
Check lingcomm.org for more details!
7–10 April 2025
an online conference for any and all linguistic communicators.
with panels, how-to sessions, and meetups
where you can get ideas, meet people, lift your game, and form the future of ling comm
Check lingcomm.org for more details!
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#writingcommunity Here’s a #queryingtip for you: with the rare exception, I start to get hives at anything over 100K words. When it hits 120K, I have a full outbreak. By 130K, regardless of genre, it’s a hard no.
Here’s a doc that might help you cut words:
www.tinyurl.com/saveyourdarlings.
Here’s a doc that might help you cut words:
www.tinyurl.com/saveyourdarlings.
Save Your Darlings.docx
Save Your Darlings: Editing Strategies to Reduce Your Word Count Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong, Literary Agent Marsal Lyon Literary Agency Email: cathie@marsallyonliteraryagency.com Queries: querymanager....
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January 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#writingcommunity Here’s a #queryingtip for you: with the rare exception, I start to get hives at anything over 100K words. When it hits 120K, I have a full outbreak. By 130K, regardless of genre, it’s a hard no.
Here’s a doc that might help you cut words:
www.tinyurl.com/saveyourdarlings.
Here’s a doc that might help you cut words:
www.tinyurl.com/saveyourdarlings.
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Just a reminder. The library is free to use. Free to check out books and DVDs. Free to take your kid to Story Time. Free to ask a question. Free to sit quietly for a minute. Or an hour. #supportyourlocallibrary
January 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Just a reminder. The library is free to use. Free to check out books and DVDs. Free to take your kid to Story Time. Free to ask a question. Free to sit quietly for a minute. Or an hour. #supportyourlocallibrary
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I'm trying to 😭
pick up an analog hobby, I'm so serious. something that holds your attention and is fun for you, literally anything.
Collect and identify bread tags or something, just don't fall into the trap of doomscroll paralysis again
Collect and identify bread tags or something, just don't fall into the trap of doomscroll paralysis again
January 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I'm trying to 😭
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If you don't usually get a snow emergency, some recommendations:
-Close curtains to reduce heat bleeding through windows.
-Keep people and pets in few rooms (or just one) to share warmth.
-Fill up tubs and buckets with water just in case.
-Don't use propane heaters without ventilation.
-Close curtains to reduce heat bleeding through windows.
-Keep people and pets in few rooms (or just one) to share warmth.
-Fill up tubs and buckets with water just in case.
-Don't use propane heaters without ventilation.
Dear everyone getting snow who doesn’t usually get snow: I am also in a place where it doesn’t usually snow buuuut we keep getting “unprecedented” snowfalls every couple of years or so.
Don’t leave the house. Just don’t do it. You have no infrastructure for snow. More specifically, ice.
Don’t leave the house. Just don’t do it. You have no infrastructure for snow. More specifically, ice.
January 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If you don't usually get a snow emergency, some recommendations:
-Close curtains to reduce heat bleeding through windows.
-Keep people and pets in few rooms (or just one) to share warmth.
-Fill up tubs and buckets with water just in case.
-Don't use propane heaters without ventilation.
-Close curtains to reduce heat bleeding through windows.
-Keep people and pets in few rooms (or just one) to share warmth.
-Fill up tubs and buckets with water just in case.
-Don't use propane heaters without ventilation.
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Take back your attention.
January 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Take back your attention.
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My online life got so much better when I realized that
a) I didn't have to attend every argument that I was invited to
b) blocking was self-care, not weakness
a) I didn't have to attend every argument that I was invited to
b) blocking was self-care, not weakness
Yesterday someone in my (threads) replies was mean to me for no reason and I was typing up a whole response when a small voice in my head whispered “block her instead” and I think? That voice might have been @scalzi.com?
Anyway I did and I’m glad.
Anyway I did and I’m glad.
January 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My online life got so much better when I realized that
a) I didn't have to attend every argument that I was invited to
b) blocking was self-care, not weakness
a) I didn't have to attend every argument that I was invited to
b) blocking was self-care, not weakness
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pls take a 10s emotional break and look at my cat
January 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
pls take a 10s emotional break and look at my cat
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Bonus tip--frenetic action openings nearly always fail because the reader has no grounds for caring about the action. You need to entice the reader into caring about the story. That done, even "will she drink the tea or not" can be high drama, let alone a laser battle.
January 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Bonus tip--frenetic action openings nearly always fail because the reader has no grounds for caring about the action. You need to entice the reader into caring about the story. That done, even "will she drink the tea or not" can be high drama, let alone a laser battle.
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If it wouldn't be too much trouble, if you have a spare half hour, could we possibly suggest that you might enjoy listening to this episode on politeness?
In this episode: the secret ingredients that we're balancing to try to be polite!
In this episode: the secret ingredients that we're balancing to try to be polite!
99: A politeness episode, if you please
If it wouldn't be too much trouble, if you have a spare half hour, could we possibly suggest that you might enjoy listening to this episode on politeness? Or, if you've prefer a less polite version,
soundcloud.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:01 AM
If it wouldn't be too much trouble, if you have a spare half hour, could we possibly suggest that you might enjoy listening to this episode on politeness?
In this episode: the secret ingredients that we're balancing to try to be polite!
In this episode: the secret ingredients that we're balancing to try to be polite!
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Our Summer 2025 Internship applications are now open! Note that positions are now open for high school through doctoral students!
All applications are due February 15, 2025, by 5 pm PST. All materials should be sent to Ms. Mia Harris at miaharris@stanford.edu
badlab.stanford.edu/summer-inter...
All applications are due February 15, 2025, by 5 pm PST. All materials should be sent to Ms. Mia Harris at miaharris@stanford.edu
badlab.stanford.edu/summer-inter...
December 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Our Summer 2025 Internship applications are now open! Note that positions are now open for high school through doctoral students!
All applications are due February 15, 2025, by 5 pm PST. All materials should be sent to Ms. Mia Harris at miaharris@stanford.edu
badlab.stanford.edu/summer-inter...
All applications are due February 15, 2025, by 5 pm PST. All materials should be sent to Ms. Mia Harris at miaharris@stanford.edu
badlab.stanford.edu/summer-inter...
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The Bet
Bill Labov and I had a bet.
I was going to do a JD PhD because I needed a career. I couldn’t be out here doing less and earning less than the last generation of my very Black, very bougie family, period. If linguistics was going to be my thing, it had to work out well, or else.
Bill Labov and I had a bet.
I was going to do a JD PhD because I needed a career. I couldn’t be out here doing less and earning less than the last generation of my very Black, very bougie family, period. If linguistics was going to be my thing, it had to work out well, or else.
December 18, 2024 at 3:53 PM
The Bet
Bill Labov and I had a bet.
I was going to do a JD PhD because I needed a career. I couldn’t be out here doing less and earning less than the last generation of my very Black, very bougie family, period. If linguistics was going to be my thing, it had to work out well, or else.
Bill Labov and I had a bet.
I was going to do a JD PhD because I needed a career. I couldn’t be out here doing less and earning less than the last generation of my very Black, very bougie family, period. If linguistics was going to be my thing, it had to work out well, or else.
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As we move into the holidays, please remember: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids, talking about books, making books central to everything you do. Never stop changing their lives! #literacy #EduSky #books
December 18, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Languages do not just “decline” or die” naturally.
Languages are endangered due to inequitable sociopolitical structures and deliberate processes of oppression, discrimination, and violence.
Languages are endangered due to inequitable sociopolitical structures and deliberate processes of oppression, discrimination, and violence.
Languages do not “die”, they are persecuted: A Scottish Gael’s perspective on language “loss”
This blog post includes a linked audio file. Just click on the link below if you would like to hear the post read aloud. Scroll down to read the text. BILD / LIDA · Languages do not “die”, they are…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
December 13, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Languages do not just “decline” or die” naturally.
Languages are endangered due to inequitable sociopolitical structures and deliberate processes of oppression, discrimination, and violence.
Languages are endangered due to inequitable sociopolitical structures and deliberate processes of oppression, discrimination, and violence.
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Introducing: the Lingcomm Bibliography of research:
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
Lingcomm Bibliography
Lingcomm Bibliography bit.ly/lingcomm-biblio Maintained by: Lauren Gawne & Jess Kruk Last updated: Dec 2024 What is in this bibliography? For the purposes of this bibliography, ‘lingcomm’ is the cre...
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December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Introducing: the Lingcomm Bibliography of research:
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
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CA & TX enroll more than 1 million students still learning English — but last year, the Lone Star State put 40% of them in bilingual classrooms. California managed that for just 10%.
calmatters.org/education/k-...
calmatters.org/education/k-...
'We were punished for speaking Spanish': Inside California's slow recovery of bilingual education
After banning bilingual education in 1998, California voters brought it back 8 years ago. Schools are still trying to rebuild their programs.
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December 18, 2024 at 6:26 PM
CA & TX enroll more than 1 million students still learning English — but last year, the Lone Star State put 40% of them in bilingual classrooms. California managed that for just 10%.
calmatters.org/education/k-...
calmatters.org/education/k-...
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Rest in Peace Bill Labov, age 97
I didn't know him personally but I've heard so many stories about him as a mentor for so many linguists over so many years and my thoughts are with the people who did
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399
I didn't know him personally but I've heard so many stories about him as a mentor for so many linguists over so many years and my thoughts are with the people who did
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399
Language Log » Bill Labov
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
December 18, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Rest in Peace Bill Labov, age 97
I didn't know him personally but I've heard so many stories about him as a mentor for so many linguists over so many years and my thoughts are with the people who did
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399
I didn't know him personally but I've heard so many stories about him as a mentor for so many linguists over so many years and my thoughts are with the people who did
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399
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Christmas Crescent. Holiday lights and a crescent moon between the Sears Tower antennas on this day in 2018.
December 10, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Christmas Crescent. Holiday lights and a crescent moon between the Sears Tower antennas on this day in 2018.
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Today’s reason to learn another language:
There are over 7,000 living languages on Earth currently.
This is your home. Get to know it.
Would it be nice to learn at least one other during your time here?
#langsky
There are over 7,000 living languages on Earth currently.
This is your home. Get to know it.
Would it be nice to learn at least one other during your time here?
#langsky
November 29, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Today’s reason to learn another language:
There are over 7,000 living languages on Earth currently.
This is your home. Get to know it.
Would it be nice to learn at least one other during your time here?
#langsky
There are over 7,000 living languages on Earth currently.
This is your home. Get to know it.
Would it be nice to learn at least one other during your time here?
#langsky
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What kind of crimes do cats commit?
Felineys!
Felineys!
December 4, 2024 at 7:41 PM
What kind of crimes do cats commit?
Felineys!
Felineys!