being vulnerable enough to tell people how much you care about them is infinitely more brave than pretending be above love and using edginess as a method of self-preservation

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

ADHD-friendly life tip, which I'm sharing as doing it later today: pick one late afternoon or evening a month, take yourself to a pub, order yourself one (1) drink of your choice, and try to reply to every single outstanding message you've received in the past month before finishing the drink

forget about "long story short".. i'm gonna start saying "short story long" and take you on a journey you didn't ask for

Network diagram with princess emojis all Over it

the way you collect data determines what kinda data you collect. Who knew? (Many people). So a survey of our archive is a survey of the data we can reach — it’s most often the history of people who were wealthy and connected enough to be remembered, and it’s pretty white and anglophone

Innovations in Linguistics Education is a new Diamond Open Access journal, is dedicated to the teaching of linguistics.

journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations

I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!

Life is short. Use the stickers.

hi, AI Skeptics Reading Group is real now buttondown.com/ai-skeptics-...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

on the left, the cover of the journal gender linguistics, its logo consists of a conjoined uppercase G and L. on the right, the following text: a community-owned journal for gender linguistic research, peer-reviewed, open access, no publication costs, multilingual publishing; below the text, there is the link to the journal website and a qr code.

One highlight of LILG 2025: the official launch of the new open-access journal Gender Linguistics!

Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.

Learn more: gender-linguistics.org

#linguistics #journal #launch

I have a hot take.

Getting a PhD has nothing to do with intelligence (if intelligence is even a thing), so "PhD levels of intelligence" is meaningless.

Getting a PhD is about tenacity + curiosity, two things LLMs don't have even if you accept they are anthropomorphic.