Me too YOU, Megan Figueroa!!
Was a science-minded undergraduate shopping for a social science compatible with my student paper editorial work. First minored in linguistics, then met binding theory, realized my own brain was something I could do science on and felllllllll. Thanks Leslie Saxon!
This is an excellent story that I will require a full reenactment of next we visit. How did it not come up in your wedding toasts?!?
Gotta be clickbait
Constituent types (phrase, head, clause?) phrase types (NP, VP?) head complement specifier? Sisterhood.
I made a midterm Jeopardy board for my English Words students and got them donuts. We had fun. (YMMV, of course; it's a bit specific to the course content we've discussed so far and some of my idiosyncratic terminology choices.)
jeopardylabs.com/play/advance...
In my first cover letters for jobs I applied for a position in lingusitics
Dang it this is too good
I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.
@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:
tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...
A few further comments, 🧵>>
Me too
That’s the goal!
Miyazaki invented these guys right?
Oo!! I need to participate!! I’m knitting a colorwork sweater that is basically designed with just you two in mind. I was going to finish it in time for the LSA in NOLA but ran out of time. But it just needs sleeves, weaving in and blocking!
It’s like bananas, a commonly accepted American unit of measurement
I think I say it that way for reals at least some of the time!!
“Minimalist generative syntax” or just “minimalist syntax”?
![Letter from Bach to Epstein interleaved with answers to comments; sample comment “their [Black] brains are slower at learning high-level concepts”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3prnzyijb6pcu5euifrdqttg/bafkreihmlv5vdf5qvleunfkravf2gemq4bqkjcxt6zxrsqko7oexr2zm2a)
Do NOT leave out Joscha Bach
cognitive reframing ahead of quals:
❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me
✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌
Sometimes everything depends on
the kindness of one stranger from Colorado
in the most tricked-out Jeep you ever saw.
Met with one of my international doctoral students today, close to finishing a really interesting dissertation, and they have decided not to apply to any academic positions inside the US after finishing. Not unexpected, just a sad reflection of our national self-sabotage.
Set up first phone for 12yo about to be 13. Felt like a big moment. 🥺
The northeast side of Roosevelt’s whole building
