Scott Kiesling

The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset - Scientific Data Scientific Data - The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published.

C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

a passel of masked goons refuse to identify themselves, beat up a man, and throw him in an unmarked vehicle

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they can do this to anyone

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anyone claiming to be a federal agent can do this

Yinz in pgh, but the spelling does vary. In undergrad(1987?) I did a project on sammich names, similar results

Columbia University

Don't mess with CMU students!
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Auto-complete: real, can't hurt you Super-intelligence: not real, can't hurt you Layoffs: real, can hurt you LinkedIn: not real, can hurt you.

AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI.

For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.

Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.

Endeavor is the best!

Terrible. Notice the priority is always securing the mask.

Happy July 4th.

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

*moribus (bad Latin autocorrect)

So much for "Leges sine morobus vanae."

Yep. And they'll have less alumni contributions too. Not that I ever gave them anything but it's a 'nope, never' at this point.

Shameful is right.

It's great stuff. Glad to see when the variationists find some discourse analysis 😀. BTW Jack Sidnell's textbook is a good introduction to the field and carries Sacks' spirit well.

Does R have any packages for constructing implicational scales?
#linguistics #stats #academicsky

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

The White House's proposed FY26 budget would cut NIH funding by >40%. Our new #SCIMaP report projects the budget would lead to economic losses throughout the US with $10M+ lost in almost every House district.
scienceimpacts.org/fy26

@joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social

Donating the limit to whomever primaries Fetterman

I sent my nwav abstract in a week early. Made me nervous, like I should wait!

A reasonable concern - I've seen enough thoughtless cranks for sure!

The extreme enthusiasm some folks in higher ed have for AI is strange. They truly see it as a source of potential liberation from the impossible bind they're living in. The reactions when you pour cold water on it is like you farted in the elevator. My fart: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

Read Warner's book, it is not predictable, it is human and that's kind of his point! He does not blame the kids, unless you count the tech bros as the kids

The Pen and the Hand that Holds It On physical writing

Why write, and why hold on to Dad's writing?

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Alright everyone, one last push.

If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US

Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.

It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)

trvr.org/survey2025

‘Fuck’ and emoticons | Gender and Language This quantitative study investigates gender variation online by focusing on two ‘gendered’ linguistic variables: the swear word fuck, which has often been associated with men, and emoticons, which have been shown to be used more frequently by women than men. It is based on a nineteen-million-word gender-diverse corpus, which includes comments posted in English on the community website Reddit by 372 cisgender women, 372 cisgender men, 100 transgender women, 100 transgender men and 100 nonbinary individuals (all according to self-identification). The statistical analyses take both the gender and age of the Redditors into account. Results show that in most cases transgender men do not align with cisgender men; that transgender women mostly align with cisgender women in their use of fuck, but the former produce more emoticons than the latter, and that the use of the variables did not differ between nonbinary individuals assigned male versus female at birth.

Marie Flesch's paper on fuck use and gender on reddit is good! doi.org/10.1558/genl...

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

University is not a business, education is not a product.

An image of an American flag flying over a hill. The words say: How to Plan a Trip to the USA. 1. Don’t.

I’ve seen a few variations of this making the rounds. I like this one best.

I don’t know who the original artist is but thank you to them.

Man, fuck this guy. What a disappointment.