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assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.

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those are my guys! theyre the guys who are my city's guys

08.08.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

im biased towards purple but that green looks really great on you

07.08.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

we are cereal for dinner level tired but luckily frosted mini wheats is kinda goated

07.08.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah i know im just like bored and undersocialed so i keep having to decide whether being exhausted or isolated is worse for me

07.08.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

WAY too tired for the disco

07.08.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

jesus fucking christ im still/again. and you're not gonna believe this considering i had surgery 18 days ago. but im still SO fucking tired

07.08.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Distracted Boyfriend meme: ME looking away from WRITING THE DISCUSSION SECTION to ogle MAKING NEW RESULTS FIGURES

Distracted Boyfriend meme: ME looking away from WRITING THE DISCUSSION SECTION to ogle MAKING NEW RESULTS FIGURES

I'm going to finish this manuscript by the end of the week, I told myself

07.08.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

β€œtaking [hatred] seriously” means agreeing to be an accomplice in hurting the person being hated. just in a very obvious performative (austinian) sense.

07.08.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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07.08.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 7

Oh!! It's Thursday!!! Please let us scream, PapΓ‘, please!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

07.08.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah this sounds gender

07.08.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

twinsies!!

06.08.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have you ever tried absolutely sucking at something as an adult??? It’s fun actually. 10/10 do recommend.

06.08.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

authentic passionate interests and strong sense of aesthetic tastes and being nice to people i think

06.08.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tweet by @feralhousepuppy:

hey so you've been calling me "bro", "man", and "dude" a lot and it's really invalidating to my masculinity cause those are all gender neutral things you call trans women :/

Tweet by @feralhousepuppy: hey so you've been calling me "bro", "man", and "dude" a lot and it's really invalidating to my masculinity cause those are all gender neutral things you call trans women :/

06.08.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2346    πŸ” 651    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 24
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you may enjoy this video of my cat. theres purring sounds

06.08.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

i think the answer has to depend on copy vs multidominance theories of movement but i feel like agree is the easiest way to sidestep the question

06.08.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Baseline characteristics of survivors, primary care clinicians, and oncologists in a randomized trial of a shared care, self-management intervention for cancer survivors - Supportive Care in Cancer Purpose Lung and colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors experience late and long-term treatment effects and challenges with navigating care. Few evidence-based interventions exist to support survivor needs...

Our latest paper is open access and linked here

Baseline characteristics of survivors, primary care clinicians, and oncologists in a randomized trial of a shared care, self-management intervention for cancer survivors

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

05.08.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh my GOD

06.08.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yes good

06.08.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

as always i will say to you: you can make this happen by using it yourself, without comment, while being cool and likable. this works due to sociolinguistics

06.08.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

tired!!!!!!!!!!!

05.08.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"really had a good hard think about taking a bit of a lie down on the sidewalk on the 10 minute walk home from drs appt" level tired

05.08.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"what's wrong with trump is he doesn't have a liz lemon anchoring him to earth" is an incredible concept actually

05.08.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

omg that light!

05.08.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

jenna maroney remake

05.08.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ive been informed that this is extremely normal post surgery and where im at im doing pretty well all things considered so im not like complaining! just noticing

05.08.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

having a perfectly nice chill day and then finding out at 4pm that my body is going to react to this as if I've been in crunch mode is like. oh! right!

05.08.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the weird situation of like. i have a lot of experience with fatigue, this isn't novel or unusual, i just keep being SURPRISED when the fatigue hits bc the usual suspects (overwork, pain, infectious illness, mental health crash) are absent

05.08.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

#linguistics featuring @pittprofdude.bsky.social, of course!

05.08.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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