Ryan

If I had a nickel for every time I decided to stop using a “cognitive linguistics of ASL” paper because my students get too distracted by problematic examples, I would have two nickels. …Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

meanwhile i’m just tryna break even by reviewing my two articles for each one i submit, while also fending off biology journals that also use “morphology” as a keyword

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…if i’m being honest i probably am indeed going to make an account

here’s the thing, I’m not going to make an account just so i can decline your review request 👻

the absolute nerve of my electric company to jack up prices to subsidize energy-hungry data centers AND THEN SEND ME automated messages about how much more i am spending on electricity year-over-year as though i had just left the lights on 🪫🤬💸

Enshittification Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...

I’m behind the trend on this one but I’m about halfway through Enshittification and enjoying it. Aside from the inherent dissatisfaction and frustration of the phenomenon, that is. Going to continue to be mindful about where I spend my money and attention in 2026 us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

thank you to my non-linguist friends who texted me this photo because they remembered that i do not like him

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I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading.

This is one of those cases.

“it’s *giv*ing season 🍁 😊”
“it’s giving *sea*son 💅 💃“
#linguistics

lucy lying to charlie brown that she will hold the football for him to kick

🤦‍♂️

Breaking news: Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is elected as the next mayor of New York City, defeating former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and becoming the first Muslim and first of Indian descent to hold the office. https://wapo.st/47rlrDf

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

even with the -ai trick and scrolling down past the first several results, google still hides automatically generated misinformation on every page. it’s unusable. can’t wait for this bubble to burst

Every time I sit down to write a piece I feel certain that I would rather die than actually write it and yet somehow I would rather die ten times harder before I ever let the word machine write for me.

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

“I watched Snow White when I was a kid but I ain’t give a bitch a poison apple yet” is just an objectively great line. 😂

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

Savi, Ryan, and Tessa smiling. Savi and Tessa have matching black rompers. Ryan has a blue tanktop that reads “Carol & Farrell & Karen & Sharon & Rachel”.

Ryan looking at his computer while presenting to an audience. His dissertation committee members are sitting in the front row.

10 years ago this month, i defended my dissertation. i scrounged up two pictures from the day. linguistics is an odd, sometimes challenging field, but i’ve been incredibly privileged to learn and travel with great advisors, colleagues, and friends along the way 😌😌

ChatGPT will apologize for anything ChatGPT will apologize for anything - even advice it definitely didn't give, and stuff it definitely didn't do. It very much regrets its recommendation that we hire a giraffe as CEO.

OK so I LOLed at the dinosaurs in Central Park

www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

Sunk-cost fallacy and cheating students are the only things keeping AI in business at this point.

Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.

So glad this is out! Still wish we had the data processed in time for @jmhenner.bsky.social to use but pleased to have his contribution in more ways than 1. See below for a brief commentary re Jon, deaf linguists & participating in SiL research and doing it in a way that disrupts or crips it all

i love reading old ASL syntax papers. everything is so straightforward. a star for this, a checkmark for that, no need to know what the signs even are or what the context was… 🫠🫠🫠

Ten Percent Of U.S. High School Students Graduating Without Basic Object Permanence Skills

love this journey 🙏

finally en route to what might just be the best Ling Institute ever, in Eugene OR!
Can't wait to see old friends and meet new ones! ‪@lsa2025uo.bsky.social‬
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

Really infuriating stuff. There's no place for AI in the classroom. AFT needs to follow the lead of @aaup.org and understand that these technologies are part of the increasing move to corporatize the classroom.

“there’s a … woman? and she gives her… daughter? a … … what is that, a towel? and why is everyone barefoot?” - the perfect SVO sentence

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“and, you guessed it, we used alleycat row again!”