Brett Baker

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

Is #BarnabyJoyce pissed?? @abcnewsbot.bsky.social 7.30

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!

Asst or Assoc.

We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)

faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

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Congratulations! Great pic!

DEFENCE - remove barriers
DECRY - apply tissues
DEPORT - after de dinner

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning

lol!

Hazy aerial view of Eugene Oregon

🚨 🚨 Last call for abstracts: Usage-based Approaches to Phonology welcomes papers using diverse methods to explore the emergence of phonological patterns from language use. Plenary by Joan Bybee (U of New Mexico). Come hang with us at U. of Oregon, July 12 & 13. sites.google.com/view/usage-b... 🐦🐦

The B in DEBT owes you nothing

They don't need anything from you. They don't care about you. I think that's the difference.

Heart-warming

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.

2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0

Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.

Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

President Trump’s comments tonight suggesting a US Gaza takeover are a call for a crime against humanity & should be unequivocally rejected & condemned by world leaders & American lawmakers regardless of party.

Statement from @nancyokail.bsky.social ↘️

I hear ya

I went to bed last night wondering whether the world was going to be obliterated overnight (I don't have that thought often) 😀😳

Did you hear about the Friday coup? Elon Musk is in control.

My latest:

For too long I pronounced 'misled' as [mizld], i.e. past tense of 'mizzle'. I kind of prefer it to mis-led, actually.

Compoonication

I hear ya talkin

and can alternate with /t/ (and doesn't alternate with /j/, usually)

In Australian languages, it gets worse: most of them have two 'rhotics', /ɻ/ and /r/, and they behave quite differently in terms of phonotactics and alternations. /ɻ/ behaves like the other semivowels, /j/ and /w/, and can alternate with /j/, /r/ behaves like the other liquids to some extent

I have a major problem with the term 'rhotic' though, for exactly the reasons you point out: that it encompasses sounds of many different manners and places of articulation including zero

I would regard them as sound changes if by sound changes you include all realisations/reflexes of the proto-language inventory.

I love that painting

Academic letters of recommendation: a guide for the perplexed (Bluesky edition).

Lenition, fortition, and lexical access in Iwaidja and Mawng Many models of word recognition assume that spoken words are faithful to their phonological shape in the lexicon and that word recognition begins with the first incoming segment and proceeds linearly....

Happy to announce (open) publication of our new paper on speech processing in a language where the initial segment alternates: www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...

Chair of fools