Raoul Schubert

Somone should write up a summary of the functions of discourse particles and title it "The Labours of Particles"

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

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Cover of new Finnish anthology of Old English literature

This just out: a Finnish-language collection of Old English literature. 'When the Swords Sang' includes two chapters I co-authored, and I also tried my hand at translating bits of the A-S Chronicle. Publisher: Gaudeamus.

They just went "Ah, so the average student experience"

"Using a self-experimental (n=1) design, the participant underwent three consecutive nights of restricted sleep (less than 4h per night, rip). Following this, two high-complexity tasks were performed: 1) The composition of a formal academic report and 2) participation in a professional meeting"

A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

Tiny little plastic yellow ducky

Somebody left a tiny 3D printed ducky on my office door handle and I have no idea who or why but it is appreciated

Ooh this is handy dandy! #GoogleScholar

I'm just a PI, standing in front of his lab, asking them once again to please label things more specifically than "Abstract.docx" or "Grant.docx"

The feeling when you open the research cloud and there are like five folders all just named "references" with completely different contents

Absolutely goated 🙏

PUBLIC TO HELP DOG BITE VICTIMS --The Jersey Journal, 18 Mar 1915

I feel like the dog doesn't need any help.

Far Side Cow Tools comic with Praat logo in the lower right corner

studying linguistics equips you with the tools necessary to succeed in the real world.

the tools

teaching about morphology today which meant making my linguistics students scream the word PHILAFUCKINGDELPHIA at me in unison to show how we can predict where the FUCKING goes based on which syllable is stressed

Super happy to see our paper (w/ @riannawalcott.bsky.social) in Journal of Sociolinguistics: "‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’ 🧵

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Ben Affleck smoking and looking completely done

Here you go, read this pretty much first thing in the morning

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Screenshot of a document saying "2.4.1 What ? 2.4.2 What Are Head Acts?"

Was working on editing a paper and stayed up extremely late yesterday. I totally forgot where I stopped and chuckled when I was greeted with this half-written heading upon opening the file just now:

New working paper I’ve got out (w/ Tom Griffiths @cocoscilab.bsky.social )

Still a work in progress, but we’re excited about the idea and are currently working to extend it. Thanks, Gary, for sharing it!

Mom: stop being mean to mango he’s not stupid

Mango :

An image with a blue gradient in the center and California poppy in faded yellow. It features the Berkeley Sociology logo, and the following text: From: 'David James Harding' via socgrads@lists.berkeley.edu <socgrads@lists.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 8:01 AM Subject: 2026 Sociology Commencement Speaker: Dr. Alex Hanna Dear Sociology Community, I'm very pleased to announce that our speaker for the 2026 Sociology Commencement will be Dr. Alex Hanna, a writer and a sociologist of technology, labor, inequality, and social movements whose academic and public-facing work can be found in our discipline's top journals, blogs, op-eds, policy briefs, and in your neighborhood book store.

17 years ago, I didn't get into the UC Berkeley Sociology program.

In May, I'll have the distinct honor of giving the keynote speech at this year's commencement. I'm still processing this, but I'm ecstatic for the opportunity to pay forward a little voice of hope and solidarity.

Does anyone know a copy editor who specializes in editing phonetics and phonology paper? I need their service. I don't want to pay any company #linguistics #language #phonology

mine is langauge

I've been staring at that one post stating "AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs" for a few minutes now and I'm struggling with keeping it semi-professional here 😆

That was my first thought, but the more I thought about it, the more possibilities arose in my mind

I'm lucky (or unlucky?), since my combination of first + last names seems pretty unique!

It's like my parents have kept search engine optimization in mind when they were naming me... 😆

What did that speaker actually mean by that? 😂

Obligatory linguist joke

Does anyone know any criticism of "open-ended questions" or discussions of their limitations (esp. in the context of police interviews)? #linguistics

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.