Yin Lin Tan 陈颖宁

Yes! And this is in part why I've long wanted to teach a class on small media — because compression presents interesting technical, epistemological + ontological challenges; because small stuff creates aesthetic possibilities + allows for 😈 distribution... (👇 from a course pitch deck :)

A one page ttrpg called BIG GOAT LITTLE GOAT. Download a text-only version here https://www.patreon.com/posts/128931545

BIG GOAT LITTLE GOAT is this month's free one page game.

One of you is a big goat. The other is a little goat. If you need to know more than that, this game is probably not for you.

PDFs and "design notes" here: www.patreon.com/posts/128931...

Join us for New Ways of Analyz(s)ing Variation 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice, and Peace at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Nov 6-8, 2025.

Abstracts due June 15.

nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu

I wrote a quick tutorial for a student on how to use to R to get Whisper to automatically transcribe your audio. I figured others might find it useful too. #linguistics joeystanley.com/blog/whisper/

We're delighted to announce that #LabPhon20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the (North American) summer of 2026, with the theme “Looking back and looking forward.” Dates, thematic sessions, invited speakers and further information will be announced by the organizing committee. #LabPhon

I've started working on a (very incomplete!) starter pack for social interaction researchers! If you're working in this space, please asked to be added (or suggest others)! Meant to be inclusive of many disciplines, methods, interaction types, and types of interacting agents: go.bsky.app/44VAEhU

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

A table, on which two bowls of chips sit. The left bowl is teal, the right is white. There is a folded piece of paper in front of the bowls that says “which chip is your favorite?” The paper has been folded and written on to include experimental feedback, including: “Bowl maybe a confound?” “I agree, teal is prettier. Bowl position should be counterbalanced” “The chips are the same!!! (I think) (stop trying to trick me)” “Fold and vote after tasting- don’t look @ results and be biased!”

Someone put up a chip taste-test experiment in the Stanford linguistics kitchen… and we’ve all collectively decided to criticize the methodology and improve it 😂

The American Dialect Society Word of the Year: RAWDOG

To rawdog: taking on life without the usual protection, preparation, or comfort. Whether it’s diving into a challenge unprepared or skipping the safety net, rawdogging is about embracing risk, stone-cold sobriety, and rolling with it. #LSA2025

Bill Labov has passed away after a long and extraordinary life. The founder of variationist sociolinguistics and the academic adviser and grand-adviser to so many in our field. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, colleagues, and students today.

Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad.

I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

He's also putting the glamour back into grammar on YouTube now! 🎶 #linguistics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOl...

Optimist: the cup is half full.

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Linguist: could you say "cup" again? Where did you grow up?

🚨 My #corpus collection app for social media, Social Corpus Scraper, is now in version 0.4.7. to fix a Bluesky pagination glitch. If you haven't tried it yet, please send feedback!
#linguistics
fmoncomble.github.io/SocialCorpus...

Thank you!

Starter pack for sociolinguistics.
Let me know if you’d like to be added!
go.bsky.app/SN3TdzY

Thanks for putting this together! I'd love to be added

Starter pack to amplify the perspectives of linguists and language researchers with a connection to the Asia-Pacific Region (broadly defined).

Please DM or reply below to be added to the starter pack!
go.bsky.app/AMrs7bo

Would love to be added too!

I'd love to be added!

this rules

🇳🇿 #nzpol

Linguistic anthropology, language in culture starter pack!

Please share and let me know if you want to be added

go.bsky.app/MQijNGW

Thank you, Miami, for a wonderful #NWAV52!

Upcoming locations:

#NWAV53 2025 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US

#NWAV54 2026 University of Montreal, Canada

#NWAV55 2027 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US