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Laurel Brehm
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Psycholinguist @ UCSB. Professionally: Language errors and stats. Also: cats, my kids, social justice, shit-posting
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I love seeing bats flying around at dusk because they're, like, our second cousins twice removed and they can fucking fly

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Today is National Poetry Day so I'm going to again share my favourite contemporary poem, which is I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense by Danez Smith...

I’M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE

By Danez Smith

O California, don’t you know the sun is only a god
if you learn to starve for him? I’m bored with the ocean
I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow
I know, I’m strange, too much light makes me nervous
at least in this land where the trees always bear green.
I know something that doesn’t die can’t be beautiful.
Have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California?
The sun above you, the snow & stalled sea—a field of mirror
all demanding to be the sun too, everything around you
is light & it’s gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you
& it’s so sad, you know? You’re the only warm thing for miles
& the only thing that can’t shine.
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Guild Navigator Moo Deng

I stuck worldwide hippo senasation Moo Deng into the Guild Navigator tank from David Lynch's Dune.
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The one thing I have noticed with this year's heat waves in California is that there are no brownouts due to the shifts in renewable energy — particularly batteries storing solar power. 54% of CA’s electricity is now renewable.

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The Department of Linguistics at Purdue will be holding a virtual Open House for prospective graduate students on Friday, November 1. My lab (the ExLing lab) will be among those presenting. See the link below for details and to register. cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis...

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One of the underrated but useful pieces of training I got in grad school was how to pronounce -ng in onset position. (‘Say singing. Now pause before the ing. Now just say the ing. Now just say the ng’)

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I hope you're ready to hear me repeatedly beg you to buy advent calendars for the next 90 days 😅 Tis the season. We're 31 Frog Facts Calendars away from 1000! I'm going to drag my wagon to the post office this afternoon, so if you wanna get that calendar FAST, order now squidfacts.bigcartel.com

a rectangular poster being held up by Sarah with flowers in the background. there are 24 sparkly shiny stickers and the poster is covered in frogs, illustrated in bright colors, including a leopard frog, poison dart frog, green tree frog, other tree frog, wood frog i think, and bullfrog.
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Deadline 10/30: Teaching track, cognitive science teaching, admin, and advising, University of Michigan Institute for CogSci careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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making sure we all know about Pesto the giant penguin baby

Gigantic king penguin chick with his much smaller mum at Australian zoo
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Laurel Brehm
@drlearnasaurus.bsky.social
Psycholinguist @ UCSB. Professionally: Language errors and stats. Also: cats, my kids, social justice, shit-posting
363 followers580 following291 posts