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Lauren "Sawdust For Brains"
@verbingnouns.bsky.social
academic (derogatory); psycholinguistics/cogsci; disability; generative flexible syntax + phonetics; R and stats and dataviz; art and craft and nature; immigrant to normal island; she/her|they/them; not funny (earnest)
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ETetamny.bsky.social

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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NHmixedlinguist.bsky.social

So if they’re actually useful for something, there’s no way for humans to check their work and they get better at seeming like they’re giving reliable information. This seems fine *screams internally*

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Today Jimmy Carter is officially too old to play with Lego

Lego box 
Ages 4-99
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LFverbingnouns.bsky.social

That thing where you have so much latent adrenaline that you can't tell the story of What Just Happened in chronological order.

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SMseananmcguire.bsky.social

Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats: 1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).

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VBthe-episiarch.bsky.social

Every part of that story contradict known leech biology, anatomy, and life history. But it's easier to BS about invertebrates like leeches and get away with it, because most people's general knowledge about invertebrates, esp. parasites, are build upon hearsay and half-truths

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JSjessieish.bsky.social

“I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months.”

Tenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine post
Tenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine post

Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...

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If you are over 18 and use TikTok, please take my survey on language use on TikTok! Link here: pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...#linguistics#tiktok#anthropology

Flyer saying: Take a survey about TikTok. Volunteers needed for research study about language use on TikTok. Study elligibility: Must be over 18. Must speak or read English. Must use TikTok. Primary Investigator Contact: Sara Rosenau sara.rosenau@pitt.edu
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LFverbingnouns.bsky.social

Let's talk about the 18 months when we couldn't offer the bairn food with allium in it 😭🫠 Thank god that's over. My go-to bases is: - onion, bell pepper, sesame oil - onion, garlic, soy sauce, ginger - onion, garlic, butter - onion, more onion, green onion

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Lauren "Sawdust For Brains"
@verbingnouns.bsky.social
academic (derogatory); psycholinguistics/cogsci; disability; generative flexible syntax + phonetics; R and stats and dataviz; art and craft and nature; immigrant to normal island; she/her|they/them; not funny (earnest)
1k followers305 following3.1k posts