#Linguistics

Kimberly Rinck

Kimmy_Buffett

A vine thread of college majors Philosophy majors Accounting majors Criminal Justice majors English majors Psychology majors Marketing majors Sales Chemistry majors Early Childhood Education Middle Level Education Secondary Education

Étienne FD 🧭

etiennefd

I had a surprisingly amazing day. I'm not sure why. I feel great and I feel thankful.Actually I'm going to thank some people for this superb day. Gratitude thread! Thanks

Jimmy Hapa

ImportGamingFTW

Hey everyone, I hope you're all staying healthy out there! I know a lot of people have a lot of time to kill at home, so here are some gaming

Dr Rachel Pope

preshitorian

aDNA evidence now for Bronze Age continuity into the Early Iron Age - as archaeologist Maud Cunnington first argued in 1923, and in 1932 (against the young Christopher Hawkes).https://twitter.com/thierrygrange5/status/1265314026206175232 Sh

Emily M. Bender

emilymbender

On professional societies not giving academic awards to harassers, "problematic faves", or bigots, a thread: /1 Context: I was a grad student at Stanford (in linguistics) in the 1990s, but

Jonathan Ichikawa

jichikawa

Good morning everyone! If you are interested in subtle distinctions within Florida State Philosophy Professor John Schwenkler's ideas about feminism and feminist philosophy, this thread is for you!Others may allow

Dr. Katja Thieme 👀

Katja_Thieme

Excellent thread.I'm very glad there's a scholarly piece now, extensively sourced, analyzing how Steven Pinker's media access allowed him to sway reporting on the petition to the LSA to take

Rita Konaev

RitaKonaev

I’m very excited to share our new @CSETGeorgetown report on Russia’s AI research: https://live-cset-georgetown.pantheonsite.io/research/russian-ai-research-2010-2018/ We analyzed 7,059 scientific papers published in English, with author

Travis Kimmel

coloradotravis

Let's talk about nominalizations.Yay Linguistics! (said nobody ever...)1/ What's a nominalization?Well it's when you turn a non-noun word into a noun.Like "requirement." This actually comes from a verb (to require)

local oakland enby (ethereal bisexual)

WellsLucasSanto

the reason i disagree with this thread is because "earl grey" is used here to assume "earl grey tea" when "earl grey latte" exists. the ambiguity that's argued to exist

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[QUICK THREAD: XERXES, RIKSH, AND THE BIG DIPPER]1/10This brilliant thread by Crystal speaks of the word for dog in a tongue that went extinct more than 3,800 years ago. Do

@WeAreDisabled

WeAreDisabled

I planned to talk about my passion today (like stuff I do to keep myself happy and occupied), and it'll mostly be academic stuff I suppose, since I'm a uni

nicole

nocontextnicole

books 2020 starting with something i’ve been meaning to read for a long time you know a book is good when i make the effort to switch back and

IAmSciComm - Hosted this week by Matt Carter

iamscicomm

In our last thread we saw that behaviourism didn't work - and scientists needed to start talking about mental processes to explain all the things humans and other animals can

Chris Noessel 🏳️‍🌈🤖

chrisnoessel

In search of a fiction-writing / naming pattern: You have a novum technology in your story. Your narrator and characters need to call it something. What do you name it?

Lei Hua 🦉

aewaiwhy

No one is gonna pay attention to this, but I’m gonna say it anyway. The “early modern” is a white periodization. Please don’t take other Peoples’ histories & places to