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Kirby Conrod

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assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.

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Prof. EAGZ's avatar Prof. EAGZ @emmmilygz.bsky.social
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Sky going all Lisa Frank on me last night

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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it should be about whatever pleases you best, imo!!!

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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man im feeling like. very disabled lately

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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so far my observations: - get a lot spicier in faculty meetings - longer, slower projects where they get to disappear into weird little rabbit-holes for months at a time - the most self-indulgent book imaginable (positive; really want to see this from you tbh)

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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oh yeah always interferes with getting a good mask seal

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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opposite! turning on notifications! i want cheese pictures to pop up immediately!!

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Hadas Kotek 🦄's avatar Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social
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pssst a tip from a friend: the application for the Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics travel grant for LSA 2025 is still open. We haven't received too many applications; try it, you never know. It's a straightforward form, but lmk if you have questions 🐦🐦

www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

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Lingthusiasm #podcast: How nonbinary and binary people talk - Interview with Jacq Jones st/753857305290915840/episode-93-how-nonbinary-and-binary-people-talk'>lingthusiasm.com/pos...

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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sensory processing disorder summerrrr

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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Going On A Bear Hunt but sharks. (going on a bear shark?) Teddybear's Picnic but sharks (Sharkybear's picnic)

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(is it that you DON'T want to sing Baby Shark for 8 hours a day?)

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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too hot for this¹ 1. just like. (waves hands) all this

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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oh my god you're right, I didn't even realize, let's send an email about this (genuinely)

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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a sensible UG would be just merge and nothing else

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(hype your bluesky in three words meme) nonbinary syntax gremlin

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Compare to the Active Ingredients in Woman®'s avatar Compare to the Active Ingredients in Woman® @i-rohl.bsky.social
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Lessons I've learned from the LLM era (list to be expanded, probably): 1. Sufficiently advanced autocomplete is indistinguishable from an impossibly well-read toddler on peyote. 2. Almost any decision has the potential to be a life-or-death decision, if you're bad enough at it.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.'s avatar Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
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It’s so hot out right now that half of my timeline is tweeting like we’re in the middle of a snowstorm.

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Gretchen McCulloch 's avatar Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social
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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Elin McCready's avatar Elin McCready @elinm.bsky.social
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new book sits before me, has been a journey! here we are!

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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ideally bitter rivals who have a lot in common

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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cross-list it and make two people co-teach it

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the "just" here is that there's not some secret other thing wrong with me, not that it's like a mild or trivial issue. like frankly my sensory processing disorder a pretty severe impairment that affects a lot of my activities of daily living! "ack!", lol

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man, i wish i could send an email to 18-year-old me to give me a heads up about how many of my problems are just sensory overload, maybe i would've used the time to develop more coping strategies

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Cool Thing for today: an official Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) dub of Star Wars: A New Hope debuts in Winnipeg next month, August 8, and will stream at some point on Disney+! www.youtube.com/shorts/OPVVb...

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Joe Salmons's avatar Joe Salmons @joesalmons.bsky.social
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NWAV update! From Phillip Carter and team:

We heard that you wanted a bit more time to work on your abstracts for NWAV-52, so we've pushed the submission deadline back by three weeks!
The new deadline is Friday 19 July (11:59pm EST).
nwavmiami.org

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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oh good so i finally got the share settings right lmao💜💜💜

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caffeine takes half an hour to kick in, okay

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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i just like briefly forgot the word pennsylvania so when i saw the PA abbreviation my brain was like. ....palifornia?

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Gretchen McCulloch 's avatar Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social
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I'm involved in this and especially in spearheading the fishbowl sessions after they went so well as a format for organized discussions at the @lingcomm.bsky.social conference, happy to take questions on how those work!

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Hadas Kotek 🦄's avatar Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social
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LEXING is live! An LSA event for linguists outside academia––we'll have organized sessions, full talks, lightning talks, fishbowl discussions, sessions for linguists considering non-academic careers, and plenty of time to socialize. Join us!

www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... 🐦🐦

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Kirby Conrod 's avatar Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social
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I can be an external committee member but I'm at an ug-only institution so I can't supervise directly (but feel free to email anyways!)

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was looking for an old photo and found this instead, helpfully

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