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she/they. cuban american born on the bayou. linguist, artist, general delight. speech perception: social expectation, exemplar models. postdoc working in data science ed. https://sites.google.com/view/ear-scicomm/
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Hey if you or your language and #linguistics students are looking for some end-of-term de-stressing, I put a couple more pages from my coloring book project up here: tinyurl.com/coloring-gre...
Coloring sheet. Block letters in the middle of the page read “There’s no such thing as ‘lazy’ language.” The text is surrounded by illustrations of snails. Completed coloring sheet. Block letters read "Every body has an accent," with one word on each line. A forearm palm up shows three tattoos in an homage to American traditional style: A rose; a horseshoe with '[ɡʊd lʌk' written on it, and a heart tattoo with a banner reading "[mɑm mam mʌm mɒm]]". In the space around the arm, a pair of hands meant to represent the ASL sign for "sign" and a mouth. The negative space is filled with stars.
The way Kyle MacLachlan talks about David Lynch is kind of how I feel about my PhD advisors
All of these points make sense to me!!
I've been thinking a lot about differing (changing?) ideas of what the purpose of higher education is, and I think this is a useful thought experiment: If some sci-fi brain scan showed you already know everything on a syllabus, would you be entitled to an A in that class without having to take it?
guess what everybody last night i finally beat balatro for the first time, it will probably never happen again
I was shocked to learn that for a lot of CS/DS classes here, the assigned room isn’t even big enough to hold all of the students enrolled, bc it’s taken for granted that people won’t come. If you show up and there’s no seat, you don’t get to go to class!
I love working from home bc the bus costs $5 and I love saving $5
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Personally, I'm proud of this gray scale drawing of the larynx
Something that I think is a little funny is that sometimes on large email threads I address it "Dear so-and-so et al.,"

No one has ever commented on it
Thinking about that post about how grim it is that spam texts used to be about like winning free things without any effort and now they're about like the opportunity to do work
Is a band’s best album the one that the most people like or the one that their fans like best? (E.g., Merriweather Post Pavillion is almost certainly animal collective’s most popular album but I feel like fans really like Strawberry Jam and Feels)
Here’s a group from yesterday. They were back this morning and I totally almost missed them except for someone’s dog being real excited
A group of three female turkeys crossing a residential street. They look like dinosaurs with bald scaly heads and giant clawed feet
During the winter they close the main field in the park to humans and it becomes a Canada goose park
We get wild turkeys in our neighborhood just infrequently enough that every time they’re here people just kinda stand around and look at them
Kawakami just batting 1000
I really really really really really really liked Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Speculative fiction concept: An alternate world where people read the syllabus
On my second ever Amtrak
I’m on my first ever Amtrak and I’m dedicating the ride to all my train loving mutuals
I feel like we should be talking about twin peaks the return a lot more, possibly every day
The silver lining of relatively minor earthquakes is the built in small talk
Phoning in a terrible teaching statement for a rush application one day and getting a “Writing Impactful Teaching Statements” workshop advertisement the next day like a personal attack