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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 3h

It’s raining in our part of the Sonoran desert today. It’s very soothing.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 1d

Clickbait headline but informative article

The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 3d

LSA members! I forgot to publicize this week's Write Time Friday, but if anyone wants some work buddies I'm hosting one right now! #linguistics www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Write Time Friday with Heidi Harley, LSA President

About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...

www.lsadc.org

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 4d

A happy linguist brain day yesterday, teaching Grimshaw 1979 on selection, exclamatives, concealed questions...Wrote 'so cool!' by examples 113-114. Also learned that Markov used text by Pushkin as the dependent data for the first ever Markov chain. @veritasium.bsky.social youtu.be/KZeIEiBrT_w?...

The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything

YouTube video by Veritasium

youtu.be

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 7d

Big news! Starting in 2027, @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org will publish the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—a new LSA journal highlighting the richness of Black language & culture across the globe.
Learn more: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... @acharityhudley.bsky.social

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 7d

"The main function of the compact is to replace such provisions of law with 'the deal'—that is, a piece of paper, signed by the university, that purports to entitle the Department of Justice, on the basis of its own 'finding,' to take away all of these 'benefits'".

#AcademicSky

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 8d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 7d

#arizonainsectfestival today 😍🪲🐛🪳🐞🕷️😍

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 11d

Labeled anything is always hilarious

Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 11d

Linguists! Write TIme Friday tomorrow with LSA EC member (and AAAS Section Z chair!) Melissa Baese-Bork @m2b2.bsky.social at 10ET. Join Melissa and other linguists in a quiet zoom room and get some work done! @lingsocam.bsky.social
www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Write Time Friday with Melissa Baese-Berk

About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...

www.lsadc.org

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 18d

is this what they meant when they said AI would open previously unimagined areas of economic development?

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 18d

turns out fixing AI slop code is a whole business model

www.404media.co/the-software...

vibecodefixers.com

futurism.com/vibe-code-re...

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes

Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.

www.404media.co

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 20d

Linguists! Another Write Time Friday with LSA Executive Committee member Kristen Syrett at 10a ET this Friday Sept 26! Come get some work done in a quietly supportive zoom room with other linguists! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social

Write Time Friday with Kristen Syrett, LSA Executive Committee Member

About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...

www.lsadc.org

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 24d

and grifting! Don't forget the grifting!

Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 24d

Write Time Friday for linguists with LSA Executive Committee member Kristen Syrett tomorrow at 10AM ET! Come get some work done in a zoom room with fellow linguists! #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social

www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Write Time Friday with Kristen Syrett, LSA Executive Committee Member

About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...

www.lsadc.org

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 26d

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

media.tenor.com

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 28d

Partner off on a prison-to-prison driving tour of southern Arizona to try to help a friend of a friend who was picked up by Homeland Security, me unexpectedly home with 8yo. We made a cake. Partner found friend’s friend and got to see him. Weird day.

Round cake with rainbow frosting and sprinkles, white candies studded on top.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 28d

I haven’t seen this on here but do any immigration lawyers know if it’s helpful for many people to call a detention facility and ask after someone in ICE custody, to let them know they’re on the radar (ala Amnesty International)? If so I might post info for friends to start calling… #ICE.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 29d

It now occurs to me that you were doing a funny 😅🤦‍♀️

Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 29d

Nooooooooooooooo

Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 29d

Come one come all! This Monday! 🐦🐦

Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · Jul 17

Upcoming LSA Presidential Research Forum
September 15, 2025

Tutorial on Logical Phonology (LP)
Featuring Kyle Gorman, Rim Dabbous, and Charles Reiss

Join us for a deep dive into LP! This forum highlights cutting-edge theoretical insights grounded in formal rigor! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · Sep 13

Ah but if you do that you will rewrite the intro and starting framing over and over and over and over and over. My unsolicited writing advice: never do this. Make your last act of the day a trail of breadcrumbs — a note to yourself about what next — and then pick up exactly where you stopped.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · Sep 11

Linguists! Another Write Time Friday coming up tomorrow @10am PT -- join me and others for community during two quiet hours of work time with other linguists in a zoom room! Be there! @lingsocam.bsky.social #linguistics

www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Write Time Friday with Heidi Harley, LSA President

About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...

www.lsadc.org

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · Sep 6

the phrase 'native-born workers' makes me so, so sick.🤢

Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · Sep 6

Holy mackerel.

"The queens store and clone sperm to produce hybrids with M. structor genomes and M. ibericus mitochondria ... [T]he queens rely on M. structor males exclusively for its worker caste, suggesting a “domestication-like process”.

www.404media.co/the-biologic...

The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten—by Ants

Iberian harvester ant queens clone males of a different species in a never-before-seen case of reproduction and domestication.

www.404media.co

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · Sep 3

P&T evaluations, program reviews… it’s pretty much the whole job

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