Jessi Grieser
@jessgrieser.com
Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.
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Jessi Grieser
@jessgrieser.com
· Nov 9
I’ve gotten a bunch of new followers of late. So hi; I’m a Black
Woman sociolinguistics prof at my alma mater, Univ of Michigan. I skeet social justice, linguistics, productivity, teaching, cats and dogs, and NCAA sportsball.
I contain multitudes.
Woman sociolinguistics prof at my alma mater, Univ of Michigan. I skeet social justice, linguistics, productivity, teaching, cats and dogs, and NCAA sportsball.
I contain multitudes.
Getting under OSU fans’ skin is so easy. 😆 I was getting heckled on the bike ride home.
“Oh I’m so happy for you! This must feel so good to beat the team that’s ranked 20 below you this time!!! Congratulations!”
“FUCK YOU!”
😆
“Oh I’m so happy for you! This must feel so good to beat the team that’s ranked 20 below you this time!!! Congratulations!”
“FUCK YOU!”
😆
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Getting under OSU fans’ skin is so easy. 😆 I was getting heckled on the bike ride home.
“Oh I’m so happy for you! This must feel so good to beat the team that’s ranked 20 below you this time!!! Congratulations!”
“FUCK YOU!”
😆
“Oh I’m so happy for you! This must feel so good to beat the team that’s ranked 20 below you this time!!! Congratulations!”
“FUCK YOU!”
😆
#linguistbabyphoto Nephew Ethan (3;1) L1 English Thai Bahasa Indonesia
“I want go to dada soos house.”
“Dada soos—oh dinosaur’s house?”
:nod:
“You mean the museum?”
“Yeah!”
“I want go to dada soos house.”
“Dada soos—oh dinosaur’s house?”
:nod:
“You mean the museum?”
“Yeah!”
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
#linguistbabyphoto Nephew Ethan (3;1) L1 English Thai Bahasa Indonesia
“I want go to dada soos house.”
“Dada soos—oh dinosaur’s house?”
:nod:
“You mean the museum?”
“Yeah!”
“I want go to dada soos house.”
“Dada soos—oh dinosaur’s house?”
:nod:
“You mean the museum?”
“Yeah!”
Might’ve just stumbled across an “aging parents” strategy. There are a bunch of things in my parent’s pantry they need to get rid of. So I just asked if I could have the fondue pot.
Reader, I am going to throw it away, but now we didn’t have the fight about throwing it away.
Reader, I am going to throw it away, but now we didn’t have the fight about throwing it away.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Might’ve just stumbled across an “aging parents” strategy. There are a bunch of things in my parent’s pantry they need to get rid of. So I just asked if I could have the fondue pot.
Reader, I am going to throw it away, but now we didn’t have the fight about throwing it away.
Reader, I am going to throw it away, but now we didn’t have the fight about throwing it away.
Thanksgiving recipe perfected: equal parts Alton, Kenji, and Grandma.
Spatchcocked a turkey, ultimate green bean casserole, apple pie with lard crust.
Spatchcocked a turkey, ultimate green bean casserole, apple pie with lard crust.
Let’s run this again, was fun last year, what new adversities are we about to create for ourselves on the field, drop your menus below
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thanksgiving recipe perfected: equal parts Alton, Kenji, and Grandma.
Spatchcocked a turkey, ultimate green bean casserole, apple pie with lard crust.
Spatchcocked a turkey, ultimate green bean casserole, apple pie with lard crust.
Reposted by Jessi Grieser
Waitlisting people can lead to inequality.
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
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www.pnas.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Waitlisting people can lead to inequality.
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Not me finishing the spatchcock and dry brine at 1 AM 😴
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Not me finishing the spatchcock and dry brine at 1 AM 😴
Reposted by Jessi Grieser
Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R".
stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/
Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)
The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/
Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)
The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R
stefanocoretta.github.io
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R".
stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/
Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)
The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/
Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)
The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
#linguistbabyphoto Nephew Ethan (3;1) L1 English, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai.
Ethan mau go Gigi
‘Ethan want go Gigi (grandma)’
Ethan mau go Gigi
‘Ethan want go Gigi (grandma)’
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#linguistbabyphoto Nephew Ethan (3;1) L1 English, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai.
Ethan mau go Gigi
‘Ethan want go Gigi (grandma)’
Ethan mau go Gigi
‘Ethan want go Gigi (grandma)’
A friend’s twins (5;9) wrote a play menu and had on the menu “BEct BIns” and I a) read the intended “baked beans” b) realized kids instinctively reach for the “right” pre-shift vowel letter and c) think we should start teaching kids much earlier that sorry, they were born into the weird language.
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A friend’s twins (5;9) wrote a play menu and had on the menu “BEct BIns” and I a) read the intended “baked beans” b) realized kids instinctively reach for the “right” pre-shift vowel letter and c) think we should start teaching kids much earlier that sorry, they were born into the weird language.
Reposted by Jessi Grieser
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
This is how long we’ve been in this building.
Grabbed a couple for the next time I have to teach sign = signifier + signified
Grabbed a couple for the next time I have to teach sign = signifier + signified
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is how long we’ve been in this building.
Grabbed a couple for the next time I have to teach sign = signifier + signified
Grabbed a couple for the next time I have to teach sign = signifier + signified
Reposted by Jessi Grieser
Yes, because Rev. Budde has long been a badass.
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Yes, because Rev. Budde has long been a badass.
I really wish @darrylcomedy.bsky.social would someday stop being relevant but here we are.
youtu.be/RH1q_2SOkAI?...
youtu.be/RH1q_2SOkAI?...
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I really wish @darrylcomedy.bsky.social would someday stop being relevant but here we are.
youtu.be/RH1q_2SOkAI?...
youtu.be/RH1q_2SOkAI?...
Things I hate relearning:
1. I can indeed get a lot written in an hour
2. You do improve at your instumwnt if you practice
3. Planning the day does result in a smoother day.
1. I can indeed get a lot written in an hour
2. You do improve at your instumwnt if you practice
3. Planning the day does result in a smoother day.
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Things I hate relearning:
1. I can indeed get a lot written in an hour
2. You do improve at your instumwnt if you practice
3. Planning the day does result in a smoother day.
1. I can indeed get a lot written in an hour
2. You do improve at your instumwnt if you practice
3. Planning the day does result in a smoother day.
Reposted by Jessi Grieser
I have just returned to bonnie Glasgow following a truly incredible week @umich.edu for @nwavconference.bsky.social 53. It was wonderful to see such a diverse range of research happening across the Atlantic and beyond, as well as the very moving plenary from some of the most inspirational (1)
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I have just returned to bonnie Glasgow following a truly incredible week @umich.edu for @nwavconference.bsky.social 53. It was wonderful to see such a diverse range of research happening across the Atlantic and beyond, as well as the very moving plenary from some of the most inspirational (1)
🧵Register for virtual attendance at the #LSA2026 conference! You can filter the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting Program for the Track "Hybrid" and see the 45 sessions that virtual registrants will be able to attend. www.linguisticsociety.org.
And some real talk below:
And some real talk below:
LSA
www.linguisticsociety.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🧵Register for virtual attendance at the #LSA2026 conference! You can filter the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting Program for the Track "Hybrid" and see the 45 sessions that virtual registrants will be able to attend. www.linguisticsociety.org.
And some real talk below:
And some real talk below:
#gobluesky, who all is at Wrigley today?
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#gobluesky, who all is at Wrigley today?
JEROME!!!
Megyn Kelly who angrily insisted Santa is white on air, and added...so was Jesus
Because someone wrote a book that had a Black Santa.
meanwhile as a kid, when I believed in Santa, I recall being specifically told more than once that Santa was all races. That's why of course there are Black Santas
Because someone wrote a book that had a Black Santa.
meanwhile as a kid, when I believed in Santa, I recall being specifically told more than once that Santa was all races. That's why of course there are Black Santas
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
JEROME!!!
I have developed a cold but I am back to feeling reasonably rested *and* my inbox is 100% processed and my grading is up to date in the wake of NWAV and it's Tuesday at 3PM.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I have developed a cold but I am back to feeling reasonably rested *and* my inbox is 100% processed and my grading is up to date in the wake of NWAV and it's Tuesday at 3PM.
Writing advice of the day:
The introduction is "this is why this question matters."
The conclusion is "this is why my results matter."
The introduction is "this is why this question matters."
The conclusion is "this is why my results matter."
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Writing advice of the day:
The introduction is "this is why this question matters."
The conclusion is "this is why my results matter."
The introduction is "this is why this question matters."
The conclusion is "this is why my results matter."
Got a Q from a student and now I'm curious: has anyone looked at preposition stacking as a feature of AAL? e.g. "You need to get up on out of that seat" "We will be up in here" etc. #linguistics #aave
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Got a Q from a student and now I'm curious: has anyone looked at preposition stacking as a feature of AAL? e.g. "You need to get up on out of that seat" "We will be up in here" etc. #linguistics #aave
I can't take credit for this, it's a comment on @npr.org 's FB post about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (the song and the wreck), but as a Michigan linguist I died laughing:
"It's actually pronounced 'gichi-gami,' but nothing bad happens when the skies in November turn balmy."
"It's actually pronounced 'gichi-gami,' but nothing bad happens when the skies in November turn balmy."
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I can't take credit for this, it's a comment on @npr.org 's FB post about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (the song and the wreck), but as a Michigan linguist I died laughing:
"It's actually pronounced 'gichi-gami,' but nothing bad happens when the skies in November turn balmy."
"It's actually pronounced 'gichi-gami,' but nothing bad happens when the skies in November turn balmy."
Can I just say...I cancelled lecture and discussion this week because I and my GSIs were going to be busy with NWAV, but let students recover the attendance points as extra credit by showing up and selfie-ing at #NWAV53 and these photos are all kinds of delightful.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Can I just say...I cancelled lecture and discussion this week because I and my GSIs were going to be busy with NWAV, but let students recover the attendance points as extra credit by showing up and selfie-ing at #NWAV53 and these photos are all kinds of delightful.
Half my city voted in an election where the only thing on the ballot was a school district millage. Go us.
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Half my city voted in an election where the only thing on the ballot was a school district millage. Go us.