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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 15d

Unbelievably racist video, but of the 30 seconds, about half of it is claiming that Latinos (not specifically immigrants, even) are "too stupid" to speak English. English-only and English-superiority narratives are a bedrock of this regime's racism. They know nothing about how language works.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 15d

Donald Trump’s AI posting habit reared its ugly head again Monday amid a looming government shutdown in the form of a racist video featuring top Democratic leaders.

Trump Posts Jaw-Dropping AI-Generated Clip as Shutdown Looms

The post was criticized soon after.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 15d

“does not predict p” is very very different than “predicts not p”

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 16d

Revealing new insights into how the mind represents and processes language, this book gives a full overview of linguistic illusions.

Linguistic Illusions by Dan Parker, Coming Soon

#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦

https://cup.org/4mwHEnC

Cover of an multicolored upside down triangle broken into 3 pieces

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 15d

Come join!! Utah is in the Bay!

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 15d

#linguistics #cogpsyc #neuroskyence

Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 15d

UCSC Linguistics and Psychology are very proud to host the Fourth Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI), which gathers together young researchers focusing on language from a diverse range of perspectives from the Bay and Northern California. Come join us Fri, Oct 10!

Flyer advertising the event. The text reads:

BAyLI at UCSC

Keynote Speaker
Jean E. Fox Tree, UCSC Talk to me like a friend

Lightning Talks
Matthew Kogan & Ruoqing Yao, UCSC Modeling interference with distributed representations of lexical, morphological, and positional information.

Subhekshya Shrestha, UCSC
Moto or mot-o? How lexical access and morphosyntactic relations are processing during at-a-glance reading in Spanish

Maya Yablonski, Stanford
Connectivity and function of the visual word form area: Insights from large-scale databases and a longitudinal intervention study

Daniel Pfaff, UCSC
Beyond single methodologies: Applying co-registration of EEG and ET to psycholinguistics

Ma Angela Montiel, UCSC
Cognitive control recruitment by linguistic cues during discourse comprehension

Oct 10, 1:30-5:00 PM
Namasté Lounge, UCSC

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25d

“Technology companies are not shy of falsely claiming that students are lazy or lack writing skills. Such a mantra serves only to sell products (…) We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.”

zenodo.org/records/1706...

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 25d

Of course, I’ve been fiddling with it all day!

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 25d

Oh yeah I’m excited to be in social situations with them for sure! I definitely get major fatigue trying to follow speech. But the best feature is taking them off for sure

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 25d

30 minutes into wearing hearing aids for the first time. The world is louder and more annoying than I remember

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 25d

Sometime in the last few years my sneezes have been phonologized as the word 'chewy', which I utter with perfect enunciation every time

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 28d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 27d

I went into academia to live my dream of doing training modules and figuring out what a “teaching table” is

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 27d

One of my bffs bruised his patella about a month and a half ago and I have been gaining great joy by asking him “knee how?” regularly

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 14

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Senator Marsha Blackburn tagging a public university for a facebook post where a professor share's Kirk's comments saying gun deaths are worth it.

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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · Sep 12

Our paper is finally out online! Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#linguistics

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William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · Sep 13

@rmc-law.bsky.social Ryan Law presenting on a unified framework for semantic memory and semantic composition in the ATL.

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · Sep 13

People notice gender mismatches ~600ms with serial presentation, but ~400ms with parallel presentation. The patterns are different for transparent nouns (aut-o rápid-o) vs opaque (coche rápid-o) and pseudomarked (moto rápid-a) nouns! This is her first QP, and it opens lots of interesting puzzles

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · Sep 13

Fotos lindas of UCSC PhD student Subhs Shrestha presenting her project on structure building and agreement processing in Spanish! #snl2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

Subhs and myself standing proudly on either side of the poster

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · Sep 13

'It is the repsonsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.' - Noam Chomsky

'It is obviously not everyone's business to be a saint or a hero. But personal or moral responsibility is everyone's business.' - Hannah Arendt

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · Sep 13

I didn't include the quotes in the alt text because I was trying to quickly type this up on my phone in real-time, and I have stubby fingers. For accessibility:

'The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.' - Albert Einstein

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Sep 12

Spectacular talk by SNL Early Career Award winner Esti Blanco Elorrieta! Much NeLLab pride, congratulations Esti! 🎉🎉 #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · Sep 13

As I’m away at #snl2025 learning about new research in neurobiology of language, Olly is at home learning about neurons too

My cat Olly, an orange Arabian mau, sitting on a couch next to a stuffed gray neuron toy on a yellow blanket

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · Sep 13

Some good conclusions from David Poeppel’s Distinguished Career Award talk #snl2025

A concluding slide from Poeppel’s talk, showing the Earth in space from the surface of the moon. An ASL interpreter is signing.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · Sep 11

If Kirk's speech is protected, then everyone else's should be too.

Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · Sep 11

Showing insufficient public sympathy for a person who called for the subjugation of 75% of the people in this country is now a fireable offense.

The irony is that Kirk himself relied on the 1st amendment for the existence of his entire career.

www.wgnsradio.com/article/9482...

MTSU Fires Employee Over Social Media Comments on Charlie Kirk’s Death

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www.wgnsradio.com

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