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Michael Dow
@lekujaw.bsky.social
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Linguistics professor in Montreal (sounds & corpus stuff), 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈, foodie, 🐶 and 🐈‍⬛🐈 dad, collector of nihilistic possum memes. I'm really bad at this, so just assume I'm cool. He/him.
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davisvaughan.bsky.social
We are looking for #rstats community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions!

We're aiming to expand the `filter()` family:

- `filter()` to keep rows
- `filter_out()` to drop rows
- `when_any()` and `when_all()` as modifiers

Read more and leave feedback here:
github.com/tidyverse/ti...
Example of using `filter_out()` on the `penguins` dataset, showing how it is much easier than `filter()`, especially with `NA`s
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
Sorry, but I had to
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Michael Dow
cla-acl.ca
L’ACL encourage le gouvernement du Québec à reconsidérer son décret visant à interdire l’usage de certaines formes d’ #écritureinclusive. // The CLA calls on the Govt. of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of #inclusivewriting.

#linguistique #linguistics

cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...
cla-acl.ca
October 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Michael Dow
naturalselection.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
Filed under infinite combinatorics language blah blah blah
130 year old butter bacteria discovered in Danish basement
September 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
Journals: I am *begging you*, do not make me download a .bib file for a single article citation. Give me some text to copy like a decent human being
September 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
I will never stop saying this: if I ever die in the US due to gun violence, politicize it. Yeet my corpse onto the steps of Congress. Demand sensible laws. Anyone pretending otherwise has an agenda. It's the guns, stupid.
August 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
I regret to inform you the Big Beard has been trimmed 😭
Me with a slightly not as big beard
August 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Reposted by Michael Dow
poisonivy47.bsky.social
If you need any sources on AI being shitty, I've been collecting and compiling them: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Questioning AI Resource List
Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...
docs.google.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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languagedoodad.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
We're all in agreement that "for ya" and "today" are just completely bleached politeness markers in the service industry, right?
August 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
lekujaw.bsky.social
amen
Blingee-style gif of a lake scene with birds, flowers and butterflies. Very sparkly. The text reads "may ever day be another wonderful secret"
July 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
Salut les linguistes! Je cherche des jeux de données publics pour mon cours de méthodes quantitatives comme études de cas. Idéalement variés en sous-domaines, formats (.csv, texte brut, JSON…) et sources (GitHub, HuggingFace, OSF, voire un peu de web scraping léger). Merci, n’hésitez pas à partager!
lekujaw.bsky.social Michael Dow @lekujaw.bsky.social · Jul 17
ling peeps! Looking for public datasets to add to my quant methods course as case studies. Ideally diverse with respect to subfield, file type (.csv, raw text, JSON, etc) and host/source (GitHub, HuggingFace, OSF, etc -- could even involve some baby web scraping). Thanks, feel free to share!
a man in a cape stands in front of a batman symbol
ALT: a man in a cape stands in front of a batman symbol
media.tenor.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
ling peeps! Looking for public datasets to add to my quant methods course as case studies. Ideally diverse with respect to subfield, file type (.csv, raw text, JSON, etc) and host/source (GitHub, HuggingFace, OSF, etc -- could even involve some baby web scraping). Thanks, feel free to share!
a man in a cape stands in front of a batman symbol
ALT: a man in a cape stands in front of a batman symbol
media.tenor.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
Simpsons Lionel hutz business card reading "no foreign wars? No, foreign wars!"
June 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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June 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
I understand like zero of these words, much less why I'm on this blocklist
@stephlamy.bsky.social for some reason added me to a "h zet" blocklist. I don't know who you are, but you do you!
June 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reposted by Michael Dow
petergleick.bsky.social
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
lekujaw.bsky.social
I assume there's a pun here. Or at least a porcmanteau
Back of a truck for a butcher reading "porcmeilleur"
May 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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eric-reinhart.com
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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tjmahr.com
"speech is heir to flesh" is a pretty metal line
i highlighted the phrase "Speech is heir to flesh". The biology of phonological development (by Ray D Kent) The biological study of spoken language has significant precedent even in the single book that Eric Lenneberg published in 1967. In fact, biological perspective on spoken langauge is not rate; nore should it be, given that spoken language is the production of a living organism. Speech is heir to flesh. The biology of spoken language may recede in some of the abstract, mathematical studies of language. The rewrite rule of generative phonology does not look much like biological proposition, but it is in fact underwritten by the biology of the language user.
March 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
me, reading this: wtf 2025 isn't later than 2027
semanticists, what's going on here
March 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
Canada's "fentanyl problem" starting to sound an awful lot like Ukraine's "n*zi problem"...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 9
Kevin Hassett suggests Canadian authorities are covering up major fentanyl operations: "I can tell you that in the situation room I've seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone. Canada's got a big drug problem."
March 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reposted by Michael Dow
adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
lekujaw.bsky.social
Felt hot take, might delete later
Arrested development "dead dove" même Michael looking into a bag labeled "general linguistics journal" Opened, 75% syntax Michael: "I don't know what I expected"
February 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM