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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. sites.google.com/view/ear-scicomm/
- What do whale royalty call their group of children? An heirpod
- I love waiting to open presents and sometimes I feel bad bc I hope people don’t think that I’m not excited to open it! Literally I’m SO excited that I want to feel excited to open it longer
- When you’re feeling bad and someone says you look bad and you’re like a little bit validated and a little bit like …Hey!
- I’m the type of tall where you’re not actually that tall but you were always tall for your age so like… yeah I’m pretty tall
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- I hate when you have a headache and a tummy ache and you have to go home but it’s only January and what if you get even sicker and need to go home even more and suddenly everyone thinks you’re either a malingerer or Typhoid Mary
- Reposted by em 🐊oh this should be taught in all methodology classes!!!!!
- First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
- Why is everyone always trying to FOIL my plans I am not two binomials
- Being kind to myself and not leaving comments correcting relatively harmless misinformation on TikTok about how language works to protect my peace
- Thinking about how i got dinner near the venue before an of montreal concert and i was profiling diners as to whether they were also going to the of montreal concert and i was like "THAT person's definitely going" and then i got a closer look at that person and it was kevin barnes (of of montreal)
- Are y’all playing metazooa.com
- People keep asking me what they should watch on tv and I say “Detroiters!” And then they ask me again but they haven’t watched Detroiters yet so I say “Detroiters!” And then later they ask me again but they still haven’t watched Detroiters yet
- The Cartesian plane has “think” on one axis and “am” on the other
- Anytime I have to start something over in real life I call it a rogue-like
- I know this doesn’t make sense but every time I picture someone getting a sleep study I picture a two way mirror and multiple people in scrubs like literally actively watching you sleep in real time
- I miss all the people from the height of my personal twitter experience and also twitter circles
- 69 love songs is a work of absolute genius bc it's a mix of absolute nonsense and the most beautiful songs you've ever heard and they're all 90 seconds long
- I never watched family guy but I saw “how David lynch stole Christmas” in an edit of David lynch references in other media and now I can’t stop saying “don’t look away, let the fear wash over you”
- I love how much my dog loves sitting on me
- In the Bay Area you cannot dress based on the temperature, you have to project your day and determine how often you will be standing in the sun. Sun is hot, and shade is cold, don’t you look stupid in your sweater
- As a K-PhD working in higher ed, the start of the fall semester has always felt like the “new year” more than January 1
- I wish I didn’t have to go back to work and also that I hadn’t finished the roottrees are dead so I can just sit on the couch and play the roottrees are dead
- I read Monstrilio in one day this week and enjoyed it quite a lot but the whole time I reading it I was thinking dang I hope someone told Guillermo del toro about this book, do you think he already knows?
- Some a y’all should talk to more sociolinguists
- A huge theme of my field methods class was metadata and I'm only just now realizing how much I internalized both like the habit of having specific templates for document titles and the specific preferences of my professor
- Some kind of computer gizmo that automatically deletes student work I downloaded off my computer once it’s been graded and returned
- When being the one to notice a problem turns it into your problem 🙃
- too much work to afford to take a sick day and yet i fear the sick day may be taking me whether i like it or not
- Yesterday someone told me something was $12 and I was like hey that’s lunch on reflex, but then I realized that’s really only like 1/2 or maybe 2/3 of lunch now
- Petition to Stop Closing Restaurants I Like
- Sometimes I see someone on the internet cutting paper with what look like fabric scissors and I literally have a physical reaction
- Why do people act like they don’t love Diet Coke
- Crazy how much more time I had to work on this project before I had a full time job but the old #linguistics coloring pages are still up! From personal experience they make a great last day of ling/lang class activity 😇
- 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...
- It’s so so so mean when people put you in positions where you have to hold them accountable. It’s so mean when they’re entitled about it and it’s even meaner when they’re gracious like c’mon y’all are killin me here
- I love christmas shopping season bc i get so many redbubble orders that I make 25¢ on and then redbubble takes 75% of, basically rich now
- I hate it so much how much work you have to assign basically over thanksgiving break. Like trust me I didn’t want to do it eeeitherrrr I want you to go chill at home with grandma or cook a big meal with your flatmates but the calendar simply demands it
- There’s too many ads everywhere, everything is an ad
- My dog can be really entitled sometimes
- When you don’t want to walk the dog bc you’re working but unfortunately he’s even more working than you
- Wow, thank god i wrote "March 11-12" in my notebook with absolutely no context or obvious association to anything else on that page. Otherwise I might have forgotten that date
- idk maybe i'm just not woke enough, i can't keep up with the changing terminology. But like since when is it lgbtq+?? In my day it was lgbt*kʷ+ and we got by just fine
- when i interned at linguist list one summer in college someone had taken a bunch of one-side-clean paper and cut them in half or quarters or something and stapled them together into little scratch notepads and they were just all over the office and honestly it was kind of great
- Me: It was really gloomy this morning so I was listening to Leonard Cohen My postdoc advisor: Hang on a sec isn’t Leonard Cohen pretty gloomy?? Me: Yes, and that’s why I became morose
- My tinted lip balm never feels very tinted until I accidentally color outside the lines
