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I’m once again asking for recommendations: what’s your favorite intro to general relativity, bonus points for humor, historical contexts, extra bonus for German versions/translations

We still need a book series for formal semantics (as in lambdas, not frames) at Language Science Press. Talk to me if you might consider setting it up.

Zeno would have approved

We need academic search engines that filter out journals that don’t have good quality control.

Ok, so turns out I should have worked with @simongreenhill.bsky.social 's package rcldf in the first place to get the data directly from zenodo, not from the grambank page. I just had to redo the entire tutorial, because the code no longer worked after the latest migration of the grambank database 😬

To do research is, among other things, to give value to ideas. To review is to critically assess the value of ideas. If you think this process can be done by a Chatbot, you probably shouldn’t be anywhere near it.

Having to do university politics when all I want to do is research and teaching and supervising

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I also remember when I spoke to a senior colleague who was convinced that Google would soon solve all questions regarding cross-linguistic variation in child-directed speech. She didn't believe that Google has zero data on child-directed speech in probably the vast majority of languages.

Some people don’t seem to have a good understanding of climate change, so here is a refresher: The creature in the sky got sucked in a hole Now there’s a hole in the sky And the grounds aren’t cold And if the grounds aren’t cold Everything is gonna burn We’ll all take turns I’ll get mine too

When you see a webpage that features AI art and was last updated the very day you're looking at it, run.

Poor kid didn’t understand that power isn’t something that resides within you, but having vast numbers of other people do stuff for you.