Martha Tsutsui Billins

This month's bonus episode was an interview with @lingfieldnotes about language documentation Listen to it and 78 other bonus episodes by becoming a patron: twitter.com/lingthusiasm/s…

"Figure out what truly motivates you, what fulfills you and align to the elements of those qualities that present themselves in whatever role you pursue." Linguistics Job Interview with @gabennett45, Director of Conversation Design at Salesforce: superlinguo.com/post/702742707… #lingjobs

"I was away from uni for about 5 years between my bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and it took another 5 years to go back to art school. I really think that taking time away from school[...]is so crucial" Linguistics Job Interview with Artist Lucy Maddox: superlinguo.com/post/700207023…

It happened to me. They oversold the flight. No one would volunteer. I, a graduate student with a direct flight and no checked bags, enter the scene. They are offering $1,800 cash. I take the offer, get a hotel room for the day, and get home 12 hours later. Dreams do come true!

We've interviewed 80 people over the last eight years. I'm thankful to @msatokotsubi for running the 2022 interviews! If you do an interview and post it to the public web, please feel free to tag me so I can share.

@EHazeltineRees @LanguageDebates @tonythorne007 @LexisPodcast @GretchenAMcC The list of interviews is here: superlinguo.com/post/173873032… in 2022 they've been conducted by the brilliant @msatokotsubi There's also a set of slides that @GretchenAMcC and I put together with the interview s and other resources: bit.ly/ling-jobs More exciting news in 2023!

If you're starting a new academic teaching period and you want to borrow any of our anecdotes or teaching approaches from @lingthusiasm for your classrooms, it can be our little secret:

I’ve lived in Pgh for almost two years and one thing is clear: Pgh is a union town… and its public radio stations should be union shops. I am so stoked to join my @905WESA and @WYEP colleagues in unionizing with @sagaftra!#WeMakePGHPubRadio

Linguists (of all sorts): if you were teaching an introduction to linguistics for students studying to be teachers of English, what do you think are the most important things students should learn in the course?

Happy International Non-Binary People's Day! 💛🤍💜🖤 An excellent reason to re-share this wonderful @kirbyconrod post: "the president of pronouns gives you permission to just kind of try stuff out" kconrod.medium.com/the-president-…

When you use a word you know from one language in another language, it's called codeswitching When lots of people did this long before anyone alive can remember, it gets called etymology Both of these are kinds of linguistic borrowing! soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/6…

"...my degree was useful in helping me understand people and languages around me" Linguistics Job Interview with Performing Artiste and Freelance Editor Anu Bhaskararaman: superlinguo.com/post/683086911… editor: @msatokotsubi

New work on Okinawa by Madoka Hammine @madokahammine, "Rethinking Amejo through Language Policy Analysis in the Ryukyus Islands - International and Indigenous perspectives" researchgate.net/publication/36…

@waterpaper42 @waterpaper42 we found it!! (copy available at betsysneller.github.io/pdfs/Labov1966…) -- thank you for your help with the search!!

@waterpaper42 頑張ってねええ💪💪💪

I've been emailing Hamilton over the past two hours trying to track it down and they can't find it 🥲 Plan is to go in person tomorrow to do more digging... the rabbit must be found 🐰

#sociolinguistics Twitter, help (please RT)! I'm looking for a .pdf of the Labov paper where he takes a rabbit (at first hidden under a trenchcoat lol) into a classroom, then tells the kids the bunny will get nervous unless they talk to it, then leaves (1/n)

Linguistics Job Interview with Hawaiian and Tahitian language Instructor, Translator & Radio Host N. Haʻalilio Solomon: 'I feel giddy when I tell others “I am a linguist”. The doors that this field has opened for me have come back to bless me tenfold.' superlinguo.com/post/680550176…

@andrewdtharvey @shimanchupod! This excellent podcast is hosted & produced by Shimanchu (Uchinachu or Ryukyu individuals) & share their voices & stories

Hi friends. The past couple days have been pretty bleak in terms of dealing with a particularly bad example of Indigenous misrepresentation. Could we use this thread to give some good examples of Indigenous representation? I’ll go first:

Latest episode is out with Gladys Camacho Rios! Gladys is a linguist and speaker of #SouthBolivianQuechua 💾She has worked extensively with speakers of #Quechua & #Aymara: lingfieldnotes.podbean.com/e/episode-36-q… 🎙@chhullunka