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cognitive scientist: so the lesson of Clever Hans is we need.. engineer: more horses cognitive scientist: engineer: stacked horses. parallel horses. pooled horses. horse dropout. RL with horses in the loop. cognitive scientist: engineer: Hans is All You Need

Glad to put all those hours of watching the #ErasTour videos to good use in this week’s phonology homework on syllables (and parts of syllables)

(And yes, I acknowledge that the current structure of the academic and academic publishing systems tends to support individualism rather than cooperation. This is also a problem.) (4/4)

Science should be a cooperative, team sport of incremental improvement, NOT a combative, individualistic hero myth. (3/4)

The note I write THE MOST on nearly every single student paper I have to comment on is that we should not egotistically think of our proposals as completely contrarian and shiny *new* to everything that’s come before. Instead, our proposals are best framed as… (1/4)

the existence of boba tea implies the existence of kiki tea

Like some current linguistics reviewers and GAMMs 🫠

"pokemon evolution for assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor"

My general critique of AI language models is the same critique one should have of models in general, which is that giving an approximately correct solution in 98% of cases isn't particularly valuable if the 98% are trivial and the 2% are what you really care about.

this is *the opening paragraph* of Jim McCloskey's 1988 handbook article on syntactic theory

P.S. thanks to a suggestion, I've verified that every currently available hard science job ad at the uni for a TT or tenured faculty position asks for candidates to address diversity/inclusion. 💁‍♀️

Whelp, it’s 2022 and I’m here to remind everyone that we still apparently have people on the faculty vehemently arguing that diversity and inclusion are irrelevant to science. 🤷‍♀️😮‍💨 I’m so tired.

@denizrudin It’s the french fries that sell it

edit commissioned by @shihworks

Highlander/Showgirls

@mixedlinguist @pomonacollege Yay!! So glad to have you back in the area! We’ll need to find a chance to actually get you to USC for a talk this time around!

Sharing some thoughts that are more important than my tenure news that I've jotted down over the last year. Applicable really to any field, just sub "phonology" for "field of choice." #AcademicTwitter

Have always said if this day came, I would blast this song out of my office door. Was working from home today so didn’t get that satisfaction, so I’m blasting it here out my twitter door. youtu.be/acoknuTpPOM

Best. Conference. Live. Tweet. Ever.

Oh, interesting new paper on intonation and with tableaux (h/t @denizrudin) academic.oup.com/jos/advance-ar…

They gave me a fancy plaque recently for some reason… I’m convinced it was just so they could take my picture because I refuse to update my outdated department one. 💁‍♀️