July 25th, 2022 || It’s Finals Week!!

i love you hubble telescope i love you webb telescope i love you cassini probe i love you voyager 1 probe i love you voyager 2 probe i love you new horizons probe i love you galileo probe i love you juno probe i love you messenger probe i love you all aluminum and titanium spiders sent into the big black night bringing us images of skies forever away

people who haven't opened a book since high school love calling shit pretentious it's like a little bump of k to them

your honor in my defense i’m not reading all that shit

hello! do u have any linguistic podcasts/lectures/articles to recommend ? if yes will send a mental daisy bouquet as a thank u 👩‍🚀👩‍🚀

yes i do<3!! here are some articles/books/short stories ive enjoyed in recent memory :’)

Fruits We'll Never Taste, Languages We'll Never Hear: The Need for Needless Complexity -- a favorite essay of mine <3

Pink Trombone -- this is an interactive mouth sounds simulator; you can click and drag to adjust different parts of the supralaryngeal vocal tract as well as pitch and hear how it affects the sound :+) 

The Imitation of Consciousness: On the Present and Future of Natural Language Processing -- REALLY good 

Alberto Bruzos (2021): ‘Language hackers’: YouTube polyglots as representative figures of language learning in late capitalism, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2021.1955498 

To Speak of the Sea in Irish

The Library of Babel -- short story by borges, really fucking good 

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red & Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictée -- these last two books are maybe the least directly related to linguistics but they engage with language in ways that. Are . <33333 

Open Access Resources on Language and Linguistics

Poems by Richard Kenney (if you are interested in “language origins, the cognitive basis of poetic forms, magical reasoning, and the Darwinian lives of subliterary species such as jokes, riddles, proverbs, charms, spells, nursery rhymes and weather-saws”)

&& @ everyone do add on if you have any u want to share !!  

Some fun Stardew Valley travel posters in honor of the recent revival of my og video game obsession. 

Update: Prints are up :) Click here for digital download and here for finished prints

‘and I’m on my knees looking for the answers’ me looking at my procedural criminal law textbook open in front of me

Know what's great? Books. Know what's even better? Free books. I meant to put together this list ages ago and was just reminded of it yesterday, so here's just about every method I know of to (legally) obtain free ebooks and audiobooks. I'll add to this list if I come across any more.

Free Ebooks:

*Librivox - Provides access to audiobooks in the public domain, run by volunteers. Mostly classics.

*Project Gutenberg - Provides access to ebooks in the public domain. Mostly classics.

Digital Public Library of America - Provides access to books in the public domain.

hoopla - Free app that lets you access ebooks and audiobooks available through your library. Requires your library card info.

*Libby - Same concept as hoopla. Run by Overdrive.

Sora - Similar concept as hoopla and Libby but instead it's for schools (requires your school info). Also by Overdrive.

The Palace Project - Another app like Libby and hoopla that provides access to library books. This one also allows you to download books from DPLA right from the app if you don't have a library card/your library is not yet signed up with them. The downside is they don't seem to yet have access to as many libraries as Libby or hoopla.

*Riveted by Simon Teen - Provides access to full ebooks and extended excerpts of popular YA books. The books available switch out monthly so you'll have to read in the given time frame.

*Tor.com Newsletter - Weekly emails highlighting their blog, scifi/fantasy news, and short fiction. Occasionally they pop in a freebie that you can download from book depository (I got Gideon the Ninth this way). Just make sure you download the book before the deadline.

*Bookbub - Newsletter that emails you daily ebook deals curated to your tastes, often includes 1-2 free ebooks in most of its daily recs. Also a great way to discover lesser known books.

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*Chirp - Newsletter that emails daily audiobook deals. I've never seen a free audiobook here but I figured they'd still be worthwhile to mention. Prices usually range from .99c to ~$4.99. Must download the Chirp app to listen, but it's a great alternative to Audible.

*currently using these ones myself

Rings of Gas Giants

l Uranus (Chandra) l Neptune, Jupiter (Webb) l Saturn (Cassini)