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TimPhon

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I teach #linguistics on Treaty 6 land at the University of Alberta as a #SessionalInstructor. Focus on #phonetics, #QuantitativeMethods (#statistics), #SpeechTechnology, and #LinguisticsWithIndigenousCommunities.

Also interested in #InternetLinguistics and #EnglishSpellingReform.

I have other social, political, and economic interests that may come in occasionally, but will not be the focus of this account. Fun nerdiness!

Also, #LearningUkrainian and #LearningASL.

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GriffinGroup, to puns
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My wife told our son not to play with electricity...

Now he’s grounded.

#Puns #DadJokes

TimPhon,
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@ramonfincken @GriffinGroup @dgar
I feel obliged to extend the circuit and share this one with other #DadJoke superconductors.

TimPhon,
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@ramonfincken @GriffinGroup @dgar No, I couldn't resist. It was too current.⚡️

TimPhon,
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@dgar @ramonfincken @GriffinGroup Yes. It's very accepting, whether you're trans, cis, (t)or anything else.

TimPhon, to random
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Yesterday's XKCD is priceless!

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/light_leap_years_2x.png

senanthic, to random
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I accidentally picked up the Curse of Chalion again and now I can’t sleep because this book needs reading

TimPhon,
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@senanthic Dangerous to pick up anything by Bujold - and she's only getting better!

luckytran, to random
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The CDC wants to stop telling people to isolate for five days when they are sick with COVID. This is a reckless, anti-public health policy that contravenes science, increases disease spread, and puts everyone at greater risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/02/13/covid-isolation-guidelines-cdc-change/

TimPhon,
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@luckytran

Okay, what I want to know is where I should late the first research centre when playing Pandemic (board game). It defaults to Atlanta, because of the CDC. But if the CDC has abdicated its l'université health duties, what organization in which country could we use to take us place in the game?

TimPhon, to HashtagGames
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Bar


TimPhon, to HashtagGames
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Midsummer After Eight's Dream


TimPhon, to HashtagGames
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Oh Henry V


brembs, to random
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The academic journal publishing system sure feels all too often a bit like a sinking boat. We have many leaks, e.g.:

  • a reproducibility leak
  • an affordability leak
  • a functionality leak
  • a data leak
  • a code leak
  • an interoperability leak
  • a discoverability leak
  • a peer-review leak
  • a long-term preservation leak
  • a link rot leak
  • an evaluation/assessment leak
  • a data visualization leak
    etc.

1/x

TimPhon,
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@jonny @albertcardona @brembs @deevybee

What about a federated model of quantifying trust? That is, like Mastodon instances, have some federated network is scientists where "instances" (which wouldn't have to be the same as universities or faculties, though those are two obvious possibilities) could choose to federate or defederate with other instances based on things like quality and reliability ("trust").

TimPhon,
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@jonny @albertcardona @brembs @deevybee

Might work well alongside university- based open publishing models. (Shift the money we pay to the corporate publishers over to paying for a publishing platform. Most of the important work is already done by academics anyway - research, review, even editing.)

TimPhon, to random
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Our provincial government is taking a run at trans rights - especially kids. So there's a chance the political side of my feed is going to ramp up a bit here.

I stand with anyone's right to identify as they wish and control their own body. My rights to those things have never been threatened, and neither should my neighbours, my students, my children, or anyone else!

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    TimPhon,
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    @amyfou Are you at the University of Alberta? (Our classroom clocks are almost universally out of whack - though it can be less obvious because there's usually only one per room.)

    amyfou, to snowboarding
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    TimPhon,
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    @amyfou I've never heard of "snain" before. I kind of like it. The word, that is - we've had the phenomenon here in Alberta for decades. We call it "sleet".

    TimPhon,
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    @amyfou Well, I love it. An awesome example of spontaneous blending!

    amyfou, to movies
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    TimPhon,
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    @amyfou 😔 Me too.

    TimPhon, to random
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    Snow Trek III: The Search for Frosty

    TimPhon,
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    Snow Trek IV: The Sleigh Ride Home

    TimPhon,
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    Snow Trek VI: The Undiscovered Frosty

    TimPhon,
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    Snow Trek: The Motion Picture

    TimPhon,
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    Snow Trek II: The Wrath of Cold

    TimPhon,
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    Okay, that was a reach. Maybe I should stop?

    TimPhon,
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    Snow Trek V: The Final Fun-tier

    TimPhon,
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    (Guess not.)

    TimPhon,
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    Snow Trek: Generators

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