Laura A. Michaelis

A graph displaying poll results revealing that a majority of Democrats, Independents, Republicans, Non-MAGA Republicans and non-conservative Independents/Republicans link climate change with rising home insurance costs.

Why are Democrats afraid to talk about climate, when so many people already connect the dots between fossil fuel polluting emissions and their family’s financial costs?

Home insurance is a HUGE cost for so many families, and getting worse fast!!

Exhort with a novel denominal verb! A highly productive strategy in English is use of names of historic persons! This is the similative pattern. Run with it🏃

Nice zeugma

This orchestrated surrender to burning 19th century fuels gets framed as Very Serious, Adults-in-the-room realism rather than a weird, baffling choice to cause entirely avoidable suffering. I am so sick of it.

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

our recent #PNAS article "The intensification of the strongest nor'easters"
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

You’ve probably heard this claim: Climate’s always changing!

It's true, Earth’s climate has changed before. But not this fast, and not for this reason.

Introducing Cold Facts, Hot Takes: my new series of evidence-based replies to common troll takes 🔥

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Indeed! The fastidious 20 minute non-verbal heist scene in his 1955 Les Hommes chez Rififi (watch for creative use of umbrella) was motivated by Dassin’s not knowing French! I used it for a psycholinguistic experiment that needed a silent sequence

The Monterey Peninsula is turning out at Del Monte beach! Largest mass mobilization in its history. Y E S on 50

My tired 15 yo (and friend) after 83 yo Macca exhausted everyone with his exhaustive repertoire at Coors Field last week: this song says it’s the end! No dear the song says it’s getting very NEAR the end. Three more encores to come!

Nope. It’s an act. He did the same glaring, head shaking routine after the Live and Let Die pyro in Denver, 4 days after ABQ. I truly thought he had injured his ears. He was in fact ok but my 3 chihuahuas walking past Coors Field with my husband at the moment the boom boom started—total terror

Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies

Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies
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UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!

Asst or Assoc.

We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)

faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

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A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

China remains way ahead in clean energy growth, adding more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

Data analysis by @sentientmedia.org, a CCNow partner, finds that less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as a source of carbon emissions despite the fact that “food and agriculture contribute 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to the burning of fossil fuels.”

G’mar Chatima Tovah to all of my global mishpocha who are observing Yom Kippur.

Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

Anyway here's the real article, please share this one and not that one heated.world/p/charlie-ki...

Rob Reiner Predicts He’ll Be Next After Slamming Kimmel Axing He made the remark after launching criticisms over Jimmy Kimmel Live! being pulled off the air

Nice illustration of the Pseudoconditional construction (Kay & Michaelis 2012) in quote from Rob Reiner: "'If I’m Jimmy Kimmel, I’m suing the Trump administration,” Reiner said. “I’m suing them for abandoning my First Amendment rights.'" www.thedailybeast.com/rob-reiner-t...

And what 22 year old American uses the past perfect? It is not used in American English formal written genres anymore, let alone in text msgs

Yes, but who allowed “4 bridges in the Bay Area”? They’ve got GG, Bay, San Mateo and Dunbarton (pronounced wrong). But what about Richmond-San Rafael? Benicia? Carquinez?

Abstract deadline changed to *December 1, 2025*

there's no room for political violence in america like there's no room for newspapers in a hoarder's house

Quote from CNN article on NZ fugitive dad

Quote from NZ Police Commissioner Jill Rogers in CNN story on NZ fugitive dad proving Oceania doesn't use the present perfect like AmE speakers do! "The quad bike has run over the spikes. The two occupants have been on that bike, and it has come to a rest on this rural road. ..." Rogers said.

Often wondered: the Latin word for hedgehog is ericius, so how did it become IGEL in German? English borrowed French hérisson as URCHIN, whence street urchin (hedgehog of the street) 🦔 🏘️ and sea urchin (hedgehog of the sea) 🦔🌊

It’s that time of year again. Back to school for the kids.

This ad should run during every NFL kickoff, every college football opener, every “Friday Night Lights.” Because school shootings are as American as football now.

@ejfranci2.bsky.social is this the craziest relative clause extraposition ever?

Shouldn't the EPA protect the environment?

Beautifully stated