Dustin A. Chacón

I hope every Semantics 2 class is using the 'can' conversation in You Can See Everything to talk about modal bases and ordering sources

“I was flabbergasted that someone could take the time to generate a paper that I believe is fake,” Rastle told us.

On Oct 27 at 4P ET, linguists at different career stages will have a conversation about applying for jobs amid anti-trans & anti-queer legislation, being visibly out in research & classrooms, finding community, & putting queer & trans issues at the center of our work. www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Noun-noun compounds. How does 'drug dog' mean a canine narc and not a dog that's chill af?

89% of SBE NSF grants were never awarded!! My field (Cognitive Neuroscience) is included in this gutting, as are so many others. Plenty of horror stories in the same space are also coming from NIH. It’s not just delaying research; it’s labs shutting down and a next gen that won’t be trained.

i've obviously posted about this before, but it really is amazing. until recently it seemed totally reasonable (if a bit pessimistic) to go "other people's experiences are just an inscrutable epistemic quandry. there's literally no way to ever know if 'aphantasiacs' exist". and then, we just did it

Devistating. And against Congress's directive. SBE was included in the 26 budget and the NSF section states that "no directorate shall receive more than a 5 percent reduction relative to the fiscal year 2024 enacted level."

These are great opportunities that can lead to tenure-track positions in the UC system. Happy to support a PPFP application if there’s a good research fit!

Turing said if you’re conscious, then you speak Chinese

(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Parents, talk to your kids about garden paths before it's too late

Whoops! Thanks for the people who reposted my study links. As usually happens, we found a bug the second I posted the links :) Stay tuned...

Preparing for the new academic year, and I swear that every platform for sharing course material (Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard...) is perfectly designed to be as unintuitive and stress-inducing as possible to my ADHD brain

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

My impression of Elizabeth Holmes in the Nathan Fielder trailer: :) ⦂) ⵓ) ꖉ) 𐌚)

Surprise gift from my mom! 'Kind of looks like a BRAIN'

The Cisco hold music is the OST of a creepy underground ice level www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLpm...

For a picture of where SF could be if it NIMBYed as hard as Santa Cruz: the *median* income is below the low income cutoff, because housing is so scarce and rare that HUD has to perform an income adjustment to mean any sort of market rents.

A little late to the party but I saw the Persona 6 trailer 👀 Can't wait to play it in 2038

'They' referring to an explicitly gendered antecedent from instagram reeler gabe.rema #linguistics

A sampling of the psycho- and neurolinguists (UCSC and NYU(AD) contingents) who are living on my Tomodachi Life island currently

A very interesting research setup on grammatical differences and how brain processes them. Done with a couple of understudied languages, Hindi and Nepal. Finnish has a similar differential object marking depending on quantitative definiteness of the object. And a thorough Bsky-summary, thanks!