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Jun 12

lost festschrifts and digital grief

academia brings on a particular love that, like all love, has a particular type of grief and a particular vocabulary. Like memes and books.

Kirby Conrod

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Jun 12

Your Friendly Neighborhood SciCommer Doesn’t Owe You Free Publicity

You! Academic who wants to get into doing a bit of SciComm[1] but you don’t know where to start! You know where not to start? Acting…

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Apr 29

build me a bird

or, an apologia for (still) teaching syntax

Kirby Conrod

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Dec 1, 2025

the problem is (still) cop shit

this was too long to fit in a bsky post. the problem with higher ed is not lazy students

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Jul 28, 2025

flap your hands, it feels good

thinking about autistic strengths from the monotropism model, or

Kirby Conrod

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Apr 8, 2025

the star emotion, or when bad stuff feels good

what do ASMR, ungrammaticality, and scottish fiddle have in common? no really — what is it??

Meme: two guys. One guy says “I’ve connected two dots.” Second guy says “you didn’t connect shit” and first guy says “I’ve connected them”

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Feb 19, 2025

Pronoun Studies FAQs: do you use pronouns in front of people?

Do people actually use third person pronouns in front of the person they’re referring to? Linguistics says: it’s more likely than you…

a sticker in the Barbie Movie font saying “trans people are natural linguists” — Lal Zimman

Kirby Conrod

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Dec 19, 2024

‘complishments (fall 24 edition)

a state of the kirb (just for this semester, largely written to try and figure out why tf i’m SO TIRED)

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Sep 30, 2024

giving talks

on being the courier that transports my brain to other departments for colloquia

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May 9, 2024

got a phd in my special interest; what happens next will shock you

You gotta distribute your eggs across some more baskets.

Kirby Conrod

Kirby Conrod

Dr. Conrod is a linguist at Swarthmore College. They write about transgender stuff, the linguistics of pronouns, and ways to work with your brain.

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