Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Toronto. Web-designer, music-composer, postcard-writer, clothing-upcycler, tree-climber, etc. (she/her)
Toronto, Ontario
Joined July 2015
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Marisa Brook retweeted
Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated the trajectories for some of @NASA's most historic missions, turns 101 years old today physicstoday.scitation.org/d…
One of my favourite productivity tools is this enormous permanent marker with a chisel tip. It makes crossing things off my to-do lists so very satisfying.
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A teacher of mine in 1997-98 had everyone run HotDog and make a couple of rudimentary websites. I fell in love with HTML and never stopped going back to it. Have since also learned CSS and played with a bunch of other things (Visual Basic, R, Python, etc.).
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My day has been made by whichever @TTChelps employee(s) went into a broken-down bus with its hazard-lights on and set all of its destination panels to 'DISNEY WORLD'. Thanks for the excellent laugh!
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Marisa Brook retweeted
Today we issue a travel warning calling for travelers & visitors to the United States to exercise extreme caution & have a contingency plan when travelling throughout the country. This is due to ongoin rampant gun violence in the United States.
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We are delighted to announce that the LSA Executive Committee has approved revisions to the LSA's Ethics Statement, incorporating comments from LSA members and other interested parties. Follow the link to view the revised statement.
linguisticsociety.org/news/2…
I'm between addresses so couldn't preorder, but I told @GretchenAMcC last week that I would buying the first copy I spotted on a shelf and GUESS WHAT THIS IS. @BooksIncVanNess
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Marisa Brook retweeted
WE'RE HIRING! Come join the team. Check out the job description and apply today! bit.ly/2Yc3EsE #uvic #yyj #yyjjobs
Sitting on a bus in heavy traffic, mentally trying to assemble a rough sound inventory of this language I don't recognise that's being spoken into a phone by the person sitting behind me. Lots of sibilants! :D
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Please buy an extra copy of BECAUSE INTERNET and donate it to your local school library to help some kid get into linguistics this is my fondest wish to make more people realize how interesting it is to analyze language!!!
I’m so, so, so, so proud of @GretchenAMcC for just constantly doing amazing work in making linguistics accessible and *gasp* FUN! Her articles have reached those who were generally marginalized by the field, and I hope every school library gets at least one copy of her book 📒
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Hazel Fellows, one of a diverse team of expert seamstresses, sews a thermal micrometeoroid garment for Apollo spacesuits. The seamstresses had to be so accurate that they could achieve a 1/64 of an inch tolerance without pins! #Apollo11at50 #Apollo50th #Apollo50 @NMAAHC
This was a fantastically well-run month. Applause for each of you!
Thank you! From #lingstitute2019 co-directors and staff:
L to R: Georgia Zellou, Raul Aranovich, Jessie Murray, Chloe Brotherton, Kristen Greer, @petertorres, Michelle Cohn
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What makes me female is that the category fits me. What makes me cis is that when I was born, some adults made a guess that turned out to be correct. Nothing insulting about the term, or about acknowledging that this was not a guarantee. Trans women and cis women are all women.
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Marisa Brook retweeted
The beauty of co-teaching a course on CMC at #lingstitute2019 (with @inthelemonlight) is getting an advanced copy of #becauseinternetbook! I now know the secret of why older people use so much ellipsis in their texting... Thanks @GretchenAMcC and @riverheadbooks! #humblebrag
Marisa Brook retweeted
Far from ruining language, emoji are creating a richer form of communication. #WorldEmojiDay ow.ly/7dLF50v3aYP
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Navigating racism when you walk out the house teapaw.org/YTSunnys/status/115087… – at Manhattan, NY
