Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. {Neuro/psycho}linguistics, syntax, and South Asian languages. He/him 🏳️‍🌈. Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats. www.lingdustin.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mvqmk6qxqc2cWhoops! Thanks for the people who reposted my study links. As usually happens, we found a bug the second I posted the links :) Stay tuned...17 Sep 2026 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvqmk6qxqc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mviuyy4irs2dPreparing 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 brain14 Sep 2026 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mviuyy4irs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mvc4kyipgs2yMy impression of Elizabeth Holmes in the Nathan Fielder trailer: :) ⦂) ⵓ) ꖉ) 𐌚)12 Sep 2026 03:16 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvc4kyipgs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mv475yraak2gSurprise gift from my mom! 'Kind of looks like a BRAIN'09 Sep 2026 18:47 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv475yraak2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mv3xqmrt3k23The Cisco hold music is the OST of a creepy underground ice level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLpm4aysr8I09 Sep 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3xqmrt3k23https://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mol7oc5atc2dI'm recently single (lol) so I'm considering moving to San Francisco on a bit of a budget. I would not wish apartment hunting in San Francisco in this economy on my worst enemy. Would you guys visit me if I lived in the Pain house?18 Jun 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mol7oc5atc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mnv2c6rgzk2kA little late to the party but I saw the Persona 6 trailer 👀 Can't wait to play it in 203809 Jun 2026 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnv2c6rgzk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mmuwsnasdc2bCongratulations to PhD student Subhs Shrestha for defending her 1st QP!28 May 2026 02:07 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmuwsnasdc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mm2yyj3ky22c'They' referring to an explicitly gendered antecedent from instagram reeler gabe.rema #linguistics17 May 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2yyj3ky22chttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mlqu6cyou22eA sampling of the psycho- and neurolinguists (UCSC and NYU(AD) contingents) who are living on my Tomodachi Life island currently13 May 2026 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqu6cyou22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3ml3c7dea4k2wSome of you are going to be on my Tomodachi Life island and not even know it05 May 2026 03:57 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3c7dea4k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mj3xbble6k2lMy neurologist is Bengali, so my appointment this afternoon was twice as long since he wanted to talk neuro shop with me and then ask me etymology questions about Perso-Arabic borrowings into Bangla09 Apr 2026 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3xbble6k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mhbmvi72ek27In other news, the proofs are up for my new paper, with a dream team of Subhs Shrestha, @linguistbrian.bsky.social, Diogo Almeida, Alec Marantz, and Rajesh Bhatt! https://direct.mit.edu/nol/article/doi/10.1162/NOL.a.247/135574/Same-Sentences-Different-Grammars-Different-Brain17 Mar 2026 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbmvi72ek27https://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mhbljjj6z22qAt UCSC, our Psycholing 2 is a crash course on sentence processing for about 5 weeks, and then a practicum to do a novel research project for another 5 weeks. The 'final' is a poster presentation where each group gets to learn about what each other did.17 Mar 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbljjj6z22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mfu34i6aec2zAAHHH I LOVE THIS DUMB DOG!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Feb 2026 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfu34i6aec2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3md2cjuo2zk2qOh hey paper acceptance! I didn't see it because I couldn't log into my old UGA e-mail lol 🫠22 Jan 2026 23:08 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3md2cjuo2zk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mczpwuiu322mDid you know there’s a horror movie coming out about a translation error?22 Jan 2026 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mczpwuiu322mhttps://bsky.app/profile/lingdustin.bsky.social/post/3mczdy75qps2aDemocrats already warming up there 'ICE for all *who want it*' platform for 202822 Jan 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:qlppvzgn2fg5haly5ebfkvm2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mczdy75qps2a