John Beavers

Father, Professor and Chair of Linguistics at @UTAustin, syntactician, semanticist, former Editor of @LanguageJofLSA, guitarist, politics junkie (he/him/his)

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

We are hiring! See below on a one year position in semantics!

[UT Linguistics Dept @UT_Linguistics]

Our department is hiring a faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor of Instruction whose work is on semantics! See the following link for more details: https://t.co/xEmDrJeGk4 .

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

Congrats to @kmahowald on his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! Kyle's a total rock star, and this is so well deserved!

[UT Linguistics Dept @UT_Linguistics]

Please join us in congratulating Kyle Mahowald (@kmahowald) on his promotion to Associate Professor, effective August 16th, 2026. Through his research and teaching, Kyle has made enormous contributions to our department, the university, and the field. Congratulations, Kyle!

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

Come join us! @UT_Linguistics is hiring an assistant or associate professor of computational linguistics!

https://t.co/cQGpWryMZW

And check out our amazing computational group at https://t.co/6SpPCxcWFu

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

So proud of Venus (@itsvenusnotmars) on winning an NSF GRFP! Venus has been my RA since 2022, is writing a fascinating honors thesis on Farsi complex predicates, and has long been my editorial assistant at @LanguageJofLSA. She's just amazing, and I know she'll excel at Chicago!

[UT Linguistics Dept @UT_Linguistics]

Congratulations to UT Linguistics honors student Venus Shirazy (@itsvenusnotmars) on winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, one of only three linguistics awards this year! After an amazing record at UT, she's off next to University of Chicago for her PhD! Congrats, Venus!

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@lltjuatja I just ask it, and if it says it can I go with that.

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@lltjuatja Screw coffee, go to McSorley's Old Ale House.

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

Boy UT is winning tonight! In addition to Kyle and Kanishka, congrats also to @YatingWu96 @ritikarmangla @AlexGDimakis @gregd_nlp and @jessyjli on an Outstanding Paper Award for their paper “Salience prediction of inquisitive questions”!

[EMNLP 2026 @emnlpmeeting]

Announcing the 20 **Outstanding Papers** for #EMNLP2024

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

Congrats to @kanishkamisra and @kmahowald on winning an EMNLP Outstanding Paper Award! And what Kyle means is that this paper is about an AWESOME little ling construction!

[Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald]

Chuffed that @kanishkamisra on “controlled rearing” to learn the “a beautiful five days in Miami” https://t.co/AhRkoiqfkF construction won an EMNLP Outstanding Paper Award! And delighted that the ACL community saw fit to recognize a paper about an odd little ling construction.

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

We are hiring! Two positions in computational linguistics. We have an amazing group in computional linguistics here at UT, so come join us! See below for more.

[UT Linguistics Dept @UT_Linguistics]

The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin is hiring for two positions whose work is on computational linguistics. See the following link for more details: https://t.co/LvqySXuqfx.

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

Working on the linguistics of South Asian languages? Apply for our new position!

[UT Linguistics Dept @UT_Linguistics]

The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin is hiring a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor whose work is on the languages of South Asia! See the following link for more details: https://t.co/9BF5FPHm3z.

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

Non-quantized change, but not quantized change.

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@georgemporter Did they use the Star Wars titles? Cuz those made no sense

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@georgemporter

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@georgemporter “Just go to https://t.co/owBWZ5x25F…”

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@ian_joo_korea When Wingdings isn’t good enough

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@langofmind Don’t worry, there are a shitload of field-defining books with no field-defining insights, or even insights at all

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@johnbasil Goddamn right verb won

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@georgemporter Also Window should have had a “this is not ok” button

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@georgemporter They should make weed legal everywhere, but subject to renewal at every election.

[John Beavers @jtbeavers]

@emilymbender?