Shea Barfield

Affiliated Researcher @ UNG CANLab (EEG, Sentence Processing, BCI, game design). Reader, watcher, and casual writer of science fiction & poetry. Likes cats.

[Shea Barfield @shealeyhey]

Anyone bored and creative? Help me brainstorm title ideas for a live, online #grammar gameshow (yes, that alliterative one is already in use). 😛 Mission of the series: improving our #writingtogether through fun sentence diagramming activities to metacognize grammar & #syntax 🤓

[Shea Barfield @shealeyhey]

This was awesome! Thanks to the hosts and everyone there for the excellent, thought-provoking discussion!

[Shea Barfield @shealeyhey]

Any other #linguists noticing how differences in the appearance/visual rhetoric of some #emojis across devices from different brands could cause misunderstandings/ambiguity based on how we interpret facial expressions? "🤯" looks upset on a Samsung keyboard, but not here. Why so?

[Gregory Hickok @GregoryHickok]

The template for cognitive neuroscientific progress:

1. It's one system
2. It's two systems
3. The two systems are actually one system
4. There are two but they extensively & dynamically interact
5. We have no idea how it works

[djk @multiwhirl]

david bananas foster wallace stevens

[aubrey @aubreybell]

I love hitting a paywall and being like "guess we'll never know"

[Shea Barfield @shealeyhey]

I will graduate from UNG with 2 bachelor's degrees today at 5pm(-ish). 🎉😀 🎉

This past week I applied for 1 MS and 6 PhD programs in cognitive (neuro)science, experimental psychology, and HCI. 😀

You can watch the ceremony livestream here if you want: https://t.co/rol4Iwr99t

[Shea Barfield @shealeyhey]

@ruipchaves @IbanDlank I thought of magicians as well. Here's what the OED online has to offer for transitive and passive usages:

[Shea Barfield @shealeyhey]

[See OP for full context]

[Christianus Monachus (Christian Munk) @danishmunk]

@ClaraBauler Make (Germanic)
sure (French)
your (Germanic)
child (Germanic)
starts (Germanic)
and (Germanic)
finishes (French)
a (Germanic)
sentence (French)
in (Germanic)
the (Germanic)
same (Scandinavian)
language (French)

[Shea Barfield @shealeyhey]

@NianticLabs #WizardsUnite I am deducting 10 points from your House for this push notification that attempts to manipulate users with FOMO ("fear of missing out") as a clickbait-y strategy. Lame-o. Why these tactics when you could just share something cool about the game instead?

[Rob Drummond @RobDrummond]

Let’s have a thread of favourite sayings/phrases. Any dialect, any language, any age. Just tell us what it means. One of mine:

“It’s dark over Albert’s Mother’s.”

Referring to gloomy/bad weather in the distance. Heard it in NW UK. Apparently often “Bill’s mother’s” elsewhere.

[Catchy Bo @Hopcatchy]

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
- Robin Williams

[Emmett! @WannabeLinguist]

Wildlife is finally returning to the s(tree)ts of Syntax! Nature is healing. 🙏🥰🗣

[S @sageyblanco]

an alien invasion could happen today and brands would be like “sis!! you know what’s REALLY out of this world? This sale! Use code UFO🛸 for 30% off”

[Shea Barfield @shealeyhey]

@ProfessorBreen Student here--any need for remote intern applicants? Currently doing language EEG/ERP independent research on neural correlates of syntactic ambiguity resolution-wanted to apply for related intern ops this summer but couldn't afford to travel + NSF seemed low on linguistics REUs.

[A Small Fiction @ASmallFiction]

In our final hours, desperate for something to outlive us, humans created the robots.

But the robots worried.

Was just existing living? Should they do human activities?

Sometimes they put on socks and complained.

Maybe that was enough.

[Shea Barfield @shealeyhey]

"...but who is the dreamer?"

[Ben Rosen @ben_rosen]

BIGGEST TWIST ENDINGS

3) fight club
2) the sixth sense
1) the song “row row row your boat”

[Dr. ThemBot @DrThembot]

Those who were resisting digital pedagogy now know that resistance was futile. Welcome to the borg collective.

[Shea Barfield @shealeyhey]

Things we couldn't normally do in a college class before the pandemic: listen to the Grease soundtrack while taking a quiz

Definitely recommended if you know your content of both well enough ;)