Aaron Braver 🐧

@abraver.bsky.social

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Linguist (phon*). R stuff. Science fiction nerd. @abraver at all the socials. aaronbraver.com

Brains in jars
Video showing an interface for an AXB task. Animal sounds play, and a mouse clicks buttons reading either "A and B are more similar" or "B and C are more similar".
Screenshot of phone warning reading: "Emergency Alert! National Weather Service: TORNADO WARNING... Take shelter now"
Headline reading: "Google's new AI is trying to talk to dolphins—seriously. Text below reads "A new AI model produced by computer scientists in collaboration with dolphin researchers could open the door to two-way animal communication." The words "dolphin researchers" are highlighted.
Text reading “Kiki” with spiky mascot.
Ad for “Kiki”. Featuring a spiky mascot saying “get back to work!”, with text reading “Kiki works just like a Pomodoro timer. Except Kiki gets mad when you get distracted and helps you stay on track.”
Image of De Gruyter Brill's new logo: 3 quote mark/commas arranged to look like "dgb" (as in De Gruyter Brill)
My LSA 2025 name badge, with a ribbon reading “my subfield is p-side”
A 3D Venn diagram. The left circle says “badly made Venn diagrams”, the right circle says “Badly made 3D graphs”, and the overlapped section reads “This horrific abomination”.
An animated plot showing a moving regression line with dotted lines representing residuals. As the regression line moves up and down, the sum of the squares of the residuals are shown.
Weather forecast showing a high of 136° on Sunday.
Screenshot of article about Chomsky’s health, including the phrase “is known for his transformative theories in linguistics”. The word transformative has been highlighted.
Slide reading “Natural Language Professing for Under-resourced African Languages”
Book cover, with the title "Paradigms regained"
Brown cardstock with a syntax tree for the sentence "the cute penguin slept." The labels are standard Braille; the lines are made of horizontal and vertical rows of Braille dots.
Poster for course "Analyzing Quantitative Data with R", with lots of WordArt.
Laser-etched sagittal section diagram
Two photos. Left photo: dog curled up in awkward position. Right photo: fossil of archaeopteryx, in same awkward position
English vowel chart with diphthongs noted by arrows.
Praat output of waveform, spectrogram, pitch track, and textgrid for the Xhosa word "ǀʰaǀʰa", meaning "recuperate"
Chart showing 24 different possible combinations of red, orange, and green lights and flashes.
Cover of R.F. Kuang’s “Babel”
Book collage: The Mountain in the Sea, A Memory Called Empire, A Desolation Called Peace, Shards of Earth, Eyes of the Void, Delta-V, Critical Mass, Lords of Uncreation, Antimatter Blues, Sundiver, Startide Rising, Uplift War
Spectrogram of [dr]. The textgrid annotation is spaced too far below the spectrogram.
Pie chart titled “Every drop counts.” Wedges show various uses for water, ranging from 0 liters to 20 liters, but every wedge is the same size.
Eclipse light filtered through the trees, leaving little ellipses of light on the sidewalk.