Heidi Harley

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linguistiks knitting kids kats ceramiks and everything with /k/ or 'k', I just decided she/her

An elementary school assignment on idioms including an illustration of the meaning of “as cool as a cucumber” featuring three cucumbers in sunglasses
A selfie in a rhinestone-covered US flag ball cap in front of a giant public art statue of the word BELIEVE in Reno Nevada.
Cat with dramatic eyes in an alcove
Peanuts, mulberries and cheese on a hotel room table
A screenshot of an interaction with the Gemini LLM. The prompt said, "If birds can swim, can robins swim?' Gemini answers, "The short answer is NO, robins cannot 'swim'..." and goes on for ages.
A sheet with questions about how to use the equipment to take an ORF test (Oral Reading Fluency). It’s clear by the end that it’s a one-shot attempt at creating a recording with no backsies for technical difficulties. Almost certainly autograded by a machine, I imagine. Hope it can cope with different varieties of English. I bet it can’t.
Big white cactus blooms
Sweater with design based on different levels of linguistic representation: lambda notation, syntactic hierarchical structure, prosodic structure, and waveforms.
Letter from Bach to Epstein interleaved with answers to comments; sample comment “their [Black] brains are slower at learning high-level concepts”
A ruined concrete building with “The weakest link is the master!!” written on it. Roosevelt the burned teddy bear is in the picture.
Roosevelt the burned teddy bear lying on a slab with “Make America Great Again” written in white spray paint. The letters “ke”, “erica” and “great” have been sprayed over in a brighter white.
Roosevelt the burned teddy bear in a doorway with “Ultra MAGA” written above it
A purple rose image with the word NEXUS beside it, which must have taken a lot of time to execute
Roosevelt sits on a windowsill. On the wall below him a lavender graffito reads “Fuck capitalism”. The letters “ap” have been graffitied over in green paint. Something else ending in MP had also been added in lighter blue above that part of the word “capitalism”.
Roosevelt the burned teddy bear sits below a blue graffito reading “2025 — fascism comes to America” The words “fascism” and “comes” have been covered by green spray paint.
Roosevelt the burned teddy bear sits below a graffitied wall reading “Fuck Marxists”
A derelict concrete wall with an ugly green face spray painted on it. It has been overwritten with “RIP Charley Kirk”. Roosevelt is sitting on the wall above.
Roosevelt the bear sitting on a concrete slap with ruined concrete walls behind him. Graffiti underneath him reads “Be your own master and we shall see.”
A cream-colored teddy bear wearing an American flag sweater. He has been in a fire and is singed light brown and his fur and sweater are partly melted.
A parking ticket and a flyer explaining the donations for citations program
Round cake with rainbow frosting and sprinkles, white candies studded on top.
Three sea lions conferring at the edge of the surf. A gull looks on.
Close up of a crack in a car windshield.
Screenshot of NYT headline: “Man charged with assaulting federal agent with sandwich in D.C.”
Boy on a rock looking down at 100 pine cones piled in a crevice
Image of the base of a pinecone showing the Fibonacci spiral nestling of the individual petals.
A snapping turtle on grassy, muddy ground. The ground around her hindquarters is disturbed.
Tuxedo cat cuddling with a tabby on a blue office chair.
Video walk around of a Kia Sportage with colorfulslogans in the windows (“Peace” “Justice” “Rule of law,” “we ❤️ Elmo “, “Science”, “Due Process” and of course “No Kings”), and small American flags taped to the rack.
Photo looking out through the driver’s front car window at a car in front with “No Kings” written on the rear window in chalk paint. You can see tha bottom edge of the same slogan on the window of the car the camera is looking through.
Screenshot of email asking me to review an AI summary of one of my own articles for accuracy
Bag of Doritos, Flaming Hot Cool Ranch flavor
An small older lady with her hair pulled back, smiling, holding a copy of a book titled “Au Te Waate/We Remember It: Hiaki Survival Through A Bitter War”
Screenshot of a link to an asynchronous e-course titled "Be an Intrapreneur to Take Your Career to the Next Level"
A book with a colored pencil drawing of three deer in the desert on the cover, a mountain rising behind and the hint of a river in the background. The book is titled “Au te Waate: We Remember It” and had a subtitle, “Hiaki Survival Through A Bitter War”.
Fortune from a cookie reading “Save more, spend less”
Shaky phone video walking through a group of protestors, pausing on some signs here and there. Stars and Stripes Forever plays in the background.
Two ferries, white above and dark below, passing each other in Conception Bay, Newfoundland, on the way to and from Bell Island. There’s some alder and fir branches in the foreground, blue sea below and sky above, and Bell Island lying across the middle of the image.
Wide angle shot through a statue of Franklin and Penn (?) catching the Philly skyline and City Hall on the edges and bottom, blue sky above.
Heidi and Mia selfie in a hotel conference room.
A slide with a number of recommendations about how to teach about creole languages
Baptista at a podium in front of an orange and blue lit curtain, a slide showing images of Cabo Verde on the screen to her left
Top of photo shows a screen with a slide showing an image of Lanehart with the name of the award; lower half shows back of audience.
Masa Koizumi holding the award on a stage with curtains backlit in green, purple, orange and blue behind. Three others are also around onstage, and a screen showing the book and a photo of Koizumi behind
Heidi Harley and Colin Phillips selfie in Reading Market
Chris Potts stands at a podium in front of a blue and orange lit curtain, a screen with a slide to his left.
Large round chandelier featuring a double layer of lights arranged in a wagon wheel configuration
A table for an academic panel on the left with two panelists seated. The podium at the right is surrounded by four panelists looking at a computer. A screen with the Language Conflict and Peace-making Panel title slide displayed is behind.
Penny Eckert stands at a podium in front of a yellow curtain. A slide is projected on a screen to her left, showing a picture of a much younger Bill Labov.
Jeff Lidz stands a a podium before a green- and orange-lit conference curtain backdrop. An ASL interpreter stands apart to his left, a projected slideshow in the corner of the picture
A Linguistic Society of America 2025 meeting badge for Heidi Harley with ribbons saying Vice President, President Elect and Executive committee in gold print.