Jessi Grieser

@jessgrieser.com

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Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.

A Sprocle opinionation quiz question which reads “name a superpower that would help world leaders solve global issues peacefully?”
A blue plastic coupon file. The tabs are labeled with the names of different international currencies.
A copy of careless people by Sarah Wynn Williams sits on a black table in front of a French press and a yellow coffee mug. The cover has a blue square reminiscent of the Facebook logo, but with a shark fin instead of the classic Facebook white f.
David Zinn, a street artist, sits in front of a chalk drawing of an orange bear which appears to be rising out of a crack in the pavement. He is gesturing up as a small crowd of children look at him.
An image of a Health poster hanging on the wall. It shows a variety of fruit organized in rainbow order. And reads “download advice on feeding newborns to teens”
The cover of The Quitters Club by Jessica Strawser in black-and-white on a Kindle screen. The cover show shows four doors and four silhouettes of people walking through them.
The cover of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride depicting an artistic rendering of black person with a blue turban carrying a red ball.
A black cat is on a lap that is wearing plaid pajama pants. Behind the cat a wrist is visible with an Apple Watch turned toward the camera. The Apple Watch has a fitness reminder to stand up visible on its face.
A black cat sits in the foreground, gazing out a screened in window at a birdfeeder.
The character, Bekah from the television show the Testaments, a white brown haired teenager, is saying “I want to jump off a cliff.”
The cover of game changer by Rachel Reid as shown on a Spotify now playing screen. It shows an illustration of a blonde man in jeans’s jacket, holding a hockey stick, leaning against the counter, where a brown haired man is wearing a green apron.
The cover of project Hail Mary by Andy Weir on a Kindle paperwhite. It is the movie cover, which shows Ryan Gosling upside down in 0 G.
A black cat is in a kitchen cabinet, looking down underneath a white PVC P trap and next to a black garbage disposal
A woman in a Michigan sweatshirt is cheering in front of a TV where the NCAA Men’s basketball final is being aired. The score visible onscreen is 56 Uconn 65 Michigan.
A woman in a Michigan sweatshirt is cheering in front of a TV where the NCAA Men’s basketball final is being aired. The score visible onscreen is 45 Uconn 54 Michigan.
A photo of a TV screen where a player in a blue basketball jersey stands nearly in the lane of the court. The score at the bottom shows that Michigan has 74 points and Arizona has 47.
A view of a timeblocked calendar. Blocks are color-coded. At the top reads LING 780 in teal, marked from 14:30-16:00, but it is overlapped by a striped block indicating that Weekly teaching tasks were done from 15:40-16:40, but underneath that is a planned block for "correction to proposal" in purple" and on top of it is a purple block makred "re: Stuff". These overlaps continue down the calendar for several hours, marking a back and forth of many different tasks in different domains.
The black and white cover of GATZ by elevator repair service; indicating three showtimes on Friday, March 27 at 2 o’clock, Saturday, March 28 at 2 o’clock and Sunday, March 29 at 1 o’clock.
A pint glass of beer labeled “Ashley’s.” single column of bubbles is rising toward the top of the glass from a point at the bottom of the glass. An orange slice is floating on top.
A tweet from @longwall26 quoting a YouGov Paul that report reports that 12% of men think they could take a point off of Serena Williams in a match. The tweet reads “ confident in my ability to properly tennis, I take the court. I smile at my opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She’d be prettier if she did, I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly.”
Assignment the Detroit airport that says “there’s a difference between an answer and a Michigan answer.”
The red cover of THE SECRET OF SECRETS by Dan Brown. A blue away brand suitcase is in the background.
Two posts by Joshua Foust, one a pinned post advertising a co-authored book which claims to explain how to do public relations when people dissent, and the second taking offense at the term, USian and asking for other examples of demonyms forced in the name of social justice.
The black and white cover of Still Life by Louise Penny displayed on a black Kindle.
The black-and-white cover of the book club for troublesome women by Marie Bostwick displayed on a black Kindle.
The flags of Canada, the United States and Finland (L-R) are raised indicating second first and third place for Olympic hockey. Behind them, a crowd is visible and a university of Michigan Block M flag is hanging from one of the railings.
A title slide reading "Generative Language Models and African American LanguagE: The What, the How, and the why". It identifies the author as Jessi Grieser from the University of Michigan, and that the talk is being given at The Ohio State University on 13 February 2026. The letter M in "Models" and "Michigan" is crossed out with an X
The cover of game changer by Rachel Reid. It shows an illustration of a blond man with a hockey stick leaning against a counter, where a dark haired man stands in an apron.
The cover of heated rivalry by Rachel Reed, which shows a man with black hair, wearing a red hockey uniform facing off in the center against a man in a black and yellow hockey uniform with brown hair.
A suitcase with a large Cheez-It Citrus Bowl foam sign on top of it. The sign has the red cheez-it logo and shows a diamond shaped Cheez-It.
A Black woman in a yellow niki polo holding a tenor saxopphone in the middle of a band at a basketball game.
GIF showing Thomas Jefferson and James Madison from the musical Hamilton saying the line from “the Reynolds pamphlet” “his poor wife”
A brown cabinet door with a label maker label which reads in caps “Press latch inside to open.”
A screenshot of ESPN headlines with the upcoming topics. “CFP rankings” is highlighted. Beneath it our entries for Penn State, Chris, Paul, Steve, Young, Red Wings, honey badger, Gaitors, errors, and then an ad for grey goose.
The 12th edition of Miriam Webster’s collegiate, dictionary, a large red hardcover, sits on a Steelcase pedestal
A black cat looks out of a gray donut cap cave. A wand attached to a feather toy is visible, sticking out of the opening.
A copy of 107 Days by Kamala Harris on a black table. The book is blue with 107 Days in gold and Kamala Harris in white.
A hand holding two 3.5” floppy disks
The Libby app, showing the cover of the testaments by Margaret Atwood. It depicts a handmade in a green handmade cloak with a white bonnet on a blue background.
A copy of James by Percival Everett. Black cover with the title in a dark yellow.
A to-do list manager (Sunsama) with a repeating task labled "NWAV Time." A sub-menu is open, and the option "Delete all incomplete instances and stop repeating" is highlighted.
A hand holding a poster. The poster is mostly white, rolled up, and inside a plastic bag.
A gantt chart showing 2024 through 2026. There are two green lines, two coral lines and three blue lines. The three blue lines begin in August 2024, and the coral lines being in August 2025.
An advertisement for “white student athlete jerseys” which shows three white colored University of Michigan football jerseys: one with the number 19, one with the number 96 and the name Zvada, and one with the number 44 and the name Bredeson
A blue Kindle on a black table with the cover of sirens song by Elizabeth Salo visible. The cover has a four part Celtic knot on the front.
Nested tweets. Innermost from Gen. Ben Hodges. “ July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.” Quote tweet by Pete Hegseth: “ cool story, general.” Quote Tweet by Anna Dufour: What is the cool story? When the German army relinquished its allegiance to the constitution to swear instead an oath to the pure the supreme leader, Adolf Hitler Should a man with the fate of the biggest army in the world, think, worse, write “it’s cool”
A colorful pie chart with a legend which shows a breakdown of type of work. Research (purple) takes up half the chart, with teaching (teal taking up about another quarter) and the rest split between admin, advising, meetings, and NWAV 53
A view of a small backyard. 6 4-inch wide wooden post are visible with a string line between them; bags of cement nearby suggest they have been recently set.
Two black kittens crawl over a black keyboard in front of a monitor where R Studio is running.
Kombucha girl meme
Two black kittens stand in front of a computer monitor on a black IKEA HEMNES desk, looking curiously to the right. To their right is a yellow Fiestaware mug half filled with coffee, behind them an instance of R studio is open on the computer.
a screenshot of a doodle poll with 5 hour hour slots with check boxes. It says Thursday September 25, 2025 and has an option for 3PM and one for 4PM, then the next entry is for Monday, September 29, 2025 and has options for 12 PM, 2, PM and 1 PM.
A hand holding a clear laundry detergent cap, which says on the top “please recycle” and on the bottom “rinse or toss in wash”
The orange cover of History Lessons by Zoe B Wallbrook, showing a black woman in a green dress outlined in a keyhole as she peeks around a bookcase. The book sits on a table next to a yellow coffee cup.
A blue Kindle showing the cover of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt sits on a black granite countertop next to a glass of wine and in front of a large window in an airport lounge.
Two small black cats sleep blissfully in a pile of laundry spilling out of a blue IKEA FRAKTA bag
A large academic office. To the right is a table with a black chair visible and a large floor to ceiling window in front of which sits a radiator on the left is a steelcase sit to stand desk with an aeron chair, with two large monitors facing the window. Behind the desk, the side of a bookcase is visible.
A black cat wearing a yellow collar with a yellow bell looks adoringly up at the camera. A modern gray cat tree is visible around him with scratching posts visible behind him.
The inside of a closet organizer. A small black kitten sits on a hamper and another black kitten is looking down from one of the shelves.