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New York politicians are mostly so much worse than the rest of the country can possibly imagine, except for Tish James, who has mostly been fighting a good fight ✊

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Time suck alert 😅

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I've been saying to anyone who will listen to me that my big fear is that come August, the State Department simply will not issue student visas en masse. This is one step closer to that fear being reality.

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say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

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Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

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What happens when all of the avocados at the store are overripe? This is a burning question I’d love a podcast like @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social or @planetmoney.bsky.social to tackle sometime 😂🥑

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I’m actually having a sickening physical reaction to this post.

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Hello fellow New York City dwellers! I made a mayoral primary zine letting you know who to rank on your ballot, important dates, why ranked choice voting is good, and who NOT to rank. I posted a free download so you can print and assemble your own here: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fo...

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I'm nervous about traveling internationally as a US academic (mainly about being hassled, which is way better than what internat'l colleagues could face.) But when I returned to NYC from Canada & told the agent I had gone to an academic conference, she unexpectedly responded "How'd it go?"

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The thing is, did skeet stick? I’ve said this word to people who are on this site and they just looked at me blankly. So I’ve kind of started saying “post on Bluesky” (which I also hate).

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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

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so they're mycoblogging

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Another big crowd in NYC today. And I didn’t get a pic, but we chuckled at the most NYC-specific sign yet: “We don’t want any kings…especially ones from Queens” @50501newyork.bsky.social

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I love this news! Linguistics is a small field with few citations, but my most cited paper is an application of smoothing spline ANOVAs to ultrasound images of tongue shapes. GAMMs have taken over to some degree now, but SSANOVA was indeed a huge step forward even for linguists! 🎉 to Grace Wahba!

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Steven Pinker walking around in a hot dog suit trying to find the guy who gave the fascists cover on campus

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COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

submitted 47 days ago • 168 comments

This x 1 billion

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I’m a little obsessed with images of yesterday’s protests in smaller cities and even smaller towns. Here is a great round up of them.

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Getting to Bryant Park on the subway was as crowded as the DC metro in 2017 for the Women’s March. It’s raining and gross, but NYC has turned out #HandsOff

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A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

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I have exactly this thought at least 5x/day.

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On this Trans Day of Visibility #TDOV, let us take a moment to appreciate Vivian Wilson.

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NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

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What a perfect 80° day for the #TeslaTakedown Global Day of Action in Manhattan. Seems like the whole town is out here today! #StopMusk

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It's ballsy to do this at the Kennedy Center. I live for these examples of public gestures right now. Much respect, Guster.

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Linguists: What is a definitive reference (or at least a good ref) showing that either/both of syllable stress or word-initial position conditions longer voice onset time (VOT) in English voiceless stops? I might be missing it, but this literature seems less comprehensive than I thought.

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A rare non-political post! I had to evaluate a paper that was entirely in 10pt font, inexplicably contained whole bolded paragraphs & randomly switched between Times & Palatino. I have a theory that some people are blind to typographic variation whereas others are stopped in their tracks by it.

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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

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The xenophobia is a sickening threat, but even that’s an obfuscation. Vance’s comment is actually just a lie, because they don’t want universities even for American kids.

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I'm not a fan of "they're testing the waters with this" hypotheses, b/c I think they're just going to do what they're going to do. There's no shame or moral compass, period. But even I can't escape that feeling that if Columbia capitulates, it really will be game over for the rest of higher ed too.

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If you have a federal grant, I highly recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

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