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Thinking about the return of #measles in the USA. In 2014-5 I did #linguistics fieldwork with Adriano Rios Sanchez - a Maijuna man + talented verbal artist - in Loreto, Peru. This is him. Adriano knew a ton of traditional song/poetry, learned mostly from his father. He didn't learn more...1/

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This is a fast road to the end of American leadership in biomedical science. Remain a US voter and will be calling my reps from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 tonight

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You can't write code without gays on your team. It's never been done. That's science right there (Rapinoe, 2019).

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I’m very happy to see that the *other* red state UA is not doing this. naair.arizona.edu still up.

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I read all-campus emails this week from provosts at both U New Mexico (where I have an honorary affiliation) and Cornell (where I used to work). UNM - genuine leadership and values, including naming academic freedom. Cornell? ‘We will follow the law’.

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Many people in left 🏳️‍🌈 circles like to talk about Cointelpro. Always thought that was paranoid. Not anymore

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THE BUNNY PAPER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #linguistics 🐦

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I have spoken to 4 academics in the last week about leaving 🇺🇸 for UK and other countries. (Not all 🐦🐦.) Especially - but not only - for people and research areas targeted by the administration, this is the beginning of a reverse brain drain 🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Required reading (not just for Americans either).

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

One month left until the deadline for British Academy int’l fellowships. Eligible if you have less than 7 years postdoc experience or are ABD with a defense date. We have some good linguistics 🐦🐦 departments here (I think!) and no Trump.

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Wish this journalist had spoken to a phonetician 🧪 or acquisitionist 🐦🐦 too: lots of context on speech perception is missing from the story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Censorship as enforced by the sponsored research office. I wonder if being less euphemistic (‘underserved’ -> ‘poor’) or more (‘with fewer resources’) will get around this 🐦🐦

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Health and education, who needs those?

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It has long been clear that their attacks on social justice work were a ploy to get buy-in on their larger goal of destroying empirical scholarship that contradicts their authoritarian goals. It is amazing (and sad) that there are scientists who still refuse to see this obvious point.

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treaty obligations? what are those?

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I'm coPI of a NSF 🧪 grant on this list. It is about #Indigenous language #revitalization in early childhood education. I thought Ted Cruz was all about traditions and parents' rights to control their kids' education? Not if the traditions or parents are Indigenous!! 🐦🐦

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Just finished reviewing chapters for an edited volume on #Indigenous #ChildLanguage research and #revitalization practice (with Ryan Henke & Melvatha Chee, not on bsky). So excited about this project and our amazing authors!!

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What in the world? Will foreign organizations also have to do this for access?

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For #GirlsInScience 🧪, a great resource on early women in phonetics by Natasha Warner.🐦🐦

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Americans abroad, did you move to pursue science? 🧪 If you're still registered to vote in the USA, call your reps and senators and urge them to do everything possible to protect #NSF #NIH funding. Just talked to my rep's office for NY-19

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BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Just got off a webinar with a prominent national law firm on rules change on indirect rate. AAMC and other orgs on panel too. First, need to be convey that the rates are actual costs, not just overhead to pad the university coffers. Example- Institutional Review Board, space/utilities 1/4

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Great post on NIH and universities’ indirect costs. Among Aslin’s many great points is this gem: private contractors like SpaceX also charge indirect costs to the govt. And it appears (note THEIR rates aren’t public) they get way more than unis do. dickaslin.substack.com?utm_source=n...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Logging off from the hellscape to read @michaelwaters.bsky.social THE OTHER OLYMPIANS. I was hoping this book would be less relevant when I put it on hold in August.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

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NSF has opened a form where *anyone* can ask questions about the implementation of the recent EOs. Personally, I have LOTS of questions about what NSF has been doing lately. Maybe you do too! Ask them here, the more the merrier 🧪 🐦🐦https://touchpoints.app.cloud.gov/touchpoints/6e36cab2/submit

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