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My Girls? Indigo.

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Teaching research ethics today and I am livid. From a piece in BMJ detailing human rights abuses resulting from dismantling of USAID: "Trump has placed many thousands of people across the world at risk of some of the most profound violations of their fundamental rights as research participants".

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Undergraduate research opportunities are incredibly valuable, both for the students and for the progress of the work. And having undergraduate research experience is a massive help for grad school admission. REU cancellations harm students’ preparedness & career prospects, and slow research progress

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op-ed by my friend, middle-school English teacher and all-around amazing human @plainy.bsky.social

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As a department chair, I was talking with a colleague about his NSF proposal earlier today. No one has any idea what its status is because NSF has apparently fired all its subject matter experts and rotators

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

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Labov (1971), Finding out about children's language (a.k.a "the bunny paper") has been published (open access) in Language Variation and Change! #linguistics 🐰

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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LSA joined dozens of scholarly societies in signing a letter that begins, "American science and innovation have advanced humanity for generations... But today, science is under threat." We commit to championing integrity and conveying the importance of science. unitedsciencealliance.org

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Allegory alert!

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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

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Super great that one of the major funding bodies that supports my physics research is now officially in opposition to me being the one to do it.

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Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic. This is devastating

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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By the way, I have eight years of experience teaching gender and sexuality classes in a deeply weird freedom of speech context, that was also in an extremely queerphobic bit of the former Soviet Union, if anyone wants my professional advice on how to keep working on this stuff in a hostile climate.

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@lizneeley.bsky.social is publishing a weekly newsletter to track the ongoing attacks in science and higher ed. If you want to keep abreast without drowning in the news, I recommend it: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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This is such an important point - and applies to universities also. Funded grants were rigorously peer-reviewed. This is important work that makes America better. We need university leaders standing up and defending their faculty and their faculty's work. If you fundraised on it then, defend it now.

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For you (TD)-deletion fans, Meredith Tamminga and I have published our paper asking whether deletion is disfavored when it would turn a word into a homophone of a different word, as in bald —> ball. (It isn’t.) doi.org/10.1017/S095...

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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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in case you missed it, my piece for the Demystifying Language Project is up: Is singular they old or new? #linguistics

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Exactly. I can't assess LLMs on, say, coding; the output looks fine to me, I dunno. But the more I know about an area, the more painful the output is to read, stretching from "eh that's not quite right" to "absolutely not, wtf." And then I see others who know areas like coding say the same.

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Teaching middle school in 2025, a thread of visual artifacts:

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NEW: There's been a 51-percent drop in injuries an a 55-percent drop in crashes year-over-year within the congestion relief zone in just the first 12 days of the program. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...

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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

submitted 36 days ago • 78 comments

Look, I don't really want to wade into American politics, but since emblem gestures are my jam, a reminder: gestures are treated in communication as more deniable than words and bad-faith actors can easily exploit this feature.

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

False & shitty headline. D.C., the local place where 700,000 people live, hasn’t been conquered at all. A few pathetic racist & misogynistic losers elected by people elsewhere have sold their soul to curry favor with him. That ain’t DC, at all.

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Excited to read the new (open-access!) Cambridge Element in Sociolinguistics on Language & Place by @drkatcarm.bsky.social & @perj44.bsky.social!! Please watch their most excellent video abstract vimeo.com/1034110264

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Linguists, speech scientists, cognitive scientists: Meghan Clayards and I are hiring a postdoc to work at McGill Linguistics, deadline February 16. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

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This just in— there was NOT a massive decline in college enrollment this fall due to the FAFSA mess. The data were wrong. 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

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Proud to be a linguistic chaos gremlin.

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Good morning #lsa2025 - Please stop by before 11 to take a ✨free book✨ from @georgetownup.bsky.social home with you! I’m not shipping these back

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"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...

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"Why should I pay a small amount to help myself and my community when I can pay an exorbitant amount just to help myself? Taxation is theft, but price gouging is just good business. So gouge me all you want. Just don’t trample my freedoms by taxing me."

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If you love true crime, you'll love this week's Grammar Girl interview with Natalie Schilling, a forensic linguist, talking about what she calls "the case of the mystery dialect." 🧵

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I really like a lot of yall but you can't "dunk" on generative AI. You help tech bros by using it. You harm the environment by using it. Stop posting screenshots to prove how trash it is. We know.

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

submitted 60 days ago • 211 comments

Four (4!) postdocs, neurosci of language, Georgetown University NeurosciLang Training Program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

submitted 64 days ago • 73 comments

A lovely obituary for Bill Labov in the Inquirer.

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Refusal is an absolutely valid and ethical stance when it comes to AI. I do not need to include it in my teaching, or research--there is nothing it does that is indispensable, and much is made worse with AI in my classrooms.

submitted 66 days ago • 9 comments

I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

submitted 66 days ago • 91 comments

Our Summer 2025 Internship applications are now open! Note that positions are now open for high school through doctoral students! All applications are due February 15, 2025, by 5 pm PST. All materials should be sent to Ms. Mia Harris at [email protected] badlab.stanford.edu/summer-inter...

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