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Linguistics professor in Montreal (sounds & corpus stuff), 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈, foodie, 🐶 and 🐈‍⬛🐈 dad, collector of nihilistic possum memes. I'm really bad at this, so just assume I'm cool. He/him.
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hey, how is this aging?

um, does he know

normalize "attorney generals," I will not be elaborating

This is what our generation gets as its symbol of fascism. Stupidest timeline ever

Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎

Members of Elon Musk’s secretive team, tasked with reviewing federal agencies for potential cuts, are refusing to reveal their full names to civil servants. Musk’s representatives declined to provide their surnames and refused to answer any questions.

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

911: 911, what's your emergency? me: I looked at social media

Phonetics people, is there a way in Praat to get MFCC's from only labeled intervals on a TierGrid? My attempt so far isn't working. (And I'd like to avoid saving labeled intervals as separate wav files + iterating) #linguistics

Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze? Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage. Left: yesterday. Right: today.

finally had to break out the Winter Jacket™

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

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Hi you don’t have to post it. And you don’t have to re-post it. And you can think about the fact that Jewish people are gonna be traumatized every single time you make us see it over and over and over and over. You can just not post it.

I would rather you come over unannounced and ring my doorbell than leave a voicemail on my phone