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The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1062 comments

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying. ~ Langston Hughes #BlackHistoryMonth

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Last day in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas after a wonderful conference on deaf bilingual education & interpreters and a workshop on name signs with deaf Mexicans. Drinking kapel sok Jamaica (café con jamaíca) at this wonderful restaurant Taniperla.

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My friends know of my love of zines. I started making them when I was a teenager [that's a long time ago] and this essay includes lots of reasons that you should consider making your own zines in this moment we are living through: open.substack.com/pub/queerarc...

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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."

submitted 7 days ago • 115 comments

Journalists should report the truth the way this judge laid it out.

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Black British Sign Language project PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham (BSL translation of the ad will soon be provided): contact me if you're interested! 😀https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/scholarships-and-funding/postgraduate-scholarships/125-linguistics-communication

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I read a lovely paper this morning. Lauren Tynan's paper (based on experiences as an Indigenous woman and academic from lutruwita) has so much to think about. Her paper talks in beautiful terms about what "data" means and how one person's "data" is another's life.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

i interviewed Mara Green on her wonderful new book, Making Sense, about signing, ethics, and communication in Nepal on the CaMP Anthropology blog! check it out here: campanthropology.org/2025/02/17/m...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

in honor of president’s day, i would like a new one.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Even before gestures all of this, I was quickly confronted by the fact that faculty advisors are basically shock absorbers for the crises that universities are not able or willing to address among grad students.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 13 days ago • 1051 comments

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

submitted 13 days ago • 98 comments

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

submitted 14 days ago • 128 comments

Third workshop on Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics in Warsaw this September! 🐦 🐦

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Happy Superb Owl Sunday! Here I am with Zeus, a truly Superb Eurasian Eagle Owl.

submitted 17 days ago • 110 comments

Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪

submitted 19 days ago • 34 comments

For those who are based in US universities, have you received any emails from higher ranking administration about the current political climate?

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?" www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 20 days ago • 1919 comments

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 21 days ago • 124 comments

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

It feels really festive that a Black church took away the Proud Boys control over their own name for Black History Month.

submitted 22 days ago • 156 comments

This is a hell of a crowd size for a protest at the Treasury Department. People do not like Elon.

submitted 22 days ago • 152 comments

If anyone wants to talk to a linguist about why this list of words banned from federal grants is absurd, please get at me. The point is to make sure that no one can do social science (or really any science) at all. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yjf5FH/

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

submitted 24 days ago • 75 comments

This is very scary. Please share this info in ASL widely so folks know their rights. youtu.be/1Q-fpFGqLes?...

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Black History is American History.

submitted 25 days ago • 109 comments

Speaking Spanish is a crime in our country.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 27 days ago • 1413 comments

Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue of MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge). www.nature.com/articles/s44...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

My op-ed: "Colleges and universities ... seem to be hoping that their muted responses — and affirmative acquiescence — will spare them. ...This sort of acquiescence will not only fail to protect institutions, but will expose all of us to further repression." stanforddaily.com/2025/01/28/f...

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

If you can go, go. 5pm today. Last night's cutoff of federal funding by 47 doesn't just mess with the recipients, it violates the Constitution and seizes powers that belong to Congress. It's a dictatorial attempt at consolidation of power in the presidency. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

submitted 29 days ago • 35 comments

I have supported many deaf graduate students and currently support a deaf post doc using this mechanism. What’s happening at NIH is terrible for science and closes doors for deaf students who face so many more challenges than their hearing peers

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Je partage ici cette vidéo de la BBC. On peut voir le témoignage d'une sourde britannique concernant son père sourd qui a survécu aux camps (sous-titres en anglais, et BSL):

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Which linguistics departments in the world are considered “hubs” for signed language research? As in there is more than one faculty who researches signed mgs and there are more than two grad students in lx researching signed lgs? 🐦 🐦

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Getting some reports that ASL interpreters are being fired across federal agencies. Not sure to the extent yet. Obviously in violation of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. But with the DOJ Civil Rights Division frozen and general law-breaking plentiful, unsure of recourse rn.

submitted 33 days ago • 31 comments

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

submitted 34 days ago • 118 comments

There seemed to be a gap in the reporting of the #LAfires so I wrote this piece: “What effect did the removal of Indigenous Californians have on the LA fires?” medium.com/the-new-clim...

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

JOB ALERT! Come work with me! 34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy" Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... Please repost & share widely!

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Well, the new administration already took down the White House #Accessibility Statement. Original page from the WayBack Machine here: web.archive.org/web/20250118185419/https://www.whitehouse.gov/accessibility/ Broken link: whitehouse [dot] gov [slash] accessibility #a11y #Accessibility #disability

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED! The 27th Language Interaction and Social Organization (LISO) conference will be May 23–24, and the symposium on May 25. Submission deadline is now January 31st! Conf website: liso.ucsb.edu/conferences Submissions: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76886...

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Danish news pulled in an expert on prime time tv for an interview. He said not only is this a nazi gesture, it's a neo-nazi gesture used for the last 30 years, which is more aggressive - the slam on the chest first being the specific difference

submitted 36 days ago • 17 comments

Starting my long journey back to the US in 2025 from Ethiopia in 2017. Thank you for a magical trip, and all the deaf Ethiopians for their generous hospitality and kindness #TISLR15

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