Rhythmic Speech Facilitates Turn-Taking, finds @juletzky.bsky.social. See osf.io/preprints/ps....

HUGE NEWS! Because of Democratic pressure, Oregon SNAP recipients are reporting their cards have the FULL November benefits!   Everyone who called out Trump for using hungry children and seniors as a bargaining chip has WON with tremendous results!!

generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...

you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge

Explained to 5yo that the Reeses pumpkins don’t have a face on them like they do in the picture, but that you can eat them that way if you want. A bit of evolution later and now these are ‘do it yourself (jack-o’-lantern) Reeses’

floating through my head for it’s-midterms-reasons… ‘break down break down i don’t think you’re ready for a break down’

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

My white kindergartner goes to a school that's 95% Latine and Indigenous kids. She knows that police and ICE don't protect her or her friends. We've been clear with her about that because our community doesn't have the luxury of hiding from that reality. Our people are being kidnapped.

Also kids have a profound sense of empathy and right and wrong They get it.

Continued coffee obtainment strugs

my best cat wig yet. (I have made one other)

"At what point does a Ph.D. program become too small to function?" Now this is THE question that every single PhD program in the United States is currently (or most definitely should be) discussing

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

As always, if you see someone shoplifting food or diapers… no you didn’t.

there are three good donations options for food banks: (1) got too much of this good thing (usually from companies but cpuld be your garden produce!) (2) money. (3) something you buy specifically to share because its nice to share. My kids each pick something they like to share with the food bank.

Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before

Big news out of Rice this morning! Our new Brain Institute is launching - with the goal of having a concrete impact on the brain health of our local Houston community. news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

I had nightmares all night about my service and teaching components of my tenure case (which has its department review today!) going badly. then self-fullfullingly, my lecture this am was not very good. I’m going to go talk to some chocolate about this 😥 words of encouragement also appreciated!

I find it hilarious that I had to basically abstain from social media while reviewing grants for a federal agency as to not violate the hatch act and like some none small number of federal website are now blatantly violating the hatch act for funsies.

Congress already set aside funds for SNAP so Trump and his GOP lackeys are operating out of absolute cruelty by diverting the subsidies into the pockets of their billionaire friends.

Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S. They have asked folks to reach out to them at [email protected] to coordinate support. The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm

Word!

Baby’s first scalar implicature at 2;2. Me: our neighbor’s dogs are cute. Baby: why? me: most dogs are cute really but I like their dogs the most. Baby: ‘no. All dogs cute’

SynTeach is a project looking at how syntax is taught in higher ed. Our next stage is FOCUS GROUPS—whether you loved or hated syntax, we'd love to talk to you! Sign up to be contacted as we're recruiting now: forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2... #linguistics

kids account for 40% of snap participants kids account for 40% of snap participants kids account for 40% of snap participants

Katpop demon hunters

remember Californians: voting yes on Prop 50 means voting yes for democracy in the larger sense because we gotta fight fire with fire.

California, don't forget to vote on Prop 50. Turnout is expected to be low, and we can't afford to unilaterally disarm while rightwingers pack congress.

gonna keep banging this drum: Chicago area folks, if you sign up for Know Your Rights training with @icirr.bsky.social it’s only 90 minutes & through the org, you can be connected with people who are trying to protect our communities. Other ideas: find local food pantries or Mutual Aid groups 💚

Reports of ICE on DePaul campus right now, stopping students, asking for papers. Be alert out there!

A haunted house for academics that's a calendar reminder "give talk" or "paper due" with no other details

A haunted house for academics but it is just you saying "oh this will be an easy project!" over and over

A haunted house for academics but it is just all the emails you could have quickly responded to but did not but did think about all the time but still never just wrote the f'in response

A haunted house for academics whose walls are covered with all the papers you said you'd give comments on

A haunted house for academics that is just students reading their mean evaluations "she was so shrill and yelled so much about feminism"

A haunted house for academics that is a random email from your dean on a Friday asking to meet on Monday "about an issue of concern" (While you are going through the promotion process)

A haunted house for academics where you realize that every student has turned in AI papers and then Canvas has auto graded all the papers using AI and given everyone an A and your reviewers are AI and your computer wrote the rest of your article using AI and YOU are AI...

A haunted house for academics where you need to 2factor to log into every computer on campus every 20 minutes but cell service only works in 10% of classrooms and you constantly get kicked out of your classroom computer and have to leave the classroom to log back in

Daily affirmations from the 2yo: ‘I loud. I cute.‘

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them. That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.

‘I’m so happy I got my flu and my covid (shots). Now I’m not going to get sick.‘ — an actual 5yo. Note: we also bought him ice cream after for being brave which might have influenced his opinion.

What if we didn’t keep it 💯…

A haunted house for academics where a senior faculty member who published an article entitled "some thoughts on state parties" in the APSR in 1987 lectures you about placing articles in better journals

A haunted house for academics but it is just a meeting where everyone agrees on an outcome but somehow still everyone needs to talk endlessly about it

A haunted house for academics but it is just flashes of all the times you've said "oh I'll catch up next week!"