Fantastic news!!🎉🎉🎉🎉 My wife and sweetest heart, Dr. Sirry Alang @profalang.bsky.social, earned a promotion to 🌟FULL PROFESSOR🌟 of Health and Human Development at The University of Pittsburgh!!This is the highest tenured academic rank! Please help me congratulate our rock star!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️❤️

Carnegie Mellon University leaders silenced @cmu.edu students who called Trump a rapist claiming they violated civil discourse. I wrote about the disgrace of reprimanding students for rejecting the idea that our campus is a place to engage in civil discourse with rapists. medium.com/@ujuanya/who...

Still wild to me how the Trump administration’s response to Harvard refusing to follow their illegal, unconstitutional, and outrageous orders was “Our bad, you shoulda known we ain’t shit 🤷‍♂️🤷🤷‍♂️🤷”

If you’re in Pittsburgh today, make your voice heard at the Stand Up For Science rally for democracy and science this afternoon.

If you’ve been following recent news about University of Minnesota public health researcher Dr. Rachel Hardeman harming junior scholars and plagiarizing their work, Hardeman’s ex-colleague, (my wife) Dr. Sirry Alang @profalang.bsky.social, made a statement. Here’s a quote with full statement below.

Hello to friends, colleagues, and co-conspirators at the American Association for Applied Linguistics. I’m here at AAAL 2025 in Denver. If you’re around too, come say hi.

Our project team that created a free, open-access Spanish language curriculum centering Black learners and Black populations in Latin America was awarded a $150K NEH grant! Congrats to our PI @deborahgomezgomez.bsky.social and co-investigators @clemonsaris.bsky.social @melissabaralt.bsky.social!

We got another grant! Huge congratulations to PI @deborahgomezgomez.bsky.social and fellow Co-Is @ujuanya.bsky.social & @clemonsaris.bsky.social ! Together we’re advancing TBLT and creating meaningful change in language education based on students real-world needs!

Almost finished. Will soon use the tin for sewing supplies to continue the age-old tradition of teaching children about life’s many disappointments.

To all those newly migrating from "over there" welcome! Yes, this is Uju😁

Eventually, I'll start saying stuff over here. But if you're wondering if this is the real me, it is. Howdy.