Important reading as you prepare for your semester

The real magic is ✨️regex✨️

New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling.... Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼 #linguistics

DC sky be pretty 😍 @capitalweather.bsky.social

🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 #NoKings Can join virtually here. AND captions available. Even ASL interpreters for some 🙌 hopefully camera remembers to keep them in frame www.youtube.com/live/raD5GuV...

Today’s No Kings protests could be the biggest in US history. I’ll be speaking in front of tens of thousands here in Washington DC onstage alongside Senators Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy, and Bill Nye and others. Watch the livestream from 12pm ET: www.youtube.com/live/raD5GuV...

Don’t forget to attend your local #NoKings protest, treat it like you would a hike, come prepared and plan ahead. Wear comfortable shoes because you’ll be walking or standing for long periods. Check the weather before you go and dress accordingly, bringing layers, rain gear, or sunscreen as needed.

No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

And #LingBing continues w Erin Wilkinson whose work I've admired for years. Erin graduated from Gallaudet Linguistics with a MA then went on to get her PhD from U of New Mexico where she is currently a professor. She joined our class to present her #HDLS16 keynote peppered with #LingBing memories

In the Spotlight: Dr. Joseph Hill Dr. Hill will be joining us at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting for the Plenary Address! Dr. Hill is Professor of Deaf Studies and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Black Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. Don’t miss this session! cvent.me/9Mdr3G

Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come? I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶 Come honor these beautiful Native voices!

My Field Methods class this year is documenting the experiences of the Gallaudet Linguistics department. Got to talk with Bob Johnson today - 1st professor & chair of the department. He was also my dissertation advisor. He started in '81 and retired in '12. So many good stories #LingBing

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

Thank you so much for all of your interest in the Journal of Black Language and Culture. Please join us for our introductory webinar on Friday, November 7, 2025 | 6-7:30 p.m. ET. A link to register is here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

I’ve been waiting for Democrats to just crash TF out and say “ok bet, if there are no rules anymore, our platform is student loan forgiveness, erasure of credit card interest debt, eliminating interest rates over 5%, stopping spam calls to your cellphones, etc.” where is project 2028?

The really exasperating thing is all this ends if even a slight majority of white folks can accept that a multiracial democracy is the only viable route.

#FreeDC 😍 Been wearing my “you are on native land” hat and “free DC” sharpied on duct tape affixed to my backpack on my daily dc commute. Vibing with all of the resistance stickers and posters I’ve been seeing along my walk

Talking about long covid with someone and holiest of holies I got to hear them accidentally say the phrase BRAIN FROG

Really grateful to the editors of @jslx.bsky.social for this opportunity to write about Bill's legacy -- both scholarly and some personal -- from our perspective as 3 students from his later years. 🐦 w @laurelmack.bsky.social & Meredith Tamminga onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

"How to Report ICE" zines are available for free printable download for these places: California Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area Florida Massachusetts NC Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Zine request form in folder. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Now on my daily commute 😣 Tell me when I’m supposed to start feeling safe #FreeDC

If you haven’t read Heather Cox Richardson’s letter from yesterday, it’s well worth your time.

Anyway, here until the internet goes out: disability-rights-watch.com

If not authoritarian, why authoritarian-shaped?

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Shoutout to DC for the amazing turnout yesterday! #FreeDC

Just devoured "Once there was" and this. Beautiful and has a way of getting in your heart and just sitting there like a purring cat who's also clawing your lap at the same time "If I lost my stories, I wouldn’t be anyone" ✨🥰

Same here :)

So glad this is out! Still wish we had the data processed in time for @jmhenner.bsky.social to use but pleased to have his contribution in more ways than 1. See below for a brief commentary re Jon, deaf linguists & participating in SiL research and doing it in a way that disrupts or crips it all

Social media is abuzz—not just with reports of fireflies, but with a startling claim: that this is the last generation to experience their dazzling light show. 🪲💡 Our firefly team has been getting this question for weeks, so today we are bringing you some answers!⤵️ xerces.org/blog/are-fir...

We honored to share the release of our new special issue: Critical Studies in Deaf Education and Linguistic Research. This special issue honors the life & scholarship of Dr. Jon Henner, a linguist/theorist whose ideas deeply influenced deaf education, linguistics, and disability studies. (1/3)

Heat indexes near 105, but no advisory today? 🤔 Readers are asking — and so are we. Given heat is the top weather killer, maybe it's time for more caution… not less from @nws.noaa.gov More at cwg.live Pictured: Forecast heat indexes at 3p

Coincidentally, this mirrors the rest of our politics

AI this, AI that, what about how much energy AI actually uses? “It blows my mind that you can buy a car and know how many miles per gallon it consumes, yet we use all these AI tools every day and we have absolutely no efficiency metrics, emissions factors, nothing." From the experts:

🔥 The heat’s not done — expect 90s every day for the next week. 🌬️ But just as July says goodbye, models tease a cooler, comfier start to August: 80s by day, 60s by night, and less humidity. Too good to be true? Maybe. But we’re rooting for it. 👉 Details: cwg.live

Linking to this Scientific American interview again: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

Thanks to @liamodell.com for covering my presentation on the ethics of the development and use of sign language technologies at the BDA conference in Leeds. And thanks to @bda.org.uk for the invitation! The UK has given me a lot as a deaf scholar over the years - happy to give back in return.

Trump’s rolling campaign of shakedown censorship, blackmail and purge has now felled the Late Show. But Stephen Colbert, a true-blue patriot and comic genius who skewers dunce-tyrants for a living, is irrepressible and invincible.

Some of my favorite macro shots from my recent visit to Eugene, OR. It was hotter than I would have liked during the long days but the morning walks were perfect #vsco #momentmacro

Perfect opportunity on your trip to read this stunning new book. Artfully articulated, detailed, deeply researched, exquisitely organized, beautifully constructed. Exponentially insightful. EMPIRE OF AI by Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social Essential. Consequential. Riveting. Don’t miss Ch. 9, 12

This. Was. So. Freaking. Good. I’m recommending this and the AI Con to EVERYONE!!!!

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

My keynote presentation at #ICED2025 yesterday was about the critical importance of deaf academic spaces, presenting #DrDeaf as an example, and the values they entail for broader deaf educational environments. Preprint of the paper: lnkd.in/ecx4bM-D Full keynote presentation: lnkd.in/eE7qrkhY

It's been 10 years since we first started delivering the weather forecast on WAMU 88.5! More details at cwg.live