I made a thread unroller app for Bluesky tbsky.app All you have to do is stick "t" at the start of any bluesky post link, it doesn't even have to be the first one in the thread.

An intro to sign language accents, from Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet and Mental Floss, via @AllThingsLing http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/165452083090/do-sign-languages-have-accents-this

NSF has done so much for science. Now it's at risk

Will continue working on "deaf liminality." Again, my deepest gratitude to Julie for this pictorial evidence from last year!

In case anyone's counting, we recently hit 4500 entries! 🎉 #ASLSignbank

Four years(!) after the chapter was originally written, the official publication is now live (pre-print has been out for some time though): doi.org/10.1093/oxfo... How can plurality be expressed with iconic forms across different modalities of human languaging? #linguistics

First off, I was sooo incredibly grateful I've been learning ASL the past few years! This meant I could sign with a few friends who also had some ASL, which made a huge difference in how isolated I felt

writing is hard

A beautiful spring sunrise www.markalanandre.com/blog/the-sun... #dcphotography #washingtondc #dcwx #landscapephotography @capitalweather.bsky.social @popville.bsky.social

“Responsible” development of “AI” is … having refugees annotate data for the US military?? @alexhanna.bsky.social and I take that apart with Niamh McIntyre on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, episode 75: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

ICYMI, I wrote my story of disability acceptance -- this story took years of processing to write! Getting #ME/CFS or #LongCovid is a Kafkaesque nightmare, but there's a path forward towards a happy ending. Even if you're turned into a giant invisible sloth. gavagai.com/posts/3894

A "pause AI" letter that I actually like (and signed)! Because it's not about imagined doomsday scenarios, but rather putting the brakes on the rush to impose synthetic text extruding machines in schools in particular: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

Pub day! The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual is officially for sale, and I'm already getting incredible feedback. I'm excited to hear from parents with deaf and hard of hearing kids, and especially Deaf adults, who know the real deal. Buy it now at www.bloomsbury.com/us/deaf-baby... ♿ #ASL #deafkids

Time to #TalkAboutHumanities -- Linguistics is the study of how language works and how we work with language, and linguists end up very sensitized to language use and how it shapes our social world.

we need more linguists because i don't want to have to explain to otherwise educated people that there's no such thing as a "biological pronoun"

🚨URGENT ACTION ALERT🚨 Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate! Write to your House Representative and Senators TODAY to share your concerns and urge them to act ➡️ cossa.org/action-cente... #WhySocialScience #SaveSBE

Language isn't done one way. We need researchers who share how people do language. I share how signing communities language #SignedLanguageLinguistics #TalkAboutSocialSciences #TalkAboutHumanities

en route to Mexico City for the 3rd ROLE Conf; looking forward to presentations rethinking categorization across languages & borders it’s not too late to register for the online Friday symposium www.rolecollective.org/events/3rd-r... (we’ll have trilingual interpretation: English&Spanish to ASL)

Benefits to following real photographers: -No AI slop -No misinfo -We like answering questions & sharing info -We like to hear about the nature you see & looking at your photos And we’re not going to sell our accounts to bad actors so you wind up following some crypto scam account

📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN: {readelan} A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps? More info here: borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/

It's gonna be too late soon, I don't want it to be too late. DO SOMETHING It doesn't need to be a photo finish impeachment of our dreams, it just needs to be attempted as soon as possible. We need loud, visible action from congress! @booker.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @repbonnie.bsky.social

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

And if you haven't seen – my reasons for avoiding gen-Ai like the plague, from my fall syllabus. It's all the decisions, the struggles, that make for the surprises you discover along the way that make you you. Don't conflate answers for learning!! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission to achieve farthest human space flight – follow our live blog

Strapping people to missiles for science > launching missiles at another country

@lingsocam.bsky.social Do you know what happened to these links? Can you point me to where they are on the website now? www.lsadc.org/model-abstra... www.lsadc.org/how-to-convi... They are both listed on this page - www.lsadc.org/abstracts

I always forget that a huge part of public protests is that you get to be and feel in community with each other, and, boy, does fascism hate when we’re in community with each other.

We have BLOWN past 10k registrants, btw! Join us here if you can't make it out today! www.standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3

Live now with captions and ASL interpreter

Turning 50 today has us feeling a bit nostalgic. 🥹🤎 It’s been an honor of a lifetime being America’s Metro system. 🚇🚍🚐 Here’s to the next 50 years! 🥳

if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have

You’d think expensive oil would make our government focus on solar and wind energy, you would of course be wrong

Language is not a collection of rules and facts. It is a process. A big, squishy chaotic process of figuring out what you want to say and how to say it, of negotiating how others are saying things and understanding them.

Still one of our all-time faves. ✊

Whoa impressive - both the insect migrations and the reporting which was beautifully done

Am collecting info about how to apply to grants for my grad students. Please share any tips/links you have handy. I miss old-days-Twitter! Esp interested in those focused on lang research Bonus if they dive into the whys of doing the work. My students curious about how to document rationale

Okay it's proper snow now but seeing the switchover was wild! Rockville, MD @capitalweather.bsky.social

From 86 to 43 in less than 18 hours in DC. This temp drop may rank among biggest 24-hour swings on record. Rain falling now, w/ sleet in colder areas. Wet snow may enter mix in at times thru early afternoon. Details at cwg.live

Weird! It was over 80 degrees yesterday and now it feels like 22 degrees? Not to mention big clumps of snow are now mixing in with the rain. What is going on? Rockville, MD @capitalweather.bsky.social

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why? If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment. Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists? Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy. Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists? Noem: My condolences to their families Raskin: You lied about them.

who could have seen AI become weaponized by a corrupt government, except for literally everyone, as well as decades of science fiction

I love how both languages are fully captioned 😍 None of that “(speaks in foreign language)” crap!

Sorry if you register for #ASLSignbank by key-smashing your username like "asdklnfa;erihaoserngpaoiwehrf" I'm not going to approve it 🤷🏻‍♀️

We don’t talk enough about how much the whims of nine justices control our lives

2/The full interview is about 30 mins & the full video is available on YouTube & Facebook.A rough summary transcript is also in the comments. Thank you to The Daily Moth for creating space for me,as a Deaf Iranian,to share perspectives on the situation in Iran. link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=OaSm...

Meta, Reddit and Google comply with Homeland Security requests for anti-ICE user information.

The Washington Post but it’s ‘The Traitors’