I'm excited to teach #UMDLangIDRacism for the first time with readings from the new volume and companion site.

📣Happy to announce I'm teaching my Language & Racism course again 💻online later this Summer @univofmaryland.bsky.social. Content is shaped by former students (undergrad/grad) & input from folks over on the other platform in past. @umd-arhu.bsky.social ✅ exst.umd.edu/current-inco... Please share 📣

Sharing beauty:

Good article w/link to Prof. Vanessa Diaz' Bad Bunny Syllabus for those interested in race, discourse, music, Puerto Rico, pop culture #UMDLangIDRacism2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

Add to summer course ✅ #UMDLangIDRacism2025 (HT @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social)

This!

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

And for some good news from Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla over on LinkedIn and @amyfou.bsky.social

Amidst all the chaos and upheaval in the education policy world, @annenberginstitute.bsky.social will be hiring several senior research associates in the coming months. Hopefully this helps some of the stellar education policy people find their footing again!

Check out SLA's brand-new Starter Pack and join the conversation! go.bsky.app/66Z6QWb

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Well it's too late for this timely workshop but back over on the other platform I had found these posts by @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social‬ to be inspirational.

Glad to see that this classic has been updated -- will have to check it out!

#AWP IS COMING SOON and I’m thrilled to be joining this panel called Beyond Tiger Moms and Model Minorities: Imagining the Asian American Family w/ @salesses.bsky.social @kirstinchen.bsky.social @kimlet.bsky.social @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social!! Come see us on Thursday afternoon, 3/27!😎

Today's news. This new edition. Connect the dots. www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ev...

So I've been (continually) reading the news, the country & world are a %&*+ mess with more suffering than ever. I'm going to hide out, grateful for work & other sustenance, drink my petit café & read, write, and edit, edit, edit from this little corner of my sociolinguistics/anthropology universe🕊️

Several scholars of color and marginalized academics have said this several times on Twitter and here, but many people remain there because that’s where their communities reside and there are huge exit costs. Not everyone has the PRIVILEGE to leave a community behind.

In the face of these assaults on education & civil rights, students & faculty nationwide are organizing in their communities. Join us. The way to confront those intent on dismantling our democracy is to join together in mass action. Full statement here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr... 12/12

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

The app deadline for the Assistant Teaching Professor opening in my department (Media Studies, U of CO Boulder) is less than 2 weeks away! This is a contracted/renewable, non-tenure-track faculty line. Read on for additional information about the position: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

📢 #CfP "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality" - Online Conference Join us 23-24 June 2025 Submit by 28 Feb 2025 Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social, @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan hub.redico.eu/call-for-pap...

The first issue of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture is now live, and available open access at www.benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop. See below for the contents, which cover pop music, film, video games, and social media discourse

New article "Constructing cancel culture: Strategic scaling in stories of 'cancellation'" by @elisekramer.bsky.social will be great in a class. In a special issue of Discourse Studies ed. by @mkoven66.bsky.social @sabyperri.bsky.social

It’s official. My university who told me for all of the years I have been a faculty person they it valued diversity all of a sudden decided it no longer does without even attempting to resist a legally questionable executive order. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

Interesting initiative! "IB Language & Culture Speakers' Bureau" -a list of people who would be willing to speak to a high school Language & Culture class about their experiences as academic researchers..."

Tomayto, Tomahto #podcast: Education, Anthropology, and Schoolishness with Susan Blum open.spotify.com/epi...

Yesterday in Nature. A new place for science 👌

Words Unravelled #Podcast: Who was the first to "paint the town red"? | IDIOM ORIGINS podcasts.apple.com/u...

Black Cemeteries are Black History is American History! What a beautiful gathering of community and honoring of the ancestors at Oak Tree Union Colored Cemetery in Groveland,FL.

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Chouette test sociolinguistique!

Have Student loans? Do this immediately: www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...

"Grants in one area of science are being distributed to directors in a separate area of science. For instance, the geosciences division is examining grants from the division of social, behavioural and economic sciences. The grants are being reviewed independently...."

"We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope.”--James Baldwin

New to Bluesky and starting to get the hang of things!

Four excellent virtual Sociolinguistics talks this spring!

My publisher, Footnote Press just shared a few excerpts from Mother Tongue Tied. Here is one mostly about motherhood with a nod to the work of Rachel Cusk: footnotepress.com/2024/11/27/e...

UK FOLKS! I know of two full-time salaried roles in tabletop that will soon be open for: - Editor - Games Developer Ideally based in/willing to move to Nottingham, UK. And I've been asked for recommendations! I'll be prioritising marginalised folks, so please: DM me for details, comment and tag!

🔵 In the context of invisible mediation and technologies, we face a number of fundamental challenges in terms of defining what is language. How do we deal now with technologically (co-)produced language that is both human and technological? Helen Kelly-Holmes thinks of AI in our latest SI.

The Newberry Library is hosting a 1-week Intensive Language Study in Nahuatl/Nawat this summer (Jul 21–Aug 01, 2025). Applications due March 15: www.newberry.org/calendar/cen...

We're excited about this new edition of Jane H. Hill's Everyday Language of White Racism. Collaborating on this book update with Barb Meek and Christina Leza has been wonderful. www.wiley.com/en-in/The+Ev...

On the way to Tampa for #AAA2024! FYI, the Linguistic Anthropology starter pack has a feed, which you can use to keep up with people skeeting from the conference (and beyond). go.bsky.app/MQijNGW

We're excited about this new edition of Jane H. Hill's Everyday Language of White Racism. Collaborating on this book update with Barb Meek and Christina Leza has been wonderful. www.wiley.com/en-in/The+Ev...

New day, new platform!