Driving north through the desert in Nevada we stopped to pee and explore a ghost town and found a microcosm of American culture wars playing out in an abandoned cement factory building. I took some photos. The star: a charred teddy bear wearing an American flag sweater we named Roosevelt.

New podcast about @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social linguistics grad student Tyler Lee-Wynant and the work of the California Language Archive. Give it a listen! (You can turn the volume way down when my voice comes on.) news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/b...

any body see some good dogs in costumes visit for trick or treating

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

A new book chronicles one Cherokee citizen’s odyssey of working to revitalizing the Cherokee language.

Come be my colleague! UC Berkeley Linguistics has a tenure-track position in language revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

Flame and I are sooo excited to share a first peek at The Day Leap Soared, featuring breathtaking gouache paintings by @oliviawhen.com!!

I once again request that you please submit an abstract for the conference I'm planning. Pretty please?

See you at #NoKings tomorrow #protest #Tucson #noNazis #abolishICE

Also the cattiest dog ever.

Whale vocalizations not only resemble human vowels, but also behave like ones! We previously discovered that sperm whales have analogues to human vowels. In a new preprint, we analyze linguistic behavior of whale vowels.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

This is cool.

Good news, chat. The NSF is temporarily pausing the implementation of the new 15% ICR rate proposal pending a court hearing. I mean, it's good news insofar as good news is possible in this domain. It's less bad news, anyway. #linguistics #highereducation www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

Go to the link to see some of the current backyard birds in Sierra Vista, Arizona. #bird #birds #birdphotography 🪶

I love this research: "‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin" by Anni Jääskeläinen, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am saying this is a desert spiny #lizard I spotted it on the trail at Agua Caliente Regional Park Could be a different spiny #reptile #wildlife #wildlifephotography

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

A little clip from a recent keynote I gave, featuring Refried 🎶

A clip of Refried’s song 🥹

@heidiharley.bsky.social LOOOK what arrived at our house today! #Linguistics #Hiaki #Yaqui #history #Mexico #scholarship

Friends and colleagues - please enjoy this talk by Rolando Coto Solano about the goals and methods behind our 'Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies' initiative (ailt.arizona.edu) #language #technology #languageRevitalization #languageDocumentation #NLP www.youtube.com/live/owC7nO3...

Still one of the best transcripts I've ever seen, from Margaret Langdon's Animal Talk in Cocopa, we need more transcripts of cat's being given voice

Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... #GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky

Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago. This is infuriating. And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.

ÄLG | MOOSE #ÄLG #moose #wildlife #sweden #animals www.svtplay.se/video/8rQo4R...

It's been just under a year and we totally flipped around how we make money. Last year, The Onion subsisted on revenue from One Weird Trick ads. We turned that off and started making a newspaper. Now, well over twice as many people get The Onion in the mail than there are people at the Knicks game.

A reminder that NSF is explicitly breaking the law if/when they attempt to cancel grants that focus on promoting participation in science by underrepresented groups on that basis, incl women in science programs like NSF ADVANCE. Congress expressly directs the NSF to grant funds for this purpose. 🧪

1. The DOJ has sent threatening letters to several medical journals, focused around whether these journals are spreading misinformation that harms the American people and suppressing alternative viewpoints. I study how the norms and institutions of science facilitate discovery and self-correction.

ATTENTION THE SNIPER GOOSE HAS GOSLINGS REPEAT THE SNIPER GOOSE HAS GOSLINGS (cc: @darthbluesky.bsky.social)

There's a PUPPY HERE soliciting PETS FROM PEOPLE at the brewery

www.azcentral.com/story/news/l... BUFORD <3 #dogs #news #hero

Hi linguists! This week’s Write Time Friday will be hosted by the LSA’s immediate past president Marlyse Baptista April 18, 2025 | 10 am - 12 pm ET. Just sit in a zoom room and work with other linguists, no talking! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social

cool!

The human asked me to sit next to Finley for a photo on our walk today; Clearly I was thrilled. 🧵 #DogsOfBlueSky

Meet the famous Alaskan husky—and Iditarod finisher—who got miffed at a musher and chomped her truck’s brake lines. (Allegedly. Because a lot of people think this pup is innocent.)

I was just telling James how it kills me that there's no publicly available proshot of Ian McKellen and Tim Curry in Amadeus, and then I went looking to see if there were any photos of the production and the top result was a post from @mattcolville.bsky.social saying literally the same thing

I once taught my dog how to sneeze on command, a timeline cleanse. cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Can confirm! Quince is in Ambler and dogs are being cared for!

NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts.  @msnbc.com

Brutal calling out! I had no idea it was this bad! Red = Caved to Administration Yellow = Complying in Advance

Just in case you needed to know what a cougar cub sounds like, just in time for the March Mammal Madness championship #TeamMurderMittens #2025MMM

@booker.senate.gov Thank you, Senator. 💕👏💕

My algo keeps recommending channels of Cory Booker live. Each one has thousands or even tens of thousands watching. Call it "performative" all you like, mock it for not being a true filibuster. People. Are. Watching. And that matters. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

I'm a journalist with @wired.com I'm writing about how, weeks later, the Return to Office mandates are impacting federal workers and offices. If you have been impacted by these mandates, please contact me securely here, or on Signal at DavidGilbert.01

Y'all know Lauro Eklund mushed from Nome to Kotzebue ahead of #Kobuk440, right?

This.