If you are in Houston - or want to travel - join us at Rice Thursday March 12-14 for DeLange XIV: Brains in Society: Preparing for Neuroscience’s Impact on our everyday lives. DeLange.rice.edu

UF restricted professors from volunteering for post-tenure review because too many were getting the highest evaluation

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants. It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

Final Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf

The best tool we have to push CEOs to take on the president and prevent further erosion of the American brand is in our pockets — an economic strike that builds on calls for Apple boycotts that are already starting to emerge.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Political philosophy 2. Modern Japanese Literature 3. Cooperation 4. Intro to African and African-American Studies 5. Latin American and US Relations

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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Trump wants violence on our streets this year. Bcuz he thinks it’ll help him in the midterms. So he’s pulled all guardrails off his masked thugs and given them the green light to be as abusive & cruel as possible. In the hopes that they’ll incite the American people to violence. That’s Trump’s plan.

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

📚 Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory (co-edited by me and @lhlew.bsky.social) is now available online at Oxford Academic! (print copies coming end of January) academic.oup.com/book/61815

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Just found out that Glossa was on bluesky from this tweet, seconding the suggestion to use the #linguistics hashtag to help people find out about new papers! (And give em a follow if you want open access linguistics papers in your feed!)

The National Science Foundation starts 2026 with a new management structure that affects every scientist with--or applying for--NSF funding. Here's what you need to know. www.science.org/content/arti...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

“Once-unthinkable” here should be “in wild and blatant violation of the law and the US Constitution.” At NIH alone: The RIFs were illegal (as a judge, Illston, ruled). The grant terminations were illegal (Young ruling). The probationary firings were illegal (Alsop ruling). We must say this. 1/

My lab at BU is recruiting PhD students and possibly a postdoc this year! We study humans & machines, centered around topics like meaning, generalization, evaluation methods and design, and the nature of computation and representation that underlie language and cognition. 🫴🫴

Thought of @joshuaraclaw.com when coming across this story news.clas.ufl.edu/28086-2/

Don't miss this opportunity to work with one of the best in multingualism in diverse contexts and using diverse methodologies!

We’re hiring! Join the BabelBrain Project @usc.gal @filoloxiausc.bsky.social 1️⃣ PhD1/multilingual practices in Galicia 2️⃣ PhD2/multilingual practices in Gibraltar 3️⃣ Postdoc/experimental fieldwork in Galicia & Gibraltar 📄 Full details: www.usc.gal/gl/investiga... 🗓 Deadline: 26 Nov 2026

The Multilingual Minds & Machines Meetings call for abstracts is now open! Everything you need to know is here -> mmmm2026.github.io

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion." My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

🚨🚨 New tenure-track job posting! 🚨🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an open research focus. Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... Here's some info about why you should apply to this job! 1/

It is the honor of my lifetime to share that @universitypress.cambridge.org will publish the @lingsocam.bsky.social's new Journal of Black Language & Culture. www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... JBLAC fosters a transdisciplinary conversation on Black language & culture through a global, diasporic lens.

I once had the immense pleasure of hearing her speak at PSU. A tremendous force for good, may she rest in peace.

SCOOP/UPDATE — The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instructed *all* federal agencies to send out the shutdown email with NO modifications permitted, a federal source confirmed. Leadership received these orders via email at 1:30pm ET and then reinforced on a 3pm intra-agency call.

This is so crazy and to see NSF among the list saddens me tremendously. Adherence to the Hatch Act is something that we are trained on and take seriously.

I did follow this and it is a remarkable 15 pages.

Chief Justice Roberts in SFFA just two years ago: "Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it." Yet when the government is EXPLICITLY using race & ethnicity to detain & question people, he gives it his blessing.

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨ Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21. Please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

The SNL 2025 Access Award will waive registration fees for up to 20 students, trainees, and faculty who face barriers to attending the Society for Neurobiology of Language conference. Apply by Aug 27; winners named Aug 28. Pls share! 🔗 tinyurl.com/SNLAcessAward #SNL2025 #NeurobiologyofLanguage

One highlight of LILG 2025: the official launch of the new open-access journal Gender Linguistics! Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender. Learn more: gender-linguistics.org #linguistics #journal #launch

I have a BA in music (classical voice) with a minor in philosophy, where I took logic, political philosophy, and legal philosophy. My PhD is in cognition and neuroscience w/an MA in stats, and now my work is applied stats. I am a better, more rounded scholar because of the humanities.

Further consolidating control over federal research funding under Russell Vought and a cadre of apparatchiks. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A big problem with US STEM is it has presented itself as "politics free", better than social science, & exceptional (thus separate), making it very easy for the rightwing to present STEM as not being important or valuable for people, elitist, & untrustworthy 1/2

Join us for our final Summer Series talk tomorrow, Tuesday, July 22nd, at 2pm ET! Dr. Ashley Ruba will provide us with tips and tricks on how to effectively communicate our research skills in a way that makes them transferable to industry jobs. psu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Dear deaf people who sign some variety that could fall on the spectrum of “ASL” but grew up signing that wasn’t considered “ASL” for whatever reason, If you receive a survey that is targeted at ASL signers, do you assume you are included? Why or why not? Asking for myself

“Hey bro, why is your face covered” “I’m out here arresting babies” “Have you considered not arresting babies” “Well they’re criminal babies”

Excellent news!

LSA Presidential Research Forum Join us as scholars rethink terms like “native speaker” and “bilingual”— and work toward empirically driven, contextually grounded characterizations of language use. Register to attend - www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

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Very last minute - but check out this workshop happening this Thursday and Friday on how we might build theories that account for variability and universality in human minds and brains. Remote attendence is an option! cps-vo.org/group/cise-s...

This Senate proposal advanced by Sen Cruz would cancel new and existing State laws on any aspect of tech use including civil rights, consumer protection, privacy, fraud, safety for kids, accessibility, and more. In short, we’d lose the few laws we have that ensure responsible AI use. #killthebill

Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...