Out next month! So excited for the whole world in 🐦🐦 and language #revitalization to read what our authors have to share!

WE - people writing today - get to define by our citations what will be considered the canon in the future. When I think something deserves to be seen as canonical, then I cite it and assign it with wild abandon. When I think the current canon doesn’t deserve that status, I pay it no mind.

Kinship terms finally getting the attention they deserve #AnthroSky

Tired: Making low income people manually file taxes before they receive benefits via the tax code (USA) Wired: Automatic filing to receive benefits via tax code (Canadian proposal) Inspired: Delivering cash benefits as cash and not via the tax code

There is a name for people who write in short blocks. Authors! If you write in long sessions only, you will end up either unpublished, or disappointed For an overview of the psych research on this I love Paul Silvia’s /How to Write a Lot/

I have seen a couple budgets of alternative colleges/similar programs that are completely free to every student. Even they do not manage to spend $134k/student/year. How is this even possible? Into the budget linked @ this article to see…

RIP Jane Goodall — she forever transformed what it means to do fieldwork. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Life pro tip: Never lay out your own book. All of the suffering, none of the excitement of writing or editing content #academicsky

I unfortunately think about this every day

Open rank job in language and interaction at Rutgers. Relevant for #linguistics #EMCA jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

Assistant professor position in language revitalization @ Berkeley 🐦🐦 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

This is the summer of Nescafé Ice Roast for me. Just passable as coffee, but fast and cold. Perfect for struggling under both authoritarianism and heat

BA postdoctoral fellowship call now out with a deadline in October. These fund UK/EEA nationals and people with UK doctorates. Would love to work with someone on an application - we need more field #linguists working in the UK.

I'm on hour 8 at the Bogota airport (flying back from fieldwork) and starting to get a little punchy. do not hold my OWN reviews written at this moment against me

Officially endorsed by me on behalf of #linguistics Only missing tip in @hormiga.bsky.social 's post: Please, never write in your review "This paper should be edited by a native English speaker." You mean, "This paper needs edits for [grammar/style/voice/insert specific problem here]."

Is this the Senate growing a spine????

Would be fascinating to see this figure for lab based (CS/psych adjacent) vs non lab based fields of #linguistics. My PhD was granted 6 years ago next month and I feel like my productivity is just now taking off as I can work w/ larger teams

On fieldwork but really, really sorry to hear this for all those at IU. Some storied departments on this list. Not surprising if you have been following events there - still tragic and short-sighted.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Lab manager position w/ Marisa Casillas @ Chicago CHD. Would be great fit for recent ling 🐦🐦BA/MA/MSc grad with strong programming skills, esp if you also speak Spanish.

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

So at #yale today, alumni profess their love for…wait for it: #Harvard. Why? Despite our rivalry, Harvard has stood up to Trump, while Yale has remained reticent to speak out about the attacks on higher education.

Came close to tears while making my summer writing plan. From awe at @mirya.bsky.social writing 3 books in one year, but also because I am *losing it* over the idea of finishing my book ms. this summer. Objectively I'm close, but how can I get to DONE with a 4 wk field trip and 3 wks vaca*?

Stateside right now so checked out the audio book yesterday from my library. 1 hour in and already learning a lot!

I really wonder where this will end. Not until science is absolutely over

Catholic Peruvians loved Francis but people are going to absolutely LOSE their minds over Leo. Even the coverage on El Comercio (quite a conservative paper) is pretty positive

Grammar writing is really teaching me that I am NOT a book person. Writing papers, if I can’t fit something, it just goes in the next article. If I can’t fit something in the ref grammar, it’s probably not getting written up ever. Can’t handle that one bit!

🎉New paper out in LD&C 🎉 With Sunny Ananthanarayan, Sophie Pierson, and @chirila.bsky.social If you use ELAN & FLEx together for #language 🐦🐦documentation, you know that exporting transcripts from ELAN to FLEx & vice versa is very time-consuming & buggy. 1/

This is probably fruitless but I submitted the attached appeal letter to the termination of my #NEH/#NSF individual fellowship yesterday. Sent via eGMS Reach to PO, asking to forward to the senior deputy chairman (who has to receive it per T&C). Sharing as a resource in case

We are sounding the alarm for science. America has led the world in groundbreaking discoveries because we funded public science for the public good. If we do not act now to alter our current trajectory it will undermine our prosperity, democracy, & children’s futures for decades. SaveScienceNow.org

One of the worst effects of DOGE era science 🧪policy is to intimidate new PIs. If you don’t know how NSF worked in the before times, you’re going to lose sleep over every admin task - “will this be what gets us terminated?”

If you are #trans in the UK and in a place that has only gendered restrooms, chances are strong that now, you won’t be legally allowed to use *either one.* Statements in the article absolutely incoherent.

Postdoc open in Montreal for a field linguist with some technical skills 🐦🐦

At UOE serious discussion of NO TUTORS (= NO TA's) for classes that regularly enroll 100+ students. Unclear when/if I can hire the language expert for field methods. Yet record capital expenditures. This is wild. Info via @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

also, pre-stage: 'Have earnest conversation with faculty about not only whether doing a PhD is a good idea, but whether moving to the USA is a good idea' I have no blanket advice either way but I DO hate telling people to avoid my home country. Am I becoming....a patriot?

I am starting to hear these concerns among Americans (expats) too Just discussed with a colleague in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 about someone who had the choice between pursuing the same postdoc 🧪project in Canada vs US with the same funding. She is a USC but picked 🍁. Not a hard decision either.

Obsessed with this song, not only because it starts with two awesome internally headed relative clauses, but also because it is super catchy

🚨🚨 Breaking: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can” Well fuck, this would seem to accelerate DOGE control at NSF…

Torn between wanting the dollar to hold value (patriotism) and wanting to see the pound at 1.5 (self-interest; summer fun)

DIY #linguistics poll. Some cardinals are popeable. Capable of becoming pope. What is the most stylish way to say “capable of being realized as a clitic”? (NOTE: not “capable of hosting clitics”.) A. Cliticable B. Cliticizable C. What you just said Votes ⬇️

PSA for the time when/if Americans cannot get COVID vaccines. If you happen to go abroad and have some spare change, you can pay out of pocket for the vaccine in other countries and the cost is reasonable. I paid £80 here ($106)- a tourist would have paid the same.

For Some Women is about right ugh. I am disgusted by the reasoning that trans women need to be excluded from the definition of womanhood for lesbians to be protected. Policing the boundaries of who is a woman has never helped cisgender lesbians and usually hurts us in the end.

Now your turn #Yale

Another glimpse into the hostile environment future: My US -> UK immigration papers cost ~$8,500 without any legal fees. AFAIK, the equivalent visa UK -> US (H1B) is currently ~$1,000. Amazingly, this country also has much less growth and innovation than the USA 🤔

The hostile environment, folks. You heard it here first*! *Not actually first. I have also attended many Latin Americanist conferences in the USA with canceled talks. Including during the Obama admin - trash immigration policy is bipartisan

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

Writing a reference grammar (maybe any reference book?) is like being pregnant except it lasts 7-8 years 🐦🐦

In case you were wondering what your canceled #NEH grant is paying for now.

If this is Orbanism then who is CEU? Any American universities going to pull up stakes and operate in another country? I have a hard time seeing this considering their deep connection to + reliance on specifically American national elites. But I’d admire a school that did it