Been thinking about the broken heat syndrome that Marjane Satrapi died from. This IG post captures the love and grief that comes from carrying people with us for life: www.instagram.com/p/DZNypo-jOm...

Also who gets to learn a language, especially the languages of antiquity and tell a story has always been political because equal access to education isn’t available to us all.

Alarming amount of folks apparently don’t seem to know that translation is a political act because translators are people, and people have biases.

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. ‘It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,’ So said.” 🫠

Readers of Bluesky, the cover of my next book. #langsky #booksky #language #journalism

Deadline 11 July: 2-year temporary asst. prof position, phonology and child language acquisition, Ling.+Langs, McMaster Univ. careers.mcmaster.ca/psp/prcsprd/...

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

new article out in Current Anthropology today on raciolinguistic ideologies of listening (+ labor) in mental healthcare AI! feat. dream team commentary pieces by Josh Babcock, Michael Berman, Jay Ke-Schutte, @nickseaver.website, Summerson Carr, and Rihan Yeh www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Deadline Nov 1: Asst. prof (tenure track), open area, but encouraging corpus ling [syntax, morph, lexicon] or experimental sociolx or psycholx; Linguistics, NC State Univ Dept. of English. jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/230...

Has anyone published about the functions of “lowkey” as an adverb? Want some good references!

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

What’s a good garden path sentence in ASL?

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

The lost chapter of my memoir lol

Abstract deadline extended for “Sign Languages in Contemporary Linguistics”. iling-ran.ru/web/en/confe...

Global Outbreak Map - Hantavirus Monitor 🔸Total infected: 10 🔸Total deaths: 3 🔸Suspected: 56

Deliberate destruction of American power and prosperity by the Trump regime

Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

Just read an article that had an explicit statement about the use of generative AI. So many mixed feelings about this.

Who are your favorite science communicators who are academics (any field)? Who’s really getting public engagement right?

Today I talked to my Intro Linguistics students about bias in LLMs. On the day of a lecture like this I poke around to see the various ways that current models still should not be trusted. Even on basic things. Last time I gave a talk on this (a few months ago) here's what Llama said. 1/9

This is one of the best pieces I've read about what it's like to be a mother in academia. Thank you to the authors! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

I've heard it from middle-schoolers too. There is hope

Congratulations to the people of Hungary today! Also, we have no idea how we feel about this other world news event.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

At the end of the day, we as profs have to decide whether we want tenure or whether we want the illusion of it. If the university can fire us over tweets, overruling the faculty vote, then there is no tenure, there is no shared governance. it’s just fantasy.

Ah #linguistics, it's discourse time (you know who I mean)

Check out today’s blog from Camp Anthropology - Erin Moriarty and Octavian Robinson discuss the editing process of the Crip Linguistics Reader: campanthropology.org

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

I haven't quite figured out how to productively convey my AI-hatership in co-author situations, but I have made progress on updating my lab manual for doctoral students:

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...

At some point, we have to think about what it means to do peer review in disciplines where an ever growing number of scholars are being shut out of the security of tenure-line faculty appointments

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta

Wow, given how much bad behavior is already public knowledge and has been for years, these new allegations must be really bad

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

Five years ago today, the Asian American community was rocked by this horrific, racist attack. Eight people were killed—six of whom were Asian women—and one other person was injured.

Tsung-Lun Alan Wan's 'Retrieving the Body in Linguistics' is a powerful account of recent of the contributions that crip linguistics offers to our field 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

If Ryan Coogler makes you want to learn ASL please do. Take a class. Learn from Deaf/HoH teachers. It's a beautiful language and culture and not enough places are Deaf accessible/friendly.

Picking up some Gen Z language — the “ate” word tripped me up bc I thought a Tagalog endearment term suddenly went viral, but the contexts of “ate”’ on social media didn’t fit what I thought it meant…

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

What if we paid humans for their labor for sign language interpretation and CART captioning? I think it’s really cool when people can exchange their skills for money so they can afford shelter, food, clothing, healthcare, hobbies, etc.

There are some updates on the situation of my son's schoolmate via @casuperintendent.bsky.social and @cadepted.bsky.social.

I would like to congratulate Grammarly’s lawyers for belatedly realizing their shitty AI product was gonna get them class-action yeeted into the sun. I would also like to encourage Grammerly to eat shit forever and ever amen.

holy shit

Today, on International Women's Day, I, a human woman, want you to know there is a type of sea cucumber called the Headless Chicken Monster