We could have paid teachers at any time. We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time. San Fransisco could be clean right now. It was always a matter of political will.

I was today years old when I learned that LSF uses a combination of one hand and two hands for numbers 1-20. How did ASL diverge to the point that it only uses one hand for numbers?

In the Inferno, Dante claims that a human being can commit a sin so grievous that their soul is immediately pulled down to the deepest layer of hell, & a demon takes control of their body until they die. That’s what happens to every ICE agent when they sign their contract. There’s no soul left.

Grandma was watching the news about the ICE shooting that happened today. Grandma: “What does ICE stand for?” Me: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They—” Grandma: “Oh, so they’re Nazis.” If Holocaust survivors can tell, so should everyone else.

Unpopular opinion: sometimes signing takes longer than speaking. I need more time to say my part in committee and faculty meetings but there’s an ableist fixation about time, and it’s hard to address that.

If you find any gen A.I. images in academic journals that are not in my collection yet, you can report them at this form: bit.ly/JournalSlop

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

What I wish was made more explicit with the far right promoting pronatalism is that they’re also promoting eugenics.

Amazon owns Goodreads, so yes your choice in reading tracker is political. Choose Pagebound instead, we’re 🌱 indie & self-funded 🧃 anti-AI & ad-free 🧙‍♀️ built by 2 women #booksky

Adding to my life goals list: Squeal in delight when someone proves your research wrong Avoid becoming a recurring subject of the Discourse™ Write more non-academic texts that more people can read

The Chomsky–Epstein revelations raise an uncomfortable question: do influential intellectuals get a moral pass when their actions contradict the principles they’ve spent decades defending?

or at least download, print it, and kinda-sorta skim it, which is the Grad Student Way

The Crip Linguistics Reader is officially out today!

Wonderful PR about Prof. Erin Wilkinson (my mentor, my ride-or-die collaborator, and my conference buddy). I am proud to say that I took the photos of her at the signed language genetics research workshop and symposium in Paris.

I appreciate that some of you are outraged about the White House absurdity of keeping ASL interpreters out of press briefings — but please don’t call us “hearing-impaired.” It’s a slur. Nothing wrong with using “deaf.” Saves you extra space too.

Trump is fighting against providing an ASL interpreter at White House press briefings ICE detained & injured a deaf man because they claimed his “sign language gestures” were resisting arrest They’re either not trained to recognize sign language, or they don’t care Disgusting ableism on display

Highly recommended for all mentors and advisers who work with deaf students in graduate programs: academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT. Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

We all know this is a lie, but can we stop valorizing this shit? Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally.

Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA! (Seriously, read it. It's important) doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Reading is like a muscle that, when not continually exercised, atrophies. Corollary: America, Fuck Yeah

Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/

Hitler was bad. An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.

In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:

Better yet - eliminate letters of rec altogether. They’re biased, largely uninformative, and nowadays, often written by AI.

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨 The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social) Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Happy World Linguistics Day! I share a public service announcement about signed languages from @kemmorey.bsky.social — and a constant reminder to look at deaf people & their lives not just “data”. The stigma of deafness is a global phenomenon rooted in attitudes, not the deafness itself.

They'll learn to sign for deaf dogs, but not for deaf people. I assume. The video isn't captioned 💀💀💀 abcnews.go.com/world-news-t...

How the fuck does Larry Summers still have a job

Ever since I saw van Essen’s work at the Wellcome Collection in London, I have been obsessed with the beauty of visual and tactile representations of genetic “defects.” www.tamsinvanessen.com/medical-heir...

I fundamentally do not understand why anyone is interested in these parlor tricks. It's outperformed nothing because recombining word patterns into a text isn't writing. Writing is born out of human experiences filtered through a unique sensibility. Only Han Kang can make more Han Kang.

I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

ICYMI and want to read about Something Else for a minute: I wrote about the history and evolution of deaf representation for @pbs.org American Masters. You can stream their documentary "Not Alone Anymore" on Marlee Matlin for free on the site, including an ASL version 🤩. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

this is genuine psychological warfare and it seems to happen to every professional woman at some point:

We're excited to re-launch the journal "Innovations in Linguistics Education", a forum for evidence-based research in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in linguistics! We open for submissions in January 2026. journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

in Paris, I had to see a same-day doctor & I found one. was gravely warned that, as a foreigner, I’d have to pay 32 euros & I laughed & laughed a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭

It’s hard dating white men, I don’t know enough about Japanese culture

Is it appropriate to publish two different reviews of one book (not in the same venue)? Asking for myself.

I hope I get my shit together in time to end up on a Guillermo del Toro set, even just as an observer, once in my life.

I teach students linguistics theories by introducing them to variation of “theory” in natural and social sciences and comparing them to conspiracy theory — but never thought about adding color theory to my lecture until just now. Inspiration comes from talking to people outside of your field.

Everyone is hope scrolling now

On the ballot today: -NYC: Mayor -Minneapolis: Mayor -VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House -NJ: Governor -PA: State Supreme Court -GA: Public Service Commission -TX: TX-18 U.S. House -CA: Prop 50 This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

The fact that a sitting president is willing to sacrifice SNAP benefits, something that millions of people, should tell you who he is there to serve. He does not care that it will starve children. He does not care that people will die, but above all, he does not care about the rule of law.

Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.