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.

So trumps probably never read the great Gatsby, but is it possible that no one at mar-a-lago has read the great Gatsby?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Farm workers in Ventura County, CA are harvesting the marigolds that are used in altars for #DiadelosMuertos celebrations. The scent of these flowers is thought to attract the souls of the dead and guide them to their homes.

In our new issue, @quailty.bsky.social considers contemporary deaf art and writing, which navigates the contradictions of deaf life in America as the second Trump administration threatens to dismantle the ADA. thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland

New case study of a Deaf autistic signer finds autism affects both linguistic and affective facial expressions, supporting accounts grounded in motor and maybe prosodic difficulties. Also supports effective languaging strategies beyond the neurotypical norm. www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

NYC linguists give the linguistic answer, but also patiently explain why this isn't an excuse: “We can learn hard names. We can do it. We can figure out how the spellings map to the sounds. We can all get there. We just have to practice.” - @laurelmack.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Unpopular opinion: I don’t find it particularly funny when linguists — signing or nonsigning — make jokes about handshapes for whatever reason.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

As someone who has studied the circulation of terms “subversive” and “communist” in the lead to and through McCarthyism as empty signifiers to justify violent suppression I feel like I’m both amazed and unsurprised how transparently and unsophisticatedly “woke” and “antifa” are now doing the same.

What happens now that Republicans shut down the government? - Federal workers stop getting paid - Air travel could be delayed - Food inspection services may be delayed - Head Start services may be disrupted - Passport + Visa applications could slow - National Parks may shut down

In general, it's f-----g insane that the sitting POTUS and VP regularly single out individual citizens for disparagement using their official gov't accounts. I think there was a pretty strong presidential norm against this sort of thing until, well, about 8 years ago.

Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books. "My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

Just so we are clear. There is nothing wrong with being trans or autistic. Don't give an inch on that

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨 The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 15 October 2025

In the Spotlight: Dr. Joseph Hill Dr. Hill will be joining us at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting for the Plenary Address! Dr. Hill is Professor of Deaf Studies and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Black Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. Don’t miss this session! cvent.me/9Mdr3G

Faculty: have you found any sustainable strategies for engaging your PhD students with your classes amid the ongoing chaos? Because I haven’t, and each academic term brings another barrage of challenges

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

It's Baby Safety Month.

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

None of the young male mass shooters and now political assassins I've written about in recent years had stayed in higher education and pursued a bachelor's degree. Crazy enough, it's almost like college is a positive socializing force, not a radicalizing one

Nepal's cops: *kills 20 of Nepal's children in 24 hours* The people of Nepal: *do basically full revolution inside a week* United States cops: *kills thousands of America's children every single year* The people of America: Now is not the time to call for defunding the police or voting socialist

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk will have almost exclusively extremely negative consequences for American society in general, the stability of society in specific, and the safety of everyone living in it.

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns. I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

Everybody who fell for the Harper's Letter or all the hand-wringing about "uncivil" students on the left, congratulations. You built this. You own this. And fuck you for being the useful idiots these fascists needed to launder their dismantling of academic freedom.

If you do want to hurt Google’s power, start moving off its services and push your politicians so they realize this is an issue they should be working on. Move to Proton, Qwant/Ecosia, and Vivaldi to start. More options here: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

LLMs are not a suitable technology for information access. Here is a quick summary of why not: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... But to take the SIFT framework, LLMs cannot be a source. They are synthetic text extruding machines, that's all. Text without accountability.

Random conversation with a friend led me to read this book. I couldn’t put it down for a few days. It would be a perfect reading assignment for a US-oriented Deaf Studies course.

I'm really looking forward to Gabrielle Hodge's #uklvc15 plenary this morning. Gab is my colleague at @schoolofppls.bsky.social and has become a dear friend. She's also a badass linguist and activist. Check out her website and I'll see you there at 9am! www.gabriellehodge.com #linguistics

Call for Papers: The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages & Linguistics (GURT), happening in March 2026 in DC. The theme is "FUTURING LINGUISTICS: Content, Curriculum & Careers"! Proposals for papers, posters, & colloquia due 11/17 #linguistics

Folks spend way too much time lecturing trans people and Palestinians about what they gotta say and do to be treated like people with human rights