Pi(e) day pi(e) facts: The guy introduced the Greek letter for pi was the father of the guy who discovered proto-Indo-European (PIE)

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Job announcements: PhD position and postdoc position in Indo-European Studies in Copenhagen A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated” (rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/rese...).

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fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget

If you'd like to see all the canceled NEH grants at variance with agency priorities that allegedly will fail to inspire your confidence in use of taxpayer funds, go explore impact.ach.org. Then contact your representatives about this outrageous cull.

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

Put aside what you think about the NEH. If Congress wants to debate and do this, it has the authority. Neither the President nor his unconfirmed appointee have any authority to do it by their own dictat.

Here's one example of how DOGE is hurting Americans (🧵) In 2022, I was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. We had developed a remote recording app for our MI Diaries project, and researchers from other fields expressed to me that they could use st similar. mi-diaries.org

Why Official English is a terrible idea for the United States, from @lingsocam.bsky.social. Like and share! www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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RIP Mr. Lynch :(

Super excited to have won a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to develop a multi-reference Database of Etymological Roots Beginning in Proto-Indo-European (DERBi PIE) together with Danny Law at UT!