TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

Is #BarnabyJoyce pissed?? @abcnewsbot.bsky.social 7.30

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics! Asst or Assoc. We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.) faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793 🤘

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning

🚨 🚨 Last call for abstracts: Usage-based Approaches to Phonology welcomes papers using diverse methods to explore the emergence of phonological patterns from language use. Plenary by Joan Bybee (U of New Mexico). Come hang with us at U. of Oregon, July 12 & 13. sites.google.com/view/usage-b... 🐦🐦

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

President Trump’s comments tonight suggesting a US Gaza takeover are a call for a crime against humanity & should be unequivocally rejected & condemned by world leaders & American lawmakers regardless of party. Statement from @nancyokail.bsky.social ↘️

My latest:

Academic letters of recommendation: a guide for the perplexed (Bluesky edition).

Happy to announce (open) publication of our new paper on speech processing in a language where the initial segment alternates: www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...

Rohit has 'opted out' of 5th Test #AUSvIND @abcnewsbot.bsky.social

I love #SamKonstas, and his performance on day one got me back into cricket after about 30 years of non-interest. But maybe now the media can go easy on the hero worship frenzy. We've seen enough of that over the years. #AusvInd

Posting again now that there are more of us here: Does anyone know of a 2nd position/wackernagel’s position clitic language where VP can host clitics? And I’m only interested in VPs that have overt object!

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D... /bot

Accurate

A bill that could see up to 80,000 people deported from Australia if it becomes law next week. A law that would create a global offshore detention network where refugees could be sent anywhere and then back to danger. Help us stop it: action.asrc.org.au/deportation_...

PhD opportunity: Bdelloid rotifers are strange animals with no males and amazing stress tolerance. 10% of their genes came from bacteria, fungi via HGT, including antimicrobial genes that are unique in animals. Find out how/why and discover new antimicrobials too! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Why did I #quitTwitter/X? Apart from Msuck being a complete dick, it was my 12 year old daughter who apparently has a higher standard of ethics than me demanding I do so (because, Msuck ...)

36,000 followers ain't gonna cut it, people. That's smaller than the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement denomination of the Sabbatarian movement formed from a schism in the European Seventh Day Adventist Church based on conflicting views over Sabbath observance, and they suck ass.

In which I explain why I worry about progress in science www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtxj...

The mess we're in follows more than two decades of mismanagement by both parties, and a disastrous shift towards tuition fees and consumerisation which has nearly destroyed the idea of higher ed as a public good. First step to fixing this is to admit your mistakes www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Excuse me, but #whothefuckisjakepaul and really why should I care?

Goodbye Twitter, the Menswear guy is here now

Confused about fact! #Debate2024

Does anyone know of 2nd position/wackernagel’s position clitic language where VP can host clitics? And I’m only interested in VPs that have overt object!

View of Northern Lights from my sisters backyard in Co. Wicklow, Ireland

Chasing xkcd.com/2931

More unsurprising but nonetheless important research findings (and likely not just relevant for younger students):

We all knew it was bad. But most of us - certainly me - wouldn't have guessed *this* bad.

The soft-scented winds of "Payday on Thursday" to be immediately followed by the uppercut to the jaw of "It's December" on Friday

Just saying

Brown babies= overpopulation White babies=maintaining civilisation

If you don't vote for Joe Biden, you make it incrementally more likely that Donald Trump wins.

Most academics know that MDPI is not the most reputable publisher but this is particularly grim: a special issue in which 27th of the 28th papers are authored by the two guest editors. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals

Deadline Oct 20th: Postdoc w/ H. Mitterer, U of Malta, supporting acoustic and statistical analysis for "The evolution of the Maltese language between English and Italian influences” www.um.edu.mt/__data/asset...