Looking forward to the next time the associate dean tells our department to "get grants"

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

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I’ve been thinking about the construal of LLMs as tools for research automation, and as someone who’s put a lot of effort into research facilitation tools, I don’t agree

Again and again, executives don’t want AI to enhance work, only to replace workers, while telling us it will enhance work, while the AI vendors say “this is your problem if it screws up.” They seem to think we don’t notice this. www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

Linguistics on The News: A lot of "Gen Z slang" comes from African American Language - w/comments from Minnie Quartey Annan, Sonja Lanehart, and Jamaal Muwwakkil youtu.be/6GtW_PHNjo4?... #linguistics

We are fast moving from cold spots to blackout. This is not trivial and the impact in terms of access to languages education will be inter generational. How do you “level up” or promote “growth” without a multilingual workforce and the know-how to deploy? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There's a learned helplessness here that feels a lot like obeying in advance. Use your brain, don't let anyone tell you you can't, and definitely don't tell others they can't.

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She's right, and has thought way, way more about LLMs, language, and society than almost every reply guy on here, but they simply can't resist fighting with a world-class expert.

Last call! The LSA Nominating Committee & COSIAC are seeking nominations for VP/President-Elect, EC Members-at-Large, and Student Rep to the EC. We especially encourage nominations from those historically underrepresented in LSA governance. Deadline: 3/13. buff.ly/EkqLh7j

Thanks so much to everyone who came to my Georgetown University Linguistics GURT talk today! I really appreciate that you took the time to stay til Sunday afternoon. The talk was recorded, so I'll post the video as soon as I get it!

imagine being such an incompetent researcher that you think an llm can write your literature review

Hello, Washington, D.C.! So excited for the Georgetown University Linguistics GURT conference and so honored to be the closing plenary speaker on Sunday at 11:30 in the Bunn Intercultural Center! Come on through! gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2026/

Conversation Analysis for Social Justice. Nadja Tadic 👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now it's March I can say "applications close next month!" Still lots of time to finesse your idea for a cool linguistics communication project!

cot-caught-court on a British high street ;-) #linguistics

So cool how my university isn't hiring new faculty but they HAVE recently announced they'll be "deploying Google’s generative AI solution, Gemini, to students, faculty and staff in the coming weeks"

Operation Epic Fury Every time this administration names an action, they choose something a 14-year old boy would call a video game. Cutesy names don’t cover up warmongering and terrorism, they just reveal a profound disrespect for human life.

“I care about this and want to know more about it” is a great reason to study something in college. So is “Huh, that sounds interesting.” Like I said, it’s not everybody’s thing, but being able to pursue your curiosity without a tangible other goal in mind is a good thing, I think.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

maybe this is because i'm the kind of goody-goody who gets a PhD but I find it shocking that they don't even try to lie that there's some justifiable use case for this. it's just a tacit "we all know you don't want to learn anything, and now you don't need to"

i know i'm preaching to the choir here but what the fuck is the point of undertaking education if you don't want to *learn* it is the end result just getting a paper saying you're One Smart Cookie? validation? for growth you didn't undertake? i know this is self-evident but it's still crazy to me!

Wow.

Flights for summer trip to Poland are booked, so time to start learning some Polish! Happy to take recs for helpful books, podcasts, & other media from those who've already been on this journey (Dziękuję!) 🇵🇱

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I just got done watching a truly horrible movie at Sundance ("The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"). It was introduced by the Sundance programming rep as having "a strong sense of informational integrity", but it's hard to imagine a characterization more off the mark. A long thread 🧵>>

"There’s an extremely hurtful narrative going around that my product, a revolutionary new technology that exists to scam the elderly and make you distrust anything you see online, is harmful to society."

Hard copies of my new OUP book with @lhlew.bsky.social have arrived! Kaz gives it five stars for being smooth, shiny, easy-to-hide-behind, and delicious #linguistics

Available today on Google Books! "Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory" edited by me and @jennycz.bsky.social books.google.co.uk/books?id=T6m...

Glad to see the parents highlight something I felt was overlooked: Alex Pretti’s “interference” with border patrol agents was standing in the way while they were roughing up a woman.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

JBLAC @jblacjournal.bsky.social submissions are now open! If you submit in the next few months, your article will still appear among the first in JBLAC. We have an open office hour today from 2-3 pm PST. A link to the office hours is below! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Our GURT program is live! See our exciting array of topics, sessions and presenters for the 2026 Georgetown University Round Table: Futuring linguistics: Content, curriculum & careers! Our live program schedule will reflect any changes up to the moment. Share among your networks!

This is a systematic effort to violate constitutional rights as policy while keeping it secret from the public, the courts, and Congress. Yet more evidence that "reform" is not an option. The bare minimum is to abolish ICE and permanently bar all employees from future federal employment.

The program for GURT 2026 ("Futuring Linguistics") is live! Gonna be a good one docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Most important practice for learning to write articles in my field? Reading lots of articles in my field! I guess other "tips" or shortcuts or explicit guidance can help but really, if you wanna be a good writer, you gotta be a good reader! (goes for non-academic writing too)

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

No, these are very serious comments. ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell. And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...