We are launching our study of the Black experience at @stanford.edu! The study is led by students from the @stanfordbadlab.bsky.social and Ujamaa House. The study is open to current and alumni. Please feel free to share this link with other Black Stanford students and alumni in your network

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Woohoo! Great new open access piece out in Internet Pragmatics by Kendra Calhoun: “This is so Vine coded”: Genre, nostalgia, and strategies of multimodal intertextuality on TikTok www.jbe-platform.com/docserver/fu...

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Come work with me. 🤓 Quick closing date as we need to hire soon! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/178...

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Hey, people are permanently losing their eyesight at some of these protests and have been for some time. These people, the ones that have put their bodies on the line, are among the people who would benefit from your usage of alt-text when posting protest related imagery.

Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are 2 different types? Words inherited from spoken Latin vs. words borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after. Some words took both routes, creating doublets. Here’s episode 3 of my 10-part doublet series. Next: Italian.

Gullah-Geechee descendants on Sapelo Island may be facing a massive property tax increase that could open the doors for developers to turn the island into a vacation spot for the rich A meeting for property owners to give feedback is scheduled for today

Check out my chapter in this if you’re so inclined. 🤓 Didn’t realize until today this was posted when the book first came out.

Here’s the latest on the deadly shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island. https://to.pbs.org/48Uk6nU

For one of our class projects, a student made a video of themselves cooking caldo de pollo. Every step from the recipe to buying the ingredients to the actual cooking was included and connected to our course topics. It was glorious.

The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa institutions of Latin America and beyond. n.pr/4qeZn5p

Guillermo del Toro did it again. Gorgeous work.

Demand for Indigenous Latin American language interpreters has surged in Oregon. This group is helping meet it

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

A Michigan appeals court ruled that the city of Detroit failed to follow *its own laws* about public oversight of surveillance tech. These laws are crucial bc "Automated license plate readers, facial recognition, body-worn cameras, drones, and the Real Time Crime Center are all active in the city."

A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.

it's so deeply rude to answer someone's question with the output from a chatbot, or even to reference prompting the chatbot. they asked a person for a reason. if they wanted to see what output the chatbot would barf out, they could get it themselves.

I'm attending #LSA2026 online this year, AND they've let me put myself in charge of having virtual social opportunities, so if you want to socialize with me and other linguists at LSA (and I hope you do because I wanna hang out with linguists!) that's going to happen online too!

Language development, linguistic input, and linguistic racism An indictment of the field that I put my whole heart into wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I turned to my husband and said if this man doesn’t cuss her out this is not written well and when he did I was like yeah dude cus that’s the only real interaction she would get. 😅

Reposting this…for reasons.

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

Giving this another shot.

NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.

People who think every brown person they meet looks just like that one brown guy from CSI that they cannot name are supposed to be trusted to make meaningful distinctions about physical appearance.

Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call. NOEM STOLE THAT $ FOR ICE

Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

A group of Indigenous students at the University of Arizona say the closure of a Native program is a "betrayal" of the school's commitments.

Rest in Peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o #BlackSky #Blackademics

Learning that X is poisoning an almost-entirely Black community with natural gas fumes so groypers can tell Grok to undress random women is a perfect metaphor for the tech industry and how it turns human bodies back into extractive industry. Also: we should do public executions, I think.

Ya girl is another year older and maybe a tiny bit wiser today. I’m usually shy about sharing that it’s my birthday but this year I finally told my students so I figured I’d shared with all you peeps as well. 😎🥳

Well deserved.

Really happy to have contributed a chapter to this epic collection, and excited to see it finally almost out!

The best sign language models are those that align with deaf languaging practices. When AI models are built on sign language as used by hearing interpreters or novice hearing sign language learners, this can lead to linguistic subordination to technology. gallaudet.edu/linguistics/...

Do you identify as Black or Afro-Descended and speak Spanish in the Miami Area? Check out this opportunity to earn $300 to participate in a study. All people who sign up will be screened prior to participation and sign-ups outside the Miami area will not be considered. tiny.utk.edu/miamiwalks2025

Vocal accent discrimination still fails to be recognized as a type of racism because of the problematic idea that race is what you see and accent is what you hear.

Here’s a new paper drop - check it out #academicSky