It’s funny how often grifter pseudoscience results in “answers” that blame, punish, and control women, isn’t it?

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

“The site announcing America’s new design studio is a hot mess. That’s a clue.”

There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Please join SOBLAC – The new @lingsocam.bsky.social SIG of Black Language and Culture! www.lsadc.org/AF_MemberCom... Help us spread the word!

Responding to the mass cancellation of NSF grants, Fazio (@lkfazio.bsky.social), a researcher who studies misinformation: “What can US researchers do in this situation? One thing is clear: do not surrender to political pressure or abandon crucial research questions.”

Devastating blow to longitudinal research. “Our ability to understand what’s going on with those women will be severely curtailed,” Anderson says. “They’ve been dedicated to this process for 30 years and provide their data generously...” Thirty years!!

Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

"When pressed, several senior officials conceded that they had spent only a few days considering how the economic earthquake might have second-order effects." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

If you're headed to my poster with @betsysneller.bsky.social and @jackrechsteiner.bsky.social at #LingComm25, sorry I'm not there yet! Having some tech issues (on my side, not the conference's).

“ Medical miracles don't happen overnight. They take years. You won't notice it tomorrow or next week, but someday soon, you or a family member will be diagnosed with cancer, dementia, or some other terrifying disease, but this time there will be no miracle cure because there is no funding.”

I thought the goal was to not waste taxpayer money?

DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

Also Gandhi, accused of being improperly dressed while wearing a loincloth at a meeting with King George V, who later said, "The king was wearing enough for the both of us."

If Trump can make millions of people believe he won in 2020, making them believe Ukraine started the war will be easy.

This.

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t part of something so chilling.

People—especially poor people—don't leave their home country at great risk unless the risk of staying—of dying—is far worse. Foreign aid is the cheapest way to curb mass migration, and to stave off pandemics and disease.

Cutting off all foreign aid and development assistance—which is less than 1% of US spending overall—won't save American taxpayers anything. It will cause millions to starve, and spur mass migration and terrorism as a result. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

Department of Transportation order signed by the secretary tells staff to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” including on certain grant programs. It bars recipients of funding “from imposing vaccine and mask mandates.”

Many NSF projects have core activities like doing the research work in collaboration w students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in research (mentoring them along the way), or running educational programs that help make STEM subjects widely accessible… This absolutely censors the research

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

Here's the link: msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Going to be a bit harder to get folks to pay real attention to that OPM letter because (a) its harms are more abstract and (b) folks are going to waste time debating whether its legal, but in all seriousness it is imo the single most severe and most dangerous act they've taken so far.

Are you lesbian/sapphic-identifying and aged 18+? Speak US English as (one of) your first languages? Our student would love to have less than 5 minutes of your time for this very easy survey. This is #2 of 2 surveys. If you did the first one already, that is okay! #linguistics

Here’s what’s what at UChicago. Not good.

NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals. This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.

The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt. The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

This is not good. I mean, all of it’s bad right now. But still.

UNC Charlotte is hiring an oral historian. Please share if you know someone who’s interested. 🗃️ jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/61064

what would you do differently if you were trying to legalize discrimination?

#lsa2025 anyone lose a scarf? it's in the exhibition hall in franklin B

TODAY, 1/11: It would mean a lot to me if Gillian has a large crowd at this event! Please attend if you're at the LSA and can possibly go. The focus recently has appropriately been on Bill, but Gillian is a world-class linguist in her own right who absolutely deserves this honor.

A lovely obituary for Bill Labov in the Inquirer.

Thanks to Marlyse Baptista and the Linguistic Society of America staff for pulling this event together so quickly. Another reason to be at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

📣𝗣𝗵𝗗 funding in #linguistics at Westminster 🎓 The Grad School has 10 PhD studentships for 2025/26 Happy to talk research proposals in: ✅ Language variation and change ✅ Language contact ✅ Language endangerment ✅ Mixed/community-based methods Info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR044/1... Deadline 7 Feb 2025

a fun student #linguistics research project for you - please boost! This survey is open to any native American English speakers over 18 years old. swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Another student #linguistics research project, this one aimed specifically at people who are studying #slp #speechlanguagepathology. This student is looking for anyone who is - over 18 years old - current/past practioner / student of SLP or related fields in speech, hearing, or language science >

Are you LGBTQIA+, 18+, and speak US English? Have 5 minutes? MA student Emily Duggan wants your candid take on some queer identity labels. She'd especially love to hear from Millennials and Gen Xers! #linguistics msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Now that bluesky is booming, I'm going to repost my study on TikTok language! If you are over 18 and use TikTok, please take my survey on language use on TikTok! Link here: pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #linguistics #langsky #tiktok #internetstudies #anthropology

Are you interested in how Indigenous communities are revitalizing their languages? Come learn about language revitalization firsthand, from a group of incredible activists around the world! Monday at 1:00pm Pacific: bit.ly/R2R-Showcase #linguistics #langsky 🐦🐦

🌍 Are you considering applying to Stanford GSE and passionate about language, education, and equity? We invite you to a virtual info session with the Black Academic Development (BAD) Lab on Monday, November 18, 2024, at 4 PM PST! 🌍 🗓️ RSVP here to secure your spot: lnkd.in/guBJRkaV

Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.