Im begging the NYT to spend time talking to people who actually teach and work at universities. Especially ones that don't have billion dollar endowments. My issues are AI use, crumbling infrastructure, vanishing staff, unfunded state mandates, a customer service model of education...

Interested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep More info in the link!! Please retweet!

I'm following this stuff relatively closely and even I almost missed the distinction here. Go Harvard AAUP & National @aaup.org ! 👀 www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

All academic institutions will soon realize we are in this together, facing an autocratic ruler who wants to destroy academia, science, and public health (together with media and courts - pick up a history book). There is only one solution - stand up, speak up, and, critically, collective action.

If you are affiliated with a UC institution of live in a community that benefits from UC institutions, please consider signing this letter calling on UC Leadership to stand up to the Trump Administration. sites.google.com/view/ucstand...

June 14, save the date. Millions of us are showing up in the streets all across the nation to protest Trump's regime. We’ll see you there. #50501movement #NoKings

Something I've been thinking a lot about recently is how powerful abusers don't really need to convince you of any one lie but rather just flood the zone with bullshit to render it "complex" enough that nobody feels confident enough to intervene on behalf of the victim

I'm hiring a postdoc to start this fall! Come work with me? recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07123

🥳 New paper! From Niels Verosky (not on bksy) and me: "Temporal dependencies in event onsets and event content contain redundant information about musical meter" Open Access Preprint: escholarship.org/uc/item/83s3... Cognition link (non-paywalled for 50 days): authors.elsevier.com/a/1l92z2Hx2-...

✨Course & Instructor Spotlight ✨ Today’s feature: Zenzi M. Griffin (University of Texas at Austin) 📚 Leading "Eye Tracking in Psycholinguistic Research" 📅 Registration: bit.ly/3CSbbHC 🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025 📧 Questions? [email protected]

🎓 Student Opportunity Alert! 🎓 The NSF-funded workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks” (July 26–27 @ UO, co-located with the 2025 LSA Institute) is now accepting: 📌 Scholarship application: Due May 15, 11:59pm PST 📌 Poster abstracts: Due June 15, 11:59pm PST

Join us this summer — 80+ courses, 8 conferences, and linguists surrounded by Oregon’s nature. Don’t miss it! 📅 Sign up now: bit.ly/3CSbbHC 🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025 📧 Questions? [email protected] #LSA2025 #Linguistics #SummerInstitute #UOregon

Why is @governor.ca.gov proposing an 8% budget cut for @uofcalifornia.bsky.social and @calstate.bsky.social, and why do most Democrats seem to be going along with him? I'm glad you asked! utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/04/will... @ucaft.bsky.social @cftunion.bsky.social

Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon theonion.com/woman-r...

Keep the pressure on. Never obey in advance. The Trump administration has restored the student visa registrations of thousands of foreign students studying in the United States who had minor — and often dismissed — legal infractions.

Hard writing makes for easy reading “Josh, your future readers are very smart and can understand your complicated sentences, but they will also be very tired, because we are all tired, and will appreciate simple sentences.”

actual concrete action item! #AcademicSky. Help support the integrity of scientific inquiry at NIH.

Now more than ever, we must go beyond merely defending universities. We must rebuild them so that they diminish rather than exacerbate inequalities & further the public good at a time when our collective survival is more imperiled than ever before.

Cmon @ucdavis.bsky.social , let's get on this!

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

Ok so how are we listing grants on our CVs that were cancelled by the Trump administration? 😬

Today is the Day! Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts with research. No research, no cures. Say no to NIH funding cuts and join the fight at killthecuts.org #KillTheCuts

Does anyone have a suggestion for where an undergrad could publish a fairly direct replication of a previous psycholinguistics study? I'd love to see it published because it's an effect that I'm glad to know replicates, but it's not going to get published anywhere that prioritizes "originality".

So what proportion of CogSci reviews were written by ChatGPT this year??

So cool!

I am I'm this picture and I don't like it

Spread the word: On April 5, we’re coming together to say Hands Off! and push back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join us for a national day of action: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...

I admit it: I'm Reviewer 2.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

🚨 First preprint from the lab! 🚨 Josh Rozner (w/@weissweiler.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social) uses counterfactual experiments on LMs to show that word distributions can provide a learning signal for diverse syntactic constructions, including some hard cases.

Me, whenever I'm asked how it's going

✨Course & Instructor Spotlight ✨ Today’s feature: Adele E. Goldberg (Princeton University) 📚 Leading "A Constructionist Approach to Grammar" 📅 Registration opens next week, February 3rd! Don’t miss out! 🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025 📧 Questions? Email: [email protected]

🚀 Registration is NOW OPEN! 🚀 The wait is over—registration for the 2025 LSA Summer Institute is officially open! 🎉 Secure your spot and join us for an incredible summer of learning, networking, and cutting-edge research in linguistics. 📅 When? July 7 – August 8, 2025 📍 Where? University of Oregon

This might be the best Linguistic Institute (summer camp for linguists) ever! and I hosted one and have taught at half a dozen They're always great, but this one...😘 center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...

✨Course & Instructor Spotlight ✨ Today’s feature: Gasper Begus (UC Berkeley) 📚 Leading "Deep Language Learning: Modeling Language from Raw Speech with fiwGAN" 📅 Registration: bit.ly/3CSbbHC 🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025 📧 Questions? Email: [email protected]

It has come to my attention that some folks still have not seen the term "acoustic bike" (as in, not an ebike) and in case that's you, today is your lucky day

There's a local rally in Sacramento, fyi!

If you needed something positive today, here it is.

LMs need linguistics! New paper, with @futrell.bsky.social, on LMs and linguistics that conveys our excitement about what the present moment means for linguistics and what linguistics can do for LMs. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.17047. 🧵below.

Pls share info to prospective linguistics PhD students about MICHHERS, a 2-week program at the U of Michigan which provides support for PhD application writing etc. Stipend, travel and accommodation provided #linguistics Deadline: Feb 10th 2025. More info: www.rackham.umich.edu/michhers

The minute is called that because it's the first minute (small) part of the hour The second-order minute part of the hour is called...the second And before we had milliseconds, there was a period when a second was divided into 60 "thirds" (!!) From the "time" episode of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social:

Yup

Just had an idea

Sometimes I get sad about the state of the world and then I remember than next year is a perfect square and this cheers me up. (45^2 = 2025)

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

What's your favourite example of a basic science discovery yielding practical results later on — but that one didn't know it would be used for at the time?