When I was a kid, the only Native representation I saw in cartoons was A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special. I made Pow! to show that modern, funny Native characters deserve to be seen too. Watch us on FNX. If you like it, review us on @letterboxd.social and tell your friends!

I want to explain why this is so bad for people who aren't familiar with National Science Foundation funding. in addition to "senior" projects that go to professors, there are a variety of other opportunities for grad students to get funding. 1/

You know those labs that keep harming students, again and again? Some reflections on why it's so hard to stop this from happening and where our responsibilities lie. scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Howell Township puts pause on data centers after hundreds protest www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

See @cohodes.bsky.social recent work for empirical evidence… bsky.app/profile/coho...

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

There is so much fun & interesting language-related research coming out recently. A fascinating new study from the University of Exeter shows that herring gulls don’t just react to what we say — they react to how we say it. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mta7ba9f 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #language

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

I was always pro-choice, but being pregnant and having children myself radicalized me even more. Forcing someone to do all that if they don’t want to is inhumane.

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

In 2023, Chomsky told WSJ about his relationship with Epstein: “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.” Epstein: you are of course welcome to use apt in new york with your new leisure time, or visit new Mexico again

With sequencing of Hitler's DNA making headlines, time for a reminder: analysing a polygenic score from a dead historically-significant figure won't give new insights into that person's behaviour. In a brief paper last year, we used Beethoven's genome to directly illustrate the fallacies involved.🧪👇

3️⃣ We find white children exposed to academies fared worse as adults. 📉 Human capital index ↓ 0.04 SD 📉 Economic self-sufficiency ↓ 0.06 SD This evidence suggests White families may have sacrificed educational quality to maintain racial segregation. 11/12

“Americans often imagine that you lose your democracy when there are tanks in the streets[…] democracies are more likely to die in subtler and superficially legal ways […] as anti-democratic political forces take advantage of others’ weakness, careerism, and fear” michiganadvance.com/2025/11/12/t...

There has to be more work that explores race, class and eugenics among the late 20th century and 21st century wealthy elites, imo. Sure, rich elites think they’re ‘innately’ superior but I’m interested in the social, political, intellectual and financial work they’ve been doing to promote eugenics.

Today is the day! Our reply to the two concurrent critiques (from the same set of authors) is now published in the journal Intelligence 🧵 1/

This paper clearly exposes the hereditarian project for the pseudoscience it is 👇 Also highlights how overtly political are those who promote the claim there are evolved racial differences in cognitive and behavioural traits, despite strong protestations to the contrary

It's RRRREEAAADDDYYYY! The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual is now available for pre-order. It's a modern parenting guide for hearing families with deaf or hard of hearing children. Makes a great gift for parents, family members and educators, and a useful weapon for throwing at an LEA or admin,

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Washington Spirit fans again with the “Free DC!” chant at the 51st minute. #NWSL #thatsthespirit #WOSO

Not interested in arguing about the toxicology of caffeine so here are the ChatGPT numbers:

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

this organization does great work in DC, and the demand is higher than it has ever been givebutter.com/FoodJusticeDMV

In her #NWAV53 plenary, King discusses an example of a juror being dismissed from the pool due to forestressing in the word police (so PO-lice), because the prosecutor claimed that the pronunciation showed animus towards law enforcement. And this is exactly why I study prosody!

“Texas Students for DEI would need about $150,000 to cover the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition for all students who applied,” How to donate: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

This is actually why I stopped saying what was wrong with AI art, text, music, and videos. He's right in that every time we point it out they focus on fixing it

There is only one real and sustainable solution to all of this, and that is an organized faculty. I mean that in labor sense: faculty across the UC must unionize. It has been demonstrated that Faculty Association members, not administrators, have had the courage to due the Feds, and our own bosses.

To my mind, not only is this a direct attack by a UC central admin content to capitulate and emulate the federal position that arrived via extortion letter, it is part of a much larger plan, congruent with UC central admin, of weakening and eliminating faculty governance and power.

Very important thread on what’s going on in the U of California system.

Interactive map with all food banks, food pantries, discount groceries, baby formula, etc You can search by your need or by eligibility information Share with anyone who needs it! my.arlingtonva.us/foodresources

This is an excellent article about how post-Dobbs abortion bans negatively impact the ability of women to obtain medical care during pregnancy and I recommend it: www.theargumentmag.com/p/an-abortio...

My co-advisee Isaias Ceballos will be presenting his research on how previous experiences with discrimination (among other things) affect how people interpret name mispronunciations at several conferences, including @lingsocam.bsky.social’s 5 Minute Linguist, which will be publicly available in Jan!

Farhana Sultana is a tenured , full prof & a prominent critic of right wing supremacies. RW extremists are targeting her for exercising her 1A rights. Worse her institution has shamefully caved to political pressure and placed her on leave. An atrocious violation of academic freedom. Please sign.

My Race, Ethnicity, and Politics is almost filled because students didn‘t suddenly lose interest in the subject of race just because of some executive orders and cowardly decisions from some in higher ed.

It goes without saying he's a loathsome nazi worm, but I also have vast contempt for pathetic sanghi shitheads like his wife who're willing to grind their dignity, self-respect, & fellow brown people into the ground just to have the respect and/or 'love' of white supremacists.

"Holliday...was running a marathon recently, some kids were holding a sign at 6.7-miles...she yelled “six, seven” to their delight. “For a brief moment” she says, “in our lonely, isolated, algorithm-driven world, I connected with those kids on something we shared" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

like here's the thing: if you pay any attention to the New Right online, it's obvious that they don't view Indians (even Indian Christians) as part of the American fabric

👀 New entry to the Timeline of Hindu Nationalist Assaults on Academics in North America, part of the #Hindutva Harassment Field Manual. The timeline covers 30 years of far-right attacks on individuals, institutions, and academic freedom. www.hindutvaharassmentfieldmanual.org/timeline #HigherEd

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her. For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here. Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

And of course, using language as a proxy to mark "dangerous difference" and feed distrust is an age-old and not very subtle strategy of the far right. But I don't think any specific expertise in linguistics is needed to understand that.