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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 8h

Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At the request of an editor: If you use tone numbers (rather than letters or diacritics) what is your preferred way to render them? A. Same size as segments, eg ma2na4 ‘maybe’ B. Superscript C. Something else If your answer is A, interested to know language family/area #linguistics

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Amazing turn out from students and staff at the University of Edinburgh, in protest at senior management's greed and manufactured cuts. This is what solidarity looks like - as our campaign of industrial action begins this coming week in protest at the cuts. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/student...

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900+ at inaugural Student & Staff Assembly! — UCU Edinburgh

More than 900 students and staff gathered for the inaugural Student-Staff Assembly on Thursday 24 September.

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This year’s field methods language is Vietnamese and I am pumped 💪🏻 Short words and lots of tone contrasts. The smell of home!

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CoLang gave me way more hope for the future of linguistics - as a space that is relevant to Indigenous communities and as a source of knowledge - than I have had in a long time. Up there with the 2017 Natives4Linguistics LSA symposium (iykyk)

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The University of Nevada, Reno hosts CoLang 2026

Hundreds of linguistics students and educators gathered with the College of Liberal Arts in Reno this summer to explore techniques for language revitalization

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social announcing access to a European developed LLM. This is the greatest perversion I could possibly imagine of the term data sovereignty. Yes, please use the European machine made of stolen data, not the American or Chinese one.

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It is literally impossible for me to get British students to consider US grad school even when it is clearly the best option on all points outside national politics

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New research assistant for this month

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

On vacation but this is just to say…don’t cite Steven Pinker challenge level 1,000

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Finally getting around to adding tone info to child transcripts. Important task. You could even say it’s…diacritical

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Don’t cite Steven Pinker challenge level 9,999

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Always have a plan B and always work A and B at the same time. Especially if this is your B

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Simon Kirby & coauthors have done it again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is also the wisdom of the fantastic 1930s(?) book LIVE ALONE AND LOVE IT. Everyone needs 2 hobbies at least - 1 that you go out for and 1 that you do at home. Applies whether or not you live alone!

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Need to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“The research…shows circles, squares &other geometric figures, some w/connecting roads, beneath the forest canopy, w/nearly 400 prev unknown earthworks….All of them add to evidence contradicting the depiction of the Amazon as a largely untouched expanse b4 the arrival of Europeans in the 15th cent”🧪

A lidar image of an earthwork site in Acre, Brazil. Martti Pärssinen and Fabio de Novaes

A lidar image of an ancient site in Acre, Brazil. Martti Pärssinen, Risto Kalliola and Fabio de Novaes

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I am going to assign this article alongside Davis (2017) in my language revitalization class because it’s such a textbook example of ignorant, fallacious and colonial discourses about Indigenous langs.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

OMB commenting period ends today. That's not the end of the fight. UNIONS will pick up where individuals left off and work together to sue the federal government. In my organizing, people constantly ask me what unions can do for higher ed. They can do this. And universities won't. So sign a card.

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My takeaway from this World Cup so far is that the people of the Bajo Amazonas have 2 rooting interests Brazil and whoever beats Argentina

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Now I’m in the Amazon Basin and it’s hotter in New York than here. Even in upstate.

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Just did a talk at #CoLang 2026 (Reno) on open-source children’s books. Check out storyweaver.org.in for an open-source lang revitalization and maintenance tool that deserves to be better known! #langsky 🐦🐦

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

All killer no filler!! Point about practice depends somewhat on talk length/experience level. Everything else is as true on talk 100 as talk 1

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’m in the American Southwest and somehow it is hotter in London than here

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

QEPD Raúl Pacheco Vega. Blog was a wonderful source of writing advice and process ideas for me

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Delighted to see this from U of A 🌵 Many communities need similar resources in Spanish too - anyone with plans to write, adapt, translate? 🐦🐦

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Indigenous languages of the Americas and their structures: Sounds | Language Science Press

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Me every time I talk to a Brazilian

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This moment doesn’t compare favorably to ‘Laudato Si’ (so far) and that - unfortunately for Leo - is a very natural comparison to make Time will tell about how the laity/grassroots receive this in comparison to LS

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The New York Times is now parody of itself. Universities that focus on what we do in our day-to-day lives that resonates with people beyond ourselves? My dudes, have you ever been to a regional public university or any campus that isn't Harvard?

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This institution, which is awesome and which I personally support as a board member of an affiliated org, is funded almost entirely by federal farm subsidies. You will be shocked to know that this does not make it into the NYT.

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is the only day I’ve ever been glad to have Blackboard

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

hold onto your wallet anytime someone claims a human behavior is ‘natural’ without defining what that means, but *clutch* it for ‘x is natural, y is not, therefore ban y.’ truly natural behaviors - eg walking, using language - don’t require incentives, far less coercion

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Wondering about the transatlantic distribution of “one-on-one” vs “one-to-one” (as abbreviated 121) as referring to social or business interactions, eg “i wanted to give you this update one-on-one”. Had never heard “to” before coming here! @lynneguist.bsky.social ?

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is awesome. At the same time, I am always somewhat surprised by the idea in the UK that centralized government agencies should be responsible not only for funding, but also actually programming, language revitalization (see also Gaidhlig). No one believes this in other endangered langs

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Never been gladder to have a passport valid to 2030. With extra pages.

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

@catscoffeecats.bsky.social on this: “Blessed are the meek, for they will be called soft on crime”

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The grandfather of Elbridge "Bridge" Colby was William Colby, OSS veteran and CIA director under Nixon. Also very staunch and devout Catholic. (And controversial in many ways, which you can look up.) Trying to imagine what he would make of this.

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I expect more from Marco, he was a lapsed Catholic before he was a convert

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/04/2026

Grammar xkcd.com/3229/

Comic. [Teacher with shoulder-length light hair talking to two students seated at desks.] TEACHER: *Grammar* is one of the most popular ways to structure a language, ahead of rival methods such as *WORDS ORDER WORDS RANDOM WORDS WORDS RANDOM GOOD* and *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*.

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Have listened to the entire Taylor Swift discography while writing this damn book. *1989* alone was enough for dissertation, unfortunately this thing is 3x as long

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

What are we saying instead of “citizen science” these days? Not loving the term when “citizenship” is fraught. Distributed science? 🐦🐦🧪

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Imagine working at a political science department and thinking you have something to teach @emilymbender.bsky.social about language technology Mansplaining is a hell of a drug

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

How do you distinguish *in spoken english* between ‘American’ = from the Americas and ‘American’ = from the USA? People write things like ‘USian’ but I’ve heard that actually get said maybe once ever, and ‘languages/etc of the Americas’ is a) wordy + b) implies indigeneity (not always intended)

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Pls spare a thought for me. Born and lived 17 yrs in a place (AZ) with no DST. Just barely figured it out then went another place without it (Peru). Now need to call 3 time zones in the Americas every week from the UK. Time Warp is hell and in the spring it is THREE weeks long!!

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