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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Had a wonderful time at #SNL2026 spreading the word about perceiving linguistic sources of creaky voice. Thanks to everyone that stopped by my poster and stay tuned for more! @snlmtg.bsky.social

Ben is seen presenting and gesturing in front of a scientific poster on the cortical dynamics of creaky voice during a poster session.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

If you are a veteran, this kind of visible presence at anti-ICE protests is really valuable. These clowns all want to play dress-up soldier, so actual soldiers mocking them to their faces is devastating.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/08/2025

History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism.

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

A microscopic tardigrade going for a stroll through some algae. Credit: Sinclair Stammers

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If you push for this censorship nonsense again as the Trump administration declares the very existence of queer people to be inherently pornographic I don't give a shit what party you're in so help me god I will work night and day to get you wretches out of office @schumer.senate.gov

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Yes, we’re literally about to zero out funding for every Title VI area studies center at every university in the country, along with FLAS fellowship funding. A generation of human capital that feeds into our diplomatic & intelligence corps that will simply not exist. National security madness.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.

Call these U.S. Representatives and tell them to vote NO on the “Big Beautiful Bill”:

AZ-06, Juan Ciscomani
CA-22, David Valadao
CA-40, Young Kim
CA-41, Ken Calvert
CO-08, Gabe Evans
FL-07, Cory Mills
FL-13, Anna Paulina Luna
FL-27, Maria Elvira Salazar
IA-01, Mariannette Miller-Meeks
IA-02, Ashley Hinson
IA-03, Zach Nunn
MI-07, Tom Barrett
MO-02, Ann Wagner
NJ-07, Tom Kean Jr.
NY-17, Mike Lawler
OH-07, Max Miller
OH-10, Mike Turner
OH-15, Mike Carey
PA-01, Brian Fitzpatrick
PA-07, Ryan Mackenzie
PA-08, Rob Bresnahan
PA-10, Scott Perry
TN-05, Andy Ogles
TX-15, Monica De La Cruz
VA-01, Rob Wittman
VA-02, Jen Kiggans
WI-01, Bryan Steil
WI-03, Derrick Van Orden

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

All gas, no breaks. Only you can make this poll a reality: zohranfornyc.com/events

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

syncthing.net has recently solved this problem for me. You can keep local drives in multiple places that all sync via encrypted connections.

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Syncthing

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Nihil Dev 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @nihildev.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This is how my whole cohort feels being near to defending. 🫠

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Incandescent with rage doesn’t even cut it for these feelings.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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2025 Study section tracking

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I second this! Every little bit is helping. We’ve got this—together.

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Angie Voyles Askham @avaskham.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Hey neuroscientists: were you, your lab or any of your ongoing projects caught up in any of the latest NIH firings? You can find me on Signal at avaskham.54 if you want to chat. 🧪 #neuroskyence

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is how I start so many conversations in linguistics

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If you're communicating with your reps on a daily basis right now (as we all should be!), you can directly tell them that this is the language they should use when communicating this in their emails and anywhere in media. Give them the framing they need so everyone understands the consequences.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

nice jam you’ve got there, be a real shame if someone pumped it up

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/02/2025

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If anyone wants to talk to a linguist about why this list of words banned from federal grants is absurd, please get at me. The point is to make sure that no one can do social science (or really any science) at all. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yjf5FH/

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The administration wants to make sure no one can do research at all with its list of banned words. Linguists know that the business of banning words is always repressive and anti-science. Stay aware! ...

TikTok video by Nicole Holliday

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Wolfy D. Lucca 🌘🐺 @spookalucca.tv · 28/01/2025

Erin out here doing the lord's work. Please support and listen to trans journalists on trans issues.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect

Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

After a few weeks of this, their knowledge of the variation in the dataset is similar to mine and they start to see acoustic patterns.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Their job is to then segment their assigned speaker using the guides as a reference, and then come in each week with questions about trickier segmentations so we can discuss them as a group.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Since everyone’s needs are so different, I haven’t found a guide that really fits all. Instead my approach has been to provide my RAs with lots of examples I have done myself so I segment about 5 speakers and then provide them with the segmentations.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I have had 10 undergraduate RAs working with me on Praat segmentation for the last 4 quarters in a row and they are all learning so much and doing such a great job and I am excited for this next generation of phoneticians.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Just so we are clear, French desserts deserve their own entire post: Best tarte: tarte au chocolat Best ice cream: pear Best pastry: kouign amann Best cake(-adjacent): mille-feuille Best other: pot de crème au chocolat

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Best pie: lemon merengue Best ice cream: honeycomb (from Van Leeuwen) Best donut: specifically the vanilla-frosted sprinkles cake donut at VG’s Bakery in Cardiff, CA Best bar: lemon bars Best cake: coconut cake from Gramercy Tavern, NYC Best other: milk butterchew from See’s Candies

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I was literally reading this list going “oh some of these are deep cuts for French pastries.”

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/12/2024

Sometimes you don’t need to do your own research. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It’s very satisfying just clicking the Run button and seeing your graphs suddenly take life.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Me: “Wow, production studies are a lot of work. I should do a perception study next.” Me: “Wow, perception studies are a lot of work. I should do a production study next.” Reader, I believe there is no end in sight to this cycle.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.” www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Hello! I’m less of a traditional linguist this way, so I can just say the languages I have the most experience working with are those that I also happen to speak and have joyful interactions in: English, French, Arabic, and ASL.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This sounds like a question better directed at #SLPeeps! I’m not a clinician, but your experience rhymes with descriptions of auditory processing disorder (really broadly construed) to me, and that can have a variety of causes beyond my usual scope.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Overall, I am a bit of a phonetic generalist, but I am just always fascinated by how much information we structure into the speech signal, outside of the meaning of the words themselves.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

My side gig is sociophonetics where I’m interested in how we perceive the “who” and “how” of what is being said, rather than the “what,” and how we get that information from purely the acoustics.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

My perception work varies, but it primarily focuses on the perception and categorization of native and non-native speech sounds in the human auditory cortex. I’m really interested in how neural population activity reflects the phonetic layer of linguistic representation in response to speech.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

My production work mostly focuses on the articulation and acoustic bases of Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects, with particular regard to laryngeal articulation. I’ve also dabbled in production studies of American English and French.

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Feel like there’s a lot of new people here so here’s a reintroduction: I’m a phonetician and cognitive scientist interested in how your brain produces, perceives, and learns the sounds of the world’s spoken languages.

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