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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Coming up in 2.5 hours: how can language revitalization continue when folks are away from their traditional territories? Come hear from Tamara Aisake about Rotuman language circles from the diaspora! Today, October 13, 10am Pacific - free and online: bit.ly/stories-from...

Title “Stories from the Heart: Community Language Projects from Ready to Revitalize”

Below is a photo of Tamara Aisake in red regalia holding a feather fan. Text to the right reads: “Tamara Aisake & Club Hugag'esea
Faeag Rotuam Ta (Rotuma, Fuji)
"Rotuman Language
Circles from the Diaspora"

Hugag'esea creates mentorships with elders and learners to create cultural workshop/projects with Fäeag Rotuam Ta. Groups then facilitate and share their gifts of knowledge with our diaspora community. Although our language is from Rotuma, Fiji, this project encourages language stewardship wherever in the world we are.”

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Less than two weeks left to apply! Join the CSS Student Committee and help represent student interests, shape initiatives, and strengthen our student community. Apply by October 25 🗓️

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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Had one in my house growing up. We called him Alfred and he ate a bunch of other bugs and lived in a web in one corner. Way less scary than the one that ran up the gear stick in the car one time!

Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also nitv and sbs in Australia have lots of good content, some playable outside Australia

Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

North of North. Ten canoes, Bran nu dae, Reservation dogs

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

AI is/as a cotton gin: infosec.exchange/@nazgul/1115... From @nazgul.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy "Millions of people were sold into slavery and worked to death *because* of the cotton gin. The advance it provided did not, in fact save labor overall. Nor did it make life better overall."

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Kee Hinckley (@nazgul@infosec.exchange)

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot in the current battle over the future of (pseudo) AI is the cotton gin. I live in a country where industrial progress is always considered a positive. It’s su...

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wanna introduce Roman trade to your class 🌍? I’ve noted it before but 1 of the most engaged activities I do all year is to have students make budgets from a salary I give them & using prices from Diocletian’s Price Edict (301 CE). Then they have to figure out how to ship it using Orbis.Stanford.edu.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy Indigenous People's Day! We are still here :)

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 12/10/2026

I highly appreciate this directed graph showing which language is used to indicate incomprehensibility in different languages (eg, “it’s Greek to me”)

Directed graph showing how speakers of different languages refer to things they do not understand by invoking a different language

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alina @alinajafri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

voynich viewer now has a glyph reader! Go to Reader -> Text and click around.

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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this is the one that Voynichese.com uses: www.voynich.nu/data/VT0e-n..... www.voynich.nu/data/RF1b-e.... is probably the best one to use if you aren't using the .xml alignments from the Voynichese site

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https://www.voynich.nu/data/ZL3b-n.txt

#=IVTFF Eva- 2.0 M 5 # ZL transliteration file, updated from EVMT project # Version 3b of 13/05/2025 # <f1r> <! $Q=A $P=A $F=a $B=1 $I=T $L=A $H=1 $C=1 $X=V> # page 1 # text only # Currier's Lang...

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Voynichese - Manuscript Browser

Do you think there's a way to combine it with the word-level bounding boxes that voynichese.com has? It has xml files with all the information about where the words are. However, the pages on the site are trimmed so lining them up might be hard

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Browse and query the Voynich manuscript.

No, the AAU survey asks everyone. Men are also sexually assaulted, but at lower rates

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This stat is in line with the AAU surveys. For undergrad women in that survey, the rate was 23%. That survey is widely held to have taken great care with validity measures and is still often felt to be an under report

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026

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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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They say it's genuinely multilingual but then build it on a bunch of tools that only exist for a small subset of languages

Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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This group doesn’t seem to have included sociolinguists or phoneticians, but relevant to both 🐦🐦

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Dr Alexandra Marley @bulletproofling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

👀 2 funded linguistics/anthropology/environmental science PhD positions going at UQ. Get in on it folks! study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

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Amplifying Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Western science with language

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sigh @wulatum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hereby nominating the bl- morpheme for its appropriate category at WOTY

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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

BTW, I'm pretty excited about [the] Citation - this is the first issue of it. Premise: a biweekly (I think) newsletter where @drjpb.bsky.social (EdD., brilliant and clear writer - check out his books!) writes a short and layperson-friendly description of a few interesting articles.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Over on VoynichNinja (an excellent discussion board with lots of solid linguistic & cryptological work), someone posted this new resource based on my (credited!) work that lets you visualize structure & rearrange quires, bifolia, and pages! It's incredibly cool and really valuable. voynichviewer.com

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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is absolutely wonderful, thank you for making it!

Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Skibidi also has romani connections and is an excellent etymological rabbit hole

Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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"She asks us to examine the cumulative cost of systems that extract more from some people while returning less."

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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

mind you occasionally nice (but very meta) things come out of this: bsky.app/profile/chir...

HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Interested in learning more about Jones’ role in the pre-history of comparative-historical linguistics? Then the very first episode of our podcast is just what you need! 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2019/12/31/p... #Histlx

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Podcast episode 1: Pre-history of comparative-historical linguistics

The first series of the History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast looks at the history of modern linguistics. We begin in this episode by examining the pre-history of comparative-hist…

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nominations are due Wednesday for the SSE Lifetime Achievement Award! The initial nomination form is brief; full nomination packages will be requested for select nominees. Learn more: www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awar...

Background image: A gold trophy on a table scattered with gold star confetti. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution, Lifetime Achievement Award, Nominations due September 30.

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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Which is why they're trying to build one near my mum's place but they already have water restrictions every summer???

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Worth noting that some of these ideologies are empirically grounded and others are, like, not. So while this might be helpful in putting many players on the same stage, it doesn't do justice to the unequal epistemological credibility of the different stances nor the unequal political economy.

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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yale also has bioanth type people in EEB and the medical school, and one ling anth (and I am in linguistics with a secondary appointment and am linganth adjacent)

Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Just got around the watching the #Voynich = moonwater + menstrual blood TikTok and while I am all for the possibility of the manuscript having been written by women for women, the video's interpretation of the images really doesn't work.

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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Men came up with theories like microdot ciphers and aliens with astigmatism which are obviously stupid so obviously the sensible alternative is... Moon water algae?

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Whoaaaaaa just looked at some of the voynich posts on Instagram and I'm going to need safety goggles and a drinking buddy

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oooh, ok - I was assuming they meant something like Hartlieb's Das Buch der verbotenen Künste, which was the inspiration for the idea that the rosette page represents 9 vaginas

that was a claim at one point, before the manuscript was carbon dated. For that to be true, we now know, the Voyniches would have had to anticipate what carbon dating could measure

We know what men do when they want to hide women's magic in book lore. They cut out bits from pages. They blacken over words. They burn the authors. They don't write it down in a unique writing system

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The Voynich manuscript has a long history of interpretations based on confirmation bias, wishful thinking, and total fantasy. The fact that there are two separate theories of aliens learning Hebrew speaks for itself. This latest eruption is another. /rant

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And you don't need live experience of menstruation to point out that menstrual cycles average 28 days, the lunar cycle is 28 days, but if you're comparing menstrual/lunar calendars to an illustration with *30* items, you can't count.

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However (I'm sure people will correct me whether or not I'm wrong), no one here has the lived experience of being an early 15th century participant in esoterogenic manuscript production, of any gender.

the contribution of lived experience is often overlooked or only brought up in some contexts and it's important, not least because where there are consequences to academic work, it's often people with lived experience who are best able to assess that impact

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ok last point: lived experience is important in academia because it helps you figure out where to look for answers, how to frame questions, and how to bring different knowledge and expertise into the picture. It's really important (as is being able to step outside one's own lived experience)

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