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Linguist who posts about languages 🙌 science 🧬 doggos 🐕 plants 🌱 the enviroment ♻️ music 🎶 disability justice ♿️ and politics 🆘️

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
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UI African American, Gender Studies faculty prepare for program closures
University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of "low-enrollment" degrees and majors ...
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
If you can donate to help Texas School for the Deaf build a new playground for their kids, please click the link to contribute givebutter.com/jdeuBe
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2026 Saddles Up
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Last call for abstracts for the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America Conference #CLANAC2 in Kelowna, BC this May 27-29, 2026. Any topics related to Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. Deadline has been extended to Jan. 30 and can be submitted here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"Future looks bleak for Anihšināpēmowin, other language programs at First Nations University"
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Future looks bleak for Anihšināpēmowin, other language programs at First Nations University | CBC News
The program, along with other Indigenous Language programs at the university, faces difficulties as classes have been cut down. This situation raises concerns about the fate of language learning.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/01/2026
are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost
About the PhD: 
Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity.

This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as:

    What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation?
    How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena?
    What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail?
    How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies?
    Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation.

The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
People who aren't in Minnesota might not know that if you drive or walk past pretty much any school, there's going to be a group of people, parents and childless, standing guard to make sure the kids are safe from feds. It's pretty remarkable. And very disturbing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues
Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some sc...
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The American Dialect Society has chosen its word of the year: slop…used as both a freestanding noun, and a productive suffix! Check out all the words we nominated at the link! And while I nominated “that’s AI” (and it won for most useful), there’s no fake news here!
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TerynceRecherche @terynce.com · 06/01/2026
The Multilingual Education SIG is hosting its preconference Wednesday, Jan 28th, 1pm. If you aren't already a member, you can join! We'll have a presentation by @annalim.bsky.social followed by a social gathering in the evening. #ACEDHH2026
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MLE SIG Announcement 2026
YouTube video by Christopher Kurz
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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I'm hiring! 2 x PhD positions to work at Uni Zurich with me on "Evolutionary Semantics" for an ERC-funded project. semantically curious MA grads from linguistics, cog psych, anthro encouraged to apply evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...
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Studying the Evolution of Abstract Thought - NCCR Evolving Language
In the new ERC-funded project, “Conceptual Diversity and the Evolution of Abstract Thought” (CONCEVO), Mansfield will lead a team of researchers to develop a method for reconstructing the evolution of...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
finally, we're living through precedented times
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Love this story about traditional ecological knowledge and stingless beekeeping in Peru! news.mongabay.com/2026/01/im-p...
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‘I’m proud to be the first published Asháninka researcher’: Richar Antonio Demetrio on bees
In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a traditional Amazonian fermented beverage. Every day, she would boil and mash ...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 31/12/2025
It's also worth noting here that the *minimum* salary for these ICE positions is $52,205. While the *median* salaries for childcare workers and home health aides are less than $35,000 per year.
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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 17/01/2025
💯 It's our 100th episode! 💯 To celebrate, we're giving you 100 fun facts about linguistics this month See how many you recognize and tell us about your favourite linguistics facts this month in honour of our 100th episodiversary!
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100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics
This is our hundredth episode that's enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we've put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers. Over the past two decades, the office of the US Trade Representative–which is responsible for developing and coordinating US international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy—has pressured most of the world into adopting these laws, hamstringing foreign startups that might compete with Apple (by providing a jailbreaking kit that installs a third-party app store), or Google (by blocking tracking on Android devices), or Amazon (by converting Kindle and Audible files to formats that work on rival apps), or John Deere (by disabling the systems that block third-party repairs), or the Big Three automakers (by decoding the encrypted error messages mechanics need to service our cars). The rents that these digital locks help American companies extract run to hundreds of billions of dollars every single year. The world’s governments agreed to protect this racket in exchange for tariff-free access to American markets. Now that the US has reneged on its side of the bargain, these laws serve no useful purpose.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Episode of @npr.org Code Switch about the student protests and bloody strikes that led to the creation of ethnic studies across the US. I think about this episode all the time, especially when University administrators shut down protests & closed racialized student groups. TW: police violence
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What the 1968 fight for ethnic studies classes teaches us about today : Code Switch
The fight over the soul of higher education is very alive right now, with the Trump administration engaged in dozens of investigations and multiple lawsuits against colleges and universities around th...
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Scientists should listen to philosophers more: correlation is not causation. New research shows fMRI signals don’t always match the brain’s true activity levels, overturning a core assumption used in tens of thousands of studies. neurosciencenews.com/fmri-neural-...
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fMRI Signals Often Misread Neural Activity - Neuroscience News
fMRI signals don’t always match the brain’s true activity levels, overturning a core assumption used in tens of thousands of studies.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/12/2025
Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like. Here’s how to use it.
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Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/12/2025
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"take away Gxxgle's predatory acquisitions they wouldn't have a mobile stack, an ad stack...a server management, they wouldn't have document collaboration, they wouldn't have navigation. They haven't made a successful consumer-facing product in this millenium" Cory Doctorow youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?...
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a man in a suit and tie is pointing at something with the caption " what is that "
Alt: Jake Gyllenhaal in a black shirt puts on his glasses while he looks closwr at something near the camera. White text reads "what is that" " is that a burn?"
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Funny coffeeshop chats: 1) Guy gives his guy friend a book as a gift, "oh cool, now I have a book to read" 2) two elderly ladies making plans for lunch, "I have leftover Chinese at home. Beef and mushrooms. Maybe you can show me how to reanimate the Mexican round things that come with the Chinese."
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Chart via @taxfoundation.bsky.social / @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/12/2025
NEW: The South Carolina NAACP and three voters with disabilities sued state election officials, arguing that several state laws restricting who can give and receive voting assistance violate Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act. They seek to block the restrictions.
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🚨 NAACP South Carolina State Conference v. Wilson
Learn more.
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The sound of your uncle's laugh; an ice cream cone you had ten years ago. Why do we hold on to memories like these? Are they more than mere mental clutter? Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...
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NILOMORPH @nilomorph.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
5-year (!) postdoc opportunity: Join our Edinburgh team and do fieldwork on the Burun languages! Deadline for application: 17 December. Position starts March 1st, 2025 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Calling all linguists: Join us for an evening with Eve Sweetser who will be talking about viewpoint and multimodal communication! Thursday December 4th at 5pm Central time #Linguistics #CognitiveLinguistics
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coglingna.bsky.social @coglingna.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America inaugural CLANA Speaker Series features Dr. Eve Sweetser presenting, "Viewpoint in Multimodal Communication" this Thurs., Dec. 4 at 3:00PM PT | 6:00PM ET. ASL–English interpretation provided. Register here: tinyurl.com/clana-sweets...
The Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America (CLANA) is pleased to announce the inaugural event of the CLANA Speaker Series. 
Our first speaker will be Dr. Eve Sweetser, who will deliver a talk titled Viewpoint in Multimodal Communication.
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM PT | 4:00 PM MT | 5:00 PM CT | 6:00 PM ET
This webinar will also include ASL–English interpretation and will be hosted by Dr. Terry Janzen, President of CLANA.
Registration:
Please register using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/clana-sweetser-dec0425
Registrants will receive email reminders and the Zoom link prior to the event.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 29/11/2025
This random copy shop has a stronger message than the Democratic Party
Sign on Copy Central shop: Be Fearless, Be Positive
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.” The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Vivian Paulun @vivianpaulun.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI. We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods. paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu #VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
Skyline of Madison, WI
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Russell Baker @handle.invalid · 26/11/2025
There's also noai.duckduckgo.com Been using that as my default search for quite a while now. No downloads required.
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DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
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Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The intersection of disability justice, civil rights, race, and language are all on display in this disturbing case in Houston. This is like saying, he said is name was "Mike" and we didn't connect him to the missing persons case because it said "Michael." Worst detectives ever or willful ignorance?
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A reminder that gas-powered leafblowers are nightmare devices that are bad for you, bad for your lawn, and very bad for the environment. They fume and scream and kill the world all so you can messily and ineffectively move leaves around, leaves which are generally supposed to stay where they fell.
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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Hurray, @npr.org's "Books We Love" end-of-year book coverage is up! An annual joy. Here's the link to the whole thing: apps.npr.org/best-books/#... #Booksky #books #amreading #writerscommuniity
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The Regents have always had ultimate power over hiring and curriculum. Previously they were wise enough to take recommendations from experts in the areas involved. We urge the Regents to continue to rely on the considerable expertise of the university’s world class faculty!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/11/2025
After reporting by ProPublica and other publications, the administration is dropping an effort that could have led 830,000 people to lose eligibility for Social Security disability payments.
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How the Trump Administration Abandoned Plans for a Major Cut in Disability Benefits for Older Workers
After meeting with advocates, the Trump administration confirmed it has scrapped a controversial regulation that would have cut disability benefits for older workers.
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Remember you can "press reset" any day. You don't have to wait for the new year, or the first of the month, or even a Monday #Rest #Reset
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a cartoon of spongebob making a grand reset sign
Alt: a cartoon of spongebob making a grand reset sign with a rainbow
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KarenK 🇨🇦 @karensk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...
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Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
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Resumption of Operations at NSF
Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Hey linguists, check it out! @lingsocam.bsky.social has virtual registration options for the #LSA2026 meeting: web.cvent.com/event/d45318... 🐦🐦
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Registration Info - LSA 2026 Annual Meeting
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We need more electrons, Scotty! #TechBroLingo #LawsOfPhysics
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a man in a red shirt with the words i canna change the laws o ' physics
Alt: Scotty from Star trek in a red shirt with the words i canna change the laws o ' physics
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NPR @npr.org · 19/11/2025
A federal court in El Paso ruled that the redistricting backed by Trump and Republicans to reshape the map for the 2026 midterms illegally weakened the voting power of minorities. n.pr/44b30At
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Texas appeals ruling that Trump-urged voting map is racial gerrymandering
A federal court in El Paso ruled that the redistricting backed by Trump and Republicans to reshape the map for the 2026 midterms illegally weakened the voting power of minorities.
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Rosemary and salt bagel and a spiced hot apple cider y'all
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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Elementary, my dear Watson #TidyTuesday While the full phrase is never there (see also "Luke, I am your father" & "Play it again, Sam"), you can find "My dear Watson" multiple times across the Sherlock Holmes novels – but which lines? 🔎📖 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #r4ds #DataViz #ggplot2
A chart with the title "My dear Watson ..." and subtitle caption "In the four canonical Sherlock Holmes novels, the phrase “My dear Watson” occurs 15 times — 10 times in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"; not even once in "A Study in Scarlet". In the panel below, each square tile (■) represents a line of text — in chronological order — with the highlighted tiles showing the location of the famous phrase in each of the novels." Each highlighted tile representing an occurrence of the phrase is marked with a magnifying glass and a path line tracing the chronological order of phrases across books. Data: {sherlock} via TidyTuesday; Packages: {tidyverse, ggview, marquee}; Visualization: C. Börstell
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I'd guess that 85-90% of American scientists would be ineligible for future funding under this law, maybe close to 100% in the R1 universities. So much for funding proposals based on scientific merit. Apart from being sinophobes, the people pushing this have no clue how science or higher ed works.
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Sofiya Hupalo @sofiyahupalo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
NIH grant applicants: October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-005: Interim Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Interim Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities NOT-OD-26-005. NIH
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