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Michelle Perdomo

@prosodactyl.bsky.social
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Researcher and Lecturer: sentence processing, language experience, second-language acquisition, bilingualism, prosody 🗣 first-gen, plants, music, lifting (she/her)

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@lsafirstgenaccess.bsky.social is still looking for submissions for travel assistance to the 2027 @lingsocam.bsky.social Annual Meeting in San Fran! Any first-gen student who has not previously attended the meeting is eligible, even if they are not presenting. Please share with students! Link below!
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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🎙️ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 #𝐖𝐢𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐭! In the new #WiAIRpodcast episode with @neuranna.bsky.social, we talk about the relationship between language, thought, and intelligence, with insights from neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research. 📷 YouTube: youtu.be/e36ryy0Dsdo
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Six months ago, I shared the fall turkeys. Now I give you the summer turkeys.
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lsafirstgenaccess.bsky.social @lsafirstgenaccess.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Submissions for the FGAE Travel Assistance award are now open! Apply for the chance to win $500 in travel assistances to the 2007 LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco! Open to first-gen students who are attending the meeting for the first time. Submission link: tinyurl.com/fgae2027trav...
The flyer reads "First Gen Access and Equity: Travel Assistance, $500, submissions open until July 31st. 
The LSA First Gen Access and Equity (FGAE) Committee is awarding
$500 for travel assistance to a first-generation student in linguistics
to attend the 2027 LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
This annual award is intended to increase the participation of first-gen students in the LSA and FGAE committee. The recipient will have the opportunity to explore linguistics topics or pursue their own areas of interest further by
connecting with peers and scholars at the Annual Meeting.

Eligibility: Applicants must:
◦ Be a first-generation graduate or undergraduate student.
◦ Be a first-time attendee at LSA 2027.
◦ LSA member at time of receipt of award.

Applicants do not need to be US citizens to apply. Applicants do not
need to have an accepted abstract to the Annual Meeting.
Apply by July 31.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/04/2026
Good god. Trump fired the entire National Science Board without explanation on Friday afternoon.
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Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration
Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.
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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Language shapes everything, from how we think to how we connect and innovate. Linguists are essential to understanding communication, and to creating ethical, responsible AI. We need more linguists. #TalkAboutSocialSciences #TalkAboutHumanities
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We made it 30 hours at home without heat or power before we chose to evacuate (once we started seeing our breath indoors). It’s been 4 days now, and no idea when power will be restored at home. Nashville is suffering, y’all.
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I love the neighborhood turkeys
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Vandy CaLL is hiring a Project Manager for early 2026! We're looking for someone that can help manage work on an NSF-funded project investigating how individual differences in cognitive ability and language experience shapes L2 sentence processing. ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Project Coordinator - Term
The Communication and Language Lab (https://www.thecommunicationandlanguagelab.com/) in the Department of Psychology and Human Development is looking for a full-time Project Coordinator. The Communica...
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like: “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” “I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
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“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I hereby name this symbol "the schwat". I will be taking no questions. #linguistics #phonetics #threads #schwa #schwat
The logo for the social media platform Threads, in white on a solid black background. The logo looks like the "at" symbol with a schwa in the middle instead of a lowercase letter A.
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Tracy Rosen Centanni @tmcentanni.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Postdoc opening!! We’re looking for a postdoc to support our DoD funded study, using noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation and EEG to study speech in noise perception in veterans with TBI. Please share and reach out to start the conversation if interested! bit.ly/478e3ME
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Classification Title: Postdoctoral Associate Job Description: The Genetics of Auditory and visual Perception and Plasticity (GAPP Lab) Lab in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences...
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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Georgetown University is conducting a search for a one-year postdoctoral associate in Applied Linguistics to begin on January 1, 2026. Candidates should apply by October 31 at apply.interfolio.com/174232
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We're doing it again! Join the @lingsocam.bsky.social First Generation Access and Equity Group for a low-stakes conversation about what it means to be a first-generation linguist. Sign up here to receive an invite: forms.gle/VfWN9AwscyFM...
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
2) Mon Sept 22nd 9am ET the National Academies is hosting a webinar on Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding. Experts will discuss secondary data analysis, meta-analysis, and other lower-cost methods for research www.nationalacademies.org/event/1072_0...
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
As a chronically bad sleeper, I started reading right before bed to help lull me to sleep. Now I can't read articles at night without my eyelids getting heavy two pages in.
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I just wrote "correctment" instead of "correction" in a class email, so that's how I'm doing on the second week of classes.
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BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at age 76. RIP to an icon. 📷 Eddie Sanderson/Getty Images
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A researcher-friendly resource for studying phonological social networks. Spread the word to your networks! #psynomBRM paper by Alderete and colleagues #Psycholinguistics #NetworkAnalysis #OpenAccess post by Caballero
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Can a “fish” be friends with a “dish” – a new open-access resource for phonological network research
A common trope in high school movies involves the protagonist being given a tour of the various student cliques, where distinctive groups like the rowdy football players, the fashionable mean girls…
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Fascism and trade wars are inherently more dangerous to those who are struggling the most. Immigrants, people of colour, LGBTQ+, disabled & elderly people will be hit the hardest. People say “we survived them once & we can survive them again!” Many did NOT survive. We fight in their memory.
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"On a weekly basis more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% ... are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to [it]." www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...
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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
From Music City Migrawatch May 4, 2025, 11:30am Active ICE operation has detained up to 100 people currently being processed in Nashville. At least 1 person detained says that MNPD participated in her detention!
From @Musiccitymigrawatch instagram: May 4, 2025, 11:30am Active ICE operation has detained up to 100 people currently being processed in Nashville. At least 1 person detained says that MNPD participated in her detention. PRESS conference at noon outside the Nashville ICE office. 501 Brick Church Park Dr.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
55 years ago today, 4 students at Kent State University were killed for protesting the Vietnam war. Allison Krause, 19 Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20 Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20 William Knox Schroeder, 19 We must stand against war, militarism, and government attacks on protest.
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
📣🧪 $25k grants for those who: 1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and 2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF. Early-career scholars prioritized
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
One thing I do not like about grading writing assignments is having to actively be an AI detector.
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We have officially become @thefestfl.bsky.social parents. You can find us and our baby in the pit. 🫡
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.
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Tammie Visintainer @proftv.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you, like me, had you NSF granted terminated, here’s what I learned from a hopeful meeting with my VP of research: 1. We have 30 days to act! Meet with your admin asap 2. APPEAL: Everyone can appeal! It must go through your institution, there’s a template, sent registered mail. My VP told me ⬇️
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The Spark Society @sparksociety.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Spark Society appreciates your support. Thank you all for your donations. In addition to donations, I encourage those who study animal or human cognition to become a member of the Spark Society. If you support diverse voices and building inclusive spaces in Cognitive Psy/Sci, you belong!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🎉 🚨 UPDATE: As suspected, the cruel Lamberth & Watson bill to kick undocumented kids out of schools across 🇺🇸 is DEAD FOR THE YEAR, after huge pushback. Bravo, y’all 👏🏽 — finances is the excuse, but the truth is the support wasn’t there because of the backlash.
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The Spark Society @sparksociety.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.
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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 19/04/2025
New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
screenshot of semantic distance R package information
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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Keivan Stassun's program at Vanderbilt is impressive, and it's a real loss that its NSF funding has been cancelled. He was notified of $4 million in funding in January and, of course, that's all gone now, for no good reason.
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab at Vanderbilt @medvanderbilt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We are currently accepting applications for a lab manager position to oversee the administration of multiple grant-funded research projects! More info below: ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Coordinator- Full-Time, Term
Please note: this is a full-time, term position. The Research Coordinator is part of the Mood, Emotion, and Development Lab housed in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Peabody Coll...
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“I struggle to help students revise AI generated text because there aren’t promising ideas in AI sentences. AI sentences, rather, are banal because these technologies select from the middle of the statistical distribution. These bots write in distinctly average ways.”
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I'll be presenting data from a project run in parallel to the one presented in @vrtliceralde.bsky.social's talk yesterday, this time exploring how individual differences in 10- to 15-year-olds affect language processing. Work with @duanegwatson.bsky.social. Poster session 2 at #hsp2025 today!
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
In DC for #hsp2025! This morning, @vrtliceralde.bsky.social will be presenting some of our work investigating individual differences in sentence processing. Happy first conference day 🤗
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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In case you ever get a bunch of prickly pear cactus needles in your pants and boil your pants in case the needles will dissolve, I’m here to tell you they definitely will not oof ouch owie
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It appears the Trump Admin is shutting down the Dept of Education's International and Foreign Language Education unit, which funds and administers University and graduate foreign language study throughout the country and overseas. If true, an act of national sabotage. www.ed.gov/about/ed-off...
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 14/03/2025
Oh heck yeah this feed is fantastic, I need more people in #linguistics to see it too
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Learned today that @duanegwatson.bsky.social and I have been awarded NSF funding to investigate the effects of reading exposure on second language processing! I can’t put into words my gratitude to all the people at NSF who continue to do the good work. Feeling especially proud to be #firstgen 🍾
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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