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Sarah Shulist (she/her)

@sarahling.bsky.social
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Linguist, anthropologist, all around mouthy person. Queen’s U, Kingston, ON. Opinions represent me and only me.

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Hey that’s my cat!
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pierre Poilievre spoke out for the group he says faces the most hate-based violence. Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t). I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:
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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Orange Shirt Day is a time to reflect on Canada's continuing violence against Indigenous children. It is a time to remember that Canada still takes Indigenous children from their families. It is time to demand that these crimes stop. Not 150 years from now. Not a decade from now. NOW.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
While I welcome increasing conversations on residential schools in Canada, after several years of noticing how the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is engaged with at my kids' schools, it feels like the orange shirt story has become a sanitization of genocide.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"How the Word is Passed" is my favourite non-fiction book of all time, both because of its information and because of its prose. An adaptation for young readers is amazing to hear about.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This....requires a very strange definition of "civilized society".
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I have been a little bit under a rock and missed this *horrifying* action at U Alberta. The speed with which these kinds of attacks on freedom of expression are picking up in Canada is incredible - like movement that has finally hit the top of a hill and is racing down now.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 27/09/2025
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.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We are less than 24 hours after Kirk's death, and I've seen multiple people fired for saying anything negative about him, mainstream news outlets comparing him to Malcolm X, and a dominant discourse that treats him as a visionary leader. This is fucking *bananas*.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
As someone living outside but within spitting distance of the US, the feeling of dread at how the apparatus of maximum violence will respond to political violence against it is both intense and familiar.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 11/09/2025
Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table
Kirk said that Jewish people control “not just the colleges; it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.” Kirk also said ”the number one funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions, and nonprofits" is “Jewish donors.” Claims that wealthy Jewish people and donors control major institutions and Hollywood are common antisemitic tropes. [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/26/23; The Washington Post, 10/17/22; The Times of Israel, 11/17/22]
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Politicizing tragedy is always out of bounds and a horrific desecration of the victim if it’s in service of trying to prevent future tragedy by taking obvious and proved remedies. But it’s perfectly fine if it’s in service of demonizing an out-group for retaliation with literally zero .
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Oh hey, Happy Star Trek Day. I wrote a thing.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I have been slightly AWOL on here, but I am popping in to share a new article that I wrote which has just been published in the Journal of Linguistic Anthroplogy (open access!). It is about Star Trek, the Universal Translator, and utopias. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper uses Star Trek's “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference. Although such...
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Crunk @crunk1977.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Joining ICE to fulfill his lifelong dream of killing some brown people. Pretty fucked up.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
"Don't wash your Holocaust trauma with Palestinian blood" Amen.
"Don't wash your Holocaust trauma with Palestinian blood"

📍From Berlin, Germany
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The heatwaves next week are literally going to kill people even if the grids don’t go down; meanwhile, tech billionaires are trying to convince us that using the fake answer machines will solve all our problems.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Having stood in a lineup starting at 4:00 a.m. to get a family doctor, I can confirm this game would sell out in <30 seconds.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Relatedly in "very specific book details that make me nope out", I have never forgiven Ali Hazelwood for writing a novel in which a tenured Harvard professor accused of sexual harassment was immediately fired and academically disgraced. I like fantasies too, but that one hit too hard.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is how genocide always sounds. "We are the good, the just, the deserving." This is the same language that still justifies the dispossession of Indigenous lands on Turtle Island, and that always contains the logic that whoever opposes us is therefore evil at worst and misguided at best.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
… Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped Look at that low plane, fine, then Uh oh, overflow, population, common group But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed Perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order?
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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Yes yes yes, and: 1) someone leading the NYT podcast on trans youth was cited 3 times by Thomas as reason to restrict care, 2) I don't think this case is the big setback (I think the right/NYT stuff is!), and 3) I don't know any trans person (myself incl) who was optimistic on the Supreme Court?
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"I assume most academic research begins with literature scanned and synthesized by [LLMs]" is the functional equivalent of saying "I am willing to accept that all of our knowledge apparatus, moving forward, is going to be built on a foundation of absolute bullshit".
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We spent years being manipulated by conservatives with the ear of establishment centrists and liberals into addressing a fake free speech crisis, precisely so people could be punished for speaking out against perhaps the most contemporaneously well-documented genocide in history
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
“As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza.” That’s what an Ottawa high school Valedictorian said to cheers. She was told not to come to school the next day.
"As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza," Yao said, breaking off as the crowd cheered.

The next day, Yao said she received a call from her principal, who said her statements had "caused harm" and told her she shouldn't come to school on Monday.
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Great to see this! academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl...
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Layers, cells, and constellations: Jon Henner’s Twitter platform as crip activism
Abstract. This paper examines the role of Jon Henner’s Twitter presence (@jmhenner) as a form of crip activism, exploring how he used the platform to chall
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Canada has failed its last opportunity to chart a moral course in this defining moment in human history. Condemning the victim of Israeli aggression and lauding disingenuous US ‘diplomacy’ is simply pathetic.
Canada condemns Iran’s attack on Israel, and urges restraint on both sides. Further actions can cause devastating consequences for the broader region.

The U.S.-Iran negotiations represent the best path to achieving a lasting and peaceful resolution to Iran's nuclear program. Diplomatic engagement remains essential to ensuring long-term regional stability and international security.

Iran cannot obtain nuclear weapons. Iran’s continued efforts to pursue nuclear weapons, support for terrorists, and direct attacks on civilian centres embody Iran's persistent threat to regional stability and to Israel, which has the right to defend itself.

Canadians in the region are encouraged to remain vigilant and to register with the embassy in order to receive timely updates.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Now we are forced to choose between two kinds of death: starvation, or bullets"
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I'm not sure there's anywhere else in Canada (except maybe St John's) that can answer this as easily as Kingston can. youtu.be/QE2joQsWXJg?...
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The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheTragicallyHipVEVO
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“Universities have to prioritize space for courageous, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations about honouring Indigenous presence, centring Indigenous voices in hiring and about what affects our sense of belonging as Indigenous peoples navigating academia.” macleans.ca/society/how-...
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How Universities Can Address False Claims to Indigeneity - Macleans.ca
At McGill, we've launched one of the first university policies in Canada to verify Indigenous citizenship. Reconciliation demands no less.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
412 academics, diplomats, former ministers, + lawyers send 🇨🇦 PM @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social letter re: Israel’s Gaza genocide demanding Canada “do everything in its power to stop these atrocities and support efforts to bring those responsible to account,” including sanctions + end to free trade.
• Insist on full humanitarian access to Gaza in a manner in keeping with core humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence, and demand that the Israeli ban on the UN Relief and Works Agency be completely lifted.
• Publicly support the role of and fully comply with international courts in holding to account those who violate international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israel.
• Pursue all possible domestic measures, including immediately withdrawing from the free trade agreement between Canada and Israel, imposing sanctions on Israeli leaders and other individuals suspected of involvement in atrocity crimes, initiating investigations into charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (including any Canadians or dual nationals involved in such crimes) with the aim of prosecuting offenders in Canada or other jurisdictions, enforcing a full and comprehensive two- way arms embargo, and stripping charitable status from organizations found to be complicit in crimes under international law.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This whole conversation about protest "optics" reminds me of all the commentary about how [insert any group other than cishet white men] just needs to stop with the slang/vocal fry/using 'like'/uptalk and THEN we will definitely take them seriously.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Accepting the terms of interpretation that the right wing is imposing on to the symbols of protest is not helpful to the protest. This has been today's lesson in meta-semiotics.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The softening language at the beginning of the linked article helps no one. He “died in a shooting”, like it’s a natural disaster, not “he was murdered in a hate crime”. Even if you have to hedge with “alleged” or “according to witness”.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
No end to the depravity: the Bronx high school abducted by ICE and hidden from his lawyers has received a serious medical diagnosis that he can’t be informed of because he has literally been disappeared by the state. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/02/n...
Bronx public school student Dylan, who was detained by federal authorities at a recent immigration hearing, received a medical diagnosis over the weekend that his lawyers say demand his immediate release.

Worse yet, since learning this new information, Dylan’s legal team has been unable to reach him. Dylan is believed to be in Pennsylvania, leaving the 20-year-old Venezuelan student in the dark about his health, according to new filings Monday in his habeas case.

“Counsel have been unable to contact Dylan to confer with him about this critical medical development,” read the court documents. “In other words, while Dylan’s counsel know his medical diagnosis and the serious risk he faces, but Dylan does not.”
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is the peak form of a depraved "both sides are suffering in a conflict" approach to talking about the world. Palestinians are starving to death; hospitals, schools, refugee camps have all been bombed and burned; children are being murdered en masse. Elite Israeli athletes are stressed out.
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Visit by embodiment of colonialism really sticking it to Trump, smug Canadians say
King Charles and Queen Camilla wave to adoring crowds.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
So let me get this straight, when I say there's no ethical way to use GenAI, it's because I'm wrong and shortsighted and hate technology, but when this guy says there's no ethical way to use GenAI, it's because he's right and super forward thinking and ahead of the game?
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
My 9 year old woke me up at 4 due to a not-crisis crisis and I'm having trouble writing grammatical sentences on BlueSky, but somehow figure I can polish this conference paper into fully readable form today.
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a cat is walking down a set of wooden stairs .
Alt: a cat is flopping down a set of wooden stairs .
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Some ideas are do not deserve "civility".
Tweet from Najat (@theafroaussie): "Another week of watching people burned alive in Gaza and we're still required to be civil with Zionists, right?"
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I mean, the literally mean "do it in the white way". "Civility" is an ideologically loaded and easily manipulated word that pretends that it is just as violent to confront someone over their support for hate as it is to express that hate.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Students usually arrive in my anthro classes believing that racism (which they know is bad) is a set of ideas that build on and respond to pre-existing "race". One of the central points of the class becomes explaining that the concept of "race" exists because of and emerging out of racism.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
AI really hitting on the questions that we all want to know.
FB post from “That’s Style”. Photo of Pedro Pascal wearing a black shirt with cut off sleeves, seen from the back/side angle as he looks over his shoulder and smirks. Caption reads “Stop it Pedro, you know what you’re doing to us (hot/sweaty emoji)”. 

AI “suggestions” read “Why is Pedro doing this?” And “Is Pedro’s behavior intentional?”
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Steven Pinker is a) admitting that the boogieman of the anti-conservative university he's been screaming about for years is bullshit and also b) proudly touting his student's brilliant work in slapping a marketing label on a simple keyword search
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Big abusive partner saying "look what you made me do" energy in the comments referenced here, but on a literal genocidal scale.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Let’s be really clear here because it’s VERY important. It’s *christian evangelical Zionism* that is doing this. They are currently in control of our government. And protecting Israel so all the Jews can go there to die and start the rapture is their end game. Jews are a pawn they’re hiding behind.
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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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a man is singing into a microphone in front of a crowd of people in a dark room .
Alt: Gif from "Sinners:" Sammie straps on his guitar and starts singing the blues in the Juke Joint.
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