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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And the basis for that argument was misunderstanding heritability and getting mad about Lewontin and Gould

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Faculty senates should be paying attention to whether their Universities contracts with Microsoft are using their notes to train to the AI. Now, that my folks, is an academic freedom issue.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The politicization & illegal cancellation of federal research funding is an existential crisis for every research university in the country, especially flagship R1 publics. Again, you would think university presidents would speak up, loudly & collectively, about this. Alas. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In the wake of Modi’s consolidation of power in India, and the carte blanche it gave to casteism and Islamophobia in India, the open lynchings of Dalits and Muslims became quotidian. I see the exact pattern repeating in the US.

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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Does she sound like Michiganders? Sure, she sounds like some Michiganders (nb: El-Sayed also sounds like a Michigander, just of a younger generation). Is she "the voice of Michigan", as her response ads say? That's up to voters.

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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Haley Stevens's accent has people talking. Is it really a Michigan accent? (spoiler: yes. It really is - tho see the note below) I had fun talking with the New York Times about one of my very specific niches of expertise (Michigan English). www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

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How Haley Stevens’s Accent Became a Flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate Race (Gift Article)

How the politics of raised a’s and disappearing g’s briefly came to dominate the Michigan Senate race.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Friends at #CogSci2026! @mattgoldrick.bsky.social received this year's Elman prize (BEYOND well-deserved) and now he and I are giving joint talks as part of the Elman Symposium at this year's meeting! Friday 2-3:30pm in Gavea A! Multilingualism, cognitive science, and society! Come see us!

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This can help you get started if it all seems intimidating.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not like us.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It's well enough known in the food world to make a good heuristic. If you want to know if a repeat outbreak-causer is doing it through accident & incompetence, or if they actually know what they're doing & are taking steps to avoid getting caught, Check & see if they sell in Minnesota.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

You know what's crazy? This guy sells almost everywhere in the US EXCEPT MINNESOTA. Minnesota's public health dept is famous in the food safety world for being #1 at tracking down the source of outbreaks- way faster than any other state. What an interesting coincidence!

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So, if there are shenanigans we can fight for people as a group rather than people fighting for their individual comments. We have full records and are monitoring it nearly hourly at this point. Here is our public comment portal: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

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Stand up for Science

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

She emphasizes the value of individual comments that address specific provisions rather than form letters, and gives you the details you will need to write and submit an effective comment. She offers examples for people at all career stages and for concerned members of the public. 4/n

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Proposed regulations from Office of the Management of the Budget will be devastating for science. Fight back by getting informed and writing personalized comments in the Federal Register comment period. Excellent resources from @standupforscience.net fight2win.standupforscience.net

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Stand up for Science

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 30/05/2026

Vought is trying to destroy American science as we know it. Here's what you can do to stop him: 👉 Visit our action center: zurl.co/NXVak 👉 Donate to Fuel the Fight for Science: zurl.co/PHtGH

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"address technical challenges and bottlenecks that university and industry labs cannot easily solve through traditional methods." that's a lot of words for "ethics reviews are hampering my freedoms"

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Roman Feiman @romanfeiman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

NSF wouldn’t have to do this if only we had institutions where the best researchers from different disciplines were all in a complex of buildings so it would be easy to work together, and also they did that while training the next generation of researchers, and also they liked Trump more

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Legacy linguistic data can take on new lives when returned to source communities. In this talk, Nicté Fuller Medina explores restitution, stewardship, and the afterlives of archived Belizean Spanish recordings. Thursday, May 14 • 12–1 PM ET. Register today! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Obama recently urged Democrats to “talk like normal people” instead of sounding like they’re in a “college seminar.” I explore the language ideologies that undergird his advice and how they align with the rightwing assault on higher education. educationallinguist.substack.com/p/obama-norm...

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Obama, “Normal People,” and the Politics of Academic Language

In a recent interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, former President Barack Obama argued that Democrats need to do a better job “talking like normal people talk” instead of sounding like they...

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

📣 CALL FOR INTERVIEWS! If you know a recently retired sociolinguist who had a major influence on the field, consider interviewing them and publishing the transcript with the Journal of Sociolinguistics! To propose an interview, just email the EICs with your idea - contact details below 👇

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026

2016: Black students complaining that dehumanizing language on campus and in the media is dangerous 2016-2026: cancel culture hysteria, these students are whining about nothing 2026: Black people losing the right to vote on a state-by-state basis ANYONE WANT TO REVISE THEIR ASSESSMENT?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This semester I taught a course on the History of the Far Right in the US. We were lucky to have one of the Pacific Northwest's best contemporary chroniclers and interpreters of the far right, @leahsottile.bsky.social, visit the class. This piece by Leah was inspired by what she heard students say.

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As extreme politics have normalized, young people have grown up not knowing any other way. For months, I've spent time getting to know 10 college students who literally do not recall a time in America without Trump. My latest for @thewesternedge.bsky.social www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...

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The Age of No Innocence

What if all you knew was extremist politics? Welcome to being young in America.

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm seeing a lot of Indian and global analysis of what happened in West Bengal as a watershed moment for Narendra Modi. The narrative is that the BJP won in the shadow of voter suppression, but Bengali voters were tired of the TMC. And while that is true, this is not the real story.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026

More evidence of how fucking chock-full of eugenics silicon valley iss, has been, and will continue to be if steps aren't taken to name, acknowledge, and dismantle those connections. '“All my fundees have blue eyes.” [Jeffrey] Epstein and the tech world’s dark ideology'

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"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology - Coda Story

The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026

TBF I don’t think this is a small point, just maybe not THE major point. We should also probably keep this in mind in the obsession with ending WGS and Ethnic Studies programs at colleges and universities.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Really proud to have been a part of this paper, with Rob, Martin, Alicia, Alex, Anna and @kirbyconrod.bsky.social Check it out for how to conceptualize "race" and "ethnicity" in linguistic research. Spoiler alert: it's not something that can be addressed with word choice at the very end.

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Enhancing linguistic research through critical use of race and ethnicity information | Language | Cambridge Core

Enhancing linguistic research through critical use of race and ethnicity information

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Steffen Höder @steffenhoeder.de · 27/04/2026

I wouldn't mind hosting a postdoc doing work in Construction Grammar and/or Scandinavian Linguistics: www.forschung.uni-kiel.de/en/research-...

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/04/2026

breaking: 80-student encampment up at Occidental College in California, demanding the Board of Trustees commit to divest from Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar amid the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine at an upcoming meeting on Monday.

Los Angeles, CA (April 24, 2026) — 80 Occidental college students and community members set up an encampment on the Academic Quad to demand that their college divests from weapons manufacturing, the prison industrial complex, and war profiteering. Occidental students collected over 600 signatures on a resolution calling on the College to divest from companies that profit off and enable israeli genocide. After the Board of Trustees refused to vote on the timely resolution, the students launched an encampment ahead of the Spring trustees meeting on April 27th to demand that the board vote on the resolution and take action towards divestment.

“We are a new class of students calling on Occidental to uphold its stated values by divesting from companies that build the bombs which are used by the zionist state to obliterate families in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran. It’s been two years since the last encampment, and we have witnessed the College double down on genocidal investments and student repression.”

– said Aurelia Mendez-Ortega

On Monday April 27th, the Occidental College Board of Trustees will be meeting on campus to enjoy a extravagant meal while they authorize the further investment of our schools money into the military industrial complex, ICE detention centers, and surveillance technology.

Students are calling on the University to divest from companies like Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar that aid in the zionist military’s genocide in Palestine and facilitate their brutal warfare, surveillance, and ethnic cleansing around the world. “How can I go on as usual, while students in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran are murdered by the zionist state? We came to college to learn, not to have our tuition dollars invested into a the cult of death. ” — said Athya Paramesh who decided to join the encampment.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics! Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper. More soon!

Title page of our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception,” with Lauren Davenport (Stanford) and Hunter Rendleman (UC Berkeley), dated April 14, 2026.

Abstract: What makes someone Black in American society today? From Donald Trump questioning Kamala Harris’s racial identity to Joe Biden’s claim that hesitant Black voters “ain’t Black,” American politics frequently brings questions of racial authenticity and belonging to the surface. Yet political science often approaches race as a fixed attribute rather than a social construction. Here, we seek to understand how Americans define blackness in social and political life. Using a conjoint experiment with a racially diverse sample that includes Black, white, and mixed race Black-white respondents, we evaluate how ascribed and acquired traits influence perceptions of blackness. The results show that inherited characteristics—particularly parentage and skin tone, which are the strongest determinants of racial classification—play a central role, while sociopolitical cues such as partisanship, neighborhood context, and spousal race also influence racial classification. Using a continuous measure, we also show that respondents make graded assessments of blackness rather than purely binary classifications, with some individuals perceived as more Black than others. Black respondents are more likely than white respondents to classify a broader set of profiles as Black, consistent with a more inclusive understanding of racial membership, yet they also place greater emphasis on shared political identity. These findings clarify how racial categories are socially constructed and why that construction carries real political and social consequences.

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Olli Silvennoinen @ollisilv.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers. 🧵

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ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage

Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts

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savithry @savithry.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Afternoon ROLE sessions continue: first, @kellykendro.bsky.social & @reycabreraperez.bsky.social on systematic terminological review as a methodological approach to metaresearch, and Vilani Rajapakse on individual differences in picture naming RTs amongst bilinguals

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savithry @savithry.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Dra Elizabeth Buenabad has worked for decades on the education of Indigenous children in the state of Puebla — she highlights the multilingual and multicultural reality of the area across centuries (i can’t keep up the crossling live posting but this talk is 🔥 and plz check out the recording after!)

Reinaldo Cabrera Pérez y Doctoras Buenabad y Stransky sitting at a table in front of Dra Buenabad’s title slide

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savithry @savithry.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

ROLE conf started now! You can still register and join — and presentations will be online! We started with an inspiring intro by Dani who stated that our research must reflect a reality where mobility, migration, and multilingualism are the norm

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savithry @savithry.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

en route to Mexico City for the 3rd ROLE Conf; looking forward to presentations rethinking categorization across languages & borders it’s not too late to register for the online Friday symposium www.rolecollective.org/events/3rd-r... (we’ll have trilingual interpretation: English&Spanish to ASL)

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The ROLE Collective - 3rd ROLE Symposium

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career The loss of Brian Donovan’s grants and job speak volumes about federal funding priorities — and academia www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

ALSO! If you're not good with the idea of a future child being LGBTQ+ you're not fit to be a parent. SEND TWEET.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

To do this on Trans Day of Visibility is violence. At 15, I was sent to a "troubled teens boarding school" that used conversion "therapy"...it is torturous & I know of five who experienced it that died by suicide. This "therapy" is not evidence-based, it is unscientific, and it kills.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Plus, a comprehensive explainer thread by paper's first author @pfcook.bsky.social, well worth checking out.👇

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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 08/03/2026

in an interview with 404media, a former data labeller said it should be called African intelligence given how much the tech industry relies on exploitative labor in Kenya and other countries in Africa. that really stuck with me.

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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 03/03/2026

This is it exactly. As @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social and I wrote in a piece out today--even as these states deny the existence of trans identity, they build administrative systems to track us-- an expanding architecture of surveillance and control. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl...

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When Compliance Becomes A Crime

What Does Transgender Citizenship Mean after a New Kansas Law?

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 20/02/2026

If you, like me, have Peacock for a limited time so you can watch the Olympics and Paralympics, give yourself the gift of watching We Are Lady Parts as many times as possible before you cancel your subscription. We Are Lady Parts. Just over and over again. Your life will improve.

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