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Suzanne Evans Wagner

@suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social
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Linguistics professor at Michigan State University. Co-PI of mi-diaries.org. Poetry, food, flowers, music.

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Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · 22/08/2026
New episode! We constantly use sounds to send out signals about our identity. But what percent are we aware of? Not much! Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social and Jennifer Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social join us. Wherever podcasts are to be had. becauselanguage.com/144-sociopho... @academic.oup.com
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Nature @nature.com · 20/08/2026
The US National Science Foundation will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3UcGoNW
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
1. Science is a communal, human effort, which exists as an enormous conversation among scientists, sharing and challenging ideas and collectively building knowledge. >>
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Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tell me again how canceling humanities and science grants saved taxpayer money. “Put more simply: documents and interviews establish how a first-time contractor was paid millions of dollars to apply a novel solution designed by a golf club manager to a national landmark.”
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How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington (Gift Article)
A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump administration concedes it canceled research grants in blue states
The administration said 284 research grants were canceled because they were in states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/07/2026
The C.D.C.’s parasite-surveillance team, which was instrumental in tracing the origin of the 2013 cyclospora outbreak, had 11 scientists before DOGE began gutting federal agencies. Now it has three. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
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Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea
The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You may have never heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality. But they are the only federal agency supporting work that brings basic research & discovery down to practice: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/s...
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Health Care Agency Discontinues Dozens of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality slowed the awarding of new grants last year. Now it is stopping existing ones.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/07/2026
US research excels because generations of scientists have been free to pursue difficult questions, challenge conventional wisdom, and publish findings without political interference. The Trump admin wants to change that. @afthighered.bsky.social Full statement: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...
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AAUP, AFT Reject Trump’s Radical Plans to Overhaul Scientific Research Funding
AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued a statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to transform how the federal government funds research.
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Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Of course they did.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Non-tenure-track syntax/cog-sci position at Michigan State, starting 8/16! Must have PhD or be ABD in Linguistics. 5-course load + advising student research. #linguistics 🐦🐦https://careers.msu.edu/jobs/linguistics-instructor-ast-professor-fixed-term-east-lansing-michigan-united-states
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Linguistics Instructor/Ast Professor Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Working/Functional Title Linguistics Instructor/Ast Professor Fixed Term Position Summary The Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University seeks a full-time Instruct...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...
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DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/05/2026
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration’s cancellation of more than 1,400 previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities violated the Constitution, while also creating a broad “chilling effect.”
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DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
A lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities drew wide attention for revealing how DOGE had used ChatGPT to cancel grants.
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Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members
Members had planned to release report that US is ceding scientific ground to China.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:
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If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you.
The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta…
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Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Absolutely wild.
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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 02/12/2025
The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Canadian Linguistic { Association } canadienne de linguistique @cla-acl.ca · 02/10/2025
L’ACL encourage le gouvernement du Québec à reconsidérer son décret visant à interdire l’usage de certaines formes d’ #écritureinclusive. // The CLA calls on the Govt. of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of #inclusivewriting. #linguistique #linguistics cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...
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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It’s funny how often grifter pseudoscience results in “answers” that blame, punish, and control women, isn’t it?
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/09/2025
“The site announcing America’s new design studio is a hot mess. That’s a clue.”
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Authoritarian by design - DesignObserver
The "America by Design" initiative, issued by the Trump administration, pushes a harmful narrative with questionable visuals
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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Please join SOBLAC – The new @lingsocam.bsky.social SIG of Black Language and Culture! www.lsadc.org/AF_MemberCom... Help us spread the word!
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Responding to the mass cancellation of NSF grants, Fazio (@lkfazio.bsky.social), a researcher who studies misinformation: “What can US researchers do in this situation? One thing is clear: do not surrender to political pressure or abandon crucial research questions.”
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Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Devastating blow to longitudinal research. “Our ability to understand what’s going on with those women will be severely curtailed,” Anderson says. “They’ve been dedicated to this process for 30 years and provide their data generously...” Thirty years!!
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 10/04/2025
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"When pressed, several senior officials conceded that they had spent only a few days considering how the economic earthquake might have second-order effects." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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Analysis: Trump’s Tariffs Disrupt Global Trade Without a Clear Strategy
The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.
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Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
If you're headed to my poster with @betsysneller.bsky.social and @jackrechsteiner.bsky.social at #LingComm25, sorry I'm not there yet! Having some tech issues (on my side, not the conference's).
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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/04/2025
“ Medical miracles don't happen overnight. They take years. You won't notice it tomorrow or next week, but someday soon, you or a family member will be diagnosed with cancer, dementia, or some other terrifying disease, but this time there will be no miracle cure because there is no funding.”
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Trump cuts include Columbia U. research into mold at NYCHA, Bronx air quality
A government document details the numerous research projects on the chopping block, from research into local health to projects on cancer and Alzheimer’s.
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Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I thought the goal was to not waste taxpayer money?
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...
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Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies
The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 28/02/2025
Also Gandhi, accused of being improperly dressed while wearing a loincloth at a meeting with King George V, who later said, "The king was wearing enough for the both of us."
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If Trump can make millions of people believe he won in 2020, making them believe Ukraine started the war will be easy.
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Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This.
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Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t part of something so chilling.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
People—especially poor people—don't leave their home country at great risk unless the risk of staying—of dying—is far worse. Foreign aid is the cheapest way to curb mass migration, and to stave off pandemics and disease.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Cutting off all foreign aid and development assistance—which is less than 1% of US spending overall—won't save American taxpayers anything. It will cause millions to starve, and spur mass migration and terrorism as a result. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say (Gift Article)
A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.’s website went dark.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Department of Transportation order signed by the secretary tells staff to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” including on certain grant programs. It bars recipients of funding “from imposing vaccine and mask mandates.”
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Many NSF projects have core activities like doing the research work in collaboration w students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in research (mentoring them along the way), or running educational programs that help make STEM subjects widely accessible… This absolutely censors the research
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth
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