Brett Baker
@bjbaker.bsky.social
Phonologist, dad, and sometime psycholinguist wannabe. I study and promote Australian Indigenous languages and cultures. UMelbourne. Truth is, I'm mostly here for the physics arguments. And the archaeology.
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TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
Brandeis University, Biology Department
Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
Is #BarnabyJoyce pissed?? @abcnewsbot.bsky.social 7.30
October 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Is #BarnabyJoyce pissed?? @abcnewsbot.bsky.social 7.30
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UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
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Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
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UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language
sites.utexas.edu
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
🤘
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
🤘
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It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
March 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.
March 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.
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The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning
February 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning
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🚨 🚨 Last call for abstracts: Usage-based Approaches to Phonology welcomes papers using diverse methods to explore the emergence of phonological patterns from language use. Plenary by Joan Bybee (U of New Mexico). Come hang with us at U. of Oregon, July 12 & 13. sites.google.com/view/usage-b... 🐦🐦
February 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🚨 🚨 Last call for abstracts: Usage-based Approaches to Phonology welcomes papers using diverse methods to explore the emergence of phonological patterns from language use. Plenary by Joan Bybee (U of New Mexico). Come hang with us at U. of Oregon, July 12 & 13. sites.google.com/view/usage-b... 🐦🐦
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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
February 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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President Trump’s comments tonight suggesting a US Gaza takeover are a call for a crime against humanity & should be unequivocally rejected & condemned by world leaders & American lawmakers regardless of party.
Statement from @nancyokail.bsky.social ↘️
Statement from @nancyokail.bsky.social ↘️
February 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
President Trump’s comments tonight suggesting a US Gaza takeover are a call for a crime against humanity & should be unequivocally rejected & condemned by world leaders & American lawmakers regardless of party.
Statement from @nancyokail.bsky.social ↘️
Statement from @nancyokail.bsky.social ↘️
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My latest:
Did you hear about the Friday coup?
Elon Musk is in control.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My latest:
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Academic letters of recommendation: a guide for the perplexed (Bluesky edition).
November 20, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Academic letters of recommendation: a guide for the perplexed (Bluesky edition).
Happy to announce (open) publication of our new paper on speech processing in a language where the initial segment alternates: www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...
Lenition, fortition, and lexical access in Iwaidja and Mawng
Many models of word recognition assume that spoken words are faithful to their phonological shape in the lexicon and that word recognition begins with the first incoming segment and proceeds linearly....
www.journal-labphon.org
January 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Happy to announce (open) publication of our new paper on speech processing in a language where the initial segment alternates: www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...
Rohit has 'opted out' of 5th Test #AUSvIND @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Rohit has 'opted out' of 5th Test #AUSvIND @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
I love #SamKonstas, and his performance on day one got me back into cricket after about 30 years of non-interest. But maybe now the media can go easy on the hero worship frenzy. We've seen enough of that over the years. #AusvInd
December 29, 2024 at 8:58 AM
I love #SamKonstas, and his performance on day one got me back into cricket after about 30 years of non-interest. But maybe now the media can go easy on the hero worship frenzy. We've seen enough of that over the years. #AusvInd
Posting again now that there are more of us here: Does anyone know of a 2nd position/wackernagel’s position clitic language where VP can host clitics? And I’m only interested in VPs that have overt object!
December 27, 2024 at 4:24 AM
Posting again now that there are more of us here: Does anyone know of a 2nd position/wackernagel’s position clitic language where VP can host clitics? And I’m only interested in VPs that have overt object!
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🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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Research Management System - Scheme Round Statistics for Approved Applications - Discovery Projects 2025 round 1
RMS is the ARC's Research Management System, a web-based system used by eligible researchers to prepare and submit research proposals and assessments under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program ...
rms.arc.gov.au
November 26, 2024 at 12:13 AM
🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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Accurate
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
A mom: bring that cup and all the other dishes out of your room and wash them and put them back in the cupboard
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
A mom: bring that cup and all the other dishes out of your room and wash them and put them back in the cupboard
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Mircobiologist: the cup is full. Just look at what grew on this plate when wd swabbed the inside of the cup and the sequences we recovered from the filtered air.
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Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Mircobiologist: the cup is full. Just look at what grew on this plate when wd swabbed the inside of the cup and the sequences we recovered from the filtered air.
🧪🧫
November 24, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Accurate
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A bill that could see up to 80,000 people deported from Australia if it becomes law next week. A law that would create a global offshore detention network where refugees could be sent anywhere and then back to danger. Help us stop it: action.asrc.org.au/deportation_...
November 22, 2024 at 6:52 AM
A bill that could see up to 80,000 people deported from Australia if it becomes law next week. A law that would create a global offshore detention network where refugees could be sent anywhere and then back to danger. Help us stop it: action.asrc.org.au/deportation_...
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PhD opportunity: Bdelloid rotifers are strange animals with no males and amazing stress tolerance. 10% of their genes came from bacteria, fungi via HGT, including antimicrobial genes that are unique in animals. Find out how/why and discover new antimicrobials too! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 22, 2024 at 5:44 PM
PhD opportunity: Bdelloid rotifers are strange animals with no males and amazing stress tolerance. 10% of their genes came from bacteria, fungi via HGT, including antimicrobial genes that are unique in animals. Find out how/why and discover new antimicrobials too! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Why did I #quitTwitter/X? Apart from Msuck being a complete dick, it was my 12 year old daughter who apparently has a higher standard of ethics than me demanding I do so (because, Msuck ...)
November 19, 2024 at 4:37 AM
Why did I #quitTwitter/X? Apart from Msuck being a complete dick, it was my 12 year old daughter who apparently has a higher standard of ethics than me demanding I do so (because, Msuck ...)
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36,000 followers ain't gonna cut it, people. That's smaller than the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement denomination of the Sabbatarian movement formed from a schism in the European Seventh Day Adventist Church based on conflicting views over Sabbath observance, and they suck ass.
November 19, 2024 at 4:18 AM
36,000 followers ain't gonna cut it, people. That's smaller than the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement denomination of the Sabbatarian movement formed from a schism in the European Seventh Day Adventist Church based on conflicting views over Sabbath observance, and they suck ass.
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Science is in trouble and it worries me.
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2024 at 5:13 AM
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The mess we're in follows more than two decades of mismanagement by both parties, and a disastrous shift towards tuition fees and consumerisation which has nearly destroyed the idea of higher ed as a public good. First step to fixing this is to admit your mistakes www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Three in four England universities expected to be in the red next year
Higher education regulator says sector needs to take ‘take bold action’ and consider mergers or cost sharing
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:26 AM
The mess we're in follows more than two decades of mismanagement by both parties, and a disastrous shift towards tuition fees and consumerisation which has nearly destroyed the idea of higher ed as a public good. First step to fixing this is to admit your mistakes www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Excuse me, but #whothefuckisjakepaul and really why should I care?
November 16, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Excuse me, but #whothefuckisjakepaul and really why should I care?