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Linguischick
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Linguist who posts about languages 🙌 science 🧬 doggos 🐕 plants 🌱 the enviroment ♻️ music 🎶 disability justice ♿️ and politics 🆘️
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 6d
If you can donate to help Texas School for the Deaf build a new playground for their kids, please click the link to contribute givebutter.com/jdeuBe
2026 Saddles Up
By Texas School for the Deaf Foundation
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cocchino.bsky.social
If you can donate to help Texas School for the Deaf build a new playground for their kids, please click the link to contribute givebutter.com/jdeuBe
2026 Saddles Up
By Texas School for the Deaf Foundation
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February 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM
cocchino.bsky.social
Last call for abstracts for the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America Conference #CLANAC2 in Kelowna, BC this May 27-29, 2026. Any topics related to Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. Deadline has been extended to Jan. 30 and can be submitted here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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January 20, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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historyiswhat.bsky.social
"Future looks bleak for Anihšināpēmowin, other language programs at First Nations University"
Future looks bleak for Anihšināpēmowin, other language programs at First Nations University | CBC News
The program, along with other Indigenous Language programs at the university, faces difficulties as classes have been cut down. This situation raises concerns about the fate of language learning.
www.cbc.ca
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me

apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

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About the PhD: Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
January 15, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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jcollins.bsky.social
People who aren't in Minnesota might not know that if you drive or walk past pretty much any school, there's going to be a group of people, parents and childless, standing guard to make sure the kids are safe from feds. It's pretty remarkable. And very disturbing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues
Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some sc...
www.mprnews.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
The American Dialect Society has chosen its word of the year: slop…used as both a freestanding noun, and a productive suffix! Check out all the words we nominated at the link! And while I nominated “that’s AI” (and it won for most useful), there’s no fake news here!
January 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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terynce.com
The Multilingual Education SIG is hosting its preconference Wednesday, Jan 28th, 1pm. If you aren't already a member, you can join! We'll have a presentation by @annalim.bsky.social followed by a social gathering in the evening. #ACEDHH2026
MLE SIG Announcement 2026
YouTube video by Christopher Kurz
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January 6, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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johnbasil.bsky.social
I'm hiring! 2 x PhD positions to work at Uni Zurich with me on "Evolutionary Semantics" for an ERC-funded project. semantically curious MA grads from linguistics, cog psych, anthro encouraged to apply
evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...
Studying the Evolution of Abstract Thought - NCCR Evolving Language
In the new ERC-funded project, “Conceptual Diversity and the Evolution of Abstract Thought” (CONCEVO), Mansfield will lead a team of researchers to develop a method for reconstructing the evolution of...
evolvinglanguage.ch
January 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
finally, we're living through precedented times
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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bug-gwen.bsky.social
Love this story about traditional ecological knowledge and stingless beekeeping in Peru! news.mongabay.com/2026/01/im-p...
‘I’m proud to be the first published Asháninka researcher’: Richar Antonio Demetrio on bees
In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a traditional Amazonian fermented beverage. Every day, she would boil and mash ...
news.mongabay.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
It's also worth noting here that the *minimum* salary for these ICE positions is $52,205. While the *median* salaries for childcare workers and home health aides are less than $35,000 per year.
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Dec 31
This ICE job posting reads like a video game ad. Which is almost certainly by design.
An ad for an ICE Criminal Investigator position with a salary range of $52,205 to $144,031 per year. The ad states: "Are you ready to defend the homeland? Launch an impactful career as a criminal investigator with Homeland Security Investigations at ICE! Join an elite team dedicated to defending the United States by tackling complex criminal threats and securing our nation's safety. This role requires no college degree and offers up to $40,000 in signing bonuses. If you're bond, analytical, and ready to make a difference, join JSI and become a vital part of Homeland Security!"
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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lingthusiasm.com
💯 It's our 100th episode! 💯

To celebrate, we're giving you 100 fun facts about linguistics this month

See how many you recognize and tell us about your favourite linguistics facts this month in honour of our 100th episodiversary!
100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics
This is our hundredth episode that's enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we've put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and
soundcloud.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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malwarejake.bsky.social
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers. Over the past two decades, the office of the US Trade Representative–which is responsible for developing and coordinating US international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy—has pressured most of the world into adopting these laws, hamstringing foreign startups that might compete with Apple (by providing a jailbreaking kit that installs a third-party app store), or Google (by blocking tracking on Android devices), or Amazon (by converting Kindle and Audible files to formats that work on rival apps), or John Deere (by disabling the systems that block third-party repairs), or the Big Three automakers (by decoding the encrypted error messages mechanics need to service our cars). The rents that these digital locks help American companies extract run to hundreds of billions of dollars every single year. The world’s governments agreed to protect this racket in exchange for tariff-free access to American markets. Now that the US has reneged on its side of the bargain, these laws serve no useful purpose.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
Episode of @npr.org Code Switch about the student protests and bloody strikes that led to the creation of ethnic studies across the US. I think about this episode all the time, especially when University administrators shut down protests & closed racialized student groups. TW: police violence
What the 1968 fight for ethnic studies classes teaches us about today : Code Switch
The fight over the soul of higher education is very alive right now, with the Trump administration engaged in dozens of investigations and multiple lawsuits against colleges and universities around th...
www.npr.org
December 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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philosophypills.bsky.social
Scientists should listen to philosophers more: correlation is not causation.

New research shows fMRI signals don’t always match the brain’s true activity levels, overturning a core assumption used in tens of thousands of studies.

neurosciencenews.com/fmri-neural-...
fMRI Signals Often Misread Neural Activity - Neuroscience News
fMRI signals don’t always match the brain’s true activity levels, overturning a core assumption used in tens of thousands of studies.
neurosciencenews.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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propublica.org
Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like.

Here’s how to use it.
Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.

(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
cocchino.bsky.social
"take away Gxxgle's predatory acquisitions they wouldn't have a mobile stack, an ad stack...a server management, they wouldn't have document collaboration, they wouldn't have navigation. They haven't made a successful consumer-facing product in this millenium" Cory Doctorow
youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?...
a man in a suit and tie is pointing at something with the caption " what is that "
Alt: Jake Gyllenhaal in a black shirt puts on his glasses while he looks closwr at something near the camera. White text reads "what is that" " is that a burn?"
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
cocchino.bsky.social
Funny coffeeshop chats:
1) Guy gives his guy friend a book as a gift, "oh cool, now I have a book to read"
2) two elderly ladies making plans for lunch, "I have leftover Chinese at home. Beef and mushrooms. Maybe you can show me how to reanimate the Mexican round things that come with the Chinese."
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Chart via @taxfoundation.bsky.social / @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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dfriedman.bsky.social
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Dec 8
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.

This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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democracydocket.com
NEW: The South Carolina NAACP and three voters with disabilities sued state election officials, arguing that several state laws restricting who can give and receive voting assistance violate Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act. They seek to block the restrictions.
🚨 NAACP South Carolina State Conference v. Wilson
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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manymindspod.bsky.social
The sound of your uncle's laugh; an ice cream cone you had ten years ago. Why do we hold on to memories like these? Are they more than mere mental clutter?

Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social!

Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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nilomorph.bsky.social
5-year (!) postdoc opportunity: Join our Edinburgh team and do fieldwork on the Burun languages!

Deadline for application: 17 December.

Position starts March 1st, 2025

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM