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@tamyak.bsky.social
Phonetician, languages of Cameroon and China / 他, wù / pro-international student / back in the US I guess
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We're accepting applications for a wide range of funding opportunities, including our new two-year Archives Training Fellowship for MLIS or doctoral graduates!!
Please share with your networks, and consider applying.
www.amphilsoc.org/cnair-fundin...
Please share with your networks, and consider applying.
www.amphilsoc.org/cnair-fundin...
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We're accepting applications for a wide range of funding opportunities, including our new two-year Archives Training Fellowship for MLIS or doctoral graduates!!
Please share with your networks, and consider applying.
www.amphilsoc.org/cnair-fundin...
Please share with your networks, and consider applying.
www.amphilsoc.org/cnair-fundin...
I love looking at low gray clouds
Guy seething with jealousy: Well, I think the normal sky is already pretty cool
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I love looking at low gray clouds
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I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students this cycle! You should apply to work with me if you're interested in anything low-resource NLP. Some topics I'm particularly excited about currently:
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students this cycle! You should apply to work with me if you're interested in anything low-resource NLP. Some topics I'm particularly excited about currently:
today I watched a pot and it boiled
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
today I watched a pot and it boiled
More emergent structure in language! @echodroff.bsky.social
⚠️ New paper! Why do words sound so similar? In an agent-based model + communication game, we show that production/comprehension pressures trade off to shape lexicon structure.
In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The lexicon adapts to competing communicative pressures: Explaining patterns of word similarity
Cross-linguistically, lexicons tend to be more phonetically clustered than required by the phonotactics of the language; that is, words within a langu…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
More emergent structure in language! @echodroff.bsky.social
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See this, for example. The same scientists who don't have the time and resources are the ones sitting in search and promotion/tenure committees, filtering hundreds of candidates. Evaluate quality? Sure. We all want to. When though?
This declaration doesn't meet problems where they arise.
This declaration doesn't meet problems where they arise.
Scientists feel that the pressure to publish is rising, but that the time and resources they have to do the necessary research are falling, according to a survey of 3,200 researchers
go.nature.com/4hNDvuN
go.nature.com/4hNDvuN
Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists
Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.
go.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
See this, for example. The same scientists who don't have the time and resources are the ones sitting in search and promotion/tenure committees, filtering hundreds of candidates. Evaluate quality? Sure. We all want to. When though?
This declaration doesn't meet problems where they arise.
This declaration doesn't meet problems where they arise.
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Work in the California Language Archive to support language reclamation:
news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/2...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/2...
23 boxes and a suitcase full of tapes: How a linguist's lifelong work is shaping Indigenous language today - Berkeley News
Collections at UC Berkeley's California Language Archive help keep Indigenous languages alive. This is the story of one of them.
news.berkeley.edu
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Work in the California Language Archive to support language reclamation:
news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/2...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/2...
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NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the White House’s decision to end ASL interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from crucial updates from the government.
www.politico.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
I have unexpectedly parted ways with my gallbladder, please send your thoughts my way (and not to the gallblader, that jerk)
November 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I have unexpectedly parted ways with my gallbladder, please send your thoughts my way (and not to the gallblader, that jerk)
no one has changed the clocks and there are now somehow three times showing (correctly fell back, original time, sprung forward??)
the irony of getting one good daylight savings - hour of extra sleep! - but having to spend it in the hospital
(I'll be fine, just a common surgical procedure I need done out of nowhere 🫠)
(I'll be fine, just a common surgical procedure I need done out of nowhere 🫠)
November 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
no one has changed the clocks and there are now somehow three times showing (correctly fell back, original time, sprung forward??)
the irony of getting one good daylight savings - hour of extra sleep! - but having to spend it in the hospital
(I'll be fine, just a common surgical procedure I need done out of nowhere 🫠)
(I'll be fine, just a common surgical procedure I need done out of nowhere 🫠)
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
the irony of getting one good daylight savings - hour of extra sleep! - but having to spend it in the hospital
(I'll be fine, just a common surgical procedure I need done out of nowhere 🫠)
(I'll be fine, just a common surgical procedure I need done out of nowhere 🫠)
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ET AL.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ET AL.,
Defendants.
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Civil Action No. 1:25-cv-13165-IT
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
October 31, 2025
TALWANI, D.J.
Pending before the court is Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order [Doc.
No. 3] seeking to enjoin, on an emergency basis, Defendants' November 1, 2025 suspension of benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ("SNAP"). For the reasons stated
below, Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action and are likely to succeed on their claim that
Defendants' suspension of SNAP benefits is unlawful. Where that suspension of benefits rested
on an erroneous construction of the relevant statutory provisions, the court will allow Defendants
to consider whether they will authorize at least reduced SNAP benefits for November, and report
back to the court no later than Monday, November 3, 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiczapq36myqhzcrdp4jfodg5rkso7nuvlta4e5b5r4l5upce7b3le@jpeg)
![As both parties acknowledge, Congress has not yet appropriated any new funds for SNAP
benefits for Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1, 2025. Pls.' Mem. 6 [Doc. No. 4];
Defs.' Opp'n 7 [Doc. No. 18]. But Congress took steps to protect against the deprivation of
SNAP assistance. In the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Pub. L. No. 118-42, § 6, 138
Stat. 25, 93-94, Congress separately appropriated $6 billion to the SNAP program "to remain available through September 30, 2026" and "be placed in reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations." See also Pub. L.
No. 119-4, § 1101(a), 139 Stat. 9, 10 (2025). As Plaintiffs point out, given the mandatory nature
of SNAP benefits under 7 U.S.C. § 2014(a) and the appropriation of these funds to be available
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Case 1:25-cv-13165-IT
Document 26 Filed 10/31/25
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through this current fiscal year, the government is obligated to use this contingent reserve
account to fund SNAP "as may become necessary to carry out program operations." 138 Stat. at
93-94; Pls.' Mem. 11 [Doc. No. 4].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiac7aa6icx44x5xjkilpwj7il5oriyttttnrslzrhkwvw6b32cbnm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
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Come be my boss!
The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair.
Please feel free to reach out with questions!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
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The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair.
Please feel free to reach out with questions!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
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Professor, Department Chair of AI and Society
The Department of AI and Society at the University at Buffalo, invites applications from outstanding scholars with excellent leadership abilities for the position of Department Chair. The Department o...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Come be my boss!
The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair.
Please feel free to reach out with questions!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
[Plz repost]
The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair.
Please feel free to reach out with questions!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
[Plz repost]
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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People on twitter are losing their minds over this, including several scientists who I have to assume have either brain poisoned themselves or were always like this. People don't always cite what's best; they cite what they know & researchers from historically excluded communities get the short end.
October 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
People on twitter are losing their minds over this, including several scientists who I have to assume have either brain poisoned themselves or were always like this. People don't always cite what's best; they cite what they know & researchers from historically excluded communities get the short end.
uni: we are extremely serious about accessibility, including the readability of all course content. better work on that, profs!
also uni: here is your official budget spreadsheet in 6-point Calibri, and we've maximized the visual clutter just for you
also uni: here is your official budget spreadsheet in 6-point Calibri, and we've maximized the visual clutter just for you
October 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
uni: we are extremely serious about accessibility, including the readability of all course content. better work on that, profs!
also uni: here is your official budget spreadsheet in 6-point Calibri, and we've maximized the visual clutter just for you
also uni: here is your official budget spreadsheet in 6-point Calibri, and we've maximized the visual clutter just for you
genuine plea for info here - is there an OCR model (open or not) which can recognize accented characters (i.e. ù û) and the characters <ŋ ɛ ə>? it genuinely seems there are no models for the International African Alphabet (link), or just the entire IPA, both of which would solve my problem 🐦🐦
Africa Alphabet - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
genuine plea for info here - is there an OCR model (open or not) which can recognize accented characters (i.e. ù û) and the characters <ŋ ɛ ə>? it genuinely seems there are no models for the International African Alphabet (link), or just the entire IPA, both of which would solve my problem 🐦🐦
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
it's great that I now live in a country where scientists are fighting over crumbs of funding but ICE is buying up chemical weapons and missiles with an unprecedented budget expansion (and the president can just ask for $230M for no good reason)
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
it's great that I now live in a country where scientists are fighting over crumbs of funding but ICE is buying up chemical weapons and missiles with an unprecedented budget expansion (and the president can just ask for $230M for no good reason)
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We discovered that language models leave a natural "signature" on their API outputs that's extremely hard to fake. Here's how it works 🔍
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.14086 1/
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.14086 1/
Every Language Model Has a Forgery-Resistant Signature
The ubiquity of closed-weight language models with public-facing APIs has generated interest in forensic methods, both for extracting hidden model details (e.g., parameters) and for identifying...
arxiv.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We discovered that language models leave a natural "signature" on their API outputs that's extremely hard to fake. Here's how it works 🔍
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.14086 1/
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.14086 1/
for many posts from this account, it's a pity that we only get to see the postcard
Tonight I am going in for a Fancy Dress and I am going as a squid.
October 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
for many posts from this account, it's a pity that we only get to see the postcard
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Also - contrast b/w the response when I advocate teaching R instead of SPSS -- "No hurry, let's not rush into it" (still waiting) -- & others re: use of LLMs -- "It's inevitable, we're behind; need it implement it ASAP!" -- is telling. Learning to code is freeing. Overhyped LLMs create dependency.
![Excerpt from Guest & van Rooij, 2025:
As Danielle Navarro (2015) says about shortcuts through us-
ing inappropriate technology, which chatbots are, we end up dig-
ging ourselves into “a very deep hole.” She goes on to explain:
"The business model here is to suck you in during
your student days, and then leave you dependent on
their tools when you go out into the real world. [...]
And you can avoid it: if you make use of packages
like R that are open source and free, you never get
trapped having to pay exorbitant licensing fees." (pp.
37–38)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c56dfqq2kropq4ys65h5pvgr/bafkreibuo2eq7v5fc7x3aokbeo224rpcwf52rtrjkgtitnqmkl64g6jory@jpeg)
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Also - contrast b/w the response when I advocate teaching R instead of SPSS -- "No hurry, let's not rush into it" (still waiting) -- & others re: use of LLMs -- "It's inevitable, we're behind; need it implement it ASAP!" -- is telling. Learning to code is freeing. Overhyped LLMs create dependency.
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CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
Call collaborators
Call for collaborators MapLE project The NWO Vici project ‘Mapping Linguistic Epistemicity’ (MapLE) invites 5 collaborators to help with data collection and analysis. Come join the MapLE team! Desc…
epistemicity.net
October 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
I think we're in WOTY territory here, ling types
An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...
There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.
These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.
slate.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I think we're in WOTY territory here, ling types