Amalia Skilton
amaliaskilton.bsky.social
Amalia Skilton
@amaliaskilton.bsky.social
Chancellor’s Fellow (asst prof) in Linguistics @ Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | blogs.ed.ac.uk/amaliaskilton | Indigenous languages of the Americas, language in interaction, psycholinguistics | 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 she/her
Same, but “surprising/shocking” is not quite it either…something better for “very surprising and probably in a negative way”?
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Not professional expertise just passionate about #tax after 12 years of VITA
October 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
IHE has it right, this is “running a Motel 6 at a Ritz-Carlton price”

And while FL legislators might be conservative I don’t think they were in the market for a money pit. Time will tell!

#academicsky #highered
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
That’s $9555 housing support, $4777 non salary costs of administration, and $4111 academic support/student/year if the student body is 900 total. Almost 2x the per student spending of other Florida universities (per article) before touching salaries or the physical plant!!
October 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
$8.6M housing support *outside* financial aid budget - this is almost 3x what they spent on physical plant!

$4.3M administration - again *outside* salaries

$3.7M “academic instruction and student support” *outside* salaries and facilities
October 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Paper is now out 🎉 Extra thanks to the reviewers and editors on this one - even more thoughtful than usual as we worked through a lot of technical specs and their implications. 🐦🐦
Project MUSE - Digital infrastructure and its impacts on language work: A case study of FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx)
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September 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Conservatives - despite their rhetoric about red tape in the rest of government - don’t seem interested in reducing the compliance burden. If anything they want to increase it (Trump demands for student data). Staggering compared to any sector outside government
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
To be clear, the cost-benefit analysis here DOES fall on the side of typesetting myself because it allows me to work with specific platinum OA publishers, and have all the #linguistics notation set correctly. But lemme tell you is it ANNOYING to typeset 800+ pages!!!
September 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Report ad > Scam, fraud and impersonation 😎
August 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Whole separate paper to be written about women working at barbershops. The fancy/queer branded kind, and the “this is a barbershop that happens to be owned by a woman” kind
August 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM