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AmyFou
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#UglyDog, dog lover, animal lover, horse enthusiast, Arizona dweller, linguist, tech nerd, human-phobe
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See you at #NoKings tomorrow #protest #Tucson #noNazis #abolishICE
three badly drawn protest signs: 'This machine kills fascism" with a picture of a heart, "No Nazis", and "Melt Ice" with a cartoon of a sad melting ice cube.
June 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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@heidiharley.bsky.social LOOOK what arrived at our house today!

#Linguistics #Hiaki #Yaqui #history #Mexico #scholarship
a book titled 'Au Te Waate: We Remember It. Hiaki survival through a bitter war'. By Maria Fernanda Leyva, edited by Heidi Harley.
May 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Friends and colleagues - please enjoy this talk by Rolando Coto Solano about the goals and methods behind our 'Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies' initiative (ailt.arizona.edu)

#language #technology #languageRevitalization #languageDocumentation #NLP

www.youtube.com/live/owC7nO3...
thumbnail for youtube video: "Empowering community language workers with technology: with Rolando Coto Solano of Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies. April 28, 12pm. Sealaska Heritage. 2025 Spring Lecture Series."
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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ÄLG | MOOSE

#ÄLG #moose #wildlife #sweden #animals

www.svtplay.se/video/8rQo4R...
a beautiful moose standing up to her shoulders in a river in Sweden. There is snow on the banks of the river, and she looks super velvety and majestic. Her nose looks SUPER boopable!
April 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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terrible news, RIP Kanzi. Your courage is an inspiration.

#Kanzi #bonobos #animals

www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
an older male bonobo smiles into the camera, he's in a play space that's mostly concrete.
March 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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She did - here's the report from that Iditarod, and accompanying pix

iditarod.com/2019/03/08/a...
Blair shows one of the approximately 8 harnesses Helli chewed during Iditarod. Note Helli is teensy. Blair gives Helli scritches after Helli chewed through her approx. 8th harness.
March 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Hey #UglyDogs @blairBraverman Q is settling the team in at Eagle Island on camera right now - the announcer says that the team looks great and Q is in good spirits and they're holding their own!
Q is getting the team settled while the vets check everyone in front of the 'arctic heater' tents at Eagle Island. a slightly different view of Q getting the team settled while the vets check everyone in front of the 'arctic heater' tents at Eagle Island. a slightly different view of Q getting the team settled while the vets check everyone in front of the 'arctic heater' tents at Eagle Island. a slightly different view of Q getting the team settled while the vets check everyone in front of the 'arctic heater' tents at Eagle Island.
March 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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#Iditarod53 #UglyDogs

Ryan Redington's team leaving Ruby at about 4:45am local time, lookin' cute!
Ryan Redington standing on the runners of his sled as his team takes him up the trail Ryan Redington's team leaving Ruby - most of the dogs are in the picture, just not the lead dogs. More of Ryan Redington's team, including the lead dogs, leaving Ruby.
March 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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You guys Emily Ford seems to be wearing Dallas Seavey's Sweater????

#Iditarod53 #UglyDogs #TheSweater
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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#Iditarod53 #UglyDogs #TeamPetit

Nic Petit and team, who have been singing up a storm, getting ready to leave Tanana they would like to go please right now holy cow! Travis Beals is next to depart, I think. Travis Deeter is taking some extra time at Tanana for the doggos
nighttime photo of musher snuggling his lead dogs, who are jumping up for smooches, while the rest of the team sings and excitedly waits for the depart.
March 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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#Iditarod53

Screencap from trailcam at Manley Hot Springs, Q and Pepé, Queen Of Dogs. Probably 15 mins ago.

@blairbraverman.bsky.social
A snowy field on which many sled dog teams are resting as the sun sets. A dude approaches one of his dogs, who is standing as if to say 'why are we stopping, dude?'
March 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Who hacked the #Iditarod53 leaderboard and why are they pranking poor Ryan???

iditarod.com/race/2025/st...
Screen cap showing the top two teams. In first place is 'Ol' Zombie-Eyes Redington', bib 16; In second place is Paige Drobny, bib 26.
March 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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You guys I just saw Q and the team check in at Nanena, and then immediately head up the trail. The announcer said that Q had stopped and rested them earlier on the trail because the temps were too high. He did the right thing! @blairbraverman.bsky.social

#UglyDogs #Iditarod53
Q and the team boogie out of Nanena Q's team delighted to get to start running again after their vetcheck Q's team waiting to be allowed to continue I think these are the dogs in wheel but I don't know who they are
March 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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me tooooooo #Iditarod2025 #UglyDogs
Team view from https://fantasymushing.com/#iditarod showing the teams I've selected: Nicolas Petit Paige Drobny Jason Mackey Emily Ford Justin Olnes Quince Mountain Sydnie Bahl. The page shows that Signup closes in 6 hours, 38 minutes and 27 seconds.
March 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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New #OpenAccess #linguistics #languageRights #languagePolicy #IndigenousLanguages journal just dropped, and a team I get to work with has an article in Vol 1, Issue 1!

Huzzah!

nflrc.hawaii.edu/ilrr/
banner page for Indigenous Language Rights and Realities, a LD&C peer-reviewed, open-access publication focusing on Indigenous and non-dominant language rights and realities. The page has a button to submit an article, and a button to search - and there are three recent articles previewed: Galla, Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu & Shannon T. Bischoff. 2025. Centering community-driven and -led Indigenous and non-dominant language rights & realities: An inclusive publishing model for Indigenizing and decolonizing the academy. Vincent, Audra, Alice Kwak, Shannon T. Bischoff, Amy Fountain & John Ivens. 2025. It is not an archive, and it will never be done: Building the Coeur d’Alene Online Language Resource Center. and Iwasaki, Erina. 2025. The transformative praxis of Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation educators & L1-based bi-/multilingual educators based on Senegal’s national bilingual education reform and Māori revitalization efforts.
March 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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It was a lovely celebration today on the University of Arizona mall, for International Mother Language Day. We were fortunate that two Yaqui/Hiaki elders came by and checked our signage to for correctness. They approved!

#IMLD #InternationalMotherLanguageDay #languages #linguisticDiversity
Two elder women stand on a grassy mall on a sunny day, with brick buildings and palo verde and mesquite trees behind them. They are holding up a sign with the logo for the American Indian Language Development Institute, and the phrase: 'Nau yahiwa'apo', translated as 'the place where people gather' or 'Student Union' in Hiaki/Yaqui. people gathering on a grassy mall with palm trees, the concrete walkway is covered in chalk writing in Turkish, Arabic, Navajo, Bengali (I Think), and other languages. A young woman is speaking into a microphone as others listen, outdoors on a grassy mall with palm trees and brick buildings in the background. There's a tent with tables underneath that have signs written in Hopi, Yaqui, and O'odham, and table cloths with the 'University of Arizona Department of Linguistics' written on them.
February 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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anyone here in Tucson, at #UniversityOfArizona for #InternationalMotherLanguageDay today? Come say 'hi' (but in your #language).

Wherever you are, happy #IMLD2025 to you and yours
The American Indian Language Development Institute: "Join us in celebration of International Mother Language Day. Stop by our tent on the Mall to learn more about Indigenous languages. AILDI and the West Regional Native American Language Resource Center (NALRC) will host a variety of activities on campus. 10am-2pm, central mall, February 21 2025.
February 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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This is a beautiful picture.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#LeonardPeltier #freeLeonardPeltier #news #wrongfulConvictions #USRacism
Leonard Peltier, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota, aged 80, stands outdoors in a ribbon shirt, holding his fist up, on his first moments of freedom in 49 years. Photo by Angel White Eyes/NDN Collective/Reuters.
February 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Today my colleague Eric Jackson and AILT (ailt.arizona.edu) led a workshop for the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community discussing FLEx (software.sil.org/fieldworks/). Look at these brilliant and happy language workers! 💞 🎉 💻

#language #languageWork #Piipaash #O'odham #AILT
a group of 11 humans and one giant zoom head stand in front of a beautiful mural in the classroom of the Cultural Resources Dept of the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Communities.
February 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits"

The three spirits:
Agent Dale Cooper, the Log Lady, and Sheriff Harry S. Trueman from the original Twin Peaks series.
December 24, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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#UniversityOfArizona #Linguistics December Graduates and faculty 🎓👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 - grads include 2 UG's working on Indigenous Signed languages of the Americas, 2 UG's working on lang. tech for Indigenous communities, an MS in Human Lang. Tech., 2 PhDs - Revitalization & LingTheory.

@heidiharley.bsky.social
a group of linguistics students and faculty gathered for a group photo after a celebratory event; some are in person and some are shown on a big zoom screen.
December 12, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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they are great! They say 'hi' 🐕🐕💕💕
two dogs are standing outside in their yard, looking silly
December 1, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Excellent news from #Academia : this afternoon a new #PhD emerged from his dissertation defense: Dr. Mosiah Bluecloud, Kickapoo, works in language revitalization in Indigenous language communities. The committee was @heidiharley.bsky.social, Ofelia Zepeda and Sheilah Nicholas.

Huzzah!!
Mosiah Bluecloud addresses a room full of linguists, including Heidi Harley and Ofelia Zepeda, during his dissertation defense.
November 28, 2024 at 3:59 AM
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Photos from the grand opening of O'odham Ñiokǐ Ki:, the new O'odham Language Center at Tohono O'odham Community College. It was a great event, for a building generations in the making. #O'odham #language #linguistics #Tucson
the greeter at the swag table was cheerful Luis Barragan, Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Communities; Heidi Harley, University of Arizona Linguistics; and Adrienne Tsikewa and Mateo Pomilia, West Regional Native American Language Resource Center, sitting outdoors at the amphitheater on a sunny desert day. People singing and dancing in front of the new building, celebrating its opening.
November 20, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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um, this isn't a 'handshake', WaPo

"President-elect [@#$%#] shakes [*&^%#$]’s hand in 2016 in New York. (Getty Images)"
close up of one man with tiny orange hands clearly caressing, not shaking, the closed hand of another man.
November 12, 2023 at 9:12 PM