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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨 Linguistics & Translation @ CityU is recruiting PhD students for the '26-27 intake! 🚨🚨

Prospectives should contact potential supervisors well before the Dec 1 deadline. Our faculty: lt.cityu.edu.hk/people/acade...

Happy to answer questions re: our programme & application process! #langsky 🐦🐦

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 2d

Support: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Translation: PhD, City University of Hong Kong

The Department of Linguistics and Translation (LT) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) is currently recruiting creative and motivated postgraduate students interested in pursuing a doctoral degree in language research at CityU. At CityU, we view language as a dynamic and multifaceted system deeply connected to cognition, culture, and society. Our research-driven approach positions us as a global leader in modern linguistic studies and fosters an innovative and interdisciplinary environmen

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

NIH Study Sections are on hold...again. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/n...

NIH Study Sections are on hold…again.

The primary input to deciding on the merit of proposals submitted to the NIH for potential funding, as most of my remaining blog audience well knows, is the outcome of the initial peer-review proce…

drugmonkey.wordpress.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 7d

Pilot: (on intercom) There are no air traffic controllers today so everybody look out the window and holler if you see another plane

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in my feed certainly needs this

Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 2d

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Big Stretch Unisex Sweatshirt

A pre-shrunk, classic fit sweater that's made with air-jet spun yarn for a soft feel and reduced pilling. • 50% cotton, 50% polyester • Pre-shrunk • Classic fit • 1x1 athletic rib knit collar with spa...

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 3d

“School maybe works, research finds” www.psypost.org/major-iq-dif...

Major IQ differences in identical twins linked to schooling, challenging decades of research

A new study in Acta Psychologica reveals that schooling largely explains IQ differences in identical twins raised apart. When their educations are very dissimilar, their IQ scores can be as different ...

www.psypost.org

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

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Auli'i Cravalho - How Far I'll Go (from Moana/Official Video)

YouTube video by DisneyMusicVEVO

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

5yo, singing to the tune of ‘how far I go’: ‘I take every rock, I take every stick, I take every rock, I take every stick.’ (he sings the truth)

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome back, and I’m so happy you spent some time taking care of yourself.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 3d

“2nd Call for Papers: LabPhon 20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada from June 26–28, 2026, with pre-conference workshops and a keynote lecture on June 25”
labphon.org/labphon20/home

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 3d

Folks.

Everyone in DC is needed in Tuesday.

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 4d

5 ways YOU can use the torment nexus to maximize your workflow

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 4d

Ya know it’s ok to just say ‘i dont like this’ instead of self punishment.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 4d

Sesame with olive cream cheese

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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 4d

Parents of 0- to 12-year-olds, come do science with us!

We run short, game-like studies with kids. We offer in-person and online options, flexible scheduling (weekdays & weekends), and sessions that are fun for children and easy for caregivers.

Moral Minds Lab - CHILDatabase Signup

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 4d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 4d

only poets with an umlaut in their name have won the Nobel this century

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 4d

and thank you for continuing to justify my social media habit with occasional science.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 4d

LSA members! I forgot to publicize this week's Write Time Friday, but if anyone wants some work buddies I'm hosting one right now! #linguistics www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Write Time Friday with Heidi Harley, LSA President

About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...

www.lsadc.org

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4d

"Authoritarianism is a machine that eats people."
@impossiblephd.bsky.social powerful ending to a great post: stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/stained-gl...

Put plainly: people reading about trans oppression, trans or cis, are under a lot of pressure. They need comfort and hope for a better future, they need to be able to identify with other people going through their same struggles, and they need reliable information in a sea of myth and prejudice. Any public rhetoric approach working for trans liberation needs to address each of these needs centrally.

Authoritarianism is a machine that eats people. It does not–will not–can not stop until it runs out of people to eat, and that only ever happens one of two ways: either there are no more marginalized people to eat, or those marginalized people stand up and dismantle it. Make no mistake: unless we accomplish the latter, it will not so much as pause after it’s done consuming trans people, and its ravenous maw will turn to those newly at the furthest margins of society. As technical writers and queer scholars, we have a unique ability to communicate both the existential danger it represents and work directly to dismantle that danger through personal, plain public rhetorics.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 4d

So cool!! and fyi I’ll be assigning this piece in my spring language in the brain class.

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