Elin McCready
@elinm.bsky.social
collaborator WAIFU & MOM & NEON // associate editor S&P // prof ICREA/UAB // sem/prag/phillang/etc // trans // she/her // easycat // 異界愛者 // 移民
new book coming this month: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031945854
new book coming this month: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031945854
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Elin McCready
@elinm.bsky.social
· May 15
Introduction post. Hi. I'm an academic doing mathematical modeling of meaning, right now mostly social meanings, literature and art, and the edges of linguistic possibility. I do activism around LGBT issues and immigration, organize parties, do art stuff. Mostly in Barcelona, also Tokyo and Berlin.
interesting to think about this in the context of medical transition. does the second adolescence aspect many people experience extend to brain function / organization also?
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
interesting to think about this in the context of medical transition. does the second adolescence aspect many people experience extend to brain function / organization also?
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
cool to get reviews on a paper ranging from straight reject to accept without revisions! I feel this is a mark of something exciting
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
cool to get reviews on a paper ranging from straight reject to accept without revisions! I feel this is a mark of something exciting
small moment of reckoning for linguistics (?) #chomskygate
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
small moment of reckoning for linguistics (?) #chomskygate
what is the lower limit for doc stock? will she come out as a (same-sex attracted) tradwife next
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
what is the lower limit for doc stock? will she come out as a (same-sex attracted) tradwife next
many of us out here tired of speaking reasonably and charitably into the void
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
many of us out here tired of speaking reasonably and charitably into the void
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“Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted. Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then. Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.” ~ mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/...
Grapes of Wrath 1939:
Grapes of Wrath 1939:
November 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted. Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then. Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.” ~ mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/...
Grapes of Wrath 1939:
Grapes of Wrath 1939:
finally representation for all my nonbinary homies
These three genders also spotted at H&M yesterday
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
finally representation for all my nonbinary homies
still many first-time experiences at this lateish age: this morning I went to the airport and learned my flight is tomorrow, not today
October 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
still many first-time experiences at this lateish age: this morning I went to the airport and learned my flight is tomorrow, not today
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Found out that the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner is a staunch ally of Netanyahu's and signed a cooperation agreement with the Likud party, which makes perfect sense. This is a prize that went to Kissinger and Obama, after all.
Venezuela opposition cooperating with Israel's Likud party
An opposition party, called Vente Venezuela,through its leader, María Corina Machado, signed a cooperation agreement with Zionist Likud party, which is in government through Benjamin Netanyahu.
nournews.ir
October 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Found out that the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner is a staunch ally of Netanyahu's and signed a cooperation agreement with the Likud party, which makes perfect sense. This is a prize that went to Kissinger and Obama, after all.
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Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.
Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner
Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
www.forskning.no
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
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Here’s video of the incident
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Here’s video of the incident
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Is it national poetry day? Time for this masterpiece
October 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Is it national poetry day? Time for this masterpiece
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The United States is simply not politically stable enough, nor sufficiently committed to democratic and international principles, to host the UN.
September 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The United States is simply not politically stable enough, nor sufficiently committed to democratic and international principles, to host the UN.
thoughts on travel to the US while trans at this moment in time? with/without US passport?
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
thoughts on travel to the US while trans at this moment in time? with/without US passport?
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Free speech in the US. Now a university has banned all mention of trans people and is encouraging abusive misgendering.
conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
ASU to Put New Transgender Policies in Place
Transgender discussions, language to be hounded off college campuses in Texas, following orders from Trump, Abbott.
conchoobserver.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Free speech in the US. Now a university has banned all mention of trans people and is encouraging abusive misgendering.
conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
just learned a friend has moved to a town called "peniscola" a few hours from barcelona ... what a name wow
September 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
just learned a friend has moved to a town called "peniscola" a few hours from barcelona ... what a name wow
wow. glad I already objected to the pre-update ToS and consequently already have no account here
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
wow. glad I already objected to the pre-update ToS and consequently already have no account here
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The media doesn't want you to know that like 92% of Americans died last year from illegal drugs. But we're not going to let them conceal the truth any longer.
Reporter: The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal
Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs
Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs
September 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The media doesn't want you to know that like 92% of Americans died last year from illegal drugs. But we're not going to let them conceal the truth any longer.
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After the third attempt to manufacture a Radio Transwanda from this story I'm starting to take it personally
September 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
After the third attempt to manufacture a Radio Transwanda from this story I'm starting to take it personally
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When the recognition campaign started I thought we could do that and stop genocide at the same time, but I was wrong. Unless recognition is the incredibly belated first step that will fast-track cutting ties with Israel, it's performative bs. ALL GOVERNMENTS KNOW WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. #SANCTIONSNOW
September 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
When the recognition campaign started I thought we could do that and stop genocide at the same time, but I was wrong. Unless recognition is the incredibly belated first step that will fast-track cutting ties with Israel, it's performative bs. ALL GOVERNMENTS KNOW WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. #SANCTIONSNOW
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Money from Japan's national pension is invested in Israel (and companies complicit in genocide and ethnic cleansing.) The Japanese government is currently considering buying killer drones from Israeli weapons companies. Japanese robots are manufacturing shells that Israeli is dropping on Gaza.
Tomoko Abe of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, who joined two other opposition lawmakers in delivering the petition, stressed the urgency of the issue, saying,“Israel has no intention of agreeing to a ceasefire, and child hunger cannot be ignored.”
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...
Japanese lawmakers urge government to recognize Palestine
Japanese lawmakers have submitted 206 signatures to the foreign minister as global momentum builds ahead of the UN General Assembly.
english.almayadeen.net
September 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Money from Japan's national pension is invested in Israel (and companies complicit in genocide and ethnic cleansing.) The Japanese government is currently considering buying killer drones from Israeli weapons companies. Japanese robots are manufacturing shells that Israeli is dropping on Gaza.