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@wulatum.bsky.social
Phonetician, languages of Cameroon and China / 他, wù / pro-international student / back in the US I guess
conference planners, we really have to do something about how all the abstracts are mysteriously due at the same time during finals week. I am working on something between 4 and 7 abstracts right now, I see Overleaf when I shut my eyes like when you play too much Tetris
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
conference planners, we really have to do something about how all the abstracts are mysteriously due at the same time during finals week. I am working on something between 4 and 7 abstracts right now, I see Overleaf when I shut my eyes like when you play too much Tetris
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At last! Open Access version of the book on MIT's site. One for the syntax nerds. I argue we need to replace Merge, that there are no Phases, and that we need to rethink the basic theoretical typology of Islands. Feel free to download with abandon! 🐦🐦 #syntax direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Mereological Syntax: Phrase Structure, Cyclicity, and Islands
An argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological objects.Mereology is the study of part
direct.mit.edu
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
At last! Open Access version of the book on MIT's site. One for the syntax nerds. I argue we need to replace Merge, that there are no Phases, and that we need to rethink the basic theoretical typology of Islands. Feel free to download with abandon! 🐦🐦 #syntax direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Here are the 11 workshops: www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/#anc... #Bantu11
November 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Here are the 11 workshops: www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/#anc... #Bantu11
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The cfp for the 11th International Conference on Bantu languages (#Bantu11) cfp is out! Deadline 1st Dec for submissions to the general session or to one of the 11 workshops, conf. in Ghent/online, 18th-21st August 2026
www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/ #Bantu #linguistics
www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/ #Bantu #linguistics
Bantu 11 Conference – BantUGent – UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
www.bantugent.ugent.be
November 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The cfp for the 11th International Conference on Bantu languages (#Bantu11) cfp is out! Deadline 1st Dec for submissions to the general session or to one of the 11 workshops, conf. in Ghent/online, 18th-21st August 2026
www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/ #Bantu #linguistics
www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/ #Bantu #linguistics
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psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge
September 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge
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MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
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So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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Trump has said that 600,000 Chinese students will visit America in coming years, and his party is trying to punish any academic who advises them.
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Trump has said that 600,000 Chinese students will visit America in coming years, and his party is trying to punish any academic who advises them.
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This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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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,
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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
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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
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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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