ablackmon.bsky.social
@ablackmon.bsky.social
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Brb launching a competing app called Bouba that says gentle soft encouraging things to help you focus on your goals
Just got served this ad for an app called “Kiki” - complete with spiky mascot! #linguistics
March 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
March 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Today, I learned what the Trolley Problem was. 😔 #vtuber #vsky
March 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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As a former biologist, I'm in horror at the thought of losing everything in freezers and incubators too.
In biology, I keep thinking of the bacterial strains, yeast strains, plasmids, mouse lines, worm mutants etc etc etc that will be lost to science FOREVER because the freezers and animal facilities won't be maintained

Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant
People might think that whatever destruction is done to science in the US, we can undo in 4 years with a Democratic president and Congress.

The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back.
March 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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We can’t keep doing this.
January 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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I mean, I get that colleges create a lot of value, but imagine any other business making you beg for the chance to give them $50,000.
December 28, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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Learn from my mistakes and read Because Internet now!
December 3, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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*holding a plank for 87 minutes so I don’t disturb my cat*
December 3, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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People always complain that we celebrate Christmas too early, but I think it's New Years that has gotten.

Save your year-in-review shit for the 26-31st where it belongs
December 3, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Listening to @gretchenmcc.bsky.social read her fascinerdy linguistics book Because Internet.

Can't believe* that she phonetically reads out keysmashes.

*can totally believe

gretchenmcculloch.com/book/
December 3, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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I wonder what the #iTeachMath community thinks about this news story from March 2023. What follow-up has there been about this?

news.yahoo.com/2-high-schoo...
2 high schoolers say they've found a proof for the Pythagorean theorem which mathematicians thought ...
Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson presented their new findings on the Pythagorean theorem to the American Mathematical Society last week.
news.yahoo.com
December 13, 2023 at 2:42 PM