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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 32m

That's such a gorgeous cover

Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 33m

Oh I'm so so so excited

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 1d

nice

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 3d

But also there were times in that talk where it was very clear this was not a man from within the community. Like you don't know anyone who has thrown an "it" pronoun in there? 👀

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 3d

Lol

Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 3d

I had a professor tell me that there was a gender divide in terms of liking syntax. There's probably social stuff going on there to cause it. It felt bad because I struggle with syntax and didn't need dysphoria ANS syntax-based self esteem issues. But I do wonder if HRT would make me a syntactician

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, I feel as if this makes sense. You're taking the survey and you see a new option and then it's like "ooooh, new pronoun just dropped let's give it a try"

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 6d

I've really enjoyed not listening to it but bearing witness to all the discourse

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 6d

*big deep breath* Literally it all has to work out okay because this stupid baby who lives in my house wants to get a lizard who is sleeping on the other side of the window

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 9d

Awesome, so if universities “proactively” agree to sell out their students, staff, faculty, and academic freedom, the administration will let them keep money that has already been appropriated. And shame specifically on UT for the proactive boot-licking.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 13d

If you can come to the conference I've been planning that would be really cool!

You can register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/arizona-li...

You can see the current schedule (subject to change) and information about our sessions on the website: sites.google.com/view/alc-18/...

Arizona Linguistics Circle 18

ALC is an annual graduate student-led conference held at the University of Arizona. This year's theme is "Language at Work."

www.eventbrite.com

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 15d

Being brought into a meeting of an established group is always so interesting. Like you can see how the personalities kind of mesh and work together. Little inside jokes and I'm just there, probably 30 years younger than everyone else like 🙂 it's 7 am for me and I'm sleepy but also hello

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16d

🎧 lo-fi microfiche digitization (to study/relax/preserve gov docs to)
Back online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...

lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to

YouTube video by Internet Archive

www.youtube.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 18d

Alright I accept in case the salvation I convinced myself was real when I was 11 was real lmao

Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 18d

But are you handcrafting the candles? Because idk if my queer ass self can accept store-bought(/stolen) candles, but I also think Betsy can pull off candle making

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 19d

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 19d

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Online Survey Software | Qualtrics Survey Solutions

Qualtrics sophisticated online survey software solutions make creating online surveys easy. Learn more about Research Suite and get a free account today.

swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 22d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 23d

You did a nice job! I don't envy you that specific spreadsheet hell

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 23d

This just in, being mentored is almost as cool as having mentees. Neat shit

Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 29d

Mentoring people is one of the things that I get to do that sincerely just makes me so happy. It fills my proverbial cup and giving that up is the thing that bothers me most when I think about how I might not be able to find an academic job.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 24d

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 24d

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Advisory to Academic Workers

In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

www.aaup.org

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ML Vercellotti @mlvercellotti.bsky.social · 26d

#corpuslinguistics

Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 26d

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 26d

I'm increasingly concerned about being who I am and what I teach and the things I research making me completely unhirable in the faculty job market. It's horrific that you receive death threats.

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