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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2h

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

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 6h

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 · 7h

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

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 9h

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

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 10h

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...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10h

"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 · 10h

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

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Kristof Strijkers @strijkers.bsky.social · 10h

The first publication of the #ERC project ‘LaDy’ is a fact and it’s an important one I think:

We show that word processing and meaning prediction is fundamentally different during social interaction compared to using language individually!
👀 short 🧵/1

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
#OpenAccess

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 12h

Heads up, Minneapolis, the Gestapo are showing up and bringing their own drones. They also happen to think they’re going to be the winners in this fight.

If there’s one thing Minneapolis is good at It’s making it very clear that people in authority do not have the power to control us.

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 12h

ICE had a large white drone they were trying to put in the air but neighborhood pressure grew and they started to pack up and leave. One neighbor was shouting that ICE is a bunch of losers and an agent said to her “you’re going to lose. We will win.”

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Drum teacher: what are your goals?
Me: uhh!
Me (internally): funnel my bottomless boiling rage into something healthier than this frothing bottle at the center of my soul
Me: idk! Play along to songs I guess! lol!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 1d

hello to the few academics that follow me. it’s job market time, so here are the materials that got me a tenure-track job in literature at William & Mary.

academic job hunting is like buying a lottery ticket to attend a shit show, but here they are:

www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yxln6...

Dropbox

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Neil P Bardhan @neilpbardhan.bsky.social · 1d

Some personal news: it's time for the Thursday scream!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

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Atlas Mugged ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 1d

We're learning so much more about the experiences of nonverbal autistic people now, too, thanks to increasing awareness and assistive technology, and what really stood out to me was how much their intelligence, experiences, and suffering have been unheard and dismissed in favor of the parents' POV.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t really advise students about their degree courses but, my goodness, when it comes to options, tracks, the choices they make en route to their degrees, I tell them to do what they want to do, rather than what they might think they ought to do.

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

woah. 🤩

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Is it Spider-Man themed? Not to brag *too* much but I got an exclusive invite to my kid’s Spider-Man birthday party next week.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

Pleased to share that I received an exclusive invitation this morning to the birthday party of my currently four-year-old child

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 2d

We're hiring! UT Linguistics invites applications for a position in computational linguistics to begin next academic year 2026-27 (rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure). apply.interfolio.com/175156

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 2d

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

A scatterplot of the number of rejections (y axis) by year (x axis)

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