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Lina Who Lina How Lina…

@linasigns.bsky.social

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Soaking in the magic of languages, pushing back boba liberalism, thinking about the legacies we leave on this planet.

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Lina Who Lina How Lina… @linasigns.bsky.social · Aug 9

The story behind my display name is that many people commonly mispronounce my surname as “who” or “how”. It’s actually pronounced similarly to “ho” in Mandarin. Associate my surname with the resounding laughter of 🎅🏽 — and my laughter (bonus if you know the connection to my sign name in ASL!)

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who has studied the circulation of terms “subversive” and “communist” in the lead to and through McCarthyism as empty signifiers to justify violent suppression I feel like I’m both amazed and unsurprised how transparently and unsophisticatedly “woke” and “antifa” are now doing the same.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3d

What happens now that Republicans shut down the government?

- Federal workers stop getting paid
- Air travel could be delayed
- Food inspection services may be delayed
- Head Start services may be disrupted
- Passport + Visa applications could slow
- National Parks may shut down

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 8d

In general, it's f-----g insane that the sitting POTUS and VP regularly single out individual citizens for disparagement using their official gov't accounts.

I think there was a pretty strong presidential norm against this sort of thing until, well, about 8 years ago.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8d

What I can’t get over is just how interpersonally unpleasant this is. Think about good leaders in history, no matter who you think that is - would any of them go to a minority critic and tell them to “express a little gratitude” with a sneer? Of course not, because it makes your skin crawl

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 10d

Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 19d

Just so we are clear. There is nothing wrong with being trans or autistic. Don't give an inch on that

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 20d

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️

🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST.

🗣️IT IS EUGENICS.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 20d

+follow $ trail on Tylenol claims, too! Look at who authored latest "study" this admin will trot out as their "evidence"! Look at that author's COI! Note that 2024 JAMA study found no link& attributed prev, v weak findings to confounding! Ask a science journalist!

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Pregnancy pain relief blamed, again | Autistic DJ makes Coldplay interesting

Is exposure to acetaminophen in utero linked to being autistic? How many autistic people care about this question?

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Lina Who Lina How Lina… @linasigns.bsky.social · 21d

book launch parties soon

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 25d

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨

The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism)

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline: 15 October 2025

PhD student in Linguistics, sign language

The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 25d

In the Spotlight: Dr. Joseph Hill

Dr. Hill will be joining us at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting for the Plenary Address! Dr. Hill is Professor of Deaf Studies and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Black Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. Don’t miss this session! cvent.me/9Mdr3G

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Lina Who Lina How Lina… @linasigns.bsky.social · 25d

Faculty: have you found any sustainable strategies for engaging your PhD students with your classes amid the ongoing chaos? Because I haven’t, and each academic term brings another barrage of challenges

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 26d

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26d

It's Baby Safety Month.

A baby sitting in a catapult in a suburban backyard. The baby seems surprised to be there. The text reads: Is this a safe sleep environment for your baby? No! This is a catapult! Put your baby to sleep flat on their back in a crib, bassinet, play yard, bedside sleeper or other product designed for safe sleep. If your baby falls asleep in a car seat or other product not designed for sleep, move them to a safe sleep space.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27d

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

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Lina Who Lina How Lina… @linasigns.bsky.social · 28d

Yes over and over again

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 29d

None of the young male mass shooters and now political assassins I've written about in recent years had stayed in higher education and pursued a bachelor's degree. Crazy enough, it's almost like college is a positive socializing force, not a radicalizing one

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29d

So:
a) none of political assassins were students, or even shared a coherent ideology - shameful to blame universities
b) Trump is already engaged in the attack on campus speech the Free Press wants
c) I worry a lot more about the animosity to campus The Free Press is fueling than any of my students

The acceleration of political violence has been frightening: from the attack on the Capitol in January 2021, to the murder of a healthcare executive allegedly by Luigi Mangione, to the attempted assassinations of Trump, to the killing of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., to the shooting of state lawmakers in Minnesota. And now Kirk’s murder.

There are many guilty parties in the rise of political violence. But to our minds, among the biggest culprits are the universities. In the same way that madrassas radicalize jihadis, America’s campuses are among the places in the U.S. most hostile to disagreement and debate. Where they preach “inclusion,” they actually practice exclusion—shouting down speakers they disagree with, for instance. Where they promote “diversity,” they actually enforce a uniformity of thought, denying tenure to dissenters.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 29d

Nepal's cops: *kills 20 of Nepal's children in 24 hours*

The people of Nepal: *do basically full revolution inside a week*

United States cops: *kills thousands of America's children every single year*

The people of America: Now is not the time to call for defunding the police or voting socialist

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · Sep 12

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · Sep 11

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

Australia approves first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia

A vaccine to protect Australia's koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a development that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered animal.

www.reuters.com

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · Sep 10

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · Sep 10

The shooting of Charlie Kirk will have almost exclusively extremely negative consequences for American society in general, the stability of society in specific, and the safety of everyone living in it.

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Lina Who Lina How Lina… @linasigns.bsky.social · Sep 10

Me too!

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · Sep 9

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.

I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Sep 9

Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
www.mpi.nl/publications...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · Sep 9

Everybody who fell for the Harper's Letter or all the hand-wringing about "uncivil" students on the left, congratulations. You built this. You own this. And fuck you for being the useful idiots these fascists needed to launder their dismantling of academic freedom.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 9

Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology."

Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"?

www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Sep 4

If you do want to hurt Google’s power, start moving off its services and push your politicians so they realize this is an issue they should be working on.

Move to Proton, Qwant/Ecosia, and Vivaldi to start. More options here: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 7

LLMs are not a suitable technology for information access. Here is a quick summary of why not:

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But to take the SIFT framework, LLMs cannot be a source. They are synthetic text extruding machines, that's all. Text without accountability.

Information literacy and chatbots as search

By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...

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