I finally have physical copies of my book!

If you are interested in how accent acts as a type of work in higher education, then you should read Workable Accents.

30% off if you buy from Bloomsbury:

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Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.

Love my new neighborhood 🫶🏼🇵🇷

Survived the NY DMV ✅

Writing, scheming, plotting, freedom dreaming — all in great company.

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

As part of the last cohort of SAPIENS fellows, it’s very sad to see the magazine shut down. Especially thinking about the incredible team behind it that is likely out of a job. Their commitment to the public dissemination of our work as anthropologists is crucial.

Moving from Puerto Rico to NYC is a logistical rollercoaster but I’m almost there — less than 2 weeks! If I’ve missed your email, please resend b/c life is a bit hectic right now 😅

Impressively racist stuff from Andrew Cuomo's campaign here.

“[P]erformers put their creative linguistic repertoire in action to draw attention to the colonial mechanisms that affect the everyday lives of queer and trans Puerto Ricans.” – @Dozandri.bsky.social

Read more: www.sapiens.org/language/pue...

Río Piedras, Puerto Rico ✊🏼

Dance ethnography has profoundly shaped my approach to the study of language, embodiment, and semiotics. This is one of those texts that has lingered in my mind.

thank you!! 🙏🏼

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

NEW: Today, NSF "disestablished" most of its scientific advisory committees.

These are committees of outside experts convened to help shape NSF programs. Only five statutorily required committees remain, the rest are gone.
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NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

BREAKING: A federal court declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the National Endowment for the Arts despite saying the NEA likely violated the First Amendment for blocking funding for projects that promote "gender ideology."

We will continue to fight for the arts and free speech.

1. Trump has announced that transgender people are an "improper ideology," and has demanded that the Women's History Museum remove them or lose funding.

It is the latest in a government campaign to erase transgender people.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Major alert: Montana may be about to pass a major anti-trans bill that charges parents with felony endangerment of a child if their child is on trans youth care.

It would apply to parents just passing through the state, visiting.

Would be the first law of its kind to pass anywhere.

Vote is TODAY.

I plan on using OER as well! I think the textbook was mostly to see how people weaved together curriculum

Linguists: what are your favorite Intro to Linguistics textbooks? Particularly those that don’t relegate sociolinguistics to the sidelines and center perspectives on speech play/verbal art, race/gender, semiotic or contextual approaches, etc. — Thanks in advance ✨

thank you!!

Soft launching the news ✨ I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics at Hunter College, City University of New York starting this Fall 2025. A lot is changing very rapidly but I’m excited for this new chapter.