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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 13h

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 · 16h

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 ...

www.science.org

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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 16h

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

www.dropbox.com

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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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

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 · 1d

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.
www.nobelprize.org

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 · 1d

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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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 2d

Parents now need to stand guard at schools to protect against the federal gov. When has this ever happened before? It seems like civil war. So when are our Dem. elected officials going to start organizing constituents, so community members don't have to do it all?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Neighbors Warn Neighbors as Fear of ICE Ripples Across Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

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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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 2d

HI. It's me.

WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.

Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

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Allen Dell @urgeoverkill.bsky.social · 3d

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 2d

“There is going to be infants skipping feeds. There is going to be pregnant women skipping meals so that they can feed their toddlers."
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Government shutdown threatens food aid program relied on by millions of families

Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks.

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 4d

I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma.

Wow.

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

www.thelancet.com

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 2d

Ah, October in academia, where one vacillates between "I've got this" and "thoroughly overwhelmed" hourly.

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 3d

demo for simple conversation hyperscanning sequence tracking valence between two speakers using ConversationAlign

figure showing synchrony between two brains

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

department vacuum arrives today and I’m super stoked. the fact that we ordered a department vacuum (because no custodians clean office/lab floors anymore) set against the cost of the renovations of the chancellors house also really tells you something about austerity.

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 8d

"A compelling and thought-provoking analysis of human sociality and the origins of language."

The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson (@mpi-nl.bsky.social), Out Now & #OpenAccess

https://cup.org/4nusznG

#OA #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

Abstract painting of two people gesturing

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 5d

My attempt to depict the neural architecture of language as motivated in my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. Like colors represent functional connectivity. Main insight: linguistic levels are all organized with a sensorimotor-like architecture. pbs.twimg.com/media/G2cwsM...

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