Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮)
@linasigns.bsky.social
Soaking in the magic of languages, pushing back boba liberalism, thinking about the legacies we leave on this planet.
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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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🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
Happy World Linguistics Day! I share a public service announcement about signed languages from @kemmorey.bsky.social — and a constant reminder to look at deaf people & their lives not just “data”. The stigma of deafness is a global phenomenon rooted in attitudes, not the deafness itself.
With so many new followers, I thought I would send you all to my PSA "10 things you should know about sign languages" - open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Ten Things You Should Know About Sign Languages - Karen Emmorey, 2023
The 10 things you should know about sign languages are the following: (1) Sign languages have phonology and poetry. (2) Sign languages vary in their linguistic ...
journals.sagepub.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Happy World Linguistics Day! I share a public service announcement about signed languages from @kemmorey.bsky.social — and a constant reminder to look at deaf people & their lives not just “data”. The stigma of deafness is a global phenomenon rooted in attitudes, not the deafness itself.
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They'll learn to sign for deaf dogs, but not for deaf people.
I assume. The video isn't captioned 💀💀💀
abcnews.go.com/world-news-t...
I assume. The video isn't captioned 💀💀💀
abcnews.go.com/world-news-t...
Video David Muir reports on students who learned to sign for deaf therapy dog's birthday
David Muir shares the America Strong story that unfolded at Dr. William Mennies Elementary School in Vineland, New Jersey, when students got a remarkable lesson from their teacher and his dog, Cole.
abcnews.go.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
They'll learn to sign for deaf dogs, but not for deaf people.
I assume. The video isn't captioned 💀💀💀
abcnews.go.com/world-news-t...
I assume. The video isn't captioned 💀💀💀
abcnews.go.com/world-news-t...
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How the fuck does Larry Summers still have a job
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
How the fuck does Larry Summers still have a job
Ever since I saw van Essen’s work at the Wellcome Collection in London, I have been obsessed with the beauty of visual and tactile representations of genetic “defects.” www.tamsinvanessen.com/medical-heir...
Medical Heirlooms — Tamsin van Essen
My work Medical Heirlooms explores the stigma of diseases, questioning contemporary obsessions with perfection and beauty. I have been manipulating the ceramic material in a way that emulates ...
www.tamsinvanessen.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ever since I saw van Essen’s work at the Wellcome Collection in London, I have been obsessed with the beauty of visual and tactile representations of genetic “defects.” www.tamsinvanessen.com/medical-heir...
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I fundamentally do not understand why anyone is interested in these parlor tricks. It's outperformed nothing because recombining word patterns into a text isn't writing. Writing is born out of human experiences filtered through a unique sensibility. Only Han Kang can make more Han Kang.
Put writing high quality literary text on the list of things that AIs used to not be able to do but now can do
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I fundamentally do not understand why anyone is interested in these parlor tricks. It's outperformed nothing because recombining word patterns into a text isn't writing. Writing is born out of human experiences filtered through a unique sensibility. Only Han Kang can make more Han Kang.
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I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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ICYMI and want to read about Something Else for a minute: I wrote about the history and evolution of deaf representation for @pbs.org American Masters. You can stream their documentary "Not Alone Anymore" on Marlee Matlin for free on the site, including an ASL version 🤩. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
How the portrayal of Deaf people in film has evolved over time | American Masters | PBS
March 30th, 1987—21-year-old Marlee Matlin, bespectacled and in a puff-sleeved purple gown, cautiously took the stage and changed the course of film
www.pbs.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
ICYMI and want to read about Something Else for a minute: I wrote about the history and evolution of deaf representation for @pbs.org American Masters. You can stream their documentary "Not Alone Anymore" on Marlee Matlin for free on the site, including an ASL version 🤩. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
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this is genuine psychological warfare and it seems to happen to every professional woman at some point:
At some point during my PhD, a senior male colleague told me that the only reason another senior male colleague was interested in my research was to get into my pants. Double whammy: apart from harassment fears, that made me think that my research was garbage.
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
this is genuine psychological warfare and it seems to happen to every professional woman at some point:
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We're excited to re-launch the journal "Innovations in Linguistics Education", a forum for evidence-based research in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in linguistics! We open for submissions in January 2026.
journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/
journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/
Innovations in Linguistics Education
journals.ed.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We're excited to re-launch the journal "Innovations in Linguistics Education", a forum for evidence-based research in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in linguistics! We open for submissions in January 2026.
journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/
journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
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in Paris, I had to see a same-day doctor & I found one. was gravely warned that, as a foreigner, I’d have to pay 32 euros & I laughed & laughed
a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
in Paris, I had to see a same-day doctor & I found one. was gravely warned that, as a foreigner, I’d have to pay 32 euros & I laughed & laughed
a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
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It’s hard dating white men, I don’t know enough about Japanese culture
July 31, 2023 at 1:52 AM
It’s hard dating white men, I don’t know enough about Japanese culture
Is it appropriate to publish two different reviews of one book (not in the same venue)? Asking for myself.
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Is it appropriate to publish two different reviews of one book (not in the same venue)? Asking for myself.
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I hope I get my shit together in time to end up on a Guillermo del Toro set, even just as an observer, once in my life.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I hope I get my shit together in time to end up on a Guillermo del Toro set, even just as an observer, once in my life.
I teach students linguistics theories by introducing them to variation of “theory” in natural and social sciences and comparing them to conspiracy theory — but never thought about adding color theory to my lecture until just now.
Inspiration comes from talking to people outside of your field.
Inspiration comes from talking to people outside of your field.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I teach students linguistics theories by introducing them to variation of “theory” in natural and social sciences and comparing them to conspiracy theory — but never thought about adding color theory to my lecture until just now.
Inspiration comes from talking to people outside of your field.
Inspiration comes from talking to people outside of your field.
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Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Everyone is hope scrolling now
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On the ballot today:
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
On the ballot today:
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
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hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
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The fact that a sitting president is willing to sacrifice SNAP benefits, something that millions of people, should tell you who he is there to serve. He does not care that it will starve children. He does not care that people will die, but above all, he does not care about the rule of law.
Trump is staring down a noon deadline on Monday to update a federal judge who ruled that they must disburse food assistance funds.
This comes as tens of millions of Americans continue to go without SNAP benefits due to the shutdown, which is just days away from becoming the longest in U.S. history.
This comes as tens of millions of Americans continue to go without SNAP benefits due to the shutdown, which is just days away from becoming the longest in U.S. history.
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The fact that a sitting president is willing to sacrifice SNAP benefits, something that millions of people, should tell you who he is there to serve. He does not care that it will starve children. He does not care that people will die, but above all, he does not care about the rule of law.
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Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.
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So trumps probably never read the great Gatsby, but is it possible that no one at mar-a-lago has read the great Gatsby?
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
So trumps probably never read the great Gatsby, but is it possible that no one at mar-a-lago has read the great Gatsby?
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Farm workers in Ventura County, CA are harvesting the marigolds that are used in altars for #DiadelosMuertos celebrations. The scent of these flowers is thought to attract the souls of the dead and guide them to their homes.
October 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Farm workers in Ventura County, CA are harvesting the marigolds that are used in altars for #DiadelosMuertos celebrations. The scent of these flowers is thought to attract the souls of the dead and guide them to their homes.