Dr. Shiloh Drake
@snd1101.bsky.social
wordologist, linguist, & language researcher at UOregon. writer. enjoyer of hockey and yarncraft. she | they.
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PLEASE
I don't want a "smart" fridge, or a "smart" TB, or a "smart" anything
they're not smart at all, they're just data mining tools, and I don't want any of them
I don't want a "smart" fridge, or a "smart" TB, or a "smart" anything
they're not smart at all, they're just data mining tools, and I don't want any of them
Feel like there's a market opportunity in opening a luddite appliance store: non-smart refridgerators, watches that tell you the time, a themostat that you set by htting buttons, a regular lock for your door, a toaster that just pops the toast after a minute. Maybe you expand into cars with buttons.
February 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
PLEASE
I don't want a "smart" fridge, or a "smart" TB, or a "smart" anything
they're not smart at all, they're just data mining tools, and I don't want any of them
I don't want a "smart" fridge, or a "smart" TB, or a "smart" anything
they're not smart at all, they're just data mining tools, and I don't want any of them
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We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
January 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
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New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology | Journal of Linguistic Geography | Cambridge Core
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org
January 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
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don't forget to take a break from doomscrolling to press your fingers against your closed eyelids until you can see the beginning of the universe
January 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
don't forget to take a break from doomscrolling to press your fingers against your closed eyelids until you can see the beginning of the universe
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missing even one paycheck like this would have ruined me and my young family when I was an NSF postdoc. This is heartless
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
missing even one paycheck like this would have ruined me and my young family when I was an NSF postdoc. This is heartless
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
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I gotta say, I'm getting pretty tired of hearing "he can't do that!" when he very clearly is doing that.
Me, smirking at the bear devouring my flesh: So you actually can’t do that it’s illegal. Focus on economics
January 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I gotta say, I'm getting pretty tired of hearing "he can't do that!" when he very clearly is doing that.
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this is good, practical, and worth bookmarking for the next time someone you love insists that a myth like "immigrants bring drugs" is a fact
NYT reporting mass immigrant ICE raids have begun in Chicago.
I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
www.qasimrashid.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
this is good, practical, and worth bookmarking for the next time someone you love insists that a myth like "immigrants bring drugs" is a fact
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About links, bluesky loves them. Please unlearn the link-in-reply tricks you've been doing elsewhere and proudly share your blog posts, videos, or any other external link in your top posts so we can all go and visit your fancy websites and then get back here to discuss and repost them. Thanks!
Not only is X throttling external links, but it is also messing with its public pages. Without an account, you don't see the conversation if you go to a post. Instead, you get ads to sign up. If you visit profiles, the latest posts are not there. Useless for microblogging. Harmful to the open web.
January 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
About links, bluesky loves them. Please unlearn the link-in-reply tricks you've been doing elsewhere and proudly share your blog posts, videos, or any other external link in your top posts so we can all go and visit your fancy websites and then get back here to discuss and repost them. Thanks!
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The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!
Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back
theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.
reproductiverightsdotgov.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!
Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
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I mean right off the bat, ’idea generation’ is laughable. LLMs cannot come up with new ideas, LLMs can only reformulate ideas it already has access to. Using an LLM for idea generation is plagiarism and no one with ever convince me otherwise.
January 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I mean right off the bat, ’idea generation’ is laughable. LLMs cannot come up with new ideas, LLMs can only reformulate ideas it already has access to. Using an LLM for idea generation is plagiarism and no one with ever convince me otherwise.
sometimes while watching hockey, the checks into the board will jostle the dopamine vending machine so i get all the stuck ones at once
putting a dollar into the dopamine vending machine and watching as the dopamine gets stuck on the way down
January 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
sometimes while watching hockey, the checks into the board will jostle the dopamine vending machine so i get all the stuck ones at once
if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. bestselling fantasy novelist
2. creative writing
3. "For the Love of Words" (ling + slhs)
4. conversation design
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. bestselling fantasy novelist
2. creative writing
3. "For the Love of Words" (ling + slhs)
4. conversation design
if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. My what now?
2. Linguistics / Political Science
3. I added a third major in CS
4. Data science manager
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. My what now?
2. Linguistics / Political Science
3. I added a third major in CS
4. Data science manager
if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. writer/poet? wanted to be an english major
2. linguistics / literature double major
3. (nope)
4. linguistics prof
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. writer/poet? wanted to be an english major
2. linguistics / literature double major
3. (nope)
4. linguistics prof
January 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. bestselling fantasy novelist
2. creative writing
3. "For the Love of Words" (ling + slhs)
4. conversation design
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. bestselling fantasy novelist
2. creative writing
3. "For the Love of Words" (ling + slhs)
4. conversation design
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let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*
Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.
The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
January 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
well. i was just laid off. i'm reeling and sad and am very much not looking forward to another job search. i am really upset to be leaving my team and the company.
however, i am very happy to report that my resume still looks slick as hell, especially with some new fresh experience on it 💅
however, i am very happy to report that my resume still looks slick as hell, especially with some new fresh experience on it 💅
January 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
well. i was just laid off. i'm reeling and sad and am very much not looking forward to another job search. i am really upset to be leaving my team and the company.
however, i am very happy to report that my resume still looks slick as hell, especially with some new fresh experience on it 💅
however, i am very happy to report that my resume still looks slick as hell, especially with some new fresh experience on it 💅
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10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system:
The Measles vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Tetanus vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Tetanus vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
December 1, 2024 at 9:19 PM
10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system:
The Measles vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Tetanus vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Tetanus vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
i'm touching a computer for the first time since wednesday and it's a good feeling
better yet, i'm at a cute cafe with my partner and i'll be working on a paper from my postdoc that i think is sooooo close to being done
better yet, i'm at a cute cafe with my partner and i'll be working on a paper from my postdoc that i think is sooooo close to being done
December 1, 2024 at 9:21 PM
i'm touching a computer for the first time since wednesday and it's a good feeling
better yet, i'm at a cute cafe with my partner and i'll be working on a paper from my postdoc that i think is sooooo close to being done
better yet, i'm at a cute cafe with my partner and i'll be working on a paper from my postdoc that i think is sooooo close to being done
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Whatever justification the incoming administration is giving for wanting to dismantle the Dept of Education, please know that the end result will include students with disabilities losing their right to an education, including losing support & services like speech therapy that they receive at school
As a former #SpecialEd attorney, I just want to be sure people get it.
Federal funds for students with #Disabilities will also disappear when the Department of Education does. And with #Medicaid at risk, so do related services (therapies etc). This is Trump’s plan.
Federal funds for students with #Disabilities will also disappear when the Department of Education does. And with #Medicaid at risk, so do related services (therapies etc). This is Trump’s plan.
November 16, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Whatever justification the incoming administration is giving for wanting to dismantle the Dept of Education, please know that the end result will include students with disabilities losing their right to an education, including losing support & services like speech therapy that they receive at school
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Survival tips from the family of Coretta Scott King:
November 16, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Survival tips from the family of Coretta Scott King:
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Figured it was time we had a language revitalization & documentation starter pack to supplement the #linguistics one - please tag any other folks working in language revitalization and general stuff around Indigenous and minoritized languages! 🐦🐦
November 16, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Figured it was time we had a language revitalization & documentation starter pack to supplement the #linguistics one - please tag any other folks working in language revitalization and general stuff around Indigenous and minoritized languages! 🐦🐦
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You attain citizenship in the US in one of two ways: birthright and naturalization. Trump has campaigned to eliminate both. The calls should be understood for what they are: dog whistles that attack people of color and their children; he is not attacking white immigrants or their children.
November 18, 2024 at 9:39 PM
You attain citizenship in the US in one of two ways: birthright and naturalization. Trump has campaigned to eliminate both. The calls should be understood for what they are: dog whistles that attack people of color and their children; he is not attacking white immigrants or their children.