nothing better than wrapping up the 2025 presentation season with a lecture as a Northrop Frye Center doctoral fellow! I sincerely appreciate everyone who came to hear me rambling about British lexicography of languages of the Chinese coastline.
(aaand it’s time to get back to the writing cave..

Although the article has been online for a little while, I would still like to share it along with a belated acknowledgment of the support, thoughtful feedback, and generous help I received from my professors and friends.

2025 History of Science Society Annual Conference done! I truly appreciate the comments and questions received from our chair, fellow panelists, and audience. Also crossing with scholars whose works are in my zotero library was indeed like a dream came true.

a great honor to write a review of Dr. Söderblom Saarela’s second monograph for Saksaha!

Review of The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor, by Mårten Söderblom Saarela doi.org/10.3998/saks...

was very happy to present at the 7th international workshop on the history of speech communication science (read: the history of phonetics… and phonology!). felt incredibly honored to be able to share the love of this topic with fellow phoneticians and phonologists. so much to be done!

no not NotebookLM claiming to help users “understand”…?

Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole.

NEW: The Trump admin confirms that Columbia junior Yunseo Chung is the redacted name in Marco Rubio's letter declaring her and Mahmoud Khalil threats to US foreign policy. The letter came only two days after her arrest at a Barnard pro-Palestinian sit-in. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A sad day for Columbia and for our democracy. "Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands" has got to be one of the most depressing sentences ever written.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

NeMLA 2025 done and thanks to all our amazing panelists! This year we did a session on war and literature in the Sinosphere. We discussed Xu Dishan, Tong Enzheng, Alai, and Wu Ming-Yi. Great job done and looking forward to seeing all wips flourish in the near future :))

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.

For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

migrating to bsky for sensible comments on this: