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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 8h

I also really like If Books Could Kill and Maintenance Phase, though a couple of the more recent episodes of both are definitely in conversation with current events.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 8h

I enjoy All My Best Friends Are Digital, which is about video games, though full disclosure the hosts are my spouse and a friend of ours so I am definitely biased.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 5d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 3d

"What if cabs, but also overloading public road infrastructure while violating labour laws? Also totally unregulated and with more danger of assault!"

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 3d

I literally don't understand why people take Ubers instead of cabs. I mean, I hate cabs—I will always take public transportation instead, if that's an option—but Ubers seem mostly like cabs but worse.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 5d

That is wild. I have not experienced it, and don't think it would be entirely fair to try it out with theoretical syntax.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 5d

My workflow is that I play the audio via the app on my phone, while reading an original PDF on a larger screen. That way I can annotate the PDF, and also very quickly rewind if I need to reread, or skip forward when it hits an example.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 5d

It's specifically better with figures and parenthetical citations, and at ignoring page headers/footers. Linguistic examples and field specific terminology remain... mixed.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 5d

For anyone interested in text-to-speech as an aid for academic reading, so far I'm finding Paper2Audio (www.paper2audio.com) better than the other tools I've tried—and so far it's free!

Paper2Audio

www.paper2audio.com

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 6d

But also boy is finally learning a bit of ASL fingerspelling also teaching me that I apparently carry a lot of tension in my dominant hand.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 6d

Whenever I learn a bit more about signed languages, I'm blown away by how neat they are. Just so cool!

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Canadian Linguistic { Association } canadienne de linguistique @cla-acl.bsky.social · 6d

L’ACL encourage le gouvernement du Québec à reconsidérer son décret visant à interdire l’usage de certaines formes d’ #écritureinclusive. // The CLA calls on the Govt. of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of #inclusivewriting.

#linguistique #linguistics

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 7d

Merci à @cla-acl.bsky.social pour le bon travail avec ce communiqué de presse

Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 7d

Bravo @cla-acl.bsky.social pour ce communiqué de presse!

Merci aux universitaires pour leur expertise, soutien, et clarté sur ce sujet. 👏

Lisez-le!!

Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

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boba fett's codpiece @seascribble.bsky.social · 7d

Tu devras arracher l’interpoint et iel de mes mains froides et mortes. vas t’en faire foutre, Québec

Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

(FYI if you follow the link but don't read French, the English version appears following.)

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

Or else I wondered if they started with the terms used for legal gender (male/female/unspecified) and then added more? The options for men were parallel, making me think it's less likely to be based on free responses.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

Why was the unmarked option "Female" instead of "Woman"? Why is "cis" hyphenated but "trans" not? Definitely some interesting gender ideology stuff here.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

Just encountered a form that distinguished legal gender and gender identity (cool), and the gender identity list was pretty good (also cool), but also had options including "Cis-Woman", "Female" and "Trans Woman".

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'cause rock is cool but the struggle is better @fairestcat.bsky.social · 9d

Fucking finally available in Canada!

Canada Strong Masks @canadastrong.bsky.social · 10d

Never wonder whether it's COVID or FLU again.

ANNOUNCING THE FIRST combo rapid tests FOR HOME, approved by Health Canada.

Detect COVID, FLU A, and FLU B with just one swab.

This is a great tool to have ready the next time a family member isn't feeling well.

Well Life COVID and INFLUENZA rapid antigen test kits, package of 5.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 9d

Exciting! I ordered some of these earlier this year, but upon reflection I might have had to ignore the statement that they weren't approved for home use…

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 10d

I really do hope the phrase “Kavanaugh Stop” or “Kavanaugh Encounter” sticks.

Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 10d

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

79. American citizen.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 11d

The universities I've worked at all organize disciplinary affiliations like file folders—it's clunky and difficult to be in more than one place at a time. Interesting to think about how structures could be set up so that disciplinary affiliations were more like tag sets.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 12d

I definitely have, it is not even a close call.

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