Danielle Ronkos, PhD
@danielleronkos.bsky.social
PhD in Linguistics working in industry | neurodivergent | she/her | Beacon/NYC
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The Endangered Language Project does great work supporting community language revival work, and they're almost halfway to their goal!
Language champions from 18 countries will be joining the 2026 Ready to Revitalize program - and we have just TEN DAYS left to raise funds for their grassroots #languagerevitalization projects!
🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?
🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?
Raise to Revitalize
Support Global Indigenous Language Revitalization
givebutter.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The Endangered Language Project does great work supporting community language revival work, and they're almost halfway to their goal!
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as long as I post the Christmas cards before Christmas it still counts, right
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
as long as I post the Christmas cards before Christmas it still counts, right
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If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
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I know not everyone is in a position to donate. If you can share, that would be a huge help as well.
We are VERY close to meeting the Linguistic Justice Foundation's fund-raising target to support our operating costs in 2026. Do I know 9 people who can set up a monthly $5 donation? Are you one of those people?
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
Donate to make a difference for people's right to use, maintain and transmit their languages
Your contribution is helping us drive systemic change for linguistic justice. It helps us to advance public awareness and mass education on language rights and linguistic justice, conduct research, an...
www.zeffy.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I know not everyone is in a position to donate. If you can share, that would be a huge help as well.
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"'The one thing that gave me comfort was, like, statistically, it’s practically impossible for this to ever happen to me again,' said Weissman. 'And clearly, we’re getting to a point where no one can say that any more.'"
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"'The one thing that gave me comfort was, like, statistically, it’s practically impossible for this to ever happen to me again,' said Weissman. 'And clearly, we’re getting to a point where no one can say that any more.'"
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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
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A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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Hi, I have a bunch of resources here that might be helpful! There are videos, articles, podcasts and books, so lots of options for whichever piques your interest 😊
Anti-Capitalist Resources
These are people and projects that have been essential for my own journey of unlearning capitalism.
hilaryagro.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hi, I have a bunch of resources here that might be helpful! There are videos, articles, podcasts and books, so lots of options for whichever piques your interest 😊
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Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
archive.ph/9KrlB
Wired©️
The Adulteration and Degradation of the Food Supply
tinyurl.com/msza244w
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
archive.ph/9KrlB
Wired©️
The Adulteration and Degradation of the Food Supply
tinyurl.com/msza244w
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
archive.ph/9KrlB
Wired©️
The Adulteration and Degradation of the Food Supply
tinyurl.com/msza244w
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
archive.ph/9KrlB
Wired©️
The Adulteration and Degradation of the Food Supply
tinyurl.com/msza244w
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Unreal levels of civic engagement happening here
Today, Dec 6, 2025
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Unreal levels of civic engagement happening here
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The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky
The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization
The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.
gothamist.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky
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If you are running, hit me up for a logo. I’ve done like 60 candidate logos and I love giving a good deal to good candidates.
Even/especially if you won’t have the resources for a proper logo until after you launch.
Even/especially if you won’t have the resources for a proper logo until after you launch.
2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. It’s not too late in most places! runforwhat.net
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
If you are running, hit me up for a logo. I’ve done like 60 candidate logos and I love giving a good deal to good candidates.
Even/especially if you won’t have the resources for a proper logo until after you launch.
Even/especially if you won’t have the resources for a proper logo until after you launch.
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GRUDGES AND ASSISTANCE
I once cold-called a librarian in the US to see if she'd send me a couple of photos of a book WORLDCAT said they had, because I was having a fight with the author, and she had those images emailed over to me before I could even explain myself.
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
GRUDGES AND ASSISTANCE
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I think of this post about once a week.
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I think of this post about once a week.
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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National Guard on the A/C platform at Fulton St yukking it up with the NYPD
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
National Guard on the A/C platform at Fulton St yukking it up with the NYPD
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Just saw Ice detaining people at the Laguna Hills Community Center in Laguna Hills - spread the word in the Orange County community.
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Just saw Ice detaining people at the Laguna Hills Community Center in Laguna Hills - spread the word in the Orange County community.
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reading the comments to this and painful laugh/coughing myself silly
Tag yourself, I’m the two bathtubs in the laundry room
Oh shit waddup
December 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
reading the comments to this and painful laugh/coughing myself silly
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NEW: Portland releases ‘community surveillance database’ of ICE/DHS vehicles, made searchable for anyone to use. The database was compiled from careful community research. Notes agents have been observed swapping plates.
ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei...
ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei...
PDX ICE/DHS License Plates
Community-driven database of verified ICE/DHS license plate sightings in Portland. Each entry has at least 2 verified sightings. Search, filter, and export data for community safety.
ipfs.io
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEW: Portland releases ‘community surveillance database’ of ICE/DHS vehicles, made searchable for anyone to use. The database was compiled from careful community research. Notes agents have been observed swapping plates.
ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei...
ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei...
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If you live in NYC, please take a moment [it takes 30 seconds] to support @nycplan.org's demand to increase and stabilize public library funding by sending a letter to your council member: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
If you live in NYC, please take a moment [it takes 30 seconds] to support @nycplan.org's demand to increase and stabilize public library funding by sending a letter to your council member: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
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ICE is staging in a garage on Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan ahead of what neighbors believe is a planned large-scale raid of Canal
Street this afternoon.
Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.
Street this afternoon.
Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
ICE is staging in a garage on Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan ahead of what neighbors believe is a planned large-scale raid of Canal
Street this afternoon.
Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.
Street this afternoon.
Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.
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hey #linguistics peeps! have you ever taken (or taught) a syntax class? we want to hear your opinions (good or bad) about it! We're doing focus group interviews (on zoom, or in person at select conferences) - if you're at all interested, you can fill out our interest form: forms.gle/nhBtz78hQXNA...
SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form
SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...
forms.gle
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
hey #linguistics peeps! have you ever taken (or taught) a syntax class? we want to hear your opinions (good or bad) about it! We're doing focus group interviews (on zoom, or in person at select conferences) - if you're at all interested, you can fill out our interest form: forms.gle/nhBtz78hQXNA...