Super excited to take Beginner's Ancient Greek with the Ancient Language Institute this summer!

Hoping they reverse the ban soon, I have work to do!

I don't wanna fill out this NSF survey of PhDs because there is no promise of free shirt, mug, tote bag, or gift card!!

Welp guess I'm gonna be my kid sister's high school chemistry tutor during funemployment break haha!

Cool new paper on the nucleus retroambiguus and phonation control in mice. Authors ablate vocalization using Casp3, or use optogenetics to elicit vocalization, associated with projections to respiratory nuclei and correlated to laryngeal activity.
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lenition of aspirated stops to fricatives passes through an affricate intermediate kʰ → kx →x, pʰ →pɸ,pf →ɸ,f and that is so fun because there was this intermediate period where everyone in a language community was going around spitting on each other constantly via forceful aspiration. #langsky

Finally conjugating verbs like τίθημι and the origin of this sort of quasi passive looking form is something I am wondering about especially for a verb that means to place, or like δίδωμι. What's going on here, a question for google lol #langsky

Do the words “twilight zone” conjure up that trippy black and white TV show from the 1950s? If so, maybe it’s time to update your mental database with this awesome story about the #OceanTwilightZone from @iflscience.bsky.social!
Immerse yourself: go.whoi.edu/iflscience-otz

Econometric-style heteroscedasticity-robust standard errors using the sandwich package #rstats
youtu.be/Ta5W0qO8S10?...