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Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Jul 31

Fantastic news!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
My wife and sweetest heart, Dr. Sirry Alang @profalang.bsky.social, earned a promotion to 🌟FULL PROFESSOR🌟 of Health and Human Development at The University of Pittsburgh!!This is the highest tenured academic rank! Please help me congratulate our rock star!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️❤️

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Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Jul 22

Sigh…😞

Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Jul 22

Carnegie Mellon University leaders silenced @cmu.edu students who called Trump a rapist claiming they violated civil discourse. I wrote about the disgrace of reprimanding students for rejecting the idea that our campus is a place to engage in civil discourse with rapists. medium.com/@ujuanya/who...

Who is disgracing whom?

There is a Fence located on the central green space of our Carnegie Mellon University campus on which, for more than 100 years, CMU…

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Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Apr 20

Still wild to me how the Trump administration’s response to Harvard refusing to follow their illegal, unconstitutional, and outrageous orders was “Our bad, you shoulda known we ain’t shit 🤷‍♂️🤷🤷‍♂️🤷”

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Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Apr 19

If you’re in Pittsburgh today, make your voice heard at the Stand Up For Science rally for democracy and science this afternoon.

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Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Apr 18

Read Dr. Sirry Alang’s @profalang.bsky.social full statement on the matter with her very thoughtful, clear-headed critique against both Dr. Hardeman’s abuse of junior scholars and the US academy’s institutional culture, systems, and practices that promote such abuse.

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What a Fucking Mess

Sirry Alang

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Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Apr 18

If you’ve been following recent news about University of Minnesota public health researcher Dr. Rachel Hardeman harming junior scholars and plagiarizing their work, Hardeman’s ex-colleague, (my wife) Dr. Sirry Alang @profalang.bsky.social, made a statement. Here’s a quote with full statement below.

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Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Mar 22

Hello to friends, colleagues, and co-conspirators at the American Association for Applied Linguistics. I’m here at AAAL 2025 in Denver. If you’re around too, come say hi.

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Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Jan 18

Thanks!

Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Jan 18

Our project team that created a free, open-access Spanish language curriculum centering Black learners and Black populations in Latin America was awarded a $150K NEH grant! Congrats to our PI @deborahgomezgomez.bsky.social and co-investigators @clemonsaris.bsky.social @melissabaralt.bsky.social!

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Melissa Baralt @melissabaralt.bsky.social · Jan 17

We got another grant! Huge congratulations to PI @deborahgomezgomez.bsky.social and fellow Co-Is @ujuanya.bsky.social & @clemonsaris.bsky.social ! Together we’re advancing TBLT and creating meaningful change in language education based on students real-world needs!

Déborah Gómez, Ph.D. @deborahgomezgomez.bsky.social · Jan 17

I am so excited to announce that we have been awarded the Humanities Initiatives at HBCUs grant. Thanks to this generous NEH grant, we will design 3 new Spanish language and culture courses for our curriculum. I am always so grateful for my incredible colleagues.
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