This is also the wisdom of the fantastic 1930s(?) book LIVE ALONE AND LOVE IT. Everyone needs 2 hobbies at least - 1 that you go out for and 1 that you do at home. Applies whether or not you live alone!

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 13h ago

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

Need to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/

“The research…shows circles, squares &other geometric figures, some w/connecting roads, beneath the forest canopy, w/nearly 400 prev unknown earthworks….All of them add to evidence contradicting the depiction of the Amazon as a largely untouched expanse b4 the arrival of Europeans in the 15th cent”🧪

Wendy Miller@burrowingowl.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is so cool! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...

Extremely surprising but as far as I can tell, very well supported. Population estimates certainly check out vs family and household size of modern groups

Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia - Nature

Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR data, the northern part of southwestern Amazonia appears to contain as many earthworks as previously estimated for the whole of Amazonia.

nature.com

I am going to assign this article alongside Davis (2017) in my language revitalization class because it’s such a textbook example of ignorant, fallacious and colonial discourses about Indigenous langs.

Endangered Languages Project@e-l-p.bsky.social · last wk.

If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...

OMB commenting period ends today. That's not the end of the fight. UNIONS will pick up where individuals left off and work together to sue the federal government. In my organizing, people constantly ask me what unions can do for higher ed. They can do this. And universities won't. So sign a card.

My takeaway from this World Cup so far is that the people of the Bajo Amazonas have 2 rooting interests Brazil and whoever beats Argentina

Now I’m in the Amazon Basin and it’s hotter in New York than here. Even in upstate.

Just did a talk at #CoLang 2026 (Reno) on open-source children’s books. Check out storyweaver.org.in for an open-source lang revitalization and maintenance tool that deserves to be better known! #langsky 🐦🐦

All killer no filler!! Point about practice depends somewhat on talk length/experience level. Everything else is as true on talk 100 as talk 1

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · last mo.

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

I’m in the American Southwest and somehow it is hotter in London than here

Spending most of June stateside and I am honestly enthusiastic to celebrate the 🇺🇸 people, even if I would never celebrate the nation/1776 at this specific moment. July 4 will be in 🇵🇪 though and the World Cup is for 🇧🇷, count me in for all of the Americas!

QEPD Raúl Pacheco Vega. Blog was a wonderful source of writing advice and process ideas for me

harmodio@harmodio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Buen camino, profe Raúl Pacheco Vega. Fuiste y serás siempre el investigador más chido.

Delighted to see this from U of A 🌵 Many communities need similar resources in Spanish too - anyone with plans to write, adapt, translate? 🐦🐦

Me every time I talk to a Brazilian

Just Security@justsecurity.org · 2mo ago

#Poland is learning how difficult it is to rebuild democratic institutions and norms after illiberal rule. Mietek Boduszyński and @laurathornton.bsky.social heard their lessons firsthand. The most crucial? Start planning now: www.justsecurity.org/139687/ameri... #democracy #RuleOfLaw

This moment doesn’t compare favorably to ‘Laudato Si’ (so far) and that - unfortunately for Leo - is a very natural comparison to make Time will tell about how the laity/grassroots receive this in comparison to LS

Lorena Jaume-Palasí@lopalasi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pope Leo XIV presenting his encyclical on #AI together with Anthropic's Christopher Olah is comparable to Pope Leo XIII presenting his encyclical Rerum Novarum on capitalism together with Henry Ford

The New York Times is now parody of itself. Universities that focus on what we do in our day-to-day lives that resonates with people beyond ourselves? My dudes, have you ever been to a regional public university or any campus that isn't Harvard?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The problem on college campuses is not just that students lack civility, Michal Leibowitz writes, but that “our college education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves.”

This institution, which is awesome and which I personally support as a board member of an affiliated org, is funded almost entirely by federal farm subsidies. You will be shocked to know that this does not make it into the NYT.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The problem on college campuses is not just that students lack civility, Michal Leibowitz writes, but that “our college education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves.”

This is the only day I’ve ever been glad to have Blackboard

hold onto your wallet anytime someone claims a human behavior is ‘natural’ without defining what that means, but *clutch* it for ‘x is natural, y is not, therefore ban y.’ truly natural behaviors - eg walking, using language - don’t require incentives, far less coercion

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the big lie of reactionary ideology is that its natural order of things requires massive coercion and constant policing to create and maintain while supposedly unnatural deviant behaviors keep spontaneously cropping up wherever control isnt total without violence their reified categories dissolve

Wondering about the transatlantic distribution of “one-on-one” vs “one-to-one” (as abbreviated 121) as referring to social or business interactions, eg “i wanted to give you this update one-on-one”. Had never heard “to” before coming here! @lynneguist.bsky.social ?

This is awesome. At the same time, I am always somewhat surprised by the idea in the UK that centralized government agencies should be responsible not only for funding, but also actually programming, language revitalization (see also Gaidhlig). No one believes this in other endangered langs

Languages Direct@languages-direct.com · 3mo ago

BBC responds to interest in Cornish with new language podcast buff.ly/h5WDNEQ #langsky #xl8

Never been gladder to have a passport valid to 2030. With extra pages.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3mo ago

> @bloomberg.com

@catscoffeecats.bsky.social on this: “Blessed are the meek, for they will be called soft on crime”

Will Saletan@saletan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

The grandfather of Elbridge "Bridge" Colby was William Colby, OSS veteran and CIA director under Nixon. Also very staunch and devout Catholic. (And controversial in many ways, which you can look up.) Trying to imagine what he would make of this.

Brian Floyd@brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

this was a bad idea from people that are unbelievably high off their own supply

I expect more from Marco, he was a lapsed Catholic before he was a convert

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 4mo ago

these idiot adult converts are going to drive me back into the extremely questionable arms of the church

Grammar xkcd.com/3229/

Have listened to the entire Taylor Swift discography while writing this damn book. *1989* alone was enough for dissertation, unfortunately this thing is 3x as long

My lates paper in LD&C with @chirila.bsky.social is now out! This tutorial teaches you everything about video-based fieldwork on spoken lang 🗣️ that I learned the hard way, from buying peripherals to archiving. 🐦🐦

What are we saying instead of “citizen science” these days? Not loving the term when “citizenship” is fraught. Distributed science? 🐦🐦🧪