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Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮)

@linasigns.bsky.social

Soaking in the magic of languages, pushing back boba liberalism, thinking about the legacies we leave on this planet.

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Sheera Frenkel@sheeraf.bsky.social · 24h ago

Earlier this week I was in the car with my kids when my 7-year-old said, “Look Mama, it’s a death garden.” I looked out the window to see we were passing by a cemetery. Anyway, this is my official petition to rename them death gardens.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d ago

The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 7d ago

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng : My wife: Can you read our baby a book? Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone. My wife: But then it won't be in your voice. Me: I can train a voice model. Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 7d ago

A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.

Chapters in Part III take stock of the current state of evolutionary psychology, by casting wider attention to other social and behavioral sciences and assessing the field's influence on them. In Chapter 11 ('Evolutionary psychology and anthropology'), Heiner Rindermann identifies three major forces that oppose scientific anthropology: Religion, National Socialism ('Nazism'), and woke leftist ideology. Ironically, in this sense, woke left ideologues, who include most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics, share much in common with the Nazis in their common opposition to scientific anthropology. Rindermann's extensive review of the literature leaves no doubt that humans are genetically polytypic and contain different biological races or 'subspecies' At the end of the chapter, Rindermann delivers devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments against the notion of races/subspecies among humans.
samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 2w ago

early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here

Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · 2w ago

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

Dr. S.A. Applin@anthropunk.bsky.social · last mo.

Anthropologists say: It's the humans all the way down, making and deploying AI, who are going to pollute us, impoverish us, and likely kill many of us due to the outcomes from their behaviors. It isn't "AI" is going to kill you," so much as "We're going to kill you."

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last mo.

The Boosters say: AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent and it's going to solve all of our problems. The Doomers say: AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent and it's going to kill us all. >>

🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · last mo.

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈@kennedy.northsky.social · last mo.

That rock skipping, yes tossing stones across a pond or river, is a gender segregated sport, should tell you something about how gendered sports are not about fairness of physical ability, and is instead about the male ego

Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · last mo.

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

Joseph Fink, we're going to win@planetoffinks.bsky.social · last mo.

I've also been told that the same was true of the internet, that people hated it and employers had to force their employees to use it and again, I was there. None of that is true. With actual world changing technology, people were excited to use it! They spent lots of money to use it!

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · last mo.

I know there are people who buy a new iPhone every year but it feels a little jarring to see the $2000 Duo announcement in contrast to ongoing layoffs, high prices for groceries and gas, food recalls, ICE raids, mass deportations, and people who have lost everything from weather disasters this year

Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮)@linasigns.bsky.social · last mo.

Back then in 2022, we had a poster presentation about the faculty placement of deaf linguists in US PhD Linguistics programs. The number of deaf linguists (specializing on signed language linguistics) has not exactly changed since then 1/x

Where do we go from here? Faculty placement of deaf linguists in US PhD programs

The following is a revised abstract for the Linguistic Society of America's 2022 annual meeting:The documentation of understudied and minoritized language varieties is a vital activity in the field of Linguistics. However, Linguistics as a discipline has some work to do toward centering community interests, making the process and products of linguistic research accessible to language communities, and dismantling the “researcher-researched” divide. This has been discussed with regard to training and placement of Black linguists (Rickford 1997, Charity Hudley, Mallinson, and Bucholtz 2020) and Indigenous linguists (Gerdts 2017, Leonard 2020). In this paper we discuss the placement of deaf linguists as faculty in Linguistics PhD programs in the United States. This data does not seem closely tracked; for example, the LSA’s annual report on the state of Linguistics in higher education mentions “disability” six times, all as part of the data source “NSF 2019 Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering report”, but does not otherwise discuss deafness or disability (https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/state-linguistics-higher-education-annual-report). Here, surveying the LSA’s Directory of Linguistics Programs and Departments online, we identified 71 PhD programs in Linguistics in the United States (abbreviated as “departments” here; https://www.linguisticsociety.org/programs). In these departments, we identify only five active tenured or tenure-track deaf faculty who research sign languages in three departments: three at Gallaudet University, one at University of New Mexico, and one at University of California Santa Barbara. We also estimate the number of hearing faculty who research sign languages based on their publications; this yields 25 faculty members in 13 departments. We consider related “categorization” questions that stem from these figures, such as the placement of deaf linguists as faculty in allied fields to Linguistics, including Education, Communication, and Psychology, and the placement of deaf linguists as non-tenure-track faculty and/or in non-PhD granting Linguistics programs. The more we expand our definition of “Linguistics department”, the more the number of deaf linguists increases. We take this opportunity to highlight institutional barriers to deaf people in Linguistics, which include cultural and linguistic barriers (Chua et al, in press). We provide some recommendations for departments looking to invest in the professional development of deaf linguists, and outline talking points for faculty chairs and deans for the recruitment of deaf students and retention of deaf colleagues. Examples include negotiating for accommodations at predominantly hearing universities, planning to hire designated interpreters, and implementing more accessible communication practices in the workplace. These practices can lessen deaf linguists’ additional unpaid emotional labor in the form of educating their department about access.Finally, we also consider the role of ASL-language teaching programs at institutions of higher education (Robinson and Henner 2018). We urge faculty and administrators to hire broadly, to avoid “double dipping” that burdens deaf faculty with ASL-teaching responsibilities, and to instead pursue “cluster” hiring of signing faculty across allied departments, as much as possible. We urge the field of Linguistics to reflect on how it has benefitted from signed language research, and how it can make more space for more deaf linguists to leverage these benefits. Ultimately, these efforts will contribute to increasingly inclusive Linguistics.

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