@lsafirstgenaccess.bsky.social is still looking for submissions for travel assistance to the 2027 @lingsocam.bsky.social Annual Meeting in San Fran! Any first-gen student who has not previously attended the meeting is eligible, even if they are not presenting. Please share with students! Link below!

🎙️ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 #𝐖𝐢𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐭! In the new #WiAIRpodcast episode with @neuranna.bsky.social, we talk about the relationship between language, thought, and intelligence, with insights from neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research. 📷 YouTube: youtu.be/e36ryy0Dsdo

Six months ago, I shared the fall turkeys. Now I give you the summer turkeys.

Submissions for the FGAE Travel Assistance award are now open! Apply for the chance to win $500 in travel assistances to the 2007 LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco! Open to first-gen students who are attending the meeting for the first time. Submission link: tinyurl.com/fgae2027trav...

Good god. Trump fired the entire National Science Board without explanation on Friday afternoon.

Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration

Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.

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Language shapes everything, from how we think to how we connect and innovate. Linguists are essential to understanding communication, and to creating ethical, responsible AI. We need more linguists. #TalkAboutSocialSciences #TalkAboutHumanities

We made it 30 hours at home without heat or power before we chose to evacuate (once we started seeing our breath indoors). It’s been 4 days now, and no idea when power will be restored at home. Nashville is suffering, y’all.

I love the neighborhood turkeys

Vandy CaLL is hiring a Project Manager for early 2026! We're looking for someone that can help manage work on an NSF-funded project investigating how individual differences in cognitive ability and language experience shapes L2 sentence processing. ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like: “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” “I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page

"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."

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I hereby name this symbol "the schwat". I will be taking no questions. #linguistics #phonetics #threads #schwa #schwat

Postdoc opening!! We’re looking for a postdoc to support our DoD funded study, using noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation and EEG to study speech in noise perception in veterans with TBI. Please share and reach out to start the conversation if interested! bit.ly/478e3ME

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Classification Title: Postdoctoral Associate Job Description: The Genetics of Auditory and visual Perception and Plasticity (GAPP Lab) Lab in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences...

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Georgetown University is conducting a search for a one-year postdoctoral associate in Applied Linguistics to begin on January 1, 2026. Candidates should apply by October 31 at apply.interfolio.com/174232

We're doing it again! Join the @lingsocam.bsky.social First Generation Access and Equity Group for a low-stakes conversation about what it means to be a first-generation linguist. Sign up here to receive an invite: forms.gle/VfWN9AwscyFM...

2) Mon Sept 22nd 9am ET the National Academies is hosting a webinar on Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding. Experts will discuss secondary data analysis, meta-analysis, and other lower-cost methods for research www.nationalacademies.org/event/1072_0...

As a chronically bad sleeper, I started reading right before bed to help lull me to sleep. Now I can't read articles at night without my eyelids getting heavy two pages in.

I just wrote "correctment" instead of "correction" in a class email, so that's how I'm doing on the second week of classes.

Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at age 76. RIP to an icon. 📷 Eddie Sanderson/Getty Images

A researcher-friendly resource for studying phonological social networks. Spread the word to your networks! #psynomBRM paper by Alderete and colleagues #Psycholinguistics #NetworkAnalysis #OpenAccess post by Caballero

Can a “fish” be friends with a “dish” – a new open-access resource for phonological network research

A common trope in high school movies involves the protagonist being given a tour of the various student cliques, where distinctive groups like the rowdy football players, the fashionable mean girls…

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Fascism and trade wars are inherently more dangerous to those who are struggling the most. Immigrants, people of colour, LGBTQ+, disabled & elderly people will be hit the hardest. People say “we survived them once & we can survive them again!” Many did NOT survive. We fight in their memory.

"On a weekly basis more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% ... are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to [it]." www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...

Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

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From Music City Migrawatch May 4, 2025, 11:30am Active ICE operation has detained up to 100 people currently being processed in Nashville. At least 1 person detained says that MNPD participated in her detention!

55 years ago today, 4 students at Kent State University were killed for protesting the Vietnam war. Allison Krause, 19 Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20 Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20 William Knox Schroeder, 19 We must stand against war, militarism, and government attacks on protest.

📣🧪 $25k grants for those who: 1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and 2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF. Early-career scholars prioritized

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🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’

After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

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One thing I do not like about grading writing assignments is having to actively be an AI detector.

We have officially become @thefestfl.bsky.social parents. You can find us and our baby in the pit. 🫡