me trying to remember the Swahili word 𝑚𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑖 ("pot"): haha wouldn't it be funny if it was related to Chinese 桶? but wait it actually is
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Phonetician / 他, wù / pro-international student
"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology
Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
leave it to uni HR to request a signature on a routine (but important and time-sensitive) form, but the PDF they've sent you is non-editable, and you are out of the country for the next month with no access to a printer
"[O]ur new golden age... is going to be a golden age of taking money away from scientists and universities and giving it to companies like Scale AI." www.publicnotice.co/p/michael-kr...
The "new science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift
Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.
publicnotice.co
somehow at 2/4 of my air itineraries this year for having a flight canceled out of nowhere. I love the exciting and increasingly expensive times we live in
so, I can confirm that the village I work in near Douala has many speakers of both Tupuri and Mundang, two Mbum-Day languages of far northern Cameroon. I've now done a few days of Tupuri recordings to test the waters. I also tested this millet beer (also from far northern Cameroon).
The arguments against language reclamation haven't changed much in the nearly 20 years I've been working in this field: "It costs too much." "People are choosing to abandon their languages, so let them." "They have no practical use." "It's just sentimental nostalgia." Fuck All That, a thread:
Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die
When cultural preservation comes at the expense of speakers’ decisions, sometimes it's O.K. to let a language die.
newyorker.com
does anyone happen to have a PDF of: Ruelland, S. (1988). DESCRIPTION DU PARLER TUPURI DE MINDAORE, MAYO-KEBBI, TCHAD : PHONOLOGIE, MORPHOLOGIE, SYNTAXE. PhD dissertation, U. Paris 3. 🐦🐦
Deadline 9/1: Two (!) Asst Prof (tenure track), Cognitive Science, Pomona College academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32240
The Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) at Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in African American History. Please spread the word! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in African American History - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) at Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in African American History...
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DHS has published its Final Rule to eliminate "duration of status" for F, J & I nonimmigrants. One of the most significant changes to international student, exchange visitor & foreign media programs in decades, it will be costly, cause chaos, and cut legal immigration.
debated doing the repost, but I feel vindicated after the last 5 minutes
sigh@wulatum.bsky.social · 4w ago
So far only one football superpower that Spain could not defeat at this world cup- Cabo Verde
*long* delayed update which may interest @gguitang.bsky.social after asking around, it seems speakers of both Mbum-Day languages (Mundang, Tupuri) and languages from several Chadic branches (Masa, Maɗa, Kapsiki, Kera) are living around the village. I may need to attempt a survey.
sigh@wulatum.bsky.social · last yr.Literally as I am driving away from the village I do fieldwork in, I learn that there is a large population (hundreds?) of Tupuri (Adamawa, Mbum-Day) speakers that has been living there this whole time. Next time, I guess. Very unexpected since most of them are apparently in Chad.
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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 3w ago🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/cY8HD
really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration
Phil Rocco@philiprocco.bsky.social · 4w agoI don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...
I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...
Cities, states warn of credit impact from proposed federal grant rule
Discretionary termination of grants allowed under the rule would pose a particular risk, issuer advocates said.
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because economic colonialism wasn't racist enough, I guess.
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4w agoPreaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn
Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer Ph.D.s, a Bad Sign for Science
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Cape Verde's two goals against Argentina today put them at #7 in all-time WC goals per capita! (fixed to actually be goals per capita, and not points per capita)
sigh@wulatum.bsky.social · last mo.update: Cape Verde's two goals against Uruguay *also* puts them in the top 20 all-time goals per capita, ahead of countries like Argentina.
I am not a "sports person" but this is objectively a thing of beauty
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last mo.Golazo from Sidny Lopes Cabral, level again