Culture warriors cancel new U of A law dean before she started - Arkansas Times Culture warriors claim the scalp of Emily Suski, the would-be law school dean whose legal opinion on transgender athletes seems to have offended Arkansas officials.

Goodbye, academic freedom.

The newly selected dean of the University of Arkansas law school had her offer rescinded after conservative state legislators learned that she had signed onto "friend of the court" briefs challenging bans on trans athletes in sports.

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A new analogy for teaching complementary distribution in phonology??

Assistant Professor in Phonology - Chicago, Illinois (US) job with The University of Chicago | 37894671 The Department of Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Phonology with an expected start date of July...

📢 My department is hiring! University of Chicago is hiring an Assistant Professor in Phonology! (EOE/Vet/Disability) See the link for more information. 📢

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Every academic has one core theory they don't actually believe in, but can't stop using because it’s so **neat**

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

From 'Parasite' to 'Emilia Pérez': How movies shape language, with Andrew Cheng. Grammar Girl 1060 YouTube video by Grammar Girl

We also talked about:

🎬 Why villains always have accents.

🎬 Why "Parasite" was a game-changer for non-English films.

🎬 How AI is secretly shaping the voices you hear on screen.

Such interesting stuff!

YouTube: youtu.be/m8RQYqtKjeo

Transcript: grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/osc...

Benefits: You might see bears near campus. You’ll definitely see raccoons. You’ll be in Canada.

Text image: SFU. Current available faculty positions. Linguistics. Assistant Professor: Indigenous language(s) of northwestern North America. Tenure-track assistant professor in computational linguistics.

Simon Fraser University (metro Vancouver, Canada) is hiring two linguists: an assistant professor in computational linguistics and an assistant professor in Indigenous languages of northwestern North America. Come to Canada and work with me on top of Burnaby Mountain! www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...

Saw this meme today and thought immediately of this thread. 😌

Remember when we all turned to the Great British Baking Show because it was so calming and NICE? May I recommend revisiting that coping mechanism, but with the ULTRA-nice Great Canadian Baking Show? It’s niceness squared.

Can I be added please?

Why the Turkey is Named After a Country & the Country’s New Name YouTube video by Palm Springs Linguist

Why are turkeys named after different countries in every language?

Palm Springs Linguist answers in this 4-minute video:

youtu.be/5SQWEw7TSs4?...

#turkey #Thanksgiving #linguistics #language #history #etymology #November

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

What do aliens and Canadians have in common? Check out our lab’s BUCLD paper “Alienology: Producing Opaque Phonology” to find out!

BUCLD 48 Proceedings www.cascadilla.com/bucld48toc.h...

Medium-sized tan dog in the snow, one ear up and one ear down.

I gather that pictures of your dog are non-negotiable.

Just got here, found all the linguists, feeling slightly more hopeful.