A book with a white cover, with the title Language and Social Issues: An Investigator’s Toolkit. Authors are listed as Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, Shiloh Drake, and Amy Fountain. There is an image of a happy Black woman with her mouth open, seeming to be shouting or talking, and colorful wedges seem to be coming out of her mouth like speech.

It’s here!! I can’t believe I had the good fortune to get to write an introductory #linguistics textbook with two of my favorite people. I’m very proud of this book and wish I could teach with it—but I hope that other folks will let me live vicariously through them!

Language and Social Issues: An Investigator's Toolkit. Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, Shiloh Drake, and Amy Fountain. Cambridge University Press. The cover art is a young Black woman joyfully puking colors and patterns.

authors' copies just arrived! Textbooks are a scam but we worked hard on this one and in spite of the ai-cover art I'm pretty proud.

Rex Lee Jim Poetry Reading YouTube video by utlibraries

That time Rex Lee Jim read at the Poetry Center at UT Austin

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In 2000, Rex Lee Jim had the idea for me to do research on Navajo poetry. In 2006, I published this short paper on one of his poems. And for 26 years, he and I kept talking about poetry and other things. He was a poet's poet's poet. His poetry lives on.

www.jstor.org/stable/20739...

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This story also involved the funniest quote I’ve ever gotten in an interview.

A Word for the “Unidentified Handler”: Remembering Secretariat Groom Eddie Sweat During the same month Eddie “Shorty” Sweat lay dying of multiple ailments, including cancer and heart disease, Western Horseman magazine released its December 1997 issue with an article commemorating ...

Here's a great article about Eddie Sweat and Secretariat
horsenetwork.com/2022/03/a-wo...

Thanks for sharing this, Eddie has been one of my heroes ever since I learned about him in 1973. To the extent that Secretariat was able to be a happy, well-adjusted guy, it was Eddie's doing. Their friendship has always been an inspiration!

Sign Petition: Induct Eddie Sweat in to The Horse Racing Hall of Fame Eddie "Shorty" Sweat was and is the epitome of horsemanship. Eddie was the groom and care giver to the immortal (3983 signatures on petition)

Hey, so one thing to do for Black History Month is sign this petition for Eddie Sweat to be inducted into the Horse Racing Hall of Fame: www.thepetitionsite.com/540/203/619/...

Eddie was a Geechee Gullah man from South Carolina and arguably key to Secretariat's success on the track.

Language and Social Issues | Cambridge Aspire website Discover Language and Social Issues, 1st Edition, Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, HB ISBN: 9781108837200 on Cambridge Aspire website

Our book is available for preorder!

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #linguisticAnthropology #languageAndSocialIssues #TheGenderChapterWillDefinitelyGetMeFired

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cambridge.org/highereducation/books/language-and-social-issues/5C1D0C2F61B4D0ADA69AE7024EF1E1E2

Met with one of my international doctoral students today, close to finishing a really interesting dissertation, and they have decided not to apply to any academic positions inside the US after finishing. Not unexpected, just a sad reflection of our national self-sabotage.

A cream-colored teddy bear wearing an American flag sweater. He has been in a fire and is singed light brown and his fur and sweater are partly melted.

Driving north through the desert in Nevada we stopped to pee and explore a ghost town and found a microcosm of American culture wars playing out in an abandoned cement factory building. I took some photos. The star: a charred teddy bear wearing an American flag sweater we named Roosevelt.

'the weakest link is the master!' <-- new email signature line!

For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping one student reclaim his culture. - Berkeley News For Berkeley graduate student Tyler Lee-Wynant, linguistic materials in the California Language Archive featuring his great-great aunt have opened a portal to his family’s history and led him to teach...

New podcast about @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social linguistics grad student Tyler Lee-Wynant and the work of the California Language Archive. Give it a listen! (You can turn the volume way down when my voice comes on.)

news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/b...

any body see some good dogs in costumes visit for trick or treating

A new book chronicles one Cherokee citizen’s odyssey of working to revitalizing the Cherokee language.

oh no oh no oh good oh no oh yum but ack!

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Come be my colleague! UC Berkeley Linguistics has a tenure-track position in language revitalization.

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

Flame and I are sooo excited to share a first peek at The Day Leap Soared, featuring breathtaking gouache paintings by @oliviawhen.com!!

I once again request that you please submit an abstract for the conference I'm planning. Pretty please?

#NoKings

three badly drawn protest signs: 'This machine kills fascism" with a picture of a heart, "No Nazis", and "Melt Ice" with a cartoon of a sad melting ice cube.

See you at #NoKings tomorrow #protest #Tucson #noNazis #abolishICE

Also the cattiest dog ever.

Whale vocalizations not only resemble human vowels, but also behave like ones!

We previously discovered that sperm whales have analogues to human vowels.

In a new preprint, we analyze linguistic behavior of whale vowels.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

Horses have a complex repertoire of facial expressions, just like primates The study has created a catalogue of horse facial expressions to help people understand how to read these incredible animals.

This is cool.

Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

Good news, chat. The NSF is temporarily pausing the implementation of the new 15% ICR rate proposal pending a court hearing. I mean, it's good news insofar as good news is possible in this domain. It's less bad news, anyway. #linguistics #highereducation www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

Backyard Birdwatching in Southern Arizona: Cactus Wren and Friends The cactus wren is the state bird of Arizona.

Go to the link to see some of the current backyard birds in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
#bird #birds #birdphotography 🪶

‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin Examining archived recorded cattle calls, this article describes the traditional Finnish ways of cattle calling and suggests that these calls were a t…

I love this research: "‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin" by Anni Jääskeläinen, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...