Laurel Brehm

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

Yep, that tracks...😉🤣

One thing about being a phonetician, as opposed to say, a plumber, is that I can't just quit my job and show up in Dublin or Toronto and try to find work. Also, my job pays less than a plumber and is less useful to people. That's three things.

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

I attended the Burbank Media industry job fair yesterday, where no one was hiring. At the job fair. The fair for jobs.

Community-based sociolinguistic research panel starting NOW @ LSA Institute! Looking forward to this day, ft:

@mixedlinguist.bsky.social @charliefarrington.bsky.social, me (@midiariesprojet.bsky.social), @robindodsworth.bsky.social, Annette D'Onofrio, Minnie Annan, @charlottevaughn.bsky.social,

Photo of a white truck (possibly a Snowy Peterbilt?) in motion, carrying four small trucks on its bed (dorsal side).

My first time observing parental care in trucks 🥹 and with such a large brood! 😲 Guessing these juveniles will strike out on their own pretty soon 🥳

NSF and NIH suspend grants to UCLA | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

12/ What can you do?

🔹 Follow and share updates.
🔹 Contact your reps and urge full funding for science, public health, and education.
🔹 Support organizations tracking this fight.
🔹 Be ready for a turbulent September.

#SaveScience #NIH #appropriations #shutdown

I am a first gen college student from a tiny rural farm town in the middle of nowhere in the Midwest where finishing high school wasn’t something everyone did, let alone go to college or even grad school.

And I am a scientist because of the National Institutes of Health.

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

It amazes me that science can predict that there will be a ~2 foot tsunami here in SB at about 1 am. Hoping that other folks in more affected areas can stay safe.

In advance of next year's (likely dire) job market, here are the 2024-2025 numbers from the psych job wiki: the overall number of tenure-track job listings in psychology and neuroscience fell slightly, from 860 to 822 (this doesn't include canceled searches, which are often not properly reported).

RTG - Universität Bielefeld Der SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en...

Call for incoming researchers for 2026: Come to #Bielefeld and #CRC1646 on a scholarship and work with us on linguistic creativity! All details can be found here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...

#BLinguistik #linguistics

Can you help me spread the word?

I’m hiring:

FOUR part-time freelance roles

Across TWO jobshares, 1 x sales & marketing, 1 x admin & operations

All to support my disabled-majority intersectional UK-based social enterprise

Deadline: 5pm Friday 1 August

I’m excited to hear from you!

I'm writing a chapter about forced alignment, and also personally shopping for a new iPad. It's making me worry that user expectation is increasingly going to be that they can replace their laptop with an iPad, which is going to add more friction to learning scientific computing.

Are you interested in pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship or a PhD related to aging or dementia? | Angela Roberts Are you interested in pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship or a PhD related to aging or dementia? Are you seeking a new research opportunity? If YES, then keep reading this post - you won't regret it. ...

Western University is increasing funding for postdocs -- if you're interested in pursuing work with a great speech + language scientists like Angela Roberts check out this post www.linkedin.com/posts/angela...

Outside immigration court and ICE detention. 💔

Make whatever art you want at climate change crafting night. A skateboarding screaming possum, a sexy septa bus, a world on fire, whatever you want. We’ve got the soft pretzels & art supplies ready for ya.

Tomorrow @indyhall.org

We’ve got a good group coming! Hope to see ya there
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Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Hey, if you know sociolinguistics and phonetics, there's a beer-money temporary part-time job available at Glasgow University:

(don't be fooled by the salary range -- buried in the fine print is the specifics that it's a 0.4 FTE job).

#linguistics #academicChatter.

Applications accepted on rolling basis: 4 postdocs, neuroscience of language, Georgetown University (US citizens/permanent residents only) neurolang.georgetown.edu/admission

Every. dang. day.

NEWS: Congressional Budget Office projects that the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act will

—Add $3.4 trillion to the national debt
($1.1T in net spending cuts, $4.5T in lower revenue)

—Result in 10 million fewer people with health insurance

—Lower ACA benchmark premiums by 0.6%

Past due tbh

Beezlebub's lesser known brother, Buzzlebeeb, who is Lord of Millipedes and a chill dude who just wants to talk about cool millipede facts

John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice.

Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how:

By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.

Anyone here who is or knows a German/German-speaking journalist or book reviewer? The German translation of my book about cancer evolution, Rebel Cell, is coming out in October and we're looking for people who might want a review copy.
@lynnnothegger.bsky.social

If you ever want to access the raw XKCD color survey data yourself, here's how to download it and set up the sqlite database all within R. (It's not so bad!)

I have a banger thread on informal feminized labor and "male loneliness epidemic discourse" cooked up in my head, but I can't get my kids to leave me along long enough for me to write it