Suzanne Evans Wagner

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity & collective action against this effort at federal control over higher ed"

L’ACL encourage le gouvernement du Québec à reconsidérer son décret visant à interdire l’usage de certaines formes d’ #écritureinclusive. // The CLA calls on the Govt. of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of #inclusivewriting.

#linguistique #linguistics

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It’s funny how often grifter pseudoscience results in “answers” that blame, punish, and control women, isn’t it?

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
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What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Authoritarian by design - DesignObserver The "America by Design" initiative, issued by the Trump administration, pushes a harmful narrative with questionable visuals

“The site announcing America’s new design studio is a hot mess. That’s a clue.”

There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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Responding to the mass cancellation of NSF grants, Fazio (@lkfazio.bsky.social), a researcher who studies misinformation: “What can US researchers do in this situation? One thing is clear: do not surrender to political pressure or abandon crucial research questions.”

Devastating blow to longitudinal research. “Our ability to understand what’s going on with those women will be severely curtailed,” Anderson says. “They’ve been dedicated to this process for 30 years and provide their data generously...” Thirty years!!

Bone chilling.

A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.

1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

Analysis: Trump’s Tariffs Disrupt Global Trade Without a Clear Strategy The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.

"When pressed, several senior officials conceded that they had spent only a few days considering how the economic earthquake might have second-order effects."

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Poster titled "Branding your research" by Suzanne Evans Wagner, Betsy Sneller, Jack Rechsteiner. Main text: "Branding makes research easier: It streamlines decisions. Anyone can do it, on any budget. Ask us how!" Secondary text: "Our research: MI Diaries. A longitudinal linguistics and oral history project collecting people's self-recordings via a custom mobile app. There is an image of the MI Diaries microphone logo surrounded by brand characteristics such as "authentic", "trustworthy" and "funny". There is a QR code, a hyperlink to https://mi-diaries.org and logos for Michigan State University and the US National Science Foundation.

Fwiw, here is our 'conversation starter' poster, including links to our LingVan paper: bit.ly/3R3YdKp and MI Diaries project: mi-diaries.org. #LingComm25

If you're headed to my poster with @betsysneller.bsky.social and @jackrechsteiner.bsky.social at #LingComm25, sorry I'm not there yet! Having some tech issues (on my side, not the conference's).

Trump cuts include Columbia U. research into mold at NYCHA, Bronx air quality A government document details the numerous research projects on the chopping block, from research into local health to projects on cancer and Alzheimer’s.

“ Medical miracles don't happen overnight. They take years. You won't notice it tomorrow or next week, but someday soon, you or a family member will be diagnosed with cancer, dementia, or some other terrifying disease, but this time there will be no miracle cure because there is no funding.”

I thought the goal was to not waste taxpayer money?

New new strategy: Call me after lunch!

Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.

DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

Also Gandhi, accused of being improperly dressed while wearing a loincloth at a meeting with King George V, who later said, "The king was wearing enough for the both of us."

If Trump can make millions of people believe he won in 2020, making them believe Ukraine started the war will be easy.

This.

As indicated by my profile banner, I’m a BIG fan of tulips, so this was a sad blow. Daffodils were still great though! And I like to be surprised?

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t part of something so chilling.

People—especially poor people—don't leave their home country at great risk unless the risk of staying—of dying—is far worse.

Foreign aid is the cheapest way to curb mass migration, and to stave off pandemics and disease.

End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say (Gift Article) A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.’s website went dark.

Cutting off all foreign aid and development assistance—which is less than 1% of US spending overall—won't save American taxpayers anything. It will cause millions to starve, and spur mass migration and terrorism as a result. (gift link)

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