Dr. Shiloh Drake

Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia!

PLEASE

I don't want a "smart" fridge, or a "smart" TB, or a "smart" anything

they're not smart at all, they're just data mining tools, and I don't want any of them

An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social

Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology

doi.org/10.1017/jlg....

I hope people find it useful!

don't forget to take a break from doomscrolling to press your fingers against your closed eyelids until you can see the beginning of the universe

BIGGEST of hugs!! I'm glad you're already home and have been there for a couple days now. Artemis and i are still sending you comfortable and speedy recovery thoughts <3

missing even one paycheck like this would have ruined me and my young family when I was an NSF postdoc. This is heartless

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

I gotta say, I'm getting pretty tired of hearing "he can't do that!" when he very clearly is doing that.

Similar to how I ate breakfast at 4:30 PM today because that’s when I finally broke my fast

(Poor mental health but I am trying to eat like a reasonable person I swear)

this is good, practical, and worth bookmarking for the next time someone you love insists that a myth like "immigrants bring drugs" is a fact

VOWELS 🥰

About links, bluesky loves them. Please unlearn the link-in-reply tricks you've been doing elsewhere and proudly share your blog posts, videos, or any other external link in your top posts so we can all go and visit your fancy websites and then get back here to discuss and repost them. Thanks!

For those interested the World Health Organization is on 🦋. You can stay informed @who.int

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!

Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

omg!! i hope it's amazing!! 🤩

I mean right off the bat, ’idea generation’ is laughable. LLMs cannot come up with new ideas, LLMs can only reformulate ideas it already has access to. Using an LLM for idea generation is plagiarism and no one with ever convince me otherwise.

sometimes while watching hockey, the checks into the board will jostle the dopamine vending machine so i get all the stuck ones at once

basically, i started out wanting to write (including conversations and dialogue), and now i write conversations professionally, but like, not about dragons and swordplay (but maybe now i have an idea for something to do during funemployment to showcase my skills)

if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?

1. bestselling fantasy novelist
2. creative writing
3. "For the Love of Words" (ling + slhs)
4. conversation design

let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

oof, sending you all the love and support! here's hoping you have a speedy and comfortable recovery 🤎🤎🤎

well. i was just laid off. i'm reeling and sad and am very much not looking forward to another job search. i am really upset to be leaving my team and the company.

however, i am very happy to report that my resume still looks slick as hell, especially with some new fresh experience on it 💅

10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system:

The Measles vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Tetanus vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine

note to self: use some of your (unlimited!) PTO to have a mini writing retreat once in a while because this is nice

esp if you can schedule it during the Week of Writing that the writing center on campus runs, because you're still on the mailing list for that (and have to miss it this winter, wah)

but in the meantime i guess, my work on learning morphological structure is still super interesting and more relevant than ever, so sorry you missed out on me, academia!

oops i'm sad about academia again (and not having a position where i get to teach and research and write, and also about how it's just getting absolutely mangled and probably won't exist in a state that is conducive to acquiring and transmitting cutting-edge knowledge to the next generation)