Amalia Skilton

Cover of a book titled “Bridging Child Language Research to Practice for Indigenous Language Revitalization” and edited by Amalia Skilton, Ryan E. Henke, and Melvatha R. Chee. The cover shows the green silhouette of the Americas north of Panama, with a blue background of a word cloud of words in 7 Indigenous languages.

Out next month! So excited for the whole world in 🐦🐦 and language #revitalization to read what our authors have to share!

WE - people writing today - get to define by our citations what will be considered the canon in the future.

When I think something deserves to be seen as canonical, then I cite it and assign it with wild abandon.

When I think the current canon doesn’t deserve that status, I pay it no mind.

Same, but “surprising/shocking” is not quite it either…something better for “very surprising and probably in a negative way”?

Kinship terms finally getting the attention they deserve #AnthroSky

Not professional expertise just passionate about #tax after 12 years of VITA

Tired: Making low income people manually file taxes before they receive benefits via the tax code (USA)

Wired: Automatic filing to receive benefits via tax code (Canadian proposal)

Inspired: Delivering cash benefits as cash and not via the tax code

There is a name for people who write in short blocks. Authors!

If you write in long sessions only, you will end up either unpublished, or disappointed

For an overview of the psych research on this I love Paul Silvia’s /How to Write a Lot/

IHE has it right, this is “running a Motel 6 at a Ritz-Carlton price”

And while FL legislators might be conservative I don’t think they were in the market for a money pit. Time will tell!

#academicsky #highered

That’s $9555 housing support, $4777 non salary costs of administration, and $4111 academic support/student/year if the student body is 900 total. Almost 2x the per student spending of other Florida universities (per article) before touching salaries or the physical plant!!

$8.6M housing support *outside* financial aid budget - this is almost 3x what they spent on physical plant!

$4.3M administration - again *outside* salaries

$3.7M “academic instruction and student support” *outside* salaries and facilities

I have seen a couple budgets of alternative colleges/similar programs that are completely free to every student. Even they do not manage to spend $134k/student/year.

How is this even possible? Into the budget linked @ this article to see…

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

RIP Jane Goodall — she forever transformed what it means to do fieldwork.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Paper is now out 🎉 Extra thanks to the reviewers and editors on this one - even more thoughtful than usual as we worked through a lot of technical specs and their implications. 🐦🐦

Conservatives - despite their rhetoric about red tape in the rest of government - don’t seem interested in reducing the compliance burden. If anything they want to increase it (Trump demands for student data). Staggering compared to any sector outside government

To be clear, the cost-benefit analysis here DOES fall on the side of typesetting myself because it allows me to work with specific platinum OA publishers, and have all the #linguistics notation set correctly. But lemme tell you is it ANNOYING to typeset 800+ pages!!!

Life pro tip: Never lay out your own book. All of the suffering, none of the excitement of writing or editing content #academicsky

I unfortunately think about this every day

Open rank job in language and interaction at Rutgers. Relevant for #linguistics #EMCA jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

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

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Whole separate paper to be written about women working at barbershops. The fancy/queer branded kind, and the “this is a barbershop that happens to be owned by a woman” kind

This is the summer of Nescafé Ice Roast for me. Just passable as coffee, but fast and cold. Perfect for struggling under both authoritarianism and heat

Postdoctoral Fellowships The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

BA postdoctoral fellowship call now out with a deadline in October. These fund UK/EEA nationals and people with UK doctorates.

Would love to work with someone on an application - we need more field #linguists working in the UK.

I'm on hour 8 at the Bogota airport (flying back from fieldwork) and starting to get a little punchy. do not hold my OWN reviews written at this moment against me

Officially endorsed by me on behalf of #linguistics

Only missing tip in @hormiga.bsky.social 's post: Please, never write in your review "This paper should be edited by a native English speaker." You mean, "This paper needs edits for [grammar/style/voice/insert specific problem here]."

Is this the Senate growing a spine????

Would be fascinating to see this figure for lab based (CS/psych adjacent) vs non lab based fields of #linguistics. My PhD was granted 6 years ago next month and I feel like my productivity is just now taking off as I can work w/ larger teams

Yes.

On fieldwork but really, really sorry to hear this for all those at IU. Some storied departments on this list.

Not surprising if you have been following events there - still tragic and short-sighted.

This is sadly now a mainstream position in the UK though. Ask them how well it’s going - hint: not well