Amalia Skilton

That incredible efficiency of laying off so many staff, that you then need to hire again

I sent FOI requests to all 34 members of the Russell Group and Research Plus to collate this data, though only 24 replied on time. Still a decent sample. Not happy reading.

I spend over 10% of all contact hours in 1 of my current classes doing in-class writing activities because of this. Not the greatest use of limited class time but there is no other way (in constrained UK assessment system) to get work I know they wrote

Arguments and setup suggestions for camcorders here. Intended for lang documentation people so not 100% about conversation but I have used these specs to film many many conversations blogs.ed.ac.uk/amaliaskilto...

Camcorder plus body-worn microphones on any participants I know will be there the whole time. Camcorder is just way more versatile tool than action camera and files are easier to work with.

This game is the most hockey I have ever watched and it did NOT disappoint

The job ready thing is amusing (and terrible) because if it were real everyone would have to study humanities to meet what most employers want and need in terms of skills - teamwork, communication, ethical decision making, leadership, systems thinking, lifelong learning, and critical thinking.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Rest of Americas also likes US Latino music 🇵🇷

This is very cool, but also shocking to me that cacao drinking started in Amazonia when AFAIK no contemporary Amazonians drink it?

All I have ever seen or read: domesticated cacao 1) eaten as a fresh fruit, or 2) processed for sale, same for other Theobroma species like cupuaçú. #anthrosky

New York Times Spelling Bee rejecting the word FORMANT, which is 100% a word and would be a pangram

Accepting BILABIAL and rejecting FORMANT. What does the Times have against acoustics?? 🐦🐦

Jobs: General Linguistics, Phonetics: Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching & Scholarship), Queen Mary University of London Other Specialties: History of English Description: The Department of Linguistics, within the School of the Arts, is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching and Scholarship) to cover a staff member on externally funded research leave. Duties will include convening, teaching and marking on the following modules: (i) LIN5224 Speech, Hearing, and Phonetic Sciences, (ii) LIN212 History of English, (iii) LIN7010 Sociophonetics, and (iv) LIN7078 Analysing Language Datasets. T

Jobs: General Linguistics, Phonetics: Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching & Scholarship), Queen Mary University of London

I was shocked to see that the proposed AZ camp is located in Surprise. That’s not super central, but it is metro Phoenix. Their older detention centers, like at Florence, are much farther out. I wonder why not upsize out there? Just an unforced error?

Depends on whether the students are true programming beginners. in 22-23 I taught a group of ling PhD students where most had 0 programming or quant background. many really struggled to write functions at all. But that was in R

Of epidemic, child removal, war or whatever it is does become data.

I was trained to discourage people from recording texts about these topics. There are arguments both ways.

To transcribe them accurately which requires listening to them 30+ times and/or having the teller re speak every word extremely slowly and carefully. Once you have done that, it doesn’t make sense to exclude what people have shared from the corpus, nor do they usually want to. So someone’s narrative

FWIW this kind of vicarious trauma is a considerable part of being a field linguist in the indigenous Americas or other parts of the world that have been through genocide. People have a need to be heard including with extremely horrible stories. And then you’re obliged

Unfortunately nearly all of them are also graduates

Was just at a conference party hosted by a Texas public university. They had an open bar and in general, did not seem to be hurting for money. Only people who aren’t.

Does Abbott want UT/A&M to be comm colleges or moneyed conservative think tanks? I suspect the 2nd 🧪

I could name 1,000 other improvements to LaTeX more useful to me than embedding a synthetic text generator into a TeX editor.

Then improvement 1,001 would be that we stop using LaTeX because we have a half decent technical word processor for 🐦🐦. Sorry not sorry!!

Learning about differences, an eye contact preferences, opens up opportunities for deeper connections, and helps us better understand each other. Ways to accommodate these differences include: having a conversation facing outward, rather than facing each other, such as talking while walking, biking, or swinging. Making space for brief eye contact, or is it focus elsewhere, such as hand movements, the forehead, or just passed the shoulder. Chosen social activities that minimize eye contact, like flying kites or building an epic marble run.

PBS KIDS bringing the multimodal analysis and also a great framing. 10/10 #lingcomm 🐦🐦

Every old imperialism is new again this year

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

oh shit tomorrow is circle back day already

Passing a swim test. I failed so many swim classes 🏊‍♀️🚫

Raise to Revitalize Support Global Indigenous Language Revitalization

Language champions from 18 countries will be joining the 2026 Ready to Revitalize program - and we have just TEN DAYS left to raise funds for their grassroots #languagerevitalization projects!

🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?

Kelly AND Gallego is a terrible look for Arizona

Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.

“A Head Start program located on a Native American reservation was told to remove sections from its application that are necessary for the program to prioritize services for tribal members and their descendants – something allowed by federal law.”

Thanks to our funders NSF/NEH DEL/DLI 🧪, the authors, the UNM student copyeditors, and of course the participants.

And at less than 3 years from the first conversation, I think we’ve set a land speed record for edited volumes

SP30: Bridging Child Language Research to Practice for Indigenous Language Revitalization - LD&C Amalia Skilton, Ryan E. Henke, Melvatha R. Chee

The holidays came early 🎉:*Bridging Child Language Research to Practice for #Indigenous #Language #Revitalization* is officially out!

Makes great reading for your spring semester courses 🐦🐦, especially because it’s free to read forever with LD&C/U Hawai’i Press.