Cynthia Lukyanenko

2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

GMU President Keeps Job Amid Tensions Faculty members feared George Mason’s board would fire its president Friday in the face of ongoing federal investigations they deem politically motivated. The board gave him a raise instead.

GMU President Keeps Job Amid Tensions

Faculty members feared @georgemasonu.bsky.social's board would fire its president Friday in the face of ongoing federal investigations they deem politically motivated. The board gave him a raise instead. bit.ly/3ITdDAp

#HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Completely outrageous:

"the Trump administration said it would seek drafts of the faculty resolution, all written communications among the Faculty Senate members who drafted the resolution, and all communications between those faculty members and the office of the university’s president"

Delicious! If my toddler had his way, I don't think I'd get to eat any. Luckily he can't reach them yet, so I can enforce some sharing 😂

Coyote Tomato Delightful little cherry tomatoes are creamy ivory with hints of yellow and an absolutely unforgettable taste. The flavor is not only sweet but is also marked by a fruity complexity. They are so irres...

A little sad that @tkingfisher.com moved to the southwest, because where am I going to get my tomato recs now?

Growing Coyote for the first time this year, and it's amazing.

tomatogrowers.com/products/coy...

this is very good to see. i actually think there is a legislative coalition to build here, as Youngkin's assault on virginia higher education threatens prospects for virginians across the commonwealth

Tis the season for coveting my neighbors' crepe myrtles

15. Not enough IT departments understand the balance between "optimal security" and "security that people will actually comply with" (or, well, right now I've been forced into compliance, but it's actively making me worse at my job)

Spouse and I are playing it that way. Enjoy! We're slow, but are having a lot of fun with it

The family is stayed with had a gommone, so we'd go out to the islands some weekends. Lemon granitas on Procida were so good

Yep! I lived with a host family there for 6 months in 2003. It was an interesting time to be an American abroad...

Ischia and now Pompeii? Jealous that you're getting to hang out in Campania. It's been approximately an eon since I was an exchange student in Naples, but I still miss the view across the bay sometimes.

“George Mason University received the complaint this morning, apparently as it was simultaneously released to news outlets, which is unprecedented in our experience,” he said in a statement.

It takes a lot to get university spokespeople to react with anything approaching snark like this. The level of bad-faith shittiness from the Trump administration is absolutely off the charts
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

And the 23-month-old spent a good chunk of the morning entertaining himself by "making" us coffee and fizzy water, which was adorable.

Thanks! We've all got it, so there's childcare to handle,but otherwise we're in pretty good shape.

Bleh. Positive COVID test this morning ends my 5-year run of not (knowingly) having had COVID.

same

With one last round of photos, we'd like to thank the National Science Foundation for helping us celebrate their 75th anniversary! Alongside other areas of science, the NSF has enabled many critical innovations and breakthroughs in the language sciences, and we are grateful for their support.

From a trivia-playing robot to seeing your speech to learning about American Sign Language, there was an activity for everyone at the Language Science Fair!

This is a reminder that #bucld50 abstracts are due June 1st, which is this upcoming Sunday. See this link for more details: www.bu.edu/bucld/abstra...

Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change.

Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)

Please help: Do you know a baby, less than 12 months old, who can walk? We are trying to complete a project, 7 years in the works. And all we need are 3 infants who are less than a year old and can walk, to do a short online looking-time study.
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Join us at Planet Word tomorrow!

Well crap

Vesper Sparrow! What fun! We had a Cape May Warbler in the backyard this morning, and I saw a Black-and-White on campus.

The Language Science Fair is a free, family-friendly event where visitors can explore the world of language through activities, puzzles, crafts, + public talks. It brings together scientists + curious minds to celebrate language!

📆 Saturday, May 10 | Planet Word
🔗 Link in bio to register

Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Working/Functional Title Linguistics; Postdoctoral Research Associate Position Summary The successful applicant will join the MI Diaries project, which is collecting sociolinguistic data from Michigan...

✨ ATTN Education and Sociolinguistics friends! ✨

I'm hiring a postdoc, to work with the MI Diaries Project! This position is renewable for up to 3 years total.

Please share widely!

careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Pretty tired of spammy emails from "Forum for Linguistic Studies", but this the funniest email signature I've seen in ages:

Best Regards,
Zeus
Receiving Editor
Forum for Linguistic Studies (FLS)

PALM will be hosting one of the demo tables! Come join us and see what eyes can tell us about understanding sentences.