Nicole Holliday

Yes, apparently IVF is the only thing that requires congressional approval for some god forsaken reason 🤷🏽‍♀️

Ugh these high-frequency pseudo fancy words being used in nonsense ways is also just annoying to read! Even when students use them in their own writing, they’re also devoid of content and I wish they would just say “examines” and “important” or literally any of their own words instead.

Thank you! I will write to the TPC and hopefully something can be done. And I appreciate your thoughtfulness here…our students are genuinely be attacked from all angles and it’s hard to describe how bad it is right now.

I’m not even suggesting a major policy change, but this could be solved by a call to attendees to see if people who are already there may be willing to help out a student in such a circumstance. I’m using my following to make that kind of ask but not every student has such connections 2/2

I appreciate your response, and the fact that there is leniency for people unable to obtain a visa for the Netherlands. However, given the barriers these students face, and the fact that the U.S. government is kidnapping students off the street, there must be a better way to handle this 1/2

And the paper is a really good sociophonetic study on the social meaning of /s/ in Nigerian English, showing that while in other Englishes, /s/ frequently does gender/sexuality meanings but there it works to mark ethnicity as well as age!

Also, this is horrific policy on the part of Interspeech; they should be ashamed of themselves. I never want to hear another word about underrepresentation of students from the global south. The conference is already absurdly expensive & they’re making it even more impossible for so many to attend.

Anyone here going to Interspeech and wants to do a student a big favor? He was accepted & paid, but ultimately cannot leave the U.S. due to ongoing fascism (he’s on a visa). They will pull his paper if he can’t find anyone to present it for him. DM if you’re attending & may be able to help!

Slide text: Research as engagement Challenge: Consider ourselves ambassadors of our field whenever we do human subjects research, wherever it is, whatever itis • Research as Engagement Model: Scholars should consider human subjects research as occasions to do intentional public engagement with research participants (Vaughn, in revision) Our participants are datapoints, but first and foremost they're people

Cool work by @charlottevaughn.bsky.social describing different types of museum-based linguistic research, including @planetworddc.bsky.social, and reminding us that this work helps the community understand what scientists do!

DC Demographic and Social info, chart population % African American 20.9 * tamiles below poverty average household Income population less than Number c Ward 1 88,846 Ward 2 89,518 9.03 167,953 9.24 3.9 Ward 3 13.09 4.5| 176,43% 4.27 3.69 81,883 5.26 1.63 22,415 23| 4.14 Ward 4 83,996 45.11| 5.72 164,197 11.79 6.01 Ward 5 86,794 54.53 6.81 147,305 8.93 5.22 Ward 6 99,652 38.4 7.37 173,452 6.49 4.76 Ward 7 77,456| 91.49 21.53 75,414 13.61 14.76 Ward 8 77,756 91.61| 23.35 68,871 Similar Populations, Different Demographics

Minnie Quartey Annan tells us about understanding the communities she worked with in DC, and shares some of the metrics that help us understand community concerns and points of entry for different neighborhoods.

In a talk about the Chicagoland Language Project, Annette D’onofrio reminds us that community research projects have to be informed by the intersection of researcher questions as well as community-knowledge about locally-important social categories!

Really excited about the ways in which sociolinguistic research can be enriched by network theory, with some excellent examples from you v people in Raleigh, from @robindodsworth.bsky.social!

Betsy Sneller at podium, slide says “Principle of Linguistic Gratuity Linguists should "pursue positive ways in which they can return linguistic favors to the community" (Wolfram 1993; 227) Principle of Error Correction; Principle of Debt Incurred (Labov 1982)

Essential work by @betsysneller.bsky.social on what sociolinguists owe to communities and how their team has implemented the principle of linguistic gratuity in their ongoing MI Diaries project!

Amazing longitudinal data shared by Charlie Farrington, showing semi-annual recordings of the same speaker from ages 2-18, where you can clearly hear how the speaker’s use of AAE features changes based on age and educational experiences!

Already getting the Community and School-Based Sociolinguistic Data Collection workshop started right! Delighted to get to spend the day with researchers doing really exciting work literally out here in these streets! #LSAInstitute2025

It would be great if the people with big money and elected power would do more, but it’s just not the case that most regular folks in LA don’t care or aren’t doing anything. And small acts of resistance matter a lot.

I live in LA, and know many, many people who are doing much more than you’d imagine. They’re not getting press and it’s not flashy, but as a small example, every Home Depot on the eastside has a protection squad of volunteers outside almost every day.

I don’t do doomerism. Cause I know too many wonderful people who grew up in fascism, war, poverty, or all of the above. And everything that is good in my life is good because people like them fought for better. In 50 years, I hope people remember that we did the same. And that hope costs me nothing.

It’s up to you, but for me I remember hope is the only way through crisis. I think of my grandma, who grew up in the segregated south & couldn’t vote until she was 21, at which point she was already a war widow. There have been times this dark before; they got better because people like her fought.

Today, we lost Sesame Street and the integrity of the BLS, we’re about to feel the effects of a mess of truly absurd tariffs, one of the worst sex offenders in U.S. history is now barely incarcerated, and btw, we’re threatening a nuclear war with Russia. So “great” that I just want to want to vomit.

That's possible!

A true classic of the genre!

Urban dictionary definition of wireback: A slang term used to mock robots or AI, poking fun at their reliance on messy wires and artificial support, like a half-baked machine acting clever. "That wireback botched it, guess the tin trash can’t keep up with the humans again!"

Another reason humans are infinitely better than "AI": it can't keep up with language change. Urban Dictionary bests Gemini every time!

Gemini's definition of wireback:
The term "wireback" is not a recognized or established slang term. It's likely a misspelling or a misunderstanding of other terms

The part starting with "so right now, we have the secretary of defense in charge of defending the American people who is accidentally texting military strike information to journalists. We have the person in charge of American public health who is a quack who doesn't believe in medicine..."

Of course. But these are rural areas in red states, supposedly where their "real Americans" live.

These folks want their white, rural voters to have a ton of babies, but then they make sure that there's no one around to deliver those babies. I know they don't care that mothers will die, but you'd think that at least they'd want to keep the babies alive.

Pete Buttigieg warns democrats can't go back to pre-Trump status quo : Up First from NPR Steve Inskeep speaks with former U.S. Secretary for Transportation Pete Buttigieg about where Democrats went wrong, how they can regain public trust, and why so many Americans don't believe what the g...

If Pete becomes the candidate in 2028, this interview started it. He was never my first choice before, but here he says the magic words “message discipline” and provides the clearest 15-second explanation of the worst acts of this administration. I was impressed! www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...

Call it bullhorn politics, they threw out the dog whistles years ago. Incredibly racist and slanderous, and still no one is forgetting about Epstein.

But I do appreciate that even Trump appears to be trolling JD at this point.

YouTube video by SONIC BLOOM will.i.am + Taboo - EAST LA (Official Music)

Was at a friend’s house where they put this on, and we all went wild. So glad that Will.I.Am and Taboo are featuring the best of LA, and fighting back against the fascist government that thinks it’s ok to snatch up our frienfs snd neighbors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQg...

I hear you, I’m just saying that many of us were taught to recognize the signs of fascism and dehumanization via that example, and somehow so many of us seem unable to see that many of those same signs are also here now.