FYI: 'academic freedom' and 'freedom of expression' are dog-whistles for silencing decolonial, anti-racist, anti-trans, and other progressive voices. LSA members need to voice their opposition to this: linguisticsociety.org/content/resolu… UoE members, to this: blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghafaf/

it says so much about the current free speech moral panic that there are one million road blocks for a statement on racial justice but if u have a statement on academic freedom to propose u can just… put it on the website

SHOCKER: purported “Freedom of speech” is the thin end of the reactionary wedge against efforts at diversity. “Freedom of speech,” but also please cease publishing position papers. linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/…

Now we have the amazing Dr. Jordan Amaranth (they/them) presenting about "A 'Deadly Peril' That 'Mutilates Breathing': Non-Binary French, Linguistic Self-Determination, and Normative Linguistic Ideologies" #LavLang28

Now we have Lex Konnelly, Ph.Dead ☠️ presenting: "'Because being trans means something': a Critical Discourse Analysis of Transmedicalism in Virtual Space" #LavLang28 !!

Cool virtual LavLang-ers hanging out in GatherTown #LavLang28 post plenary! @ashenpashen Lex Konnelly, Ph.Dead ☠️ hailililiu Alexandra Román Irizarry Martina Fernández

Is it a Lavender Languages @lavlang.bsky.social conference if this meme doesn't make it into at least one presentation?? #LavLang28

Older academics on Twitter this last week be like "just move around for postdoc positions like I did and stop complaining"; Here are some of my experiences in today's world as a prestigiously NSF-funded postdoc; a 🧵

After two amazing weeks of @LavenderLangFAU summer institute it's time to (reluctantly) return to the real world. I made so many new friends and learnt so much about queer linguistics. Thanks for an amazing experience and the chance to be a member of this community 🥰

Dear Twitter friends, I am recruiting participants for my first-year PhD project. If you feel comfortable reading Spanish, you are eligible! See the flier for more details. There is a $20 compensation for participating. #LenguajeInclusivo #nonbinarie #latinx #latine

🚨Happy to share my newest publication, "Gender‐just language teaching and linguistic competence development," in which I consider the relationship between teaching queer and trans knowledges and linguistic practices & student linguistic outcomes doi.org/10.1111/flan.1… [🧵1/12+]

Research assistant/associate job: SignMorph Project at the University of Birmingham. Applications due by 28/08/2022! Deaf applicants, particularly from the BSL community, are encouraged to apply. bham.taleo.net/careersection/…

ISO: nonbinary English speakers for a ling MA student’s exp! Please boost and/or consider participating 🥰

A really outstanding text produced by some really outstanding colleagues! 🎉

I misspell "language" so often in my dissertation that Word now automatically underlines the word in red any time I type it. I can't see where lagnuage is langauge anymore and I'm questioning everything

me at some point to every co-author I’ve ever had

Beyond thrilled to see this wonderful volume released! Huge gratitude to all of the wonderful contributors, my exceptional co-editors Bronwyn and @LeeAirton, and the community of #THEY2019 and beyond 🥳♥️ check it out if you’re interested in pronoun advocacy & DM me for access!!

The editors of "Among the New Words" in the journal American Speech want your help! For an upcoming special issue on gender and sexuality, which words and phrases should ATNW cover? Please respond to the survey by Oct. 31. forms.gle/SjppWmeSpiL2zK…

We are getting ready to start our workshop at #ACL2023NLP today! We have an exciting program with 8 paper presentations, a panel on Collective Action and two wonderful keynotes by Lex Konnelly, Ph.Dead ☠️ and @juanmvsa. Come meet us at Pier 9 or online at 9:00 am! queerinai.com/acl-2023

I'm very excited to share the pre-print for our new position paper! The Sociolinguistics Foundations of Language Modeling doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… A quick 🧵summing up our main claims...