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For Texas Architect, I unloaded on Texas cities for using deferred maintenance as a precedent for demolishing and abandoning civic structures, including I.M. Pei's Dallas City Hall. Fort Worth and San Antonio aren't spared either. magazine.texasarchitects.org/2026/07/28/d...

"Deferred Maintenance" Endangers Civic Heritage - Texas Architect MagazineIf “deferred maintenance” is the government’s version of the excuse “the dog ate my homework,” then some Texas cities may…magazine.texasarchitects.org

Great to see our new paper out; evidence for Neanderthals in Arabia! Time to stop imagining our hominin cousins as only being found in cold northern forests! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neanderthals in the desert? Population history best explains Middle Palaeolithic technological heterogeneity in ArabiaNortheast Africa and Southwest Asia present a rich record of hominin occupations between ca. 100 and 50 thousand years ago (ka) at a critical biogeogr…www.sciencedirect.com

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

On Monday evening, Haitian workers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport burst into tears as they were asked to turn in their badges. Marlene, 47, a single mother who has worked as an airport janitor for 12 years, said she has been sick to her stomach.

Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workersThe Trump administration and courts are at odds over whether about 350,000 Haitians have officially lost humanitarian protections, but employers are already letting workers go.www.washingtonpost.com

completely agree, the infinite flexibility of phrasal verbs is the greatest thing about this language

AI speaks over 100 languages, so it must also be built for multilinguals, right? Well... I’m thrilled to share that @teapotlinguist.bsky.social (Freie Universität Berlin) and I just received Una Europa Seed Funding to investigate exactly this, across two countries and three languages 😍🌈

Started the day with an interview with Lithuanian radio. As so often when I am interviewed by non-English speaking media, the interviewer was a highly competent woman. Is there any research on the gender-distribution of English-as-a-second-language, particularly among academics and journalists?

WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...

An Odyssey Through Testimonial InjusticeOn reading Dr. Emily Wilson, properlynews.chanda.science

It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard CrimsonThe Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...www.thecrimson.com

Surveys like this always alarm people Fortunately, recent research from cognitive psychology shows that the reason people are so wildly wrong when estimating the size of minority groups is largely NOT because of prejudice — but rather how humans think about unknown proportions of any kind

Reading this after the @gregorynorminton.bsky.social piece it quotes and it is searing. For any of us there won't just be one moment of realisation, that we've passed from one state into another. Find ways to help each other through these times. This is one.

Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?

203 - Child Caves Children love to be in tiny, cave-like places.

At last we have an answer to the seminal question of our time, and it is: R:162, G:201, B:201

Hey crazy idea I know but how about if we *didn't* all signal boost the racist calls to violence of the world's richest and sickest man

I wrote this the other day arguing AI means the humanities become even more important in an age where AI can solve questions that are defined and data rich, leaving the wicked issues where we can’t even agree on the nature of the problem… www.ft.com/content/fbde...

The Journal of Sociolinguistics editorial board extends sincere thanks to Yoshiko Matsumoto for a fitting tribute to the life & work of Robin Lakoff, whose contributions to our field & advocacy for marginalised groups in society will be long remembered. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Robin T. Lakoff and Her (Socio)linguisticsClick on the article title to read more.onlinelibrary.wiley.com