Language, development, and language development. Assistant Prof at Brown. PI of the Brown Language and Thought (BLT) Lab.
Providence, RI
Joined April 2018
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Every year I read a lot of grad school applications from accomplished people that don't give me the info I'm looking for. It feels like a major hidden curriculum thing. So here's (my opinion on) how to write a great Statement of Purpose/Research for a PhD program. 🧵 1/
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The Trump administration is claiming that they can pay El Salvador to imprison anyone, and once the person enters Salvadoran custody, no matter how illegal it was to get them there, there is nothing any judge in the United States can do to order them to bring the person back.
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Thank you for the layman's term explanation. If it really was Ukraine, the only logical thing would be for Elon to sign a ceasefire immediately, give them half of Twitter, make sure he says thank you and wears a proper suit.
I used to admire @mtaibbi. I don't know how he still acts like his one big issue is government censorship while he shrugs at WaPo and LATimes pulling their Kamala endorsements because their owners feared Trump. Or at ABC settling a suit to censor Stephanopolous. Or at CBS...
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One of the many stupid things about this very stupid discourse: the data on usaspending.gov has been publicly available for years. Anyone could have looked up the cost of the government’s politico pro subscriptions in 2024 or 2022 or 2020.
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🚨 BREAKING: Trump's DOJ just killed its elite anti-corruption unit, our sources say. The Kleptocracy Initiative - famous for seizing Russian oligarchs' yachts and prosecuting the $4.5B 1MDB fraud - was quietly disbanded last night.
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I see a lot of people want to throw out 230 years of constitutional government and replace it with an authoritarian dictator because they have big feelings about the budget and can't be bothered to work through Congress. That will surely work out well.
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It is absolutely a constitutional crisis. The president has zero legal authority to "shut down," defund, or otherwise cripple a $50 billion agency.
Audit it, identify unnecessary expenditures, draft reform or rescission proposals, and then go to Congress to PASS A LAW.
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WTF is Elon talking about? It's not a crime to know who is controlling the US Treasury. It's a crime to hide it.
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A private citizen with unfathomable wealth and deep ties to the Chinese government has, with his cronies, seized control of the government and is canceling congressionally apportioned spending based on his whims.
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“Chair Khan’s tenure will be remembered as a watershed moment in the fight against corporate concentration — and her legacy will long outlast her time at the Commission,” says @nhegde
"Our nation and economy owe her an enduring debt of gratitude."
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Please stop reporting your colleagues for violating the president’s DEI executive order.
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Most important thing we do here is trace some history, reminding us a line can be traced to modern neural nets/AI from basic science research. Not in engineering but in linguistics and cognitive science. Much of that fundamental early work funded by the (currently paused) NSF.
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The crisis is here. Dems will win by making this fight about impact on people’s lives.
The GOP wants to fight on “federal funding.” They’re not attacking “funding.” They’re attacking veterans, kids who need school lunches, people battling cancer, workers trying to unionize.
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Democrats, stop talking about the illegality of the grant EO. get on Fox News and start screaming:
“TRUMP ENDED MEDICAID”
“TRUMP KILLED CANCER RESEARCH”
“TRUMP AXED FARM SUBSIDIES”
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Many Palestinians in Gaza are posting this photo to expose Hamas's manipulation of camera angles to overstate/inflate its supposed level of support. I said repeatedly that Hamas is going to pay, manipulate, & herd young men & boys into "victory" celebrations & hostage handovers.
