To say nothing of getting thyroid cancer at 22 (already researched it all when I felt the lump!) and the emergency c section for fetal distress with my first (ditto!). Has there been therapy since then? Yes. Was I ridiculously calm for both as they happened? Yup!

Flashbacks to Christmas 2022 when Southwest's system collapsed and I immediately started investigating alternative routes home assuming our flight (two days out!) would be cancelled so by the time it was we already had a car rental sorted and were on our way home

TIL Mahalanobis distance was invented to deal with skull measurements to examine variation based on caste and so maybe not the best guy to bring up in your "maybe he wasn't racist!" section

One of my standard responses now is "Since linguists study language and how it works, I know a lot about a bunch of different languages but don't really speak them" which seems to work pretty well!

Starter pack: go.bsky.app/UxQCnfV. Should have all 122 in there, but a couple of the handles are misbehaving in search so a chance something is amiss.

This is amazing and imagine if you rigged up a motion sensor to play the sound when they put candy into the bag 👀

Trans inclusive language when talking about speech production, and just general discussion of performance of gender on top of/in addition to/around biological factors like testosterone and vocal tract size.

I talked to a close Israeli friend on October 7th who said, "And now thousands of Palestinians will die and they won't 'get Hamas,' because that's impossible." It's always been clear what would happen. Always.

Here's one I just tried with 4.0 (the first batch of animorphs books were written by KA; later books had ghostwriter.)

Journalist Noga Tarnopolsky needs no introduction to most people who follow news in Israel. She is sharing photographer Tally Melamed's image. Tweeted within the past hour. tweet: x.com/NTarnopolsky...