Language, development, and language development. Assistant Prof at Brown. PI of the Brown Language and Thought (BLT) Lab.
Joined April 2018
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27 Oct 2022
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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14 Apr 2025
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.
14 Apr 2025
The gov't's arguments against returning Abrego Garcia should make your blood run cold.
The gov't claims if it can ship a person to a foreign jurisdiction, they're gone.
There's no limiting principle.
It can make these arguments for intentional renditions of U.S. citizens.
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11 Mar 2025
If you identify as a Jewish member of the academic community, and are appalled by the actions being taken in the name of defending this community, please consider signing this letter (which can be done anonymously) and also sharing it with others:
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11 Mar 2025
An open letter, to push back against the pretense that harming universities somehow serves the cause of fighting antisemitism. Wherever you are on the political spectrum, if you identify as part of the Jewish community, please consider signing.
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Roman Feiman retweeted
11 Mar 2025
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.
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1 Mar 2025
Action, not just words.
Britain stands with Ukraine, today and always 🇬🇧🇺🇦
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12 Feb 2025
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...
12 Feb 2025
Would you believe that Jim Jordan and House Republicans today -- February 12, 2025 -- are holding *another* hearing about the Twitter Files, a fake scandal from two years ago? They are! Complete with rehashed testimony from Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger and everything.
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6 Feb 2025
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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6 Feb 2025
🚨 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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6 Feb 2025
Conservatives warning about George Soros but make the footage Elon Musk
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3 Feb 2025
RT @Brian_Riedl: I see a lot of people want to throw out 230 years of constitutional government and replace it with an authoritarian dictat…
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RT @Brian_Riedl: It is absolutely a constitutional crisis. The president has zero legal authority to "shut down," defund, or otherwise crip…
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3 Feb 2025
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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3 Feb 2025
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.
3 Feb 2025
Key source of Musk’s power in government: he seems to have the ability to put career staffers who resist his team on administrative leave.
Essentially, bulldozing over whoever defies him
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31 Jan 2025
“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."
31 Jan 2025
Today is Lina Khan's last day at the FTC.
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30 Jan 2025
Please stop reporting your colleagues for violating the president’s DEI executive order.
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29 Jan 2025
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.
29 Jan 2025
Language Models learn a lot about language, much more than we expected, without much built-in structure. This matters for linguistics and opens up enormous opportunities. So should we just throw out linguistics? No! Quite the opposite: we need theory and structure.
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29 Jan 2025
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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28 Jan 2025
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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Roman Feiman retweeted
20 Jan 2025
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.
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