Stoori @Stoori@polyglot.city

(1/?) Permutation Tail Probability (PTP) test is one of the many #phylogenetic tools that I think may be valuable for #linguistics .

it’s a neat idea! for a set of observed data, you calculate the most parsimonious tree (MPT) that could have generated it—kind of a fantasy perfect history where every change arose by descent via modification. in reality there prob. were some duplicated changes (homoplasy). but if your data came from a single ancestor, it would need at least this many changes.

Some research on #autism and functioning labels.

The misnomer of ‘high functioning autism’

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1362361319852831 (study)

Researchers call for the term 'high functioning autism' to be consigned to history

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-term-high-functioning-autism-consigned.html (newsstory)

#actuallyautistic #RedInstead

inventing the "peasant diet" and selling prepackaged sacks of oats, flour, rice and beans to techbros for 400 dollars a month

academic journal: you can buy access to this article for $69
me (copy-pasting the doi to sci-hub): hahahahaha heheheheheh huehuehue hmhmhmhmhm höhöhöhöh håhåhåhå jajaja xoxoxoxo

The wide-ranging support for & compliance with lockdowns shows that people around the world are very ready to sacrifice to tackle a life-threatening crisis.

This shows that if populations are accurately informed and with the right political leadership WE CAN TAKE THE MEASURES TO PREVENT CLIMATE CATASTROPHE

Found a free online course in Noongar language and culture: https://www.edx.org/course/noongar-language-and-culture

Noongar is an indigenous language of Western Australia.

Discussion panel: how to Create Straight Characters?

https://castbox.fm/episode/How-to-Create-Straight-Characters-id1117790-id62875239?country=us

Marie's Dictionary
#Indigenous #Wukchumni

https://youtu.be/iRDmRXCizEM

**‘Hoe houd je corona buiten Afrika? Test de Europeanen!’**

"Een raadsel, vonden Europese ‘experts’ het lage aantal Afrikaanse coronagevallen. Ze konden zich gewoon niet voorstellen dat het continent op eigen benen kan staan, ziet Mali-correspondent Bram Posthumus. ‘Zijn ze vergeten dat West-Afrika er al eerder in slaagde een epidemie in te dammen?’ Een bericht op…"

https://www.oneworld.nl/lezen/opinie/hoe-houd-je-corona-buiten-afrika-test-de-europeanen/

#nieuws #bot

RT @undesgraciat@twitter.com

#vagalloguers #huelgaalquileres

(sorry webcomic name)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/undesgraciat/status/1246027130934366208

UNESCO list of endangered languages https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/apr/15/language-extinct-endangered

RT @DeufleMagnifik@twitter.com

Rions un peu.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DeufleMagnifik/status/1245752447949209600

so, Mango Languages is a premium language app that offers a number of endangered languages for free:

* Chaldean Aramaic
* Cherokee
* Dzongkha
* Hawaiian
* Irish
* Potawatomi
* Scottish Gaelic
* Tuvan
* Yiddish

Warnings about COVID-19 are being translated into Aboriginal languages to reach all Australians https://t.co/f5snGBnZEJ #linguistics