Roman Feiman

Language, development, and language development. Assistant Prof at Brown. PI of the Brown Language and Thought (BLT) Lab.

[Roman Feiman @RomanFeiman]

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/

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

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.

[Amitai Shenhav @amitaishenhav]

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:
https://t.co/ykF2d2AMtz

[Roman Feiman @RomanFeiman]

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.

https://t.co/MX2d8cl0N6

[Taras Kachouba🇺🇦 @tkachouba]

@robertgraham 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.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Action, not just words.

Britain stands with Ukraine, today and always 🇬🇧🇺🇦

[Roman Feiman @RomanFeiman]

@joshuasweitz @NAChristakis

[Roman Feiman @RomanFeiman]

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...

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

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.

[Timothy B. Lee @binarybits]

One of the many stupid things about this very stupid discourse: the data on https://t.co/ZgH0KTELZV 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.

[Bradley Hope @bradleyhope]

🚨 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.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Conservatives warning about George Soros but make the footage Elon Musk

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

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.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

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.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

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.

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

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.

[American Economic Liberties Project @econliberties]

“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."

[Roman Feiman @RomanFeiman]

@mtaibbi As a journalist whose biggest stated concern is government censorship, why do you seem to be gloating that CNN is forcing out a long-time journalist who has been critical of the president, pretty much explicitly in order to appease that president?

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

Please stop reporting your colleagues for violating the president’s DEI executive order.

[Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald]

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.

[Ben Wikler @benwikler]

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.