indubitably

The women involved in this project kicked ass, and continue to do so. What's to feel conflicted about?

Compared to what? Clearly he doesn’t know how to make a historical argument — perhaps he considers such arguments beneath him.

There is often very private, very personal information in language documentation: even though it seems like the fact that the speaker should have been aware that making a recording was equivalent in some way to publication.

Plus, it's important to remember that before modern standards of informed consent were created, many linguists didn't have the speakers' best interests at heart, and were unscrupulous about recordings.

The ethics of legacy field recordings is a very messy business, with consequences ranging from legal measures to the unceremonious end of otherwise productive relationships between speech communities and researchers. I've seen cases where individual children of a single speaker have had differing opinions on what should happen to recordings.

So, yes, there are efforts.

Jesus. I am not a screaming social justice warrior. But really, is this trope of women being computational idiots going to last forever? Why does the community put up with it?

There are a MILLION other nouns that could fit into this sentence.

Good grief, what a lovely offhand comment that is.

    Keep your personal quirks out of it

    Don’t personalize your work in ways that would require explanations.

    I like taking advantage of variables to compartmentalize logic.