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We are marching for peace and the right to life for Palestinians 🇵🇸 #StopGazaGenocide‌ #StopArmingIsrael #UK #HumanRights #Nakba77 #StoptheSiege

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Thousands gathering in #London to demand an end to #GazaGenocide‌. #StopArmingIsrael #Nakba77

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MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what @manmetuni.bsky.social's #linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linguistic...

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❔Are you an immigrant at home in Scotland? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Now would be just the time to participate in my current research survey! It does not relate directly to events of this week, but it will help inform immigration debates. This survey is also open to other groups 🧵 hass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Proud to share my open-access article Plurilingualism for social justice based on the meta-synthesis of 214 studies with plurilingualism as a conceptual framework doi.org/10.1080/0143...

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🗃️ What do migrants think, feel, do, and pack on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? See "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social edited by @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147982513... @gihnyu.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social 🧵1/5

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The U.S. is facing an unprecedented dismantling of science, research, and higher education. As scientists are fired + research is frozen, so too are all the resources and outcomes that would have benefited society. In their own words, the stories of scientists whose work has been abruptly ended:

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"So, for those killed and those whose voices are silenced: what more evidence do you need now? Will you act – decisively – to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?" #StoptheGenocide #Palestine @unitednationsbk.bsky.social

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🧠💬 What if primary language lessons weren’t just about grammar—but also about empathy, creativity, and global awareness? In a new Languages in UK Education piece, @suzannegraham.bsky.social and Alison Porter rethink the purpose of early language learning.📖 : www.lspjournal.com/post/rethink...

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A great writing retreat with the added bonus of thinking about Languages of the Future in academia and beyond - @futuretense2025.bsky.social. Many thanks to @peterbrowning.bsky.social, Josh Weeks and Flora Sagers! Merci à UCL for the #bilingual toilet sign, although I suspect AI... #FakeFrench

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In #FosterCareFortnight, find out how shared reading can have huge benefits for children in foster care. Research shows sharing stories supports bonding, stability, identity, wellbeing, social & emotional growth and attainment: www.booktrust.org.uk/resources/fi... #FCF25 @fosteringnet.bsky.social

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📣 Join us 28 May, 3–6pm, at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social's Creative Centre for our annual #research #showcase, featuring the #book launch of "Language and Social Justice: An Introduction to Linguistic Activism"! 🎟 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/language-a... #language #socialjustice #linguistics

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📢 Looking for a #PhD in #languageeducation & #socialjustice? Join us at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social to explore the impact of community language schooling on #languagelearning and #teaching with @mattinshambles.bsky.social & Dr Indu Vibha Meddegama! 🗓️ Apply by 9 June 25 🔗 www.yorksj.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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We're thrilled to announce that The Portal Trust has become an inaugural donor of the UK’s first permanent Migration Museum. The Portal Trust will provide £0.5 million in funding over the next three years to help us establish a permanent home in the City of London, opening in 2028.

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"When bilinguals switch languages, they're not switching who they are, they're revealing more of themselves": www.youtube.com/shorts/eyQ6B... Reminiscent of Nancy Huston, who wrote poignantly about never being fully seen in one place/language in Le Nord Perdu. #multilingualism #identity #lingsky

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This is #Gaza’s Guernica, titled “No Words” by Malak Mattar, a Palestinian #artist 🇵🇸 Thank you, @agnimagazine.bsky.social , for the introduction to her vital work 🙏🏼 You can visit learn more about her #art by visiting her website: www.malak-mattar.com/work/no-words #Palestine #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Remembering David Hughes, brilliant linguist and ethnomusicologist, wonderful human, who introduced me & countless others to Japanese folk music. Founder of the SOAS Min'yo Group, Okinawa Sanshinkai & more. It was an honour to rehearse, play music, chat & laugh with him! Forever in our 💔 & 🎶 #民謡

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Wonderful to hear about the school-university partnerships celebrating the heritage and raising the aspirations of speakers of Bulgarian, Romanian and Ukrainian (PEEL project) and other langs in the UK! Inspiring talks led by @ramonagonczol.bsky.social #heritagelanguages #lingsky #langsky #EDI

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In honor of the new home for #ASLSignbank, I thought it was time to give #Glossgesang a home on Bluesky. What's #Glossgesang you ask? Why thank you for asking! It's this: Always present signed language data in a visual format without relying solely on glossing

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Next Thursday we’re honoured to host Prof John R. Rickford, renowned linguist & author of Speaking My Soul: Race, Life and Language. Join us as he shares his journey — from colonial Guyana to the heart of Black sociolinguistics. A story of love, language, and liberation. Book here: edin.ac/4iIt0rw

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JOIN US NEXT WEEK (5/6) at 5pm CT / 6pm ET for Dr. Maura Finkelstein's webinar "Activism & Academic Freedom in a Time of Genocide." Register here: bit.ly/courageousvoices3

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Celebrating the brilliant Dr Hannah King!! 🎓Birkbeck PhD in Applied Linguistics, class of 2025! ☀️ Congratulations to a wonderdul friend and scholar! ❤️❤️ @hmking-linguist.bsky.social #graduation #lingsky

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"boys, books & reading for empathy" #Teacher #CPD (28/04, 4 pm, £20): How to use "empathy-rich books which increase reading for pleasure & explore what it is like to be a boy or young man in 2025, challenge pressures to conform to gender stereotypes". #boys #reading empathylab.uk/short-training/

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Our colleague Jan Clarke will be discussing the life and work of the Molière on In Our Time this week! Listen to BBC Radio 4 on Thursday at 9am, or catch-up here afterwards: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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❗️JOIN US TOMORROW NIGHT (4/23) at 5pm CT / 6pm ET for Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard’s webinar “Becoming Unloved and Dangerous: Black University Life in the Age of Palestine Protest.” 💻 Register: bit.ly/courageousvoices2

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Zero donation 😭💔 gofund.me/0e276d43

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I need $200 to buy medicine for my little brother and food for my family. Our situation is very difficult right now, and any help—even a small one—can make a big difference. Please, charitable people, participate and donate, even a small amount. May Allah reward you. 😭🙏🙏🙏✅️ gofund.me/4cdfb905

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University of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...

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Poetry by my incredibly talented friend, Erica Hesketh! She's also giving a workshop on 25 May: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/the-p...

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🚨 National Day of Demonstrations ⏰ 12 April 📍 Your local area Israel is escalating its genocide in Gaza. Join a protest in your local area to demand our government #StopArmingIsrael and push Israel to #EndtheGenocide against Palestinians Find your action: palestinecampaign.org/events/natio...

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" #Multilingual capabilities are integral to research excellence, impact and integrity, not least in a globalised and connected research environment. Diverse #language skills enrich and expand research across all academic disciplines." 🗣💬 #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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"Linguistics contributes to the preservation of democracy," says linguist and educator Joao Costa in the LingComm and Policy panel. "We have to be aware that democracy is at risk. Language rights are human rights." #LingComm25

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