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This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.

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I do hope our wonderful media keep in mind that Reform still has fewer council seats than any other whole-UK party.

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strategically illiterate indeed - it'll also push lifelong labour voters (👋) to the Greens; with Labour's current take on trans issues, disability, poverty & immigration, it's hard to think of voting again for my own MP @calvinbailey.bsky.social (who hasn't bothered to respond to me on these issues)

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Now emancipated from its paywall. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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Cool video about the work my colleague Kathleen McCarthy is doing in the multilingual communities of Tower Hamlets on language acquisition and education, for which she was just awarded a Civic Award! @qmullinguistics.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social youtu.be/pWntOaQBIiI?... 🐦🐦

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Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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I could not agree more with this. We did not give them a mandate to cos-play Reform-lite. And yes, use income tax to create a fairer society

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We found that focus in TID is not only realized as duration increase in focused signs, but also as duration decrease in the extended domain. Sign languages use different domains (manual and nonmanual) to mark focus yielding crosslinguistic patterns. www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...

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URGENT action by 7pm tonight for all trans people/ trans allies: A letter anyone can co-sign to try to put pressure on the UK govt NOT to accept more draconian applications of the Supreme Court ruling on transpeople. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Harvard becomes the first/only American university to sue the Trump admin's task force over funding freezes the complaint: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... *deleted earlier tweet to accurately reflect who is named in the suit sued, it is agencies but not the antisemitism task force

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Have always loved this sonnet - I used to see the skylarks flying up from the protected area on Wanstead Flats during covid times early morning walks, and it would just leap into my head. Thanks @poemsonthetube.bsky.social

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This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

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Section 28 didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% thought homosexuality was wrong. From a society that feared the sight of a man in drag would corrupt. From a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of gay lives. 🧵 1/16

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Given the state of the US, there's an opportunity for UK HE to stick its nostrils above the waves for a bit and keep paddling, but the govt's terror about Reform in the red wall will, it seems, block that and leave one of the UK's international export successes to drown. Totally irrational.

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I've just written to my MP about yesterday's supreme court decision. Am still stunned that there wasn't even the semblance of a neutral process in coming to the judgment. Feels like the dark old days of the 80s again

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best post today

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Hungary's new constitutional amendment. They plan to use facial recognition to arrest people who do go to Pride. I really hope Orban's party gets wiped out at the upcoming election. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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watch this space: college presidents defending the academy many here are long-timers, but one is a Black woman in the job less than 2 yrs, Danielle Holley. She started as Mt. Holyoke prez the same day Claudine Gay started at Harvard www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/09/m...

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. @lgrobol.eu and I finally got our pronouns/neopronouns modeling paper up on arxiv ahead of NAACL! We conceptualize pronoun as speaker priors on the flexibility of pronoun use depending on community norms. Let us know your thoughts! arxiv.org/abs/2504.02973

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OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

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I especially liked Sussex's comment on OfS's prelim report as “259 pages long, repetitive and poorly written”. I wonder if they put it through Turnitin!

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this is like taking handwritten manuscripts and once you've digitized them, chucking them into a fire so you don't have to spend money on a library - oh yeah, they're probably doing that too

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The British Academy responded to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee's call for evidence on 'Soft power: a strategy for UK success?' The UK's universities and research sectors contribute to its influence overseas and economic growth.

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#linguistics well, sort of

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This is the most LRB sentence I have ever rea read 🥰 From Mlinko’s review of Krasznahorkai in @lrb.co.uk 20th March. I definitely want to read the book now!

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Because obviously research and innovation is terrible for the government's primary aim of growth, right? www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

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New paper on (morpho-)syntactic acceptability judgments and sociolinguistic context, with the rest of our lovely SCOSYA team! #linguistics @qmullinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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loving this

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I love this

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"In a hole in the ground there lived Mrs Dalloway"

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5 (!!!) tickets left for our 130-person event on linguistic discrimination in Higher Education next Friday: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/speaking-o...

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It's pretty clear that the OfS is pursuing a culture war style agenda without due regard to the actual complexities of the situation Universities find themselves in, now caught between incompatible requirements.

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Researchers have set a new efficiency world record for converting sunlight into electricity using transparent solar cells. The breakthrough is a huge boost for renewable energy, allowing entire skyscrapers to serve as power stations by transforming their windows into solar panels.

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holy shit www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Fun #linguistics experiment (full disclosure - I didn't score very well!)

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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

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i think where i'm at personally is i want my academic papers to be easy and free for humans anywhere to read and download, but i don't want people to put them into a big woodchipper to produce specialized woodpulp that they're trying to sell to get rich and ruin the world.