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Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster: 'The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations.' Open to applicants with a background in Linguistics as well as Psychology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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A systemic disaster. In a world of machine-generated fakes and hallucinations, small group instruction and robust assessment are what universities can offer. But instead of more teachers and unseen exams we’re going to get a pointless ‘AI’ arms race. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Thanks for this, @psychmag.bsky.social! Looking forward to reading it

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“Scholars born into an autocracy are not able to fight for the academic freedom to pursue what they do not know about.”

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I recently took a CPD course on #Decolonizing #Education: Approaches, Frameworks and Next Steps. A few self-reflections: 1. Depending on your role there are varying levels of control and influence one has.

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Did you know that changes in Canada’s political landscape could affect how our natural spaces are protected? With elections coming up, it’s time to speak up for nature! 🌿 Stay informed, ask candidates about nature protection, and vote with the planet in mind! 💚 Learn more: cpaws.org/what-changes...

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I’m hosting a medical humanities free workshop on zoom - please register via: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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I'm really looking forward to giving this talk next week! I've been working on this for a while (some version of this has been in my head for years) and am excited to finally get my ideas out there. You can attend for free in person or online!

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That's me on page 2!

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I'm looking forward to presenting at this to share about my PhD. I use #PositiveDiscourseAnalysis for a qualitative analysis of #trauma from UK political speeches, US news, and social media.

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#Ecolinguistics and #cognitivelinguistics followers: does anyone know of any Greek-speaking researchers working on or interested in (non-literary) language, cognition and the environment? I’d be grateful if you could point them in my direction for a potential funding/project opportunity.

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Want to do a PhD in climate, with a focus on using machine learning to recover millions of lost weather observations and so better reconstruct climatic changes over the past century? Open to students from UK and Ireland, funded through @climatecocentre.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Fuck Google and Google Maps. #brucecoffman loves you! www.geeksforgeeks.org/the-best-alt...

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With everything that is changing currently in the US, it's spurred the need to take advantage of as much learning as I can, totalling 21 hours, from February -April, 2025. What are you doing with your access to information?

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For the Year of the Snake, a story about snakeskin! #envhist www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/s...

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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

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A useful read. Academics - we have a lot of skills to offer in organising against fascism. Last night I used my skills as a teacher to educate new door knockers on how to talk to people in low conflict ways. I felt useful. And I felt better about stuff www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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It's like a modern day Fahrenheit 451 out there. What can you do? - Regarding sexual violence and harassment in the workplace: ❓What is the posted policy (website, new joiners manual, etc.) ❓Who is the point of contact to report sexual violence and harassment ❓Who is your trusted contact

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It's like a modern day Fahrenheit 451 out there. What can you do? Those of us with access to information, learning, and services need share knowledge. Especially for current students who don't know what services are available or steps that are possible to take (from an education perspective).

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1/2 What an oddity in 2025 to be saying that I have the privilege of being able to attend events and sessions that I had come to regard as common place and expected. Thank you @ucu.org.uk for the CPD Challenging Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence. I'm looking forward to further sessions

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📖 Open Social Psychology Textbook 📖 Call for Contributors 🙋🏻‍♀️ New FORRT initiative to develop an open-access textbook on social psychology. Goal: summarize 🏛️ classical findings 🏛️ and discuss them in light of replication attempts. 🧵 Find out how you can get involved below 👇

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Busy week talking about my Social Media and Body Image project with @helenringrow.bsky.social and Charlotte Boyce in Portsmouth. We're launching a toolkit for mentors in The Girls' Network to use with young women all around the country.

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Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Join the CSPSC Medicine Working Group next Wednesday February 5th at 8:00pm EST for the 2nd event in our 2025 Speaker Series with Courtney Marshall, a Mental Health & Substance Use Clinician! 📍 Zoom – Register here - usask-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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#linguistics #academicsky in the last week I've received six requests for assistance with endangered language research projects from different parts of the world. I can't help for to time constraints, suggestions very welcome for where to direct them!

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By @jamesfolta.com for @literaryhub.bsky.social - Libraries have positive psychology effects. #GLAM lithub.com/its-official...

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This long holiday has gone to my head. I had a latte after 3 … it’s now midnight and I’m wide awake…

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Excited to be Invited Speaker next to @angeladebruin.bsky.social and @timoroettger.bsky.social for the 1st Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 1) in Frankfurt a. M. on 3-4th of July 2025 Should be a fun event! Abstract submission open till Feb 28: sites.google.com/view/worela1

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📢Calling all Digital Humanities graduates from UK & Ireland! We want to hear about your career paths and your thoughts on the future of DH education @melissaterras.bsky.social Take part in our DH Career Survey before 31st Jan and let's define DH together! 📝Survey Link: forms.office.com/e/zKqFu4fK4D

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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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Day 2 of the holiday and I’m already squirrelly from taking a PhD break

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Gearing up for Lunar New Year which is unusually long and snowy this year.

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