What happens when education becomes organized primarily around test scores and measurable outcomes? I wrote a piece reflecting on the narrowing of educational imagination and what earlier experiments in liberatory schooling might still teach us. open.substack.com/pub/educatio...

Gold rush town is my favorite song of his 2026 album. While I may be biased, Jay Chou’s Mandopop is the best! ❤️‍🔥 youtu.be/UaOP4eoxY3M

Taipei promotes gender equality in funeral ceremonies Kuo Hsien-hung, head of the Taipei Funeral Service Industry Association, described the publication of new guidelines as a step toward a more gender-equal funeral culture in Taiwan.

Whenever I read about the hostile armrests and the disappearance of the public bench I think of the opposite of that I encountered in Japan in Shikoku on the pilgrimage; where there is not only benches, but shelters, sometimes even with simple bedding or supplies left inside for pilgrims

This couldn't have come at a better time! I was just about to splurge on a stadium bag at xxx, preparing myself for a month of sacrifice by eating dirt (吃土, just kidding), when I stumbled upon this deal at an unbeatable price at Target. Thrilled that I found it 😁

A new book on sociolinguistics comes out tomorrow! This is really nice to see, because there aren’t many books on this topic for a general audience.

🦭 Everybody has an accent. 📸 Marti Phillips #accent #linguistics #language

And anybody who thinks that any academic field lacks “viewpoint diversity” has clearly never attended any academic conference where scholars are constantly disagreeing with one another on a range of different debates in our respective fields

Dissertation defense: passed without correction. And highlights: - A conference room that didn’t exist (Harry Potter style) - Grammarly appearing at the exact moment I discussed language regulation - A committee that turned the defense into a real intellectual conversation

I'll be back @unileiden.bsky.social tomorrow to talk about Chinese feminists and the language reform committee of the 1924 Congress for the Advancement of Education in Nanjing, if anyone is around! (so much to unpack re: gender & language!) www.student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

I hope liberal and left-wing Americans defeat Trump and all he stands for, but if they want to put America's relationship with the world on a more sustainably realistic basis they need to stop viewing every geopolitical crisis or conflict as a mere externalisation of domestic American culture wars

What might raciolinguistics look like if we decenter Western-centric understandings of race? What can international Asian English teachers’ experiences show us about agency and raciolinguistic beliefs across contexts? I’m very pleased to share my publication: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) made from scratch My dad shared the photo ☺️ #端午节 #dragonboatfestival #food #Culture

Reminder: The Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference "Imagination, Creation, Critique" is next week! Join us! Learn more and register here: www.2025slaconference.org

Day 3 “Accented Knowledge” “representation in citation” “Global South”

Day 2 at the workshop

Such a wonderful event!

My apparently unpopular opinion is that when we focus on the supposed grammar mistakes of those we disagree with we reinforce longstanding prescriptivist ideologies that are most heavily used to police poor people of color. It may seem cute but is actually oppressive. apple.news/A6sySH6IGTYe...

Who (race/ethnicity, class, knowledge etc) are “standard”? Oh, ELL are not “standard”. Why? How? “To give you a sense of the context, we started with over 420 applicants and invited the top 7 standard and 2 ELL to campus.” —— rejection email to finalists. #raciolinguistics #languageideology

During the interview: "What do your students think about you as a nonnative speaker teacher?" "But you are not teaching English." "International students are quiet." "... hot dishes, not cold dishes" ... Value statement: We view multilingual students' language as an asset.

Day2 at aaal25. I went to an interesting, insightful, and eye-opening special session about translanguaging. I have a lot to think about.🤔

Day 1 at aaal25

As co-founder of our Women's Rights Project and a Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legal work left our country forever changed. Today, on what would've been her 92nd birthday, we the people honor her legacy by voicing our dissent.

Technofascism: when AI tools can fabricate stories about people with views opposed to the official party position that cannot be fact checked since there is nobody to ask for the evidence they have to support such claims. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

I like the Cantonese equivalent! The Mandarin equivalent is 样样通,样样松, consisting of only three characters. It functions more as a proverb and is thus used in a colloquial and informal manner. (1/2)

A bag from Salted Books in Lisbon. www.famouscampaigns.com/2025/01/this...

Lovely interview with Sabina Knight The Power of Chinese Narrative – interview with Sabina Knight

We need a "rate my boss in higher ed" version of "rate my professor." So I built one! Kickstart the project with your story: https://buff.ly/4aMRayz 🪜 🎓 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

Not to put too fine a point on it, but a week ago, the CSU closed 6 departments (among them, philosophy, women's and gender studies, and economics) and fired 46 tenure-line faculty at Sonoma State. One of those faculty studies AI ethics. They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.

Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...

I remember this article from 2020. "Nearly a third of the 3,000 adjuncts surveyed for the report earn less than $25,000 a year. That puts them below the federal poverty guideline for a family of four. Another third of respondents make less than $50,000." www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04...

🚨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.

Accepted!!

Trump’s plan has always been to announce legally questionable executive orders that pressure people to acquiesce in the hopes that they will be left alone. It is disheartening to see how many universities are falling into this trap instead of fighting to save higher education from a fascist takeover

“Language is more than grammar and vocabulary; it’s a bridge through time. Even when fractured and messy, it connects us to those who came before and to those yet to come.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“Don’t be a witness. Be an activist.” ― DaShanne Stokes

Regional accent stereotype concern raised by study https://buff.ly/3WlEIQt #langsky

Keep growing, keep pushing forward, keep moving on... And, keep writing 👀 #dissertationlife

This pretty much captures my day on Xiaohongshu or Red Note. I am intrigued by the cross-cultural communication and multilingual language practices there.Fun fact: To stay, you must pay “pet tax” (posting a photo of your pet). I hope there won’t be a ban or virtual walls. #tiktockrefugees #migration

Someone told me that I sound like I speak Cantonese instead of Mandarin. They also said my English accent has a Southern, countryside feel—like I’m from Nashville. 🤔

Great talk! I do feel like I speak Mandarin differently across time. And, tbh, as a "non-native English speaker" teacher, I always feel the pressure to change my English accent to be a little more "standard" or "white" especially after I work and live in an English-speaking country/region.

kids seeing themselves and their worlds represented in literature is cool but they also need to hear themselves - their accents, their styles, their languages, their entire ways of communicating ❤️

Seeing this makes me believe I am doomscrolling 😂 I need a squid game guide for the job market.

In the New-Year's edition of the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, @brynnquick.bsky.social chats with Dr Alexandra Grey about her book "Language rights in a changing China" www.languageonthemove.com/language-rig...

Everyone in academia knows that student course evaluations are biased against instructors who are women and/or people of color. We've known for decades. Study after study confirms the biases. Yet we still use them & weigh them heavily for tenure & promotion. Why?

I have learnt that rejection is sort of a normal thing in academia. My advisor told me that I should celebrate every "rejection" be it publication, job application, or anything else. This makes it so fun! Rejections won't be so scary. And and we are resilient!!

打开方式不对(literary translation: the wrong way of opening it) 🥹 打开方式 (dǎ kaī fāng shì), #ChineseInternetSlang, means the method of doing or using something #Mandarin #Chinese

“If you are worried about the rise of machines & robots stealing our jobs, it’s better to lean into the stuff that AI finds trickier to do. The not -so -secret ingredient is right there on the packaging ; they’re called humanities for a reason .”⬇️ #EduSky