Few lower tariff unis offer languages, excluding people from under-represented backgrounds who can't travel far to uni. The Uni of Essex is a shining star, offering French, German, Italian, Portuguese & Spanish. This is under threat! Read and sign 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The #UK is proposing some fairly large changes to #immigration policy from April 2026, including skilled workers (aka #academics, #researchers) 🗣💬 Want to have a say? Complete the consultation (by 12 Feb) www.gov.uk/government/c... Please share! #Edusky #HigherEd #AcademicSky #UKVisa @ucu.org.uk

Come work with us! 🌟 3 Postdoc & 5 PhD positions – deadline for applications: 20 February. www.curlew.info/jobs

PhD funding at York in Forensic Speech Science A PhD scholarship is available as part of the CURLEW project (Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales), funded by SNSF. Deadline for applications is 12.00 (GMT), 13.00 (CET) on 20 Feb 2026. curlew.info/jobs/york-ph...

if I started following you on here today it's probably because I have stopped following you at The Other Place. Just another step towards getting off that completely.

David Britain, Paul Foulkes, David Willis and I have been awarded 2.5M CHF by SNSF & AHRC for CURLEW – the first major survey of English dialects in England & Wales in 75+ years. Starts: 2026 – posts to come. Outputs: papers + a public dialect atlas 🗺️ 📸 Drafting the proposal, Bern, Jan 2025.

Joe Brothers, a teacher at Millthorpe School in York, has been suspended and facing possible dismissal. He appeared in a video posted on social media by the National Education Union, for whom he is a union rep. He criticises cuts to school budgets, without naming himself or the school.

Here's what linguistics experts think about the recent executive order declaring English as the official language of the US (spoiler: they don't think it's a great idea): www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... I'm so proud to be a member of the executive committee of @lingsocam.bsky.social!

A team of us at York are hosting the UKIS 2025 Workshop 16-17 June. We've just launched the Call for Abstracts - check out the website for details 📒💬🖥️📅🦆

We started working on this back in 2017 when I was at Lancaster - so happy it’s finally out ✨ shorturl.at/fWLGe #phonetics #forensicphonetics #sociolinguistics

if anyone is desperate for a last minute Christmas gift, look no further! www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...

I have undergrad sociolinguistics students who need survey participants for final projects. Please consider taking one or more of the following! 🧵 1. byu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 2. byu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 3. forms.gle/EHeodV1utDhX...

I honestly thought this was a thread about Syria. It took me till about the 5th post...

Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered. This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao! What more could you want? #langsky 🀄️📚 1/

Emily Bender: « ChatGPT won't improve your teaching, won't save you time (anymore than not doing your job would save you time), and doesn't represent a key skill set that your students must have, lest they be left behind. » buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

see also, this brilliant piece by @jonathanliew.bsky.social in the Guardian yesterday: amp.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Good to see this UK Parliament public services committee inquiry about interpreting and translation services in courts. But disappointing to see that there are no experts on sign language interpreting and translation listed to give evidence committees.parliament.uk/work/8493/in...

dunno about the rest of you, but I am seeing far more Musk/Trump/Putin/Farage etc and associated shills over here than I used to do over there. I might need to start muting and blocking for my sanity's sake.

drum roll - Bluesky's first starter list for #sociophonetics Abby Walker bsky.app/profile/abby... Adrian Leemann bsky.app/profile/adri... Alan Yu bsky.app/profile/acly... Betsy Sneller bsky.app/profile/bets... Christian Ilbury bsky.app/profile/chri... Christopher Carignan bsky.app/profile/cari...

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I made a small contribution to debunking an obviously fake recording of President Biden, apparently discussing regime change in Pakistan. Seems likely AI generated. sochfactcheck.com/us-president... Sound file: www.facebook.com/adeel.aslam....

Dear colleagues around the world, As you may know, the Netherlands has, since this summer, been governed by a radical right-wing administration with an agenda reminiscent of Orbán's Hungary.