Or this one: a monolingual Anglophone nurse hears a patient speaking unintelligibly, assume it's delirium, until an L2 English speaking nurse recognises the language. The dying person isn't babbling; they've reverted to a mother tongue at the end of life.

Why I do what I do: met a former palliative care nurse & was describing how devout Muslims can hold up a single finger to represent the Shahadah if they're unable to speak. She'd never heard of this. "I wonder how many times nurses see this, think someone is agitated, and drug them."

For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading. All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.

Language technologies don't invalidate the case for language awareness as a basic life skill; they emphasize how crucial it is.

The historical and cultural context of language is also very significant in translation. Knowing the background of terms, expressions, allusions etc. and what cultural, historical and intertextual connections and connotations they carry in the source & target is a major issue

1/ "In sum, despite intentions to set newcomers on paths to employment and civic autonomy, participants experience the IP as a set of competing goals. Does early employment strengthen or undermine language education? Does lengthy language and KoS education prepare individuals for –

Nothing to see here, just messianic racist war criminals having a conference about messianic war criminal things and other "tremendous opportunities" for crimes against humanity in the Knesset

Signal boost: CALL FOR PAPERS for the Sixth REAL symposium on language economics and policy. Full details: www.ulster.ac.uk/__data/asset...

“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

While #ISHPSSB2025 is underway, I'd just like to draw attention to an opportunity at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at for international researchers: senior & early-career fellowships at the new #Vienna Center for Advanced Studies #ViCAS vicas.univie.ac.at Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!

So it is worth repeating - people will die as a result of this executive order: www.languageonthemove.com/language-acc...

One of my favourite parts of the Yiddish LotR translation is Sam's love letter to potatoes. It works really, really well.

New paper! In collaboration with health behavior, health services researchers, and geographers, I examined differential access to acute care at the nexus of ethnicity, immigration status, and language dominance among rural-dwelling Latine people in the South link.springer.com/article/10.1...

DOJ directing government that application forms and processes must only be in English, on the grounds that it reduces administrative burdens. I wrote the book Administrative Burdens w @pamherd.bsky.social and this policy does the opposite www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

Signal boost: CFP - Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusion (Feb Ghent, 2026) clades.prd.ugent.be/en/call-cont...

Thanks for sharing this. "How are languages lost? It is land, water, and trees that nourish our languages… Languages don't die, they are systematically killed. A language dies out when its practitioners are displaced from their land." - Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Mixe linguist and language activist

A new award for young scholars in the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics.

A deaf Mongolian man has spent more than four months in the detention center without the chance to communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his civil rights attorney. “He’s basically been in solitary confinement."

Very much an "avengers assemble" moment in my network(s). We've got work to do.

Comparative Migration Studies has opened a new thematic call for special issues on ‘Regional perspectives on migration’, deadline 1 October 2025. Please spread widely. For more information on the journal (2024 IF 3,7; citescore 7,8): comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com

Very excited for this conference on Refuge and Displacement at the University of Oxford later this month and only slightly intimidated on being the only other person in a panel with David Miller. If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...

‘There is something very social about pain.’ In the penultimate episode of Season 8 of The We Society @tomshakespeare.bsky.social, Professor of Disability Research @lshtm.bsky.social discusses his research on the link between social science and disability. 🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/shak...

Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics: July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online! Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance

1/ 'The forms of marginalization and disparate treatment detailed in our findings oftentimes remain invisible to healthcare scholars, policymakers, and even well-meaning healthcare agency staff. Our research revealed how healthcare disparities persist, in part, because unexamined forms of racism-

Job alert! We're looking for a part-time teaching fellow to deliver the module ‘Science Communication and Global Justice’ to students on our MSc Science Communication. Details here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... The deadline is 7th July. Do get in touch if you have questions and please share!

Restricted access to language learning, and to developing language awareness, is a serious form of deprivation of multiple affordances, *especially* given the rapid rise of language technologies.

Boosting the signal on this one: 2-Year Postdoctoral Position 'Recognition in Language and Morality' @ Charles University, Prague. Full details groups.google.com/g/ISR-HPS-ST...

Reminder that Michael Rosen (Harvard) and I are teaching: Meisterkurs: Accountability and Power | 21. - 25. July 2025 at the Humboldt University Berlin. No registration fee. If you are interested in attending please enrol by following instructions here. www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/...

Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. Info: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline 11th July. Please share!

Also @elinm.bsky.social on “man”. I think they’re a bit different (“man” functions more easily as an expressive modifier without implying reference to the addressee), but there is definitely some overlap: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Okay so far the French name for "Murderbot" (Assasynth) is by far the best

When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.

Boosting the signal. Congrats, @ikererdocia.bsky.social!

Boosting the signal. Incredible book.

Intellectual Humility also applies to collectives (members notice each other’s intellectual limitations and those of their collective cognitive efforts), and may be easier to achieve than in individuals, Krumrei-Mancuso et al argue: buff.ly/tOMd7lI HT coauthor @jayvanbavel.bsky.social

🚨 Call for Proposals: DFG Priority Programme “Rethinking Disinformation (Re:DIS)” (SPP 2573) The DFG invites interdisciplinary research on disinformation from an epistemic perspective. 🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025 📍 Online info roundtable: 27 June 2025, 4–8pm CET www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

#CNRSnews 📰 Contrary to belief, there is no universal sign language. Like their spoken equivalents, sign languages vary from country to country. Sign-Hub, a new online platform, documents their diversity and shows the importance of learning them early news.cnrs.fr/articles/the...

Dans un secteur dominé par les géants américains et chinois, la France et l’Europe ambitionnent d’emprunter "une troisième voie" en matière d'intelligence artificielle. L' #IA à la française, entre ambitions souveraines et course mondiale. www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...

What a great paper. I miss Twitter (or what it once was), and @jmhenner.bsky.social in it. Thanks to @deafkilljoy.bsky.social and Rachael Gabriel for writing this. Make sure to check the other papers in the special issue in honour of Jon Henner. academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl...

"We need to reassert the value of cognitive friction... The struggle to articulate a question, to explore a problem without a clear solution, to follow a line of thought that leads nowhere - these are not inefficiencies. They are the essential processes by which human understanding grows."

Boosting the signal. 1/ "We are excited to announce the call for nominations for the 2025 Linguapax International Award is now open! Do you know an individual, group, or organisation making a real impact in promoting and protecting linguistic diversity? www.linguapax.org/en/the-call-...

Calls: Developing New Languages in Migration Contexts

Calls: Language and Mobility in Africa

How do hearing children of Deaf migrant parents experience their multilingual repertoires? @empacheco.bsky.social explains in the latest Language-on-the-Move post www.languageonthemove.com/children-of-...

One language, one nation: Language policy and economic integration. The authors find that enforcing a single language without supporting bilingualism risks fragmenting the very markets such policies aim to unify. cepr.org/voxeu/column... via @voxeu.org #trade #language #policy #langsky

As an American second-language-teaching professor in Ohio, where they have demoted languages from legitimate fields of study to "skills," I am offended by this use of the term "bilingual." It's like the fox rebranding itself as a hen.

Our Policy Roundtable is coming up in a week! 📣 If you haven't registered yet, do so now to join us on 18th of June 2025, either in person in Vienna, or online - more info & registration here: www.riseupproject.eu/events/polic... We're looking forward to seeing you there!