HAPPY LINGUISTICS DAY!🥳🎉🗣️ @lagbling.bsky.social @baal-linguistics.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org and the University of Birmingham are running two competitions in linguistics for ALL UG/PGT/PGR students and ECRs to enter! find details on both competitions below 👇🏽 Good luck! 💸

it’s been a very sad day within our v big, v active (with v strong record of funding!) linguistics/modern languages group at nottingham💔 still just so lost for words at how incredulous this is (esp finding out via an instagram bbc news post & STILL not from uni comms…) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Truly awful news. Ruthless, short-sighted and ill-informed. I remember working at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social about a decade ago and the University taking great pride in being one of the biggest languages departments in the country… Where’s that pride gone?! www.bbc.com/news/article...?

FYI: LAGB Student Event Sponsorship – Applications open until Nov. 15th

Das crazy! Ich wurde für die SZ zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres interviewt - hier ohne Paywall (checke hätte gewonnen 🥀) archive.ph/202510171219...

somewhat poignant yet comforting end to our AHRC Midlands4Cities returners day in Birmingham, from a room full of incredible, impostery phd students all just muddling through.🥹❤️‍🩹 and now i officially enter second year… what!! 😵‍💫

conference clash week in linguistics for me🐝 started with a fab few days in rainy oxford ☔️ at @ags-gbi.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social presenting what i’ve been up to in Y1 of my phd🇦🇹🏔️🗣️✨ next stop LAGB! 🔜 (ps oxford johns is nice n all but I was def at the better johns in cam… just saying🤪)

🔔 LAST DAYS TO REGISTER 🔔 Don’t miss our @lagbling.bsky.social summer school for 2025 including a range of academic & developmental talks below @linguistlaura.bsky.social 👇🏽 Reserve your spot today!* *The full conference package does not include the summer school. Please register for this separately

had a nightmare last night about results day (??) where i opened my results live on TV, saw i didn’t get an A* in my french a level and meant i couldn’t do my c19th french gorilla placement anymore 🦍 what 😭 your honour take me away i fear i’ve officially lost the plot with this sodding gorilla- 😵‍💫‼️

I welcome the UK Government’s commitment to recognise the State of Palestine, but it shouldn’t be subject to conditions. It must be unequivocal, irreversible and backed by sanctions on Israel. Israel must agree to a ceasefire now and allow more aid into Gaza to stop starvation.

When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering. It wasn’t quite 90%. This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships. Next year they’re giving us 3. So 89% then.

SO excited to share our new series on ‘Applying for a PhD in Linguistics’ with Fae @lagbpsc.bsky.social @lagbling.bsky.social on all from choosing a project & supervisor to hopefully deciding between offers! Join our first session (07/08) where we’ll explore PhDs in the UK & choosing a supervisor!👇🏽🌟

happening in one hour! come join us for our final ‘careers for linguists’ talk of the series today, 10 July at 16:30 BST. joining details are on our @lagbpsc.bsky.social website! 👇🏽👇🏽 www.lagbpsc.co.uk/events/caree... @lagbling.bsky.social

✨ The Languages in UK Education special issue is now complete! Many thanks to our guest editors @wendya-b.bsky.social & @cforsdick.bsky.social for compiling this important collection, and to every contributor for sharing bold ideas to shape language education policy. 🔗 www.lspjournal.com

excited to be sharing preliminary research from my PhD (on language contact in Vienna) at the @oxfordgerman.bsky.social ‘German Graduate Symposium’ in a v sunny oxford today☀️, with broader themes of ‘constructions of sameness, constructions of difference: identity discourses in Germanophone culture’

Hello hello, our final event of this Careers Event series will be on the 10th of July at the usual time in the usual place! More details to come, or you can check out our website lagbpsc.co.uk

so many chaotically nonsensical (but v exciting!) things going on in the phd over the next few months that i fear i’m entering whatever the academic equivalent is of a brat summer💚

Find out how to embrace the diverse cultural and linguistic perspectives of your students and prepare them to thrive in an interconnected world, with this guide from educators at @sfu.ca : ow.ly/NXMm50WaGUK #highered #language #inclusion #edusky #academicsky #teaching

Such fun discussions today at the Natural History Museum (London) on ‘named historical animals’ & my AHRC-funded M4C placement w/ Nottingham Museums/Uni of Nottingham (with Dr Holly Miller), in which I’ll be researching & decolonising the C19th history of George the Gorilla. Next stop: Paris..?🇫🇷🦍🔎

I have a new paper out in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (and it's open access!): "“And it just becomes queer slang”: Race, linguistic innovation, and appropriation within trans communities in the US South" doi.org/10.1111/jola...

so in the same week as me winning a travel scholarship to part-fund my phd fieldwork in vienna next year, austria has also just won #eurovision (and thus hosting next year while i’m there)…. don’t give me ideas… 👀🏔️ what a slay✨

As many federal governments slow — or reverse — climate action, Austria's capital, Vienna, wants to show how cities can take the lead. 🍃🇮🇩 The first in a series (!) of positive climate solution stories, only on @npr.org 📻🎧

Don't worry if you couldn't make it to our last careers event, Navigating Academia with more Possibilities, you can ow check it out on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RiE...

‘gosh, what a week!’ she says. on a tuesday. 😵‍💫

We need a new treasurer! If the idea of managing the finances of a national postgraduate linguistics society sounds fun check out our website for details of the application.

How do we meet the challenge of language teacher shortages? Read Lisa Panford's new thought-provoking piece in LSP on the recruitment of teachers of Colour: www.lspjournal.com/post/the-rec... @cforsdick.bsky.social @lspjournal.bsky.social

!! Careers Event incoming !! Join us on Thursday for a panel discussion of tips and tricks for navigating academia. 1630-1745 link on our website

The School of History at Leeds is offering a BAME Doctoral Scholarship starting in October 2025! Potential postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who are eligible for the Home/UK rate of tuition fees can read more and apply here:

Five year olds! More accent diversity and less prescriptivism in popular culture, please! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The basic foundation of DEI is that bringing people with different experiences together to solve pressing social problems is a good thing and that structural barriers need to be addressed for this to become a reality. The fact that this is controversial is an indictment on this country.

actually cannot believe katy perry has spent more time in space this week than i’ve spent working on my thesis 😔

never again am i coming to nottingham on a weekend (with no direct trains) 😵‍💫 london is rammedddd especially today 😵‍💫

love having non-academia friends bc wdym i have to explain with nonchalance that all my stresses atm are coming from a stuffed 19th century (supposedly french) gorilla?? 🦍

Lecturer in #Sociolinguistics @christianilbury.bsky.social leads the charge against linguistic prejudice in academia. At Speaking Out, researchers & students came confronted #accentbias - that unfairly links how we speak with how we're judged. Read More: edin.ac/3Ei04Zc

One week to submit your abstracts for LAGB2025! You definitely don't want to miss this one (or the amazing summer school we'll be putting on!)

my toxic trait is thinking i’m now fluent in spanish after successfully getting by with a mix of french/italian while on holiday in spain☀️🏝️ (i’ve never taken a spanish lesson in my life)

Swahili? Mandarin? The UK is increasingly multilingual – yet our politicians won’t talk about it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

someone on tiktok tried to classify the ✨english uni rah girl✨ as either southern (rah/vocal fry), southern (posh), southern (farmer), southern (gemma collins😭) or southern (generic) and can’t stop thinking about it bc why does it lowkey work

as a german linguistics debutante (if you will), feels somewhat fitting in this #ShoutOutForGerman week that i introduced some preliminary research from my phd at our @uniofnottingham.bsky.social modern languages department research seminar today, wonderfully chaired by @k8ybirch.bsky.social 😇🇦🇹🏔️🗣️

Abogeil! The language of German teens on YouTube is now out 🎉🎉🎉 Open access here: doi.org/10.14618/ama... Please buy it for your libraries here: buchshop.ids-mannheim.de/publikatione... @idsmannheim.bsky.social #openaccess

Master's scholarship at King's College London for Black, Asian and minority home students! My faculty (Arts & Humanities) is offering three postgraduate taught programmes scholarships (fees) - closing day is 14 May. Details here: www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

respectfully refusing to accept any more online calls from now bc every teams call i’ve sat on this week i’ve noticed a brand new grey hair shine through😔 the disrespect 😔😔

Want to know how language has changed in London? Devyani Sharma's Generations of London English Project, run at @qmullinguistics.bsky.social with the University of York at generationsoflondonenglish.org @samhellmuth.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk #linguistics #london #langsky

And over 65 million people in Britain cannot speak any Welsh, Gaelic, Cornish, or Scots, nor sign in British Sign Language.

thought being an intercity commuter student meant i look really cool and mysterious but i fear it’s actually giving flustered & overloaded year 7 student with food tech and swimming on the same day instead😔😵‍💫🤪

In our postface to the LSP journal special collection on languages in UK education, @cforsdick.bsky.social and I pull out some of the key threads and policy recommendations from the 11 policy papers. Read it here: www.lspjournal.com/post/languag...

The death of capital letters: why gen Z loves lowercase

if you told me when applying for phds that i’d end up doing a whole new project in a diff language, diff discipline, diff uni & now also doing an international placement in the museum sector researching the heritage of a gorilla in paris 🦍🇫🇷 alongside i’d be speechless bc none of that makes sense??😭

Nothing says linguistics in 2025 is a problematically divided field in the UK more than having major conferences on sociolinguistics, general linguistics, and applied linguistics all on during the same week at three different locations across the UK.

Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti! I’d love your help to find examples!