After a brilliant week in Glasgow @baal2025.bsky.social, we’re already looking forward to next year’s conference at Aston University! #BAAL2025 ➡️ #BAAL2026 @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

The applied linguistics community came together in many ways at #BAAL2025, including AILA and BAAL at the start of the conference (just after first plenary). Picture shows L-R: Melanie van den Hoven, Caroline Tagg, Markus Bieswanger, Shameem Rafik-Galea, Alex Ho-Cheong Leung, Agnes He.

First keynote at #baal2025 on 'Language, security and governance through terror'. @baal-linguistics.bsky.social @baal2025.bsky.social #appliedlinguistics #linguistics

Very excited that #baal2025 is starting. Many thanks to the local organising committee for the warm welcome.

Hello all! The 58th BAAL Conference will be held at the stunning @uofglasgow.bsky.social 🏛️ Excited to see you on the 4th-6th September 2025! Check out these wonderful views of where it all happens 👇 #BAAL2025 #AppliedLinguistics #UniversityOfGlasgow

Not long until the #BAAL2025 conference in Glasgow @baal2025.bsky.social To celebrate we've shared some stand-out memories of past conference from members, over on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Please get involved: we'd love to have more memories and moments!

Interstellar Foundation messaging team: Our manuscript "Towards a generalized framework for planetary communication" has just been published in the journal Space Policy. Free download for 40ish days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #linguistics #communication #space #extraterrestrial #METI

The lyrics of some #eurovision songs this year switch between languages. Nice. Let's hope this trend continues.

Lots of fun watching #eurovision in France (long story). The UK entry were just called "girls mais sans spice".

language ideologies are never just about language. here i show how they materialise in school discipline policies to construct representations of 'badly behaved' children. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

there is no empirical relationship between a teacher's accent and their ability to teach. but there is a long-standing ideological relationship which frames non-dominant and non-standardised accents as signs of imagined pedagogical illegitimacy.

The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.

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...

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters www.theguardian.com/education/20...

When ornithology meets linguistics... which one is boubiest?

You’ll be pleased to know that “HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has said its name can be pronounced with either an “aitch” or a “haitch” because it respects “diversity” and different accents” www.yahoo.com/news/hmrc-pr...

I love this so much! #Linguistics

Let's not discuss the feasibility of 175 tones but enjoy how personal and individual to the conlanger #conlangs can be. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conlang

Criticism about the way someone speaks is always about more than language

Our latest paper on (extra-)planetary communication made the top ten at SSRN ... 😲 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #Linguistics #Communication #METI #Academia