Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.” (Published May 2025)

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Yay this article is finally out and can be downloaded for free here: jelipub.com/volume-3-iss... Again I’d like to thank my research participants — this paper wouldn’t be possible without you. 🩷 And also to JELI and my anonymous peer reviewers for their invaluable support and feedback ☺️

Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

The proofs have arrived! Countdown to our summer of publication. Looking forward.

Join us (online/in person) on 16 April to discuss Social Theory & the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge w/ the authors/eds of 3 fantastic new books in our Global Epistemics series w/ Rowman & Littlefield (Bloomsbury) edited by @berytia.bsky.social. Info & registration here: tinyurl.com/nonhege

📢 We’re Hiring! We are seeking applications for the role of Assistant Professor in Applied Sign Linguistics. To teach and conduct research in the areas of sign linguistics, sign language interpreting, and sign language teaching. Info at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ Contact👉 [email protected]

My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!

If you haven’t read it yet, this is essential for understanding the economic situation universities find themselves in as federal funding gets cut off.

Video shows former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte being arrested on a plane at Manila airport on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant over alleged crimes against humanity during his crackdown on drugs.

Super happy to share that my doctoral thesis was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Dissertation Award by the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Truly grateful for everyone who made this thesis possible 🥰💗

We're Hiring: Departmental Lecturer, Modern Language (Mandarin) Education The post-holder will teach the PGCE Modern Language programme, the MSc in Learning and Teaching programme and the PGDip in Learning and Teaching in Mandarin. If you're interested, apply now! 🔗 bit.ly/43qWzK6

Academia already acting like the ethnic cleansing of gaza is complete. Shame on Leiden and Cambridge Uni press. Utterly disgusting.

I was just reminded by Facebook memories that I submitted my DPhil thesis for examination this day last year. I can’t believe that was already a year ago. Time flies 🫨

So this is at least the second horrific murder in the US within the last six months predicated on “speak English”. Please keep this in mind as you interact with English-only movements. Language ideologies are not benign or apolitical.

when you stop reading "believe women" as "women never lie" and see it as "one of the foundational myths of patriarchy is that women can never be trusted" it makes a lot more sense.

Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here: demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...

Hello bsky, I just wanted to share my first publication from my PhD thesis: doi.org/10.1002/tesq... This paper is an attempt at rethinking the Global Englishes paradigm and conceptualising a critical-ethical framework for addressing social injustices in TESOL and language education more broadly. 🙏

Today marks my official first day as an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics (TESOL) at the School of Linguistic, Speech & Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. Truly very grateful for this opportunity. I look forward to meeting my colleagues and students in the new academic year 💕

I had the most wonderful and meaningful time at AAAL. Reconnected with old friends and made new ones. Listening to the many people who do amazing work within their respective communities makes me truly feel hopeful about our capabilities as applied linguists to help make this world a better place. 💕

Hello, Houston! I look forward to this year's AAAL conference.

I passed my viva! Thank you to A/P Velda Elliott and A/P Nelson Flores for the amazing conversation and for reading and examining my thesis 🙏and to my awesome supervisors Prof. Heath Rose and A/P Ruanni Tupas for your mentorship and guidance. @veldaelliott.bsky.social @nelsonlflores.bsky.social

PhD thesis done and finally submitted for examination. 🥲

What are the top 10 questions that users of EAL research would like answered? Great to see this priority setting partnership on #EAL research published today. #education www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

just finished writing my acknowledgements page (two pages actually)... I guess my thesis is done??

V proud to finally share this new analysis Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change 🇺🇸 530GtCO2 (🇪🇺+🇬🇧 478, +28%) 🇨🇳 309 🇷🇺 239 +41%* 🇬🇧 130 +70% 🇧🇷 115 🇩🇪 92 🇮🇳 74 -15% 🇯🇵 73 🇮🇩 68 -24% — 🇳🇱 35 +181% 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-how...

There's a model for democratizing AI. It's SAG-AFTRA's strike and victory programmablemutter.substack.com/p/theres-a-m...

Trying to find people working on climate debt/reparations, ecological imperialism, and environmental struggles in the Global South. Any and all references are welcome!

The world has just lost one of its great philosophers, Enrique Dussel. Rest in power.

Another day another job app rejection 🤪😂🥲😢

I'm just missing an introductory and a concluding chapter.

Done with my third analytical chapter. Will take a short break and then start working on the last analytical chapter, on reparative futures - the one I've been really wanting to write. And then after that will be just the intro and concluding chapters.

There are days when you're reminded that there are some aspects of your life that are truly beyond your control. Like as a Filipino you don't get to choose your family. Their financial problems are your problems too.

Skimming through Neferti Tadiar's Remaindered Life to gain some insights and inspiration for my thesis. Really blown away by her knowledge and her prose.

I can never automatically figure out when I should use evoke or invoke in a sentence - I mean I always have to look them up in a dictionary when I'm writing

I've just accepted an offer to teach online with PUP this sem. This will be my first time working with a PH state university! I'm teaching a special course on English across professions, with a focus on language and diversity in the workplace. I look forward to meeting the students this week :)

I just had my second PhD upgrade exam and I’m happy to say I passed it. I was asked really tough, thought-provoking, and humbling questions by the loveliest pair of examiners. So grateful for them for the intellectual exchange. I can finally call myself a doctoral “candidate”

I just spent months developing in secret a new metasemiotic concept for my PhD thesis. Gave it a name and felt quite proud of it. And then today, I see a prominent scholar publish a conceptual paper that uses the exact same name to coin a related, but different concept. Man, academia is not easy.

Struggling to write my 3rd PhD chapter - I'm trying to view the affective dimensions of ELT labour from a metasemiotic lens. Did this too for my other chapters, but now that I'm decentering language from the analysis, I feel like I'm reaching the limit of my analytical prowess as a trained linguist.

Ooof, Reviewer One is the harsh one this time.

Still busy working on my thesis. I’m now at the 74,000-word mark, and I’m about to begin writing my third analytical chapter. It’s quite amazing to see something finally taking shape, taking on a life on its own. I’m not quite near the finish line but I can kind of already see it from here.