Are you working on language policy? Do you like Spain? Then apply for the Language Policy Forum 2026 in Spain! 22-23 April, @ucm.es Venue details, plenary speakers, abstract deadline and submission form on our website: langpol.ac.uk. Go go go! 👇

📢 Hot Off the Press 🗓️Out Today – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Volume 46, Issue 6 (2025) Explore the latest in global #language, #culture, and #identity research 📝 1 Introduction 📚 8 Research Articles 📖 1 Book Review 💬 1 Commentary paper 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmmm20/4...

The Spanish government says it has made 'great progress' towards making Catalan, Basque and Galician official languages of the European Union despite a final decision being delayed ✍️ Luke James

The rejection of Catalan as an official language in Brussels stands to trigger a political crisis in Madrid.

🟠 Deadline approaching ‼️ Ag teannadh leis an spriocdháta

Proofing this one (finally 🥳) for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics volume “#Multilingualism” (Ed. Schwieter & Dewaele) with Charlotte Selleck

What is developmental language disorder (DLD) called in your language? This year's theme for DLD day is "You can't see DLD". How can we tell people or show people what it is in your language and in your community? #devlangdis #DLDday

At the #edtechinnovate event today in London. Super interesting to learn about the most recent debates about the future of #edtech and #AI

Call for candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Linguistics (English/Swedish), Language Preference and Proficiency of High-Functioning Individuals within Autism Spectrum Disorder euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting... Deadline 9th June

The UK is not a single-language state. A powerful argument by @owswills.bsky.social for understanding and valuing multiculturalism. nation.cymru/opinion/the-...

📚 New Open Access article! How do French speakers in British Columbia navigate linguistic identity? Marie-Eve Bouchard explores how legitimation—and delegitimation—shape experiences of linguistic (in)security within Francophone communities in our latest early view paper. 🔗 buff.ly/IhSbzns

We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...

What about Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Irish, Ulster Scots?

requesting all our followers to post as much as you can on language policy so that we can repost it :)

'Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics' by @mishee54.bsky.social, Alice Corr, Anna Havinga, @jrkasstan.bsky.social & Norma Schifano argues for linguistics in the UK Mod Langs curriculum. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-linguisitics @ciol-linguists.bsky.social

Russia uses "Pravda Alba" website to peddle disinformation in Gaelic -"easier for Russian disinformation to break through on search engines and in AI chatbots in languages such as Gaelic because they have much smaller online footprints" than bigger languages scotland.news-pravda.com/scotland/202...

For @jmhenner.bsky.social. We — @savithry.bsky.social and I — wrote “How to crip your sign language linguistic theory”. Open access. academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

Confs: From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration. Reinventing the Narratives of the Self and the World in Pluralistic European Societies

Our paper won a Best Paper Award at #chi2025 ! It challenges the idea that Deaf tech should only be assistive. It presents alternative narratives that center deaf lives and show why we need Deaf-centred design in tech. @robinxtech.bsky.social @katta.bsky.social programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

#CallforPapers | Sociolinguistica: European Journal of #Sociolinguistics is open for submissions! Learn more and submit your paper 👉 www.degruyter.com/soci. @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social

Irish language signage is set to be installed at the Grand Central Station in Belfast.

I have a new book review out, of "Language and social justice: Global perspectives." TLDR: social justice can mean lots of things, so language & social justice research works best when it defines the term & engages with literature on the topic. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📝 How to Get Published – A panel with editors from Language in Society & Journal of Sociolinguistics! 📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online 🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers. ECR & PhD students encouraged to join! 🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5

🏳️‍⚧️ Have you read any of the articles in our collection on trans language activism? Discover them here:

Applications for the 2025 Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics are now open. The full list of 14 different programmes (56 classes) is available here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/education... The Celtic Programme includes two classes by me about Ancient Celtic languages and Old Irish.

Falkirk Council will be reported to the Scottish Government if it removes school transport for Gaelic pupils. Bòrd na Gaelic gave the warning as councillors vote today on the cut. www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...

This is the second event in our series 'Gaelic in Edinburgh: Past, Present and Future'. The other events will be held on 22 March, 31 May and 14 June. Fàilte romhaibh uile - all welcome! ionaddhuneideann.org/events/gaeli...

Und hier ein Interview mit der Soziolinguistin und Ethnographin Ingrid Piller im bildungsserverBlog, die in ihrer Studie „Life in a New Language“ einen völlig neuen Weg der Sekundäranalyse von qualitativen Forschungsdaten gegangen ist. blog.bildungsserver.de/kontextinfor... #edublue