Thank you everyone for a great year -- unfortunately this is our last post as ⊙, the board of 2024-2025, as the switch just happened hours ago and we are no longer in function. We however have a great new year ahead of us to look forward to -- best of luck to Tᴀᴍ!

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

we're back from summer hibernation -- activities are picking up again

Yesterday at the General Assembly we voted in a new anthem version (to make it less outdated and also more accessible to the ~50% of the association that is not dutch).

maybe the real cheap flights workshop were the friends we made along the way

Grice’s maxims are what makes us human (as opposed to evil wish-granting genies)

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I'm on the organizing committee of the 19th T.W.I.S.T. Student Conference in Linguistics, taking place in Leiden on April 12-13th, and the team has put together a really interesting program. Check the schedule at conference.studieverenigingtwist.nl/2025/schedule and stop by if you're in the area!

me when im imbabura my kichwa

Medewerkers van de Universiteit Leiden trappen maandag 10 maart de estafettestaking af van de Nederlandse universiteiten tegen de kabinetsbezuinigingen. De hele dag zijn er teach-outs en daarnaast is er een samenkomst op de Garenmarkt in Leiden met diverse sprekers, optredens en muziek. #WOinactie

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.

They're making me jump for the beef every single day

march

thank you to everyone who showed up! here's to the next semester being as good as the last one.

T.W.I.S.T. Conference Call for Abstracts deadline has been extended until the 7th of March. Come present your research, non-T.W.I.S.T. members have the opportunity to do that too!

they call it pre-General Member Assembly dinner because it's - pre-discounted (we pay for part of it (twist budget)) - pre-assembled (they made it in a restaurant (no shade to last Switch GA's DIY poke bowls)) - pre-member (in front of you (on your plate)) - dinner (evening food (yum))

they call me TWIST

should i post about twist in the first person singular to make this account more immersive

doing this tuesday evening

The big challenge is to pronounce the brackets correctly

Call for Abstracts is closing soon! The 19th T.W.I.S.T. Student Conference in #Linguistics is looking for student speakers. The deadline is in about a week (21 Feb). Have any interesting research to share? Submit an abstract! You can find more information at conference.studieverenigingtwist.nl

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