Morgen de grote HO staking! Tot op de Dam! Tomorrow the big HE strike! See you at Dam square! woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/12/prog...

I had luck before on the badsite; let's try bsky: this term I'm teaching intro linguistics with a typology/diversity lens I love to harness expertise of friends/colleagues to show students languages I know little about SO if you know/use/study a language that's not normative AmEng, I need YOU! 🧵

Sociolinguists in and around Benelux or working on Beneluxian languages and varieties: come present your work at next year's Sociolinguistics Circle in Brussels! Nous avons hâte om jullie bij ons te verwelkomen - venez nombreux.ses ! Deadline for abstracts: December 1st, 2025.

Attention #sociolinguists: Have you ever wanted to do a collaborative class project, but you just weren't sure how? Maybe you didn't have much time or access to the right participants...? If so, check out my new openly accessible, peer-reviewed essay plus #OER: resourcehub.lsadc.org/Play?pId=593...

Variationslinguistik bei @realscientists.de 🤩

Schaut vorbei, wenn ihr Lust habt!

I will be curating the Bluesky account for Real Scientists DE this week. Check it out if you want to learn more about my work and speak German (or have access to a translator)!

En ook de derde dag van de estafettestaking in het Hoger Onderwijs, vandaag in Nijmegen, is een groot succes. Het rode vierkant van #WOinActie wappert aan de toren, en duizenden studenten, docenten, wetenschappers en sympathisanten protesteren tegen de aangekondigde bezuinigingen. #DoeHetNiet

Nijmegen kleurt rood! Vandaag staken we aan de Radboud Universiteit tegen de ongekende bezuinigingen van dit kabinet op het hoger onderwijs en de wetenschap. Samen met studenten en collega’s van de Hogeschool Arnhem en Artez 🟥💪 #WOinActie

For information about the reasons for the strike, see this open letter: woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/03/ruim... Below an excerpt: 3/n

Today it's our turn. Hope to see many of you there #WOinActie #StopTheCuts

Falls ihr es noch nicht mitbekommen habt: Ab heute streiken Kolleg*innen, Student*innen&viele andere gegen die drakonischen Sparmaßnahmen an niederländischen Universitäten. Leiden hat den Anfang gemacht, morgen gehts in Utrecht weiter& Do sind wir in Nimwegen dran. Mehr dazu im Post von Marc 👇🏼

Proud to see so many colleagues, students, and community members in #Leiden go on strike today to protest the Draconian cuts to Dutch higher education. Tomorrow, Utrecht will follow and on Thursday, we will do the same at Radboud. #WOinActie #stopthecuts

Vandaag begint een estafettestaking van de Nederlandse universiteiten. Op een enkele kleine lokale staking na is dit sinds mensenheugenis niet gebeurd. Staak mee! neerlandistiek.nl/2025/03/staa...

One of my BA students wants to look at word-final nasal deletion in AAE for his BA thesis. He's struggling to get access to a couple of relevant papers (see below). Can anyone help 🙏🏼?

In einer Woche ist 🇩🇪 Bundestagswahl. In Washington, der Hauptstadt des einstmals wichtigsten Verbündeten, sind bis heute keine Wahlunterlagen eingetroffen. Bei einer Postlaufzeit von 7 - 10 Tagen drohen zigtausende Auslandsdeutsche ihres Wahlrechts beraubt zu werden. 🤐

FYI: Join the COGEL-sponsored Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 7th (9a-9p EST)!: Join the COGEL-sponsored Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 7th (9a-9p EST)! Did you know that less than 20% of biographies on Wikipedia are currently dedicated to notable women, and far lower for other minoritized…

Day 1 of the 2025 LOT Winter School is off to a great start! Looking forward to welcoming instructors and participants from all over the world to Nijmegen over the next two weeks

Ich erzähle das nicht gerne, weil ich meine Ruhe haben möchte, aber langsam kann ich mir das nicht mehr leisten: Ich bin hier nicht geboren und habe mich einbürgern lassen. Wir müssen darüber reden, wie Einbürgerungen in Deutschland laufen. 1/x www.merkur.de/politik/merz...

Yesterday, we lost William Labov, a foundational figure in sociolinguistics. In his Abralin Talk, Labov reflected on a lifetime of scholarship that has mentored generations and advanced the pursuit of social equity through linguistics.

I'll teach a BA course on lg and social justice next semester. I'd love to showcase empirical work that demonstrates how the study of lg can help dismantle unjust structures. If you have done any work on this or have strong feelings about what should be included, please let me know below👇🏼

This promises to be such an exciting contribution to the field of sociolinguistics - cannot wait to read it! Really grateful it will be published open access so my students and I can access it right away...

Stop de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs!

Doe het niet!

Today, over 20k students, instructors, researchers, administrators and others (incl. my RU colleagues and I) protested against the devastating budget cuts in Dutch higher education, which threaten the well-being of the country... A strong and necessary sign! #stopdebezuinigingen nos.nl/l/2545894

Nieuwe nationale oproep van WOinActie aan iedereen die om het hoger onderwijs geeft om ons te steunen in onze strijd voor het behoud van de Nederlandse universiteiten. Demonstratie: 25 november, 13:00, Malieveld, Den Haag. woinactie.blogspot.com/2024/11/steu...

Dear colleagues around the world, As you may know, the Netherlands has, since this summer, been governed by a radical right-wing administration with an agenda reminiscent of Orbán's Hungary.

Hi there! Are you a graduate student in sociolinguistics who is an LSA member and wants travel funding to attend LSA's Annual Meeting in Philly this year? Consider applying for the Elizabeth Dayton Award! Open now til July 12! www.lsadc.org/elizabeth_da...

Why decolonization and inclusion matter in linguistics? A blog about Oxford Collections on Decolonizing and Inclusion in Linguistics blog.oup.com/2024/03/why-...

Incredible and comprehensive introduction to stats and R for linguists by Jessamyn Schertz! 👩‍💻📈 R bookdown link here: individual.utoronto.ca/jschertz/tea...

Enjoying some old traditions in our new home... #FallFeelings

The Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics is offering TWO travel grants in the amount of $500 each to the 2024 LSA Annual Meeting in NYC Details here: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com#/event/4438/.... Submission deadline: November 8 lmk if you have any questions, and please retweet! 🐦🐦

U of T reunion at #NWAV51

Last chance to sign up as a mentor for #NWAV51! We're still a few volunteers short. I've participated myself numerous times and truly enjoyed being able to give something back to the field. Added bonus this time: Free lunch 🥪! You can find the sign-up form in the thread

We're still looking for mentors for #NWAV51. If you're interested and available, please consider signing up. You can find the link in the thread below

#NWAV51 will host a Pop-Up Mentoring Program (PUMP) event. PUMP (sponsored by the LSA Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics (COGEL)) provides on-site, one-off mentoring meetings at linguistics conferences around the world. #linguistics

Awesome new initiative at my alma mater. If you identify as Black or Indigenous and are planning on applying to graduate school in linguistics, please consider participating. Also, please spread the word, everyone!

Don’t forget that signed languages cannot be separated from deaf people. Please consider citing the works of deaf, deafblind, and deafdisabled linguists, scholars, and activists at least. Read our work, invite us to present, talk to us!

Hey spoken language linguistics colleagues: tomorrow is the International Day of Sign Languages (www.un.org/en/observanc...). Please consider how you might use it to highlight signed languages in your teaching and/or research.