The latest JRS special issue explores multilingual & transcultural narratives of health and illness in European literatures (1870s–1960s+). Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess. ➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies @ilcs.bsky.social @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @profstevenwilson.bsky.social

Popular this week: 'Ethnography and Modern Languages' by @naswells.bsky.social, @cforsdick.bsky.social, Jessica Bradley, Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Marion Demossier, Margaret Hills de Zárate, @svshh.bsky.social, Shirley Jordan, @theapitman.bsky.social & Georgia Wall ⬇️

Lost in translation - the case for learning modern foreign languages www.ft.com/content/c9f3...

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Rights & Publishing Services Assistant at @livunipress.bsky.social Salary: £25,000 (LUP Salary Band 1) plus discretionary annual bonus. Location: Hybrid schedule with 2 days at LUP’s office in Liverpool, 3 days remote. Closing date: 18 July 2025. For more details visit bit.ly/2Zt85SE

@salomeietter.bsky.social and I are very happy to share the call for papers for this year's PSA French Politics Specialist Group annual workshop. This will be held on 14th November at the University of Glasgow; the deadline for abstracts is 14th August. Please get in touch with any questions!

Macron is right – let's revive the school French exchange to secure a future together www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

📣Important podcast on the value of speaking other languages 👇 The conversation looks at how the languages we speak influence how we think & affect how we relate to others. It explores how multilingualism can foster social cohesion, support cognitive flexibility, & even boost economic opportunities.

Anyhoo, this will be the last post preceding actual publication at the end of this month. Please order it for your libraries. It's been a long-drawn process but totally worth it. A preview is available on the site, under the rubric 'major work' in cultural theory. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/th...

🧐 A sneak peek at the introduction to "Explorations in Digital interculturality" www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7... It will be available soon! Stay tuned!

Tonight. Share everywhere. 🙏

For those who missed it yesterday, Nathan's wonderful @ihr.bsky.social Digital History talk 'TechnoMnemonics (vol.1): Navigating the Middle Passage Across Algorithmic Undercurrents' is now up on our youtube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ7X...

What does it really mean to think like a linguist? Charlotte Ryland argues it's time to move beyond grammar drills and embrace creativity, culture, and collaboration in language education. 🔗 www.lspjournal.com/post/think-l... ✍️ Collection Edited by @wendya-b.bsky.social & @cforsdick.bsky.social

Curriculum and Assessment Review: ILCS, ALL and UCFL issue a statement. 'The development of a sustainable model for language provision across the whole of the educational sector is of the highest concern to all members of the subject community' Read the statement: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...

🔊 Tomorrow at midday (BST) join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar live on Zoom for Nathan Richards on 'TechnoMnemonics (vol.1): Navigating the Middle Passage Across Algorithmic Undercurrents'. Details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues...

Registration for the 2025 conference "Resistance/Résister" organized by The Global Consortium for French Historical Studies is now open. Have a look at our stunning program. We can't wait to see you in Paris in a few weeks! www.sfhsconference.org

I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC WEB CHILD project. 2,5ys. Aarhus, Denmark. Well paid. Amazing team. You don't need a PhD in history or prior knowledge of digital methods 😄 You do need fluent Korean and English and interest in collaborative work. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

💬 What if stories—not grammar drills—were the key to unlocking language learning? Jonathan McBride explores how storytelling can transform language lessons, boost motivation, & help every learner succeed. 📚✨ @wendya-b.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social Read more: www.lspjournal.com/post/the-pow...

Daniel Gordon and I have released a new podcast episode which revisits LA HAINE - which is 30 years old! rss.com/podcasts/fre... Very useful for French A-Level students/teachers - special thanks to @ilotem.bsky.social, Florence and Louisa for their insights @wminhumanities.bsky.social

Sign up now for our UCFL Summer Plenary on 4 July! You can join online or in person - registration closes on 18 June! Secure your place here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Panels will look at - Developments in the Modern Languages Curriculum in HE - Sustainability and Entrepreneurship in Modern Languages - Diversification of languages and levels offered For full details of the programme: university-council-for-languages.org/2025/06/06/u... @ilcs.bsky.social

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9vtymFBVFh

Academia.edu just sent me an AI-generated podcast of one of my research papers. Eerily good to begin with, but got the central argument completely wrong. The tech has a long way to go - if we want it to go there. Worrying how many people are using it uncritically as a reliable and effective tool 😱

Not wrong

Ten more days to apply! Come work with me, @lmebroch.bsky.social, Pippa Catterall (Westminster) and James Taylor (IWM) on this excellent project 📷🎞️📽️ #PhDfunding #findaphd #phdstudentship

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...

If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

'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

This is what happens when people direct their anger at a false problem: immigration. They think immigration makes those queues longer – "common sense", right? In reality it's staff shortages that makes the queues longer – migrant workers make them shorter.

informuk.org Please donate a little £ if you can afford it and help spread the truth about the reform party in the UK

Excited to hear this drop through the letter box just now!!! The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies is now out in hard copy - order one for your library today and read about it in Helena Byrne’s @britishlibrary.bsky.social blogpost👇 blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2...

Happening next Wednesday - everyone welcome!

🔊 Just one month left to nominate your work - or work you love - for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the annual prize that celebrates the best of digital history internationally ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

So enjoyed writing this chapter with my wonderful PhD student, Xiao Ma, and excited that the #Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies is now out in hardback and ebook forms!!! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... @wminhumanities.bsky.social @nielsbr.bsky.social

Honoured to have two pieces in this special Entente Cordiale edition of Paper Trails, edited skilfully by @smidbob.bsky.social

Find our Collection Profile piece on the archives of London’s Dispensaire Français and its intriguing founders in this #OA BOOC. Out now!!!👇

On Tuesday, UCU Westminster held an all-branch meeting where we passed a motion in defence of trans rights. As part of our motion resolves, we issue the public statement of solidarity below. UCU Westminster is committed to defending & promoting trans rights, both in our University and beyond.

A fantastic project, funded by @themhra.bsky.social! Come along to our online seminar on 2 May to hear more about it! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/think...

“We’re ready to work” – Welsh asylum seekers show their skills in demand for working rights A bill moving through Parliament is a perfect opportunity to give people seeking asylum the right to work: if only the government would see sense | Hannah Graham @bylines.cymru

From my latest piece. The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.

A coalition of record labels has filed a lawsuit seeking $700 million from the Internet Archive for making 78 rpm records available through the Great 78 project. The lawsuit could destroy the Internet Archive and its library. Here's the petition: www.change.org/p/defend-the... .

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Well, it took 200 years but France has apologized for forcing #Haitians to pay reparations to their enslavers for the crime of freeing themselves. 🇭🇹🇭🇹 Will they actually pay the money back? I’m not holding my breath! 🗃️ www.nbcnews.com/news/world/f...

Language is a fundamental component of culture, and the orange dictator in the Oval Office has once again found a way to announce a policy that attacks the culture of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican people.

“genetic, hormonal, or gonadal?” Biological sex is not binary.