It was a disgusting, paternalistic betrayal of women to put the waiting period in law in the first place. It is not backed by evidence. It was put in to placate people (mostly men) who parroted imported American narratives and who understand nothing of reality. Women have always deserved better.

Are you a speaker of Irish English? If so, would you share your thoughts on “only” with me for academic research? umfragen.tu-dortmund.de/index.php/42... Thank you very much!!!!🙏🙏🙏

Amn’t I only after doing this survey about Hiberno-English usages of the word “only”, so now I can tell youse about it? Give it a lash, sure. @anteangaeile.bsky.social #speirgorm

Coming very soon — a live episode with television presenter Laura Pakenham about Irish. All patrons free and paid are welcome. Details here, so click through and sign up! @simonandschuster.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/live-s...

Surf-Tipp: Die neue Plattform der @ndmedienmacher.bsky.social bietet Infos und Tools zum Umgang mit hate-speech + Desinformation, zur Verantwortung von Medien und Zivilgesellschaft, Schutzmaßnahmen für Medienschaffende & Empfehlungen für mehr Diversität in Redaktionen. mmm.verdi.de/aktuelle-mel...

Hi Everyone. I did a Letter to the Editor on linguistic discrimination and hate speech. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett... It’s becoming an evergreen, but raising awareness about inequality and racism doesn’t cost a penny.

‘Brain fry’, the workplace side-effect of too much technology My latest Irish Times World of Work column www.irishtimes.com/business/wor...

Hard agree

My biggest problem with most grammatical theories is that about half of all the examples presented as "ungrammatical" when analyzing seem perfectly fine to me. #linguistics

Same.

Linguists launch appeal for regional swear words #BBC

Authoritarians hate science, facts, and truth.

Wrote about how and why everything is so 90s.

99% of news is just some man somewhere in the world making things worse for everybody.

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🦭 Everybody has an accent. 📸 Marti Phillips #accent #linguistics #language

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Don’t stop at Duolingo, set realistic goals, balance skills: how to start learning a new language

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Linguistic Foundations for Second Language Teaching and Learning by Kathy L. Sands, Marnie Jo Petray, Gaillynn D. Clements and Lynn Santelmann. 📚 https://cup.org/3MUDwSN

Our own Prof Claire Nance of @lancslinguistics.bsky.social was on BBC Breakfast this morning talking about changes to local accents, including here in Lancaster 🗣️💬 Watch the segment now from 1hr 50m, or look out for her on BBC North West Tonight this evening!

I can’t believe I’m writing this, but today is one of the greatest moments in baseball history history. It’s the 19th anniversary of the Fenway Pizza Throw featuring Don Orsillo and the late Jerry Remy with a guy who wasted a piece of cheese pizza.

If you want to understand why our economy is rigged for the super rich, look at this graph.

That was fun. Especially nice to see @clrnance.bsky.social on screen while I was waiting to start 😁

NEWS! US doctors defend Trump, "This is how we all dress now" newsthump.com/2026/04/14/u...

Language shapes everything, from how we think to how we connect and innovate. Linguists are essential to understanding communication, and to creating ethical, responsible AI. We need more linguists. #TalkAboutSocialSciences #TalkAboutHumanities

Can someone please tell Irish educators about this? Putting everything on laptops does not help pupils’ learning!

BREAKING: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian elections after 16 years in power - with opposition Tisza party on course for landslide victory.

Oh boy, do I love economists. The fuck is a girly or manly job?

Gotta say, it’s pretty satisfying to see AI plagiarism called out on #TheApprentice. Let’s all try to be a bit more like Alan Sugar (except for the Spurs stuff, obviously).

Three weeks to go - send us your abstract if you work on language and trauma! Siena/Italy in March 2027

I am really lucky, and I get to recruit for a PhD position in the UCD School of Philosophy! Deadline: April 15th The School of Philosophy is an incredible place to work, full of incredible expertise and amazing kindness. Please share/forward! :) More details below!

Noting a distinct but unsurprising difference in how the Gardaí react to dickheads in tractors and SUVs blockading Dublin city center to a few dozen protesters in an industrial estate beside an airport.

The world is gone mad….

I do feel like a semicolon might’ve been helpful

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Applications of Corpus Linguistics by Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry and Robbie Love With case studies from diverse contexts, this book shows and critically reflects on applications of corpus linguistics research and methods. 📚 https://cup.org/4r18Vlb

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

'The music speaks for itself': How Bad Bunny and Kneecap are reclaiming native languages

There's no such thing as "lip filler accent" and all these think pieces are just moral panic about what young white women are doing, and fundamental mischaracterizations of how language works. 2 hours of Tiktok a day doesn't override decades of language socialization. defector.com/they-dont-ha...

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My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

It's a little depressing how many people apparently came to believe that Duolingo would be sufficient for learning a language. The consequence, of course, is lots of this. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

#Gambia to integrate seven languages into early school curricula apanews.net/gambia-to-in... via apanews.net #language #diversity #langsky

I'm hiring! 2 x postdocs in Cognitive Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, to work on the cultural history of Australia and Papua. More details in link below, and please do repost or share elsewhere! www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/post...

LOUDER

This week's post breaks down a delightful study in @science.org comparing human and animal sound preferences by @loganjames.bsky.social Sarah Woolley, Jon Sakata, @courtneybhilton.bsky.social, Michael Ryan, and @mehr.nz It uses data from a citizen science experiment you can still participate in:

Once a year I ask my students to imagine a red star. It’s cognitive psychology and we are about to talk about whether “imagery” is the same or different from “perception”, but first, I like to check in on what our class experience when we imagine something. Friends, the results NEVER disappoint!