1/ Hopping on the train to @UniversitätMünster any minute now, with my paper finished just in time. The annual convention of American Studies beckons with this year's theme: "𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩." As always, my angle is TEFL and belonging.

1/ 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝? That question was at the heart of Dr. Andreas Wirag's (Universität Göttingen) guest lecture here in Tübingen last week, "Demokratiebildung im Englischunterricht."

1/ Three things from the Conference on 'Ecopedagogy in the Foreign Language Classroom' at Ca' Foscari University of Venice are still working on me, a few weeks after the fact.

Tokens of friendship from across the Atlantic — 'y'all' included. A week worth every bit of the scheduling. At a moment when Europe and, in fact, the entire world feel tense, transatlantic friendship and exchange matter even more.

1/ That athletes or hackathon coders are celebrated for their endurance is taken for granted. Writers, meanwhile, are quiet achievers. Without fanfare or live coverage. And without the spandex or the energy drinks.

1/4 Friday night. While many ease into the weekend, a couple hundred writers from across the planet are typing the night away — geeking out in the London Writers' Salon's 24-hour writing sprint. Absurd, and truly a nerd's delight. (community.londonwriterssalon.com/c/sprint/wel...)

Today, EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social convenes in Utrecht (April 14-17) for its 11th biennial conference: "Join the Orca Uprising! – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice." -- easlce2026.sites.uu.nl