The VC after telling 2600+ members of staff that they're at risk of redundancy: I think this is a really exciting time with huge opportunities for the academic sector, actually. There's nothing exciting about cutting this many jobs. What a vile, sociopathic thing to say

On my way to Brussels for the Sociolinguistics Circle, where I'll present data from my PhD outside of my department for the first time tomorrow! 🤩 And then a short visit home. Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues and hearing Dutch spoken around me for a few days

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us. www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

‘If things carry on as they are, there will be very few opportunities for young people to study Music at university, and therefore hardly anybody training as music teachers, and the whole system will then be stuck in a vicious cycle of decline.’ thecritic.co.uk/a-discipline...

Proud to announce that I've reached 'even the guy who doesn't usually work at the front desk knows my order' levels of regular customer who always gets the same thing at my local pasta place

It’s a few days after learning that the University of Nottingham will be suspending student intake for 48 courses – including all of Modern Languages where I’m partly based for my PhD work – and will likely close down these courses entirely, and I’m still just so angry and sad and in disbelief (1/7)

On my way home after three amazing days of #LavLang31. Another fantastic edition with a fomo-inducing programme filled with impossible choices, and a great unofficial social evening programme to get a taste of what Manchester has to offer. It's an incredible privilege to be part of this community 💜

I’m travelling to Manchester for #LavLang31 today, to present a paper that is strikingly relevant right now. In two months, there are national elections in the Netherlands. On Thursday, I present my study on the representation of trans rights in the previous elections. A short teaser:

The call for papers for the Cultural Heritage Management and Conservation Conference at UoN is open until 30 June! This conference is organised by my peers and promises to be a great space for sharing research across disciplines from people at all career stages. Please share widely!

I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!

I have a new paper out in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (and it's open access!): "“And it just becomes queer slang”: Race, linguistic innovation, and appropriation within trans communities in the US South" doi.org/10.1111/jola...

Als ze al hulp krijgen, is er vaak schaamte. Zo maakte ik schoon bij iemand zonder koelkast; rauwe kip lag in een kast waar de fruitvliegjes aan het deurtje waren vastgeplakt. Meteen mijn baas ingelicht over de koelkast en rauwe kip en een sopje gemaakt, om te ontdekken dat de boiler ook stuk was.

Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl: Door haar pijlen te richten op genderdiversiteit, zoekt én vindt extreemrechts aansluiting bij conservatieve, religieuze en zelfs ‘gematigde’ krachten. Verzet tégen extreemrechts betekent ook opstaan vóór de rechten van trans personen. www.groene.nl/artikel/tran...

Very exciting to see that my book is now up on the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social website! 'Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Analysing Marginalised Identities through an Intersectional Lens' will be out in November 🥳 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

🚨 New Article! 🚨 How do cisgender listeners perceive trans voices? A fascinating study by Emmett Jessee & J Calder explores how gender identity affects how certain sounds are categorised by listening subjects. 🎙️🔍 📖 Read the full article here:

So I did a thread for #TransDayOfVisibility a few years ago on Twitter but with how things are going for trans people currently I think it’s time to share it again here, updated with my experiences since. Bear with me for a long thread (I have a lot of thoughts OK) 1/20

It's Trans Day of Visibility. I wrote this a few years ago. It feels like it's gotten more true every year since. transsafety.network/posts/the-pr...

reminder that tomorrow (march 31st) is trans day of snack. if you are cis, your job is to feed a nearby trans person. if you are trans, you are invited to post your cash sharing application links and handles in order to facilitate this #tdov

If you're in the UK and have ever used any kind of gender-affirming voice training (coaching, youtube, whatever), my student would love to hear from you. It's anonymous! universityofkent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #linguistics

Never more energized and powerful than when I try to go to bed at a reasonable hour

I agree with the observation that English is becoming a "smaller" language with Brexit and American isolationism. Which means Europe and the world need to embrace linguistic multilateralism more than ever: language skills and metalinguistic awareness are a vital public investment for the future. 1/4

Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit. Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

🪲🦗 Mehlkäfer, Hausgrille, Wanderheuschrecke: Manche Insekten dürfen laut EU-Recht zu Nahrungsmitteln verarbeitet werden. Rechte Akteure spinnen daraus eine Verschwörungserzählung. 🐜🐞 Mein Vortrag dazu gibt es jetzt auch im Podcast bei Deutschlandfunk Nova: www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/extr...

“A secret of cisgender is that it is not only about gender. Gender is always a racial arrangement.” -Marquis Bey, Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender

Okay, buckle up bsky, it's time for the Tale of the Bunny Paper. Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started: bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

CFP 3rd conference on teaching gender-inclusive language (free & virtual) Presentation proposals due 10 January 2025. More info: dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-l... Proposal submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research

Elsevier products: ScienceDirect, Scopus, Mendeley, SciVal, SSRN, Pure, Interfolio. . .and that's not all. "They know what you are working on, they know what you are submitting, they know the results of your peer reviews. They control every part of the process and register every action you take."

Always a new linguistic treasure to unearth: I didn't know this UNESCO map from 2018! Of course there is much to say about how accurate it is, with dialects vs languages, extinct vs endangered, but regardless, it shows a type of linguistic diversity in Europe that is rarely highlighted. #LingSky

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...

The UN has now formally found Israel's genocide "consistent with genocide", including the use of weaponized starvation. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Gender-affirming care for trans kids is good health care www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... “Rapid onset gender dysphoria” is not a thing www.scientificamerican.com/article/evid... And the first trans clinic was destroyed by Nazis www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... (5/n)

The LavLang Summer Institute 2025 is accepting applications! I will be teaching a course in Crip Linguistics🦻 💻 Program dates: June 9 - June 19, 2025 (online!) Pass along to interested students & colleagues! 🗓️ Priority deadline to apply: December 15, 2024 forms.office.com/r/sFnM0TkM4q

Het lijkt logisch dat universiteiten die moeten bezuinigen kleine opleidingen zoals Keltisch en Koreaans schrappen, zegt Peter Schrijver, maar in werkelijkheid is de logica achter zulke besluiten ver te zoeken. https://buff.ly/40z2YBB

Please read this if you teach anything at all. Probably also if you don't teach actually just read it and take Kirby's advice to heart and also make everyone else read it

Veel jongeren die ik spreek over euthanasie willen leven, maar weten niet hoe. Goede hulp is er niet. Een uitzichtloze wachtlijst wel. Als ik zie dat dit kabinet geen énkele prioriteit geeft aan betere GGZ, vraag ik me af of NSC het goede gesprek start. nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...

If you are over 18 and use TikTok, please take my survey on language use on TikTok! Link here: pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #linguistics #tiktok #anthropology

My ID card expired yesterday. The ID card I got after changing my name and gender marker 10 years ago, one year after starting testosterone and right as the Dutch law about trans people's rights for these legal changes was amended. It's unbelievable that I've legally been Max for 10 whole years

Nothing quite says 'welcome back to the real world' like your shower deciding to no longer do warm water the day after getting back from a conference 💀

Back home from #lavlang30 after three days of fascinating research, meeting new people, and finally seeing so many LLI friends in person. I am happy and whole and inspired and so unbelievably greatful that this community exists 🥰

copying from Hannah Sawall on twitter: I'm looking for people to interview for my MA thesis on pronouns You're over 18, speak English (or German) and are familiar with pronoun sharing, or know people who might want to participate? [email] [email protected] and/or share this call 🐦🐦

I'm very excited about this upcoming installation at the National Justice Museum, based on my current project Words We Live By: A Guide to LGBTQ+ Language (nott.ac/lgbtqwords). I'll be launching the guide at Notts Pride - come along to find out more! nationaljusticemuseum.org.uk/museum/event...

Toen Omtzigt nog zelfstandig kamerlid was, stemde hij het vaakst hetzelfde als de SGP. En nu hij een fikse partij leidt, is het anti-LHBTQI+-geluid alleen maar sterker. Ik maak me zorgen.

Here it is. 18 academics from across a wide array of disciplines weigh in: is a hot dog a sandwich? Plus @davidswanson.bsky.social made the most delightful illustration I've ever seen. buttondown.email/theswordandt...

Your regular reminder that we already have so much research documenting the very real challenges that trans and non-binary patients face to get even the barest of gender-affirming care