Happy to have published two out of this year's top ten most read posts on Language on the Move. Listening to all the podcast episodes has also been a highlight of my year. Check them out!

Been seeing a lot of blacked out text recently? Well here's a post that looks similar but shares something altogether different. A poem about language, identity and migration from the @languageonthemove.bsky.social

Really enjoyed contributing a blog + podcast to Language on the Move in 2025 and delighted that the podcast made the top 10 downloads. Well worth following and subscribing to; I regularly use it in my teaching! Thanks to Ingrid Piller and the team for sustaining such a wonderful platform!

End-of-year greetings and good wishes from the Language-on-the-Move Team, along with our 2025 annual report 🤗 Check out most-read posts, most-downloaded podcasts, and other highlights 🤩 www.languageonthemove.com/language-on-...

The shorteste daye The longest nighte Welcome, sun Welcome, lighte

Not a part of the article I just linked, but: of the most important things I’ve learned is how the hippie to technofascist pipeline occurred in part bc men like Jobs understood that computers, which were once seen as “the system,” needed to be marketed as tools of free thinking individualism.

On the World Arabic language day, read my article: www.languageonthemove.com/is-arabic-un... @languageonthemove.bsky.social

I did miss out on this (was supposed to present) and am experiencing FOMO! Looking forward to following the work of all the wonderful presenters 🤗

If you missed out on the Language-on-the-Move Symposium about "New Technologies in Intercultural Communication" at Macquarie University last week, Jemima Rillera Kempster has a wrap for you: tech must always be about centering people! www.languageonthemove.com/centering-pe...

Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

This is the 2026 fortune I drew at today's end-of-year party in the Macquarie #Linguistics Department - watch out for the Piller spot 😅

Hey book community friends, new reading challenge just dropped! ☺️ The recs span from academic (mine is "Doing Digital Migration Studies", - amazing but not quite a bedside table read 😁) all the way to fantasy novels (@brynnquick.bsky.social rec'd The Winternight Trilogy 😍😍). Something for everyone!

@languageonthemove.bsky.social Reading Challenge 2026 is out! Some great titles to peruse! ⬇️

Always find some great recommendations on the LOTM challenges! Broaden your reading horizons in 2026 👇🏽

The Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge 2026 just dropped! Check it out and start reading! www.languageonthemove.com/language-on-...

Policies increasingly acknowledge multilingual realities but neglect to imagine the language work that is involved and how to build it into workflows in healthcare and elsewhere, as this new article by @brynnquick.bsky.social etal shows Behind paywall until Jan & OA afterwards

Did you attend the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Conference @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social in Garramilla/Darwin a few weeks ago? Relive the fun and compare notes with Sophie Munte in our new Language-on-the-Move post www.languageonthemove.com/alaa-2025-at...

Also, because I've had the.. pleasure... of going through Australian borders a couple of times recently, let's re-up this one from a great project with Ingrid Piller (@languageonthemove.bsky.social) and @htorsh.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/laur... On the Border Security tv show 📸from recent travels

If you'd like to own a copy of "Intercultural Communication", make use of this weekend's St. Andrew's Day sale of @edinburghup.bsky.social - 50% off this and all their other titles 😃 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-intercu...

Apply to be a research assistant in Language Diversity! Only in Hamburg! @nicolemarinaro.bsky.social @martinderince.bsky.social @marakyrou.bsky.social @languageonthemove.bsky.social www.stellenwerk.de/hamburg/shkw...

This is an absolutely fantastic post about a fascinating education #LinguisticLandscape! Kudos to everyone involved in this post and project!

New on Language-on-the-Move: fascinating longitudinal linguistic landscape study by @sarapatra.bsky.social and team, chronicling the shifts from Texan English to Qatari Arabic in a Middle Eastern university www.languageonthemove.com/from-howdy-t...

DECRA success rate is the lowest in 14 years, since 2012 (1st year the scheme ran). What a pathetic system we have for supporting new ideas, new people… DE26: 13.1% 25: 17.9 24: 19.6 23: 15.0 22: 19.7 21: 17.1 20: 16.0 19: 17.2 18: 16.3 17: 16.7 16: 16.4 15: 14.3 14: 13.6 13: 15.6 12: 12.8

It was such a great experience to chat with Cindy Valdez! Listen to the full podcast 👇

Germany has a "Shared Reading Day" 😍 - Vorlesetag! Great opportunity to join the fun and read to a child in your life! This year's Vorlesetag is even dedicate to multilingual reading! www.languageonthemove.com/shared_readi...

REMINDER : ALL modern infrastructure evolution 2003-2025 #Cloudflare

As an English speaking country (with nice beaches to boot) for the cost of a small tax on fossil fuel exports or high incomes Australia could invest in science, recruit researchers fleeing the US and become the knowledge powerhouse of the 21st Century. Instead we're doing this.

“Multilingual learners do not need us to fix their English…but they need us to design learning where their full linguistic repertoires are seen as an asset.” Insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast [email protected] speaks with Cindy Valdez! www.languageonthemove.com/your-languag...

Great first day of the ALAA (Australian Association of Applied Linuguistics) conference here in at CDU in Darwin, Northern Terrtitory. The conference theme is: Language and the interface of mono-/multi-/translingual mindsets. The Macquarie Linguistics crew is ready! @languageonthemove.bsky.social

Your/our languages are your/our superpowers! The new podcast from the @languageonthemove.bsky.social

In this podcast Cindy Alvarez talks about how to center and celebrate each person’s language (and identity) in learning contexts, but applicable in so many other contexts. As she says “You are your language” and “you all have to celebrate what you bring in”

In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, @agib.bsky.social chats with Cindy Valdez about how to best support the education of multilingual children www.languageonthemove.com/your-languag...

I cannot thank @tazinabdullah.bsky.social and the whole @languageonthemove.bsky.social Team enough. You have literally put our language and the plight of its speakers on the world linguistics map. And thank you, @lauraskh.bsky.social, for your deeply humbling words. 🙏

🎧 Author Interview: Ingrid Piller joins @languageonthemove.bsky.social  to discuss the third edition of our popular textbook, Intercultural Communication!  Delve into the podcast: 

Tech wythout heart ys harmful. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast. Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:

I've started a Starter Pack for the Language on the Move research community 🥳 For members of the research group, contributors to the blog/podcast. Please shout out if you're part of the LOTM community and I'll add you/tag suggestions (or lmk if you're on there but would prefer not to be)

It's not every day we get to welcome several new amazing members to our research community in one go. Check out the new dream team joining Prof Piller in Hamburg 🤩

Continuing to be absolutely thrilled about my postdoc, in the project "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan"!! 😍😍 Check out the Language on the Move website + podcast and follow my new colleagues if you're interested in multilingualism & applied sociolinguistics!

Exciting news: 6 new research fellows have joined Ingrid Piller's @humboldt-foundation.de Professor team @uni-hamburg.de Meet them at www.languageonthemove.com/introducing-... Welcome @schenior.bsky.social @marakyrou.bsky.social @juaninlanguage.bsky.social @nicolemarinaro.bsky.social 🤗

So sweet to discover that "Linguistic diversity and social justice" is part of someone's holiday memories 🤩

@schenior.bsky.social has just begun a post-doc with Ingrid Piller (@languageonthemove.bsky.social) at Hamburg, with a bunch of other cool people. Follow her for research, stay for the book reviews 😀 Project overview here www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...

New on Language-on-the-Move: the native speaker is dead and everything but, even so, there is such a thing as native listening and explicit instruction matters in language learning, as Andrea Pešková explains www.languageonthemove.com/native-liste...

Nobody in authority ever suggested that "Essay mills are just an inevitable part of modern life, you should change your teaching-methods to circumvent them". They fucking MADE THEM ILLEGAL.

New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: Alex Grey speaks with Zoe Avery (AIATSIS) about the 4th National Indigenous Languages Survey www.languageonthemove.com/australias-n...

3 tips for Life in a New Language: 1. It’s not just about language 2. Find allies and embrace the growing pains 3. You are playing a long-term game: fluency and belonging may not come as quickly as you’d hoped but they are achievable podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Textbook example of the perennial power move to delegitimize the content of what someone is saying by focusing on the way they say it. Also, English native speakerism is making a comeback in international communication ... www.youtube.com/shorts/RqIh7...

Student: Teacher, why do we learn? Socrates: For life! Freire: For liberation! Dewey: For democracy! Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.