🎧 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.

Interested in literacy in multilingual contexts? Consider joining this new international research network under the auspices of the World Education Research Association www.languageonthemove.com/literacy-in-...

I'll be speaking at this in December! Come along if you can!

Sydney-based teachers needed for short survey about language brokering in schools - when children serve as interpreters for their parents www.languageonthemove.com/language-bro...

This symposium looks amazing and if I were anywhere near Sydney on December 8 I would make a priority to attend. It sounds like a wonderful opportunity for anyone interested in all these issues. Really, Wow!

If you are in Sydney on Dec 8, join us for a 1-day research symposium to explore new technologies in intercultural communication: how do migrants and international students use AI to manage life in a new country? how do language learners use social media? www.languageonthemove.com/event-new-te...

I keep saying this but in all of the professional circles I am involved AI (like all awful things imposed on us) is presented as a foregone conclusion and the discussions are limited to *how we can implement it effectively* rather than *whether we should implement it at all*

New on Language-on-the-Move: everyone talks about using AI in education "critically" - that should mean NOT using it, argues Ana Bruzon www.languageonthemove.com/why-critical...

I am so fortunate to have been able to interview Shaun Tan about his beautiful book “The Arrival” for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. www.languageonthemove.com/migration-is...

For true innovacioun, we neede poetrye, philosophye, ethics, and the studye of historye and literature and language. We neede to fynde newe wayes of wearinge our heartes, new dreames of the future. Technologye alone will onlye make bettir tooles for makinge olde injustices happen faster.

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, we explore the tension between two colliding forces - rapidly progressing climate change and global economic extraction as they play out in the Cold Rush in the heating Arctic www.languageonthemove.com/cold-rush/

"Wir alle leben in einer diversen Gesellschaft und müssen Wege finden, miteinander auszukommen. Das ist ein Überlebensimperativ für die Welt geworden. Da kann man sich eine Scheibe von mehrsprachigen Paaren abschneiden." @perspective-daily.bsky.social perspective-daily.de/article/3876...

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

📢 Do you use AI tools in research + academia? Survey for scholars working on language in society - please also consider participating if you do NOT use AI technologies. Complete (15 min) & share by Sept 14 🙏https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/FW27T97 Iker Erdocia, Britta Schneider & Bettina Migge

In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Dr @htorsh.bsky.social speaks with Vaughan Rapatahana about his new book on sexual exploitation in the TESOL industry www.languageonthemove.com/sexual-preda...

"Few books leave a lasting impact, but Life in a New Language will leave a significant one long after you engage with it." Davida Asante about our 20-year research with 130 migrants to Australia, Australasian Review of African Studies afsaap.org.au/wp-content/u... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Participants needed for research on innovative grammar in Australian English. It will involve an anonymous online questionnaire that will take approximately 5-15 minutes to complete.

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

In the latest edition of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Loy Lising chats with Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her popular textbook "Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction" @edinburghup.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/intercultura...

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

This was wonderful listening! Highly recommend.

"AI didn't kill translation, it didn't kill my job, it killed everyone's capacity to care about anything but the bottom line." Great docu by @bcmerchant.bsky.social about machine translation; it's still bad no matter how much lipstick they put on that pig www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

It might not look like it, but translation is often a safety-critical industry. Problem is, you can't tell where the danger is unless you're an expert, and AI is stripping expertise out at a rate of knots.

Langdon Winner (1977) the AI field has never been short of visionaries that saw straight through much of the industry’s destructive model yet here we are witnessing the destruction time and time again

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

What does it feel like to grow up with a "mixed" heritage in a culture that continues to favor single-identity narratives? Find out from Dr Zozan Balci (@routledgebooks.bsky.social) in the latest Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/erased-voice...

I wrote a guide on how to manage your supervisor (and yourself!) during your PhD 😀

If you find doing a PhD is daunting, the new Language-on-the-Move guide to managing your supervisor is here to help! @brynnquick.bsky.social provides a look behind the scenes of our research team www.languageonthemove.com/how-to-manag...

OH I was just discussing this with a student and a work colleague the other day and said I would look into the research (which I hadn't yet done). The timing could not be more perfect.

Are there social impacts of relying on AI for translations? Are AI translations neutral and inclusive? I discuss these and more in this very insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...

Just out on the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: instead of asking how to improve machine translation, we need to ask who are these improvements for ... @tazinabdullah.bsky.social in conversation with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...

A final post in our series showcasing the #LLIRN on @languageonthemove.bsky.social

Want to check out exciting new Law-and-Language work? The latest Language-on-the-Move post spotlights some new members of the e Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Research Network (LLIRN) www.languageonthemove.com/whos-new-in-...