#Accents (ou bien #glottophobie) in the news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It’s safe to say I won’t be batting people away with a stick in a deluge of requests but just in case 🤣

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

Have a languages project in mind? Apply for a UCFL Small Grant! 📢 Deadline 17 July 2026 university-council-for-languages.org/our-research...

One more week to apply for this 3-year postdoc position on the syntax of interactive linguistics: deadline 10 July. Come work with me! careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Postdoct...

reminder that despite valiant efforts and alternative proposals, the University of Essex now only offers Spanish & French to new students — cutting German, Portuguese and Italian + our all non-credit language classes many of our students are local & many are the first in their families to go to uni

This smells of Turton and Schleef! #linguistics

BBC #QuestionTime was in #Exeter this week and inevitably the cuts to the deep university/ #Humanities came up. Completely uninspiring responses. Our elected clearly still do not have a plan, or even an idea for the sector (at least that they are willing to articulate).

We are having our Peppa Pig moment.

What a job Johan has done too!

This was a fun year-end CLSS event! More in the next! #linguistics #London

Presumably we're going to call the Northern No 10 Winterfell?

Support colleagues in Exeter by signing petition c.org/yKcx6Zr29H! Reduction in staff is disproportionately focused on roles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Affected subjects include English, History, Philosophy, Sociology of Health, and Modern Languages. c.org/TZyHCcn47V

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

I made a tutorial on how to plot grambank data with R for my grad students, thought I'd share while I'm at it. If I get around to doing part 2 (adding the second data set, highlighting one language), I'll keep you posted.

The targeted attack on the #Humanities continues, this time at #Exeter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A BUMPER issue of the Journal of #Sociolinguistics is out just in time for your summer reading list! We have articles on #AAVE & 'TikTok' language; #uptalk; #genderinclusive language; & #raciolinguistics, along with a brilliant dialogue on #ethics, a response to our book symposium, & 2 interviews!

Our project member @saschastollhans.bsky.social (@lcsleeds.bsky.social) has penned an informative piece on the use of gender-neutral pronouns in language exams and the way in which language teaching responds to linguistic change: theconversation.com/gender-neutr... @uk.theconversation.com

Our new book on sign language linguistics (adapted from the 2007 Auslan linguistics book) isn't out until next month, but over 500 clips of BSL and ASL sign examples from the book can be downloaded now! Take a look at the resources section on the book's webpage. www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

Before and after.

18month fixed .9 post in #Chinese Studies (broadly construed): vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/vacancies/20...

Mid-Career in academia can be a difficult time to pursue research due to other pressures. I'm pleased to say we've opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social Mid-Career Fellowships with funding for 6-12 months to complete a major piece of research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

A reminder that the deadline for this 4-year Research Associate in Language Variation and Change in English at Oxford is approaching on Friday 26 June. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Nominations for the LSA Kenneth L. Hale Award are now open! Presented since 2002, the award honors outstanding scholarship in the documentation of endangered or no longer spoken languages. Deadline: June 30, 2026 (11:59 PM PT) www.lsadc.org/kenneth_l_ha... #Linguistics #EndangeredLanguages

France opposes ‘anglicisation’ of EU trade talks ft.trib.al/qJ6aJyG

Any idea where #UKLVC16 is to be hosted lingsky ? #linguistics @drswissmiss.bsky.social ?

J'ai répondu aux questions de Romain Ferrier @lefigaro.fr il a aussi interrogé un décliniste, qui parle en fait plutôt de la France que de la langue française... C'est la première fois que @lefigaro.fr publie un article en orthographe de 1990 en tout cas! www.lefigaro.fr/langue-franc...

This absurdity was one of the many reasons why I became so interested in #linguistics to begin with.

Tonight’s #BBC #QuestionTime special on #Makerfield by-election will be a master class the #sociolinguistics of place. Should be fun.

New update! In the past, Diachronica has strongly encouraged presubmission inquiries. In the last 6 months, we've received a lot more of them, to the extent that they are getting lost in my email (and getting confusing when people submit an inquiry but also submit the paper under a different title!)

❗ Don't miss this job opportunity! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on Building Policy-Research Bridges in Languages. More information here: university-council-for-languages.org/2026/06/job-...

Just out in the Journal of #Sociolinguistics - Jamie Duncan's interview with Roger W. Shuy. Collated from a year of correspondance, the interview is a fascinating reflection on the early years of the development & emergence of Sociolinguistics in the US!👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“Things are not going well in the UK basically for any type of job advertised to linguists”. It wouldn’t surprise me if this were true of most other disciplines at this point. HE feels like it is in free fall.

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

What’s the future of the humanities at a time of pressure in higher education and wider digital change? I’ll be on R4 at 4pm discussing this as part of their Rethink series. It was recorded several weeks ago so I now have no recollection of what I specifically said! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Fantastic lecture by Stephen May of @aucklanduni.bsky.social on multilingualism and language rights at @glasgow.ac.uk today. Included reference to desire of immigrants to take Maōri classes in context of increased political hostility to the language in New Zealand/Aotearoa.

How much are UK MPs earning from X? Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe has received more than £70k, including more than £10k in a single month Luke Charters has become the first Labour MP to register income from the platform (which he is donating to local causes)

Conference season is upon us and mercifully it is cooler in Dublin than London for GRAMS 2026 #linguistics- I’ll be talking about a new SSHRC funded project on subject clitics in #Francoprovençal w/ Luisa Seguin, Naomi Nagy and Maria Polinsky

A concerned reader replies @economist.com #linguistics #Gaelic #Scots :

I can think of no better act of resistance to #language oppression. Is it any wonder that speakers continue to see Creoles as ‘broken French, English etc’ when their very own elected representatives continue to describe it as such.

Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

Stunned by the absence of debate among dialectologists around ‘smack barm’. You lot are letting the side down #linguistics #labour #makerfield

H4h, n00bs royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article... @elliot-murphy.bsky.social

Child language development expert here. No. The answer is absolutely not. So-called baby talk is culturally specific. Developing language is not. #linguistics

You couldn’t make it up

We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

“We are concerned about the growing risk of geographic and subjectbased “cold-spots”, affecting areas and disciplines such as music and modern languages.” #Nottingham is a regional behemoth for the study of #languages - this is so stupid and short sighted publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...