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Not sure I've ever published something so blatantly personal -- and it's a book review, of all things! I even cited my mom's book! Here's to normalizing the practice of positionality statements. Thanks to the editors and authors for the opportunity. #inclusion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#NWAV54 !! Bravo @julieauger.bsky.social

And for context: www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

Also hearing that today is the day Kent is sending out the latest wave of redundancy letters - around 150, mostly to non-academic staff.

In her #NWAV53 plenary, King discusses an example of a juror being dismissed from the pool due to forestressing in the word police (so PO-lice), because the prosecutor claimed that the pronunciation showed animus towards law enforcement. And this is exactly why I study prosody!

Truly awful news. Ruthless, short-sighted and ill-informed. I remember working at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social about a decade ago and the University taking great pride in being one of the biggest languages departments in the country… Where’s that pride gone?! www.bbc.com/news/article...?

solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.

This is horrifying! I have a degree in German and Russian from Nottingham. And I went there because it was in many respects a leading light in modern languages. This is incredibly short-sighted and idiotic.

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

💡 Where generative syntax meets variationist sociolinguistics. 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111426280/html #Linguistics #Syntax #Sociolinguistics #EnglishLinguistics @laurelmack.bsky.social @inthelemonlight.bsky.social @linguistlaura.bsky.social

#linguistics www.itv.com/watch/news/m...

Coming to NWAV? Just NWAV curious? Check out all the talks and abstracts on our Oxford Abstracts program! You can make a free account on OxAbs to make a personal program with specific saved sessions. Registration prices go up Monday! See you soon! virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75494/...

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

NEW FROM 54(4) "Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization" by @geraldroche.bsky.social & Jessica Kruk #Deglobalization #Sovereignty #Neoliberalism #Coloniality #Securitization doi.org/10.1017/S004...

Have you checked out our new Interview series yet? 🌟 Don't miss Mie Hiramoto talking to Momoko Nakamura about her influential career in Japanese sociolinguistics—exploring language, gender, and sexuality, and the importance of bridging academic research with public life. 🔗

Interesting #BBC #Radio4 bit this morning on the importance of reading to infants. One recommendation was to ‘commit to the accent’ (drawing on an ex in Cockatoos). Those working on accent bias and socialisation in early childhood - I was thinking of your work and about your reactions to this 😂

📣 Nos étudiantes et diplômées dans les médias ! Gabrielle Girard et Alexandra Dupuy viennent de publier un article dans La Conversation sur le décret récent du gouv. visant à interdire l’utilisation de certaines formes de rédaction inclusive. 📰 : tr.ee/5u-JzqU30H #linguistique #français #langsky 🗣️💬

Awks @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Postdoc in #sociolinguistics jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Alliance Française Leeds are offering free online French lessons as part of Leeds City of Languages. If you would like to find out more about them and how to sign up check our website: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/onlin... #leedscityoflanguages #french #languages

In Belfast, a bilingual street sign was recently attacked with an angle grinder — the Irish-language portion deliberately cut away. It’s just one of more than 300 incidents of vandalism against bilingual signage in Northern Ireland over the past five years. 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... TLDR 👇

Please join me on 12th November at my @universityofleeds.bsky.social professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’. More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/even...

Cambridge University Press and the @lingsocam.bsky.social are proud to announce the new Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC), launching in 2027. JBLAC fosters a transdisciplinary conversation through a global, diasporic lens. 📢 Learn more: cup.org/3KA2i9a #linguistics #LangSky

We aren't quite on the summer roadshow yet, but you will find us next at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) conference with @mishee54.bsky.social representing #edusky #langsky #linguistics

For the first time in history, Cymraeg (the Welsh language) will echo through Shakespeare's Globe — in a groundbreaking bilingual production of Romeo a Juliet by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yhw22wua TLDR 👇 #langsky #linguistics #Cymraeg #Welsh #Welshlanguage #Shakespeare

We're hiring! UT Linguistics invites applications for a position in computational linguistics to begin next academic year 2026-27 (rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure). apply.interfolio.com/175156

Spoiler alert: it’s not me (chances were good though)!

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HI. It's me. WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23. Keynote Speakers • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business) • Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 4 weeks to go... 🧑‍🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters 🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm 🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

We're hosting this event at @unikent.bsky.social at the end of the month! So excited to hear all the goss about transcribing the House of Lords bickering! It's free and there is wine, so I'm in #linguistics #language

Conservatives: the Party that deplores aspiration. #edusky

*gasp*

Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now! Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands. Application deadline: 19 October 2025 For more information, see www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

My article exploring the connections between language revitalization backlash and genocide is now out. Complimentary copies are available using the link below, or feel free to message me for a copy if the link doesn't work for you. utppublishing.com/stoken/autho...

We are so sorry to announce the death of our long time colleague and friend, Nigel Armstrong. He taught and researched here in French for twenty years and will be deeply missed by colleagues and students alike.

On language laws in the Hermit Kingdom - via @economist.com #linguistics

From A Coveney: "It is with a heavy heart that I'm writing to let you know of the recent death of Nigel Robert Armstrong, at the age of 70, just 2 years after his retirement as Senior Lecturer at @lcsleeds.bsky.social ”. A towering figure in #French #linguistics with yrs of service to the field.

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

Jobs: Syntax: Assistant Professor of Syntax and Artificial Intelligence, The Ohio State University

I was not disappointed!

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New Word of Mouth podcast with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and @jessaiston.bsky.social on language and the ‘manosphere’ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #linguistics

Rethinking language education in the school curriculum in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I suspect this was be controversial.