Why humanities are essential and not simply a ‘nice-to-have’: podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/a...

Now deep into this and enjoying it very much. It resonates with so many questions of today. Also looking forward to Ypi’s reading at Kaufleuten (Zurich) tomorrow evening.

When a bread is ambiguous between being open crumb or not :-( tastes alright, though #breadsky #sourdoug

We warmly invite you to another term of exciting seminars - our programme this term explores manuscripts, identity, & heritage from Central Europe to the States, Scotland to the South East 📖 bit.ly/londonmedieval

Got the book this week, started reading and am already in awe of the courage it took the author to embark on the journey that made it possible.

I lost not just a colleague but a friend this week. Thinking back to the nice dinner we shared w Martin and his wife in July when he was giving us a glimpse of what his farewell lecture in November was going to be about. He’ll be sorely missed.

So cool!

Online lecture, 26 September: Prof. Stefan Dollinger: The #Dictionary of #Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Third Edition (2025): non-dominant varieties and the national-identification angle in the 2020s Details & free registration: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc #lexicography

In case anyone’s looking for arguments in favour of immigration: theconversation.com/us-and-europ...

Very much looking forward to reading this!!!

geschichtedergegenwart.ch/der-blick-na... Diesen Sommer aus dem Augenwinkel gesehen: Verheerende Waldbrände in Spanien.

Ten days to go! sunypress.edu/Books/Z/Zen-...

At the Guggenheim in Bilbao today. Nice twist.

Pan-Asianism Redux, or Why We Think Japan Is Special daily.jstor.org/pan-asianism... Interesting observation - also a backdrop for all the matcha-selling places and Japanese fashion joints I walked past in Paris yesterday.

Today’s yoghurt & dried fruit rolls (spelt & rye sourdough with a smidgeon of yeast). #sourdough #breadskye

When a speaker should be put on a pedestal, quite literally! Enjoying Pam Peters’ plenary at #IAWE26

Bertus van Rooy talking about how constructions get accepted in World Englishes @ #IAWE26

Don’t forget to send in your application before the summer hols! Deadline August 18 tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_... Open rank professorship in Tampere, English linguistics. We will be working side by side

This recipe calls for 50% roasted and ground stale bread: waste-not-want-not can be v tasty! (Keeps fresh v well and taste changes w types of stale 🍞 in the mix). #breadsky

*Linguistics* of course!!!

Full professorship in English Lunguistics at my Alma Mater: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... Please repost.

Full professorship in English Lunguistics at my Alma Mater: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... Please repost.

Excited to see first-ever linguistic analysis using 19th-century texts from Western Australia hit the public domain. Featuring that little rock-star of Australian fauna, the quokka ❤️ Open access! #linguistics #lingcom

Very cool!!!

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s episode of the history of bad ideas, David talks to political philosopher @profafinlayson.bsky.social about behaviourism. How did we get from Pavlov’s Dog to a prescription for a better society? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Being very Swiss today. #breadsky

There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575

Missed this in may, but was on Swuss news today act.standupforscience.net/petitions/op...

Just a reminder going forward... (cartoon from 2003)

Love this pod. Great honour to guest on it. Curiously we were talking about the dangerous allure of going to war in the expectation that it will be quick and decisive.

podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/p... Very timely episode…

Das macht Hoffnung!!!

Centrists 🤔

PhD Studentship at Legacies of British Slavery Centre: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

A reminder at Vienna’s Esperanto museum yesterday that it was once a movement supporting world peace and opposing facism. Time to support it now?!

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/voices-of-re... Hoping that these voices will grow louder and louder and eventually drown out the lies of the Trump administration on the US’s way back to a solidly democratic country!!!

Ebuehi’s cinnamon focaccia (The Guardian), less sugar, less yeast, cold overnight proofing, no glazing.

An absolutely chilling story about a cost of climate disasters we don't think/talk about enough, from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Remarkable how two provinces can be burning in May due to heat and drought, and not a mention of the climate crisis.

Yellow wheat, polenta and sourdough: keeps fresh really well.

when trump and co say they're seizing control of research because of the reproducibility crisis, it's pretty similar to when they say they're enacting trans bathroom bans and sports bans because of violence and discrimination against women.

Well payed, Harvard, well played. Harvard offers FREE American Government course.

Geschichtsklitterung made in the USA: geschichtedergegenwart.ch/eine-vergang...

Immer gut, wenn auch Reaktionen auf diese Entwicklungen aufgezeigt werden. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/trump-und-de...

Relaunch of the English Short-Title Catalogue The Bibliographical Society is pleased to welcome the announcement of the relaunch of the English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), now accessible on the servers of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL). bibsoc.org.uk/relaunch-of-...

Like Bee Wilson, I have kitchen objects that remind me of loved ones. Like her friend’s dinner set, one of my favourite is a set of dishes (tea and coffee) - a pattern my dad chose. The vase he proposed with is still at my mother’s. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...

“Humor is the ovum of dissent …” David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas.

CfP until May, 31st www.icome2026.uzh.ch/en.html