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In this edition of Ideas, philosopher Susana Monsó explores a new study which has uncovered the mysterious burial of elephant calves in Indian tea plantations and what these findings reveal about elephants’ remarkable understanding of death. hubs.ly/Q03tFH6m0 #Animals #Philosophy @susanamonso.com

If you are in neuroscience and interested in applying for a position in Sweden at Karolinska Institutet (either one of the 20 assistant professorships or the "distinguish professor" track - se previous post by me), read more about neuroscience at KI here: ki.se/en/research/... Come join us!

Congrats! So relevant to deepening knowledge about multilingual cognition🙏

Docentes de L2 inglés o español, centros bilingües, aulas multilingües: Este verano, ¡¡vente a la UIMP!! Para el curso Transforma tu enseñanza de lectura y escritura con Reading to Learn: un enfoque crítico y plurilingüe para el aula (español e inglés) BECAS: plazo hasta 25/4 Link a continuación

How to develop students' literacy in bi/multilingual educational contexts? This July, course at UIMP, Santander: Transforma tu enseñanza de lectura y escritura con Reading to Learn: un enfoque crítico y plurilingüe para el aula (español e inglés). Grants cover full board & fees - apply by 25 April

Anti-immigration conspiracy beliefs are associated with endorsement of conventional and violent actions opposing immigration and attitudes towards democracy across 21 countries www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Convocatoria de 4 puestos de Prof. Ayudante Doctor, UCM Facultad de Educación. Buscamos nuev@s colegas especializad@s en enseñanza del inglés para formación inicial de profesorado de infantil, primaria y secundaria. 🔍👩‍🏫📣 www.ucm.es/convocatoria...

Vacancies for lecturers in ELT (young learners) in Madrid, Complutense University. PhD required. Come work with our international team of L2 English teacher educators at the School of Education! Reposts appreciated. www.ucm.es/convocatoria...

El 22 de marzo de 2022, el Senado chileno se mantuvo en silencio durante un minuto en memoria de la investigadora botánica Adriana Hoffmann Jacoby.

Mañana sale el sol.

Interested in working in Madrid as a teacher educator for ESL? Universidad Complutense is hiring PhDs for initial ESL teacher education. Apply here today: www.ucm.es/convocatoria... and in April, 4 more vacancies will be open :-)

Something I dislike and regret about the steady degradation of the Twitter experience (no, not calling it, so sue me) is the decline in #AcademicTwitter interactions. I completely missed @katherinefirth.bsky.social 's book and it's 2023/2024. www.routledge.com/Writing-Well...

Apple & Google can silently remove International Women’s Day From Their calendars. We're in a waking nightmare. No dignity, no respect for others. We are sinking dangerously low into who is more anti-DEI. 🤢🤮🤢

📢🚨Nuevo #SciComm en @es.theconversation.com y recomendación víspera #8M viernes Abre los ojos, los oídos y todo tu potencial percetivo... lo necesitarás para interpretar las campañas del 8M y mucho más #language #cognition @ucc.unizar.es @genero.bsky.social theconversation.com/las-luces-y-...

Atenta, guapa, que te voy a explicar lo que es el feminismo. Pero el feminismo de verdad.

Han quitado todos los árboles de la Plaza Santa Ana. Todos. No ha quedado ninguno, igual que en Sol. El verano en Madrid es cada vez más insufrible.

📣📣 New paper on multilingualism alert! In our latest paper, we investigated the roles of language dominance, recency (instruction/experiment language), and linguistic property in cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1075/lab.... #lingsky #linguistics #langsky

In much of our conversation around AI's impact on education we're mixing up education and schooling. This week I turn again to Jacques Ellul and ask what his conception of "technique" might offer us as a lens through which to understand AI and its influence on us.

Este manifiesto explica por qué el inglés no tiene por qué ser la lengua oficial de EEUU.

📢📌🚨Aprovechando que estos días se habla del "lenguaje corporal" de #Macron y #Trump, aquí os dejo un texto #scicomm para comprender el alcance del carácter #multimodal del #lenguaje @zaragozaling.bsky.social @ucc.unizar.es @archiletras.bsky.social #cognition www.archiletras.com/firma/el-car...

Mirad qué hallazgo: Archivo digital con más de 10000 imágenes preciosísimas Creative Commons q puedes usar sin registro: public.work Si pinchas sobre una aparecen cientos del mismo tema! De interés para el #claustrovirtual

Please share widely. We are hiring a 12-month PostDoc. Funding is for 3 years for our NSF funded project, STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming Science and Engineering via Bikes. Contact me or PI @noemiwaight.bsky.social with questions. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/53875

Happy to share that Liz Schotter and I have just published a beginner-level tutorial introduction to eye-tracking-while-reading studies in Behavior Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Si fuera la Fórmula 1, asfaltaban hasta el tendedero de su casa.

Come and work with me and my team at DIMAS! We're advertising for a research associate to join an international team of interdisciplinary researchers on the DFG/AHRC "Project StoryMachine: Exploring Implications of Recommender Based Spatial Hypertext Systems for Folklore and the Humanities".

Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025: 1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it. www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...

Good news: Routledge has allowed us to share the opening chapter of our new book 'Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction' The chapter is available here (pre-print): www.johanfarkas.com/wp-content/u...

#media #disinformation #misinformation According to the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Risk Report, false information is one of the major threats, with misinformation and disinformation rated as top risks.

Ideología del sentido común.

Media does not tell us about the dark side of AI enough, most ppl are truly unaware of these issues

It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄 🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.

Como casi siempre en la vida, lo interesante de las nuevas palabras no son los qués (qué términos) sino los cómos (cuáles son los mecanismos que tenemos los hablantes para crear palabras). Hoy escribo en @eldiario.es sobre las novedades en el diccionario de la RAE www.eldiario.es/opinion/zona...

La convocatoria de los lectorados está abierta: www.aecid.es/becaslectora...

En Madrid también aumenta la segregación escolar www.eldiario.es/sociedad/cat...

Working on L2 acquisition of tense / aspect / modality? The next TAML2 will be in Madrid! Nov. 27-28, 2025. Call for papers open till 19 Jan eventos.ucm.es/122980/detai... reposts appreciated🙏

In the final episode of the @languageonthemove.bsky.social Life in a New Language series, I chat with @emilyjfarrell.bsky.social about being a citizen in a new language and what that means for a person's sense of identity. Spoiler alert: It's not easy! www.languageonthemove.com/life-in-a-ne...

Stockholm University 🇸🇪 looking for an Associate Professor of General #Linguistics. Typology and neurolinguistics are current themes in their group; dept also works in phonetics, lang acquisition and sign language. Application deadline: January 2025 su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Young adults in Ireland are the least likely in the European Union to know an additional language, latest official figures show. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

📢 4 permanent junior research positions at CNRS, France in #linguistics of which as a priority : - 1 "Oral & Multimodal Corpora, NLP & Under-resourced Languages". - 1 "Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Education" One month left to apply! carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-ext... #academicsky

😅Eloquent!! A very telling example

A manifesto for the essay in the age of AI via Times Higher Campus www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/renai...

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do; Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too. Imagine all the people Livin' life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one. John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80

1) I'd like to draw attention to, what I think, is a really cool finding! Recently I ran a meta-analysis looking at how #bilingualism affects the white matter of the brain. We found that bilingualism is selectively associated with higher fractional anisitropy in ... ars.els-cdn.com/content/imag...

6) Oh, and here's a link to the paper in case you're interested in reading more :) - I'd be delighted to hear your thoughts www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Latin American journals have been at the forefront of open access publishing, setting an example for equitable knowledge sharing. Greater international engagement can help amplify their global impact and foster meaningful collaborations. #OpenAcess #OpenScience

Inspiring work, would be wonderful to see more like this being done across Europe💪

My colleague at @hhu.bsky.social and go-to-phonologist Christian Uffmann just released a special music video to introduce himself. He truly puts the fun back in phonology, the antics in semantics, and makes you scream for more more more morphology 🎶🎵 #linguistics www.instagram.com/reel/DDHUNSB...