In these times, it‘s important to savour good moments. Come and join me in celebrating this book!

On Wednesday, I'm making first forays into machine translation and so-called low-resource languages and the question whether machine translation can be useful for languages spoken in multilingual environments by multilinguals at #HSSH. All welcome onsite or online: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

I have been invited to give a talk on globalising multilingualism research at the University of Graz on March 6 from 17:00 to 18:00 local time (18:00-19:00 in Helsinki). The talk is hybrid, all welcome! More info and the Zoom link are available here: lnkd.in/ePXVZiij

Pyyntö helsinkiläiselle verkostolleni: poikani Max etsii vielä kesätyötä, noin kuukaudeksi tai alle. Hän on erittäin luova lukiolainen, joka pitää musiikista (ja tekee sitä itse), taiteesta, muotoilusta ja muodista. Tässä mitä hän kirjoittaa itsestään:

We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences | Nesrine Malik

Keskustelemme tänään suomalaista yhteiskuntaa jakavasta ja koko Euroopassa ajankohtaisesta aiheesta: siitä, miten käsitellä lisääntyvän maahanmuuton tarvetta ja siihen liittyvää kysymystä maahanmuuttajien kielitaidosta. Keskustelussa käytetään osallistavaa kaksikielisyyttä englanniksi ja suomeksi.

Today, we are debating an issue that is dividing Finnish society and is topical across Europe: how to deal with the need for increased immigration and the concomitant issue of language skills of immigrants. The debate will use inclusive bilingualism in English and Finnish.

"It is far easier to quantify a researcher’s output than it is the actual outcome of their work." Dan K. Pearson discusses the gamification of #academic metrics and alternative ways for assessing and valuing researchers. Check out the post on the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇 #ScholComm

Every time you share a "The Conversation" post I want to remind you that they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and pay writers zero dollars, including adjuncts and grad students. We cannot rely on exploited labor to achieve a better public humanities. www.patreon.com/posts/better...

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

If you work in a language programme at a European university, take part in this very important survey! And please also share in your networks. elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Threats to academic systems are not uniquely Dutch. Across the globe, we see regimes dismantling those equipped to critique them, disrupting the cosmopolitan academic space that resists nationalist and xenophobe policymaking. This calls for solidarity and even more cosmopolitan worldviews! 4/

📢 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

A most convincing case for case!

Guess what this course I taught was about! Arvaa, mistä tällä minun opettamalla kurssilla on kyse!

More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1LWm2...

Namens @woinactie.bsky.social: Aanstaande woensdag 11 december zullen er vanaf 13.00 uur nieuwe acties plaatsvinden in Nijmegen, Enschede, Tilburg, Leiden, Maastricht, Utrecht, Groningen, Amsterdam, en Rotterdam.

2 PhD fellowships in language and linguistics at the Uni of Oslo. Fully funded 3 years, plus if you submit in time an extra year to work on publications and do some teaching. Area open; project has to fit a research group. Deadline 28 Feb. Please repost. #linguistics www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Tärkeitä kohtia. Kansainväliselle henkilöstölle sanotaan usein, ettei heidän tarvitse oppia suomea myös yliopistossani. Moni haluaa oppia, mutta se vie paljon aikaa, kun tekee kokopäivätyötä. www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

If you've been #whammed this week and need an antidote, this song will definitely stick in your head... Chapeau to my @hhu.bsky.social colleague Christian Uffmann, who puts the fun back in phonology www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOl...

Miten sumerien tunteet paikantuivat kehoon? Taannoin muistelin sumerien sanoneen, että "maksani on sinulle vihainen" tms. joten aloin pohtia kehokarttojen vaihtelua. Nyt siis sain täsmäuutisia ja päivitystä lukemaani! Kiitos Saana Svärd &co. 🙂 www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/k...

Hot off the press: reflections on a feminist ethics of care to not only survive but thrive in the overwhelming world of academic publishing www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

A shocking assault on humanities and social science research in New Zealand.

"France is so attached to its so-called colour-blindness that it cannot stand the public existence of anyone who challenges the theoretical universalism of our republic" Spot on as always by @rokhayadiallo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

APCs cause over-production of papers, because journals get paid per paper. And even PLOS says this model is broken. ⤵️

Landmark judgment: A Belgian court now recognises the forced removal from their mothers and destruction of identities of mixed-raced children in the Belgian Congo as a crime against humanity. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Fellowships for ECRs from Africa, Asia at Latin America at Zukunftslkolleg Konstanz, linguists can apply: www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

”We are the world We are the linguists We are the ones who make a brighter day by making theories There’s a choice we’re making By forming hypotheses And we’ll describe a language just you and me.” Happy Monday to all linguists and language users! ✨ #linguistics

Scientists as political advocates – Agustín Fuentes "Scientists need to recognize that bold presentation, dissemination, and support of scientific knowledge has become both a basic commitment and a political act." www.science.org/doi/full/10....

I need that word!

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

Busting the myth of delayed language development in multilingual that persists with many practitioners despite strong empirical evidence to the contrary: www.habilnet.org/bilingual-ch...

Tämän ilmiön kannalta tärkeimmät pellot kannattaisi metsittää mahdollisimman nopeasti. Talvitulvat lisääntyvät vuosi vuodelta. Metsittäminen on mahdollista lihankulutusta ja -tuotantoa leikkaamalla. www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2...

Women snatched from their families as young children by the Belgian colonial state are demanding justice www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Senegal is finally asking for clarity about the massacre of hundreds of Senegalese soldiers who had fought for France in WWII but were murdered by the French army: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...

And yes, there's a @languageonthemove.bsky.social post for that too 😉 www.languageonthemove.com/linguistic-d...

Avasin uuden tason suomen kielen oppimisessani: nyt ihmiset luulevat minua ruotsinkieliseksi suomalaiseksi ja pyytävät anteeksi, etteivät he puhu ruotsia.

The IPhone has discovered bilingual text! It’s a big milestone, but rather Anglo-centric. Finland definitely needs Suomi—Svenska, and why are the options limited to two languages? I want English -German-French-Finnish please. What would your multilingual typing setting be?

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

Excited to have the occasion to unbox African studies in this workshop organised by Lina Klymenko at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Applications open for this course for East African linguists, convened by UNA Europa colleagues in Edinburgh, Helsinki, Kampala and Leiden: www.una-europa.eu/calendar/onl...

Ripple Effect Band: the all-female rock group singing in a language spoken by about 50 people www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

Never felt better about my decision to publish as little as possible

Sterkte to all my Dutch colleagues who are demonstrating in The Hague today against devastating cuts to the higher education budget. These planned cuts at the tune of one billion euros will have the most dramatic impact on humanities subjects. www.uu.nl/en/news/new-...

58th Annual Meeting of the SLE #SLE2025 Bordeaux Montaigne Université, 26–29 August 2025 Deadlines: Workshop proposals: 20 November 2024 (2 days left!) Abstracts: 15 January 2025 🔗 societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025

Next #ISLE Expert Forum: Nov 20, 10am CET. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Morana Lukač & Linda Pillière will discuss "Normative Linguistics, Twenty-five Years on". The event is free & open to all (no need to be an ISLE member). Zoom link @ www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... #linguistics

"We show that across the globe, pain interjections feature a-like vowels and wide falling diphthongs (“ai” as in Ayyy! “aw” as in Ouch!), whereas disgust and joy interjections do not show robust vowel regularities that extend geographically." pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art... #linguistics

Opening of the Africa Research Day at the University of Turku by the director of the Finland-Africa Platform for Innovation, Jussi Jauhiainen.

Xmas arrived early this year! Finally holding the hard copy of the Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa in my hands. Proud of this collective achievement and grateful to all contributors! global.oup.com/academic/pro...