Word this world Let words be Lest we forget #GazaGenocide #KeepTellingofGaza

Sending our fullest #solidarity from the Malvern House teachers to @wforestneu.bsky.social! #Strike and win, fellow workers!

Strike action is ON!!! Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

I've not listened yet but I *know* this will be excellent!

Thanks to everyone who joined our Social Justice Linguistic Walk in Glasgow—Merchant City → East End → Barras. We read the city like a text: cones, plaques, shopfronts, murals & more. Big love for your keen eyes & generous chat. Blog & map soon. #LanguageJustice #BAAL2025 @baal2025.bsky.social

There should be a joint statement from the five unions in the next day or so (which also mentions pay, jobs, and nationally agreed employment conditions). For now, here is some further detail on what our dispute is about and what we UCU members will be balloted on nationally: #WeAreTheUniversity

On this International Day to #ProtectEducationFromAttack, UNESCO underlines its deep concern about the 44% increase in attacks on educational facilities in 2024. Read the full press release: unes.co/7mnru7

Striking today to stop jobs cuts at the University of Edinburgh. It is a manufactured crisis. There is no deficit. #stopmassredundancies

few things in life are inevitable but one of the most inevitable things has to be Doug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion being exported from schools to prisons. 🤷‍♀️ improvingteaching.co.uk/2025/09/07/i...

BDS victory! The Scottish Parliament becomes the first in the world to endorse BDS against genocidal Israel. BDS calls for escalated civil society pressure on all states to impose legal and targeted sanctions against apartheid Israel similar to those that helped abolish apartheid in South Africa.

Shocking that UCU SMT are threatening to dock pay just for ASOS in Unite UCU’s dispute. Our branch is donating £150 + our Admin’s strike pay to their fund, with more to follow. We urge all UCU branches to donate asap to support our UCU staff strikers.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

This course sounds fantastic and is exactly the kind of thing that could be happening on pre-sessionals instead of the usual discussions around plagiarism and policing-based approaches that seem to end up prevailing.

Backlash against the reclamation of Indigenous languages in Australia and other settler colonies imposes a state of "perpetual genocide," in which the victim group is forcefully prevented from reconstituting itself once genocide by direct, physical violence as ceased. doi.org/10.3138/GSI-...

My book is now officially available to order! Workable Accents critically explores how international teaching assistants in Canadian universities vocally fashion and contest various aspects of their academic labour. Please ask your university or local library to order a copy: shorturl.at/MfGLQ

Aldeh #ManchesterVoices www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On this podcast episode we talk all things Linguistic justice, Biased Language Assessments, speech language therapy, multilingualism , belonging and identity open.spotify.com/episode/2S9Z...

I remember 10 years ago working in private language schools with low wages and admin and prep was largely unpaid. Fragmented workers meant unionisation seemed impossible. To come this far is an incredible achievement. Solidarity ✊

#OtD 12 Jun 2009 ISS cleaning workers at the UK School of Oriental and African Studies fighting for better pay were called to a bogus "staff meeting" where they were ambushed by immigration officials. Nine were then deported, but organising continued stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8412...

Deeply ashamed of my union behaving like the bosses we fight. Imposition, victimisation and union-busting needs to stop right now @ucu.org.uk. Solidarity with UCU Unite staff ✊

Great to see more language schools becoming unionised ✊

#OtD 30 May 1968 in Senegal, unions announced an indefinite general strike in protest at police brutality against a school and university student uprising. Workers held firm until the government caved in for a 15% increase in wages stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...

Welsh, English and code-switching: some interesting angles here. BBC News - Young people using 'limited' Welsh on social media www.bbc.com/news/article...

And an excerpt from Endangered Languages that echoes with the experiences of so many speakers of minoritized and Indigenous languages #linguistics

It’s telling that Susie Dent is exactly the kind of person the UK press allows to define language conventions - because of how she looks, sounds and her apolitical presence on mainstream TV, framing language change simply as a curiosity rather than a struggle over values and identity.

Looks like @susiedent.com has been promoted to Chief Arbiter of English pronunciation by the UK press 😂😂

Yes, please! Normalise emojis in #academicwriting. Here’s me joking with my supervisors when I was about to submit my dissertation 😂

If you want a sneak preview of my book, Workable Accents, please click this link to read a decent chunk of the introductory chapter: shorturl.at/MfGLQ Please remember to ask your university or local library to order a copy and share this post widely! Thanks in advance!

BC teacher deserve transparency! We've taken out a Freedom of Information Request from the @britishcouncil. Want to know why? Read below. ⬇️ @scott-mcd-1.bsky.social‬, the gig is up, it's time to be honest with your staff! teflworkersunion.org...

📢 Are you a UCU member or representative working in English for Academic Purposes?🎓 ✉️ Join the UCU working group by emailing Angela Hulme: [email protected] @ucu.org.uk @teflunion.bsky.social #UCU #EAP #HigherEd

Call for articles 🗣️🔊 Get yourself in our latest workers of the world journal. Theme of our upcoming issue is 'Education, how, what and for whom?' 🚨Deadline: 15 July 2025 Read more and find out how to submit here: workersoftheworld.net/call-for-articles/ #IASSC

Asian international students in North American universities are subject to raciolinguistic surveillance and policing such as being - obliged to prove their proficiency in English - perceived as needing accent training - accused of plagiarism - deemed "too quiet" in class

For lovers of podcasts and social justice: My colleague @severyandyakonov.bsky.social has interviewed Canadian doctor Yipeng Ge, who went to Gaza on a humanitarian mission and was suspended from his university. Public history at its best. Please share! creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Linguistic racism is an institutional practice, not just an individual practice.

👥 Seats still available for this public seminar on futures of linguistic justice 🗣️ @iancushing.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social

Seems like timely reading in the UK given Labour’s unfair and irresponsible migrant language policies

#OtD 18 May 1968 the Senegalese May 68 began when students began a "general strike" against a cut to student grants. Despite repression the movement grew and eventually culminated in a workers' general strike and won many concessions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9030...

Mini linguistics lesson: 1) bilingualism is not double monolingualism 2) standard language is invented, not natural 3) no one is accentless

Michael Rosen’s Island of Strangers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is rarely understood is the knock-on effect crushing the universities will have on the local communities and local economies. All of those places rely on their universities. All cities across the country are in the same boat.

We need a truly inclusive, global education system that doesn’t depend on exploiting international students to survive. But unfortunately, that’s the model we have, and so scapegoating them in this way is going to decimate a sector already in crisis.

Looks great - will be listening later!

🔴Talking the Talk of the Far-Right Dan Clayton on why the Left adopting the language of the Right never works www.bylinesupplement.com/p/talking-th...

Great article by @k8ebrown.bsky.social looking at the language of Starmer's immigration plans theconversation.com/keir-starmer...

Special issue on 'Education, Antiracism & Decoloniality' from ESC ✊ Multilingual and open-access with some very relevant reflexions for EAP practitioners 👇 www.up.pt/journals/ind... @ces-uc.bsky.social l @sumingkhoo.bsky.social

BALEAP has expressed dismay by recent news of increasing threats to centres and lecturers in English for Academic Purposes across the UK ✂️ See below for full statement and commitments from their executive commitee 📣 @teflunion.bsky.social

✂️ Concerned about the cuts, redundancies and 'restructuring' facing our sector? You're not alone! Colleagues at BALEAP are collating resources on this Padlet 📚 padlet.com/alhulme1/ide...