For more information on academic freedom in the university, please do read my chapter here in the Handbook on Academic Freedom. Solidarity to all. www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

More than 64,000 children in Gaza have reportedly been killed or maimed since 2023. Many who survived are now orphans. buff.ly/q8D41XY

Look at the US interventions. ugh

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.

Thinking of the awful, despicable stuff Mahmood is proposing on refugees, and thinking many years to when I interviewed Claus Moser for my PhD on post-war UK higher education. Moser was born in Berlin in 1922. He was Jewish. His family fled Nazi persecution in 1936, and settled in Britain. /1

ESOL teachers and linguists! I need your help! I am teaching an A2 level group words for describing people (we've been learning words like bald, slim, short etc.) and I could do with some advice on what to teach them to say to describe a person's skin colour given the level of their English.

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

Good morning. These translations need visibility to fund. I know there are a lot of things going on, but that doesn't explain why this really worthy project hasn't been at least talked about in public. If you know people who value translation, could you tell them?

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

In Brandenburg fanden heute die ersten beiden von 29 Bürgermeisterwahlen statt. Nach #Meißen + #Wolmirstedt setzte es auch in #Wriezen + #Nauen deutliche Niederlagen für die AFD. In ihren beiden Hochburgen rutschte die Partei von 46% auf 27% bzw. von 37% auf 16% (Vergleich BTW 25) 🧵 #dieblaueDelle

I despair of them.

It’s amazing how the simplest things had such meaning at the roots of our language. In Spanish the word for bred is “pan” and bread is still at the heart of words such as acompañar (to accompany), compañero (companion), compañía (company). With whom would you break bread or be close?

"Will you sign my petition demanding new shackles ?" Poster spotted in Sydney

Da capo!

This is clearly genuine, and I have to imagine that Ireland's own history with a preventable famine explains why Israel's genocide resonates so much. What Palestinians are going through today is not that different from what the Irish did, only this time it's being live-streamed.

Some REAL good news; The EU is backtracking on its earlier decision to abandon stronger anti-discrimination protections, following a campaign by @ilgaeurope.bsky.social. Now there will be stronger protections and rights in the EU for LGBT people.

@womensrugbyshow.bsky.social Do you know anything about the fact that the WRWC are charging more for parking for blue badge holders than for able-bodied fans? Seems to be a policy across a number of venues.

Interesting article, including the fact that US citizens are referred to as émigrés and not immigrants.... www.dw.com/en/mexican-t...

Hey #langsky, they have English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian audiobooks!

After the media damage is inflicted and seen by millions of eyes,you receive a private email to say there's no evidence and no action,seen by two people only There's no public apology. They don't send this to media or post it on police accounts We will continue to fight. We will continue to win.

Iranians distrust the U.S. not because they 'hate our freedoms, but because of the "arrogance" of U.S. foreign policy, which imposed a dictatorship on Iran in the 1950s, explains commentator Joy Reid.(analystnews_ on Insta)

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

SIGN THE PETITION: Defend the right to protest: no proscription of Palestine Action palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NoProscription

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

Ex-FBI-Mann: Musk war Ziel russischer Agenten www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

Show me your hatespoons!!! (This absolutely needs to be a thing.)

Please share this call widely. We want everyone to participate in this shared space, for our GRIEF issue, Spring 2025. Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.

Send this to every woman you know in Germany. Was going to say especially the middle-aged mums, but I think it works for all ages. I saw myself in the mum. My daughter will see herself in the young woman.

"The move will potentially bar 71,000 people who have successfully applied for asylum from claiming UK citizenship" Labour is willing to break international law for the sole purpose of punishing 71,000 vulnerable people who did nothing to deserve such cruelty www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There’s a Turkish phrase about the upside of hitting rock bottom being that things can’t get any worse. It goes göte giren şemsiye açılmaz and it means “an umbrella up one’s ass cannot be opened”

Petition to protest the closure of the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University in the UK. chng.it/fgmQprWh2t

“Studying global culture uniquely through the medium of English would demonstrate an indifference to both linguistic and viewpoint diversity. Worse still, it would impose an Anglo-normative framework on the cultural realities being examined.”

How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading? For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced. merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

2/2 There's a whole dedicated website now for anti-AfD, pro-democracy events & protests: www.demokrateam.org/aktionen/

if you are a teacher and are interested in dismantling deficit thinking about language and designing linguistically equitable schooling, then this summer school in Manchester might be just the thing for you 💃

Grandiose Bilder aus Bratislava heute abend: Die Proteste richten sich gegen Premier Fico, der als Marionette des Kremls die Slowakei auf einen pro-russischen Kurs zwingen will. Die Hoffnungen dieser Menschen ruhen auf Europa und nicht auf Russland.

For all my #BookSky friends that are trying to move away from the Bezos infrastructure, just a reminder that Goodreads is owned by him through Nash Holdings. Clicks are currency friends @thestorygraph.com is a Black Woman founded company www.womenwhocode.com/blog/world-b...

likewise linguistics: we have a lot of science about what pronouns are and how they work, and we need to get extremely on the same page about communicating that to non-linguists

My latest www.hauntologies.net/p/this-moment

Hard relate

Some empirical work on this papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#OtD 12 Jan 1904 a rebellion began by Herero people in Namibia against German occupation. Eventually however, they were defeated by the Germans, who attempted to exterminate all Herero people in what is considered the 1st genocide of the 20th century. stories.workingclasshistory.c...

Free textbooks for Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Arabic, Swahili, and more! 🌍📚 Great for students and teachers. #LangSky 🔗 open.umn.edu/opentextbook...