'“It remains absolutely essential that the truth regarding the history, contributions, perspectives and lived experiences of black people in Britain and across the global diaspora is preserved, taught and championed.” (Kimberlé Crenshaw) Well and succinctly put.

Heads up for academics (inc ECR/PGRs) who work in green/responsible/sustainable finance, investment, and related topics. The UN-backed PRI are offering prizes (big ones! thousands of pounds!) for the best research in this area w/opportunity to attend conference. Deadline 26 June - pdf in link

There were some really valuable reflections on collegial relationships and collaboration in this teaching case study interview. I think these reflections hold true well beyond the teaching context too

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Great thread in is own right, but it additionally reminds me of this eternal question from the world of Linguistics @lingthusiasm.com share.google/0aF8DhE4ekmf...

Really excited to be returning to lovely Belgium and beautiful Ghent, not once but hopefully twice this year! 🤗

These graphs are for Australian academia. But I’m sure the same must be true if the UK. The decline of academic staff is outpaced only by the increase in admin staff to ensure compliance with and deliver data for the metrics by which academic staff are evaluated.

Ooft.

When teaching law in context, we discuss the goals of legislation when it comes to influencing people's/ other legal entities behaviour. While I can appreciate there needed to be a maximum penalty, this is a great example of how poorly these are likely to deter big companies

There's never a day that goes by when Critical Discourse Analysis is irrelevant. Basic journalistic ethics clearly don't even enter into the picture sometimes...

"the takeaway is clear: simultaneous interpreting places a unique and immediate strain on working memory. Even when performance does not visibly collapse, the cognitive system is working at full stretch—sometimes too stretched to learn in the moment..." New post on @languageonthemove.bsky.social

Great to see ABC officially on here now, after deciding to finally shift away from X.

Tonight I learned about the Heavy Metal Tooth Fairy Project www.heavymetaltoothfairy.com

When someone says "we have to face this crisis" always ask: Who is we? Why is 'we' white people rather than some other collection of people? Who are the implied adversaries 'we' are in contention with in this model? Why does "we" not include human beings from more diverse ethnic backgrounds?

Everyone seems to be talking antithesis the Guardian's top 100. For something different (and a little less "English"), try out @languageonthemove.bsky.social annual reading challenges 👇🏽 languageonthemove.com/language-on-...

"a chain link fence is a very challenging canvas...the result might not be very visible. A sign attached on the fence, however, immediately affords painting as a flat surface. And thus in this case a sign from the deontic sign authority is the very thing that enables a countersign to be created." 🙌🏼

This discussion really resonated with some of my own research, where grad students reflect on their language repertoires and the skills they bring to their study and future profession. I shared a short version on @languageonthemove.bsky.social languageonthemove.com/learning-to-...

Mehera San Roque shares, “Broadly speaking, linguistic diversity in legal academia is still pretty low compared to our student body… So referring to and demonstrating how multilingual capacity is actually a strength helps validate their experience of working in a second or third language"'.

I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.

What did Australian Federation look like through the eyes of a young Chinese revolutionary? Liang Qichao 梁啟超 visited Australia 1900. Here I revive the cosmopolitan spirit of Federation, one in which Asian AND European political thought shaped utopian dreams for a brave new Australian world. link👇

“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Even after a federal budget boost, Australia won’t have enough skilled tradespeople to work on existing homes – let alone build the new homes being promised.

Two years ago, as part of our inclusive recruitment approach, we started sending out interview questions 72 hours in advance. For all posts. And it’s been great. People come more relaxed (or as relaxed as they can be) and they bring the best examples of their expertise rather than what they 1/

This is a long shot because this isn't the old twitter, but I'm looking for history articles/books that look at cases of British/Irish settlers/squatters being prosecuted for crimes against Indigenous/colonized people. It can be anywhere in the world, but ideally the late C18/early C19.

#Langsky 🐦🐦 This is a really innovative project 👇🏽

There may be a lack of sausages, but this extension of voting rights to some of us is really quite cool (and I'd be interested to know if there's been any research on non-citizen voters, their demographics and voting trends)

So great to celebrate with Rukiya at her PhD graduation on Tuesday. My first PhD supervision, and as principal supervisor, and a really wonderful experience all round 🤗

It would be a real shame if HRW's forthcoming report didn't make a single mention of Tibet's minority languages. I sure hope they don't throw some of Tibet's most vulnerable communities under the bus just so they can present a more streamlined narrative.

Cleo Hansen-Lohrey identifies scope to focus in on language in core law teaching, "making explicit what is implicit", and shares interesting examples of how she has done this in practice, when teaching Administrative Law and Statutory Interpretation.

And no, for those bemoaning the low birth rate, immigration isn’t somehow ‘cheating’ the demographics. Immigration is natural. Immigration is the way humanity works. Ultimately, the only objections to it are all based in racism and xenophobia.

@leemurray.bsky.social this post....

I got to be in the guest seat this time on the latest @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast episode hosted by the fabulous @empacheco.bsky.social !

#TheWriteWomen challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). #15 Rules: It has to be a book you've read. It has to be a book you've enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky 💙📚 #books #womenshistorymonth

Shunichi Ishihara and Michael Carne are passionate about their forensic linguistics unit "FL can have a major societal impact... and [help ensure] evidence presented in court is able to be validated…ultimately that can have a massive impact on people’s lives, certainly in the criminal context”.

Brett Todd @utsintlaw.bsky.social stresses the benefits of incorporating students' lived experience and knowledge. Like many of the case study participants, he also incorporates collaboration with colleagues as an important strategy to meet the challenges of interdisciplinary teaching.

We now have a complete set of teaching case studies on our law and language website! 🤗🥳 These case studies share the experience of 8 Australian academics who have incorporated a law and language focus into their teaching, across diverse, units, disciplines and universities.

See also: public toilets

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Those in the AI group were more likely to solve problems correctly at first, but when AI was removed, they got more questions wrong or skipped them entirely. The participants were also less likely to persist with finishing the problems, which is one of the most important ways to acquire a skill.

Hi everyone - Do you have to use your car because there is no public transport in your area? Do you have to do mutual obligations right now? Would you feel comfortable chatting for a story? Please message me here or email: [email protected]

And while I have your attention, @journalhumanrights.bsky.social is the journal's Bluesky account. Please follow! I've assured the rest of the board that bluesky is *the* place where it's all happening, so we'd love to see some more connections and activity here for the journal 😊

A 3,750 year-old contract for the sale of a house recorded on a clay tablet, still in its original clay envelope! Museo di Antichità, Turin 📷 by me #Archaeology

🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.

Exciting news - from mid June, I'll be serving as Co-Editor in Chief for the Australian Journal of Human Rights! Very excited to take on this new role in such a supportive and brilliant team of colleagues. @austhumanrights.bsky.social

Three year postdoc going at @qmulsse.bsky.social working with @karlpike.bsky.social on ‘Politics and mythmaking: disentangling myth from ideology’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Details here:

We have a national discourse premised on asylum seekers being undeserving or “bogus”, which allows people to evade the fact that restricting the right to asylum leads inexorably to death & torture. Should the BBC give such prominence to stories which reinforce these attitudes? 5/

"Language education is never neutral...that truth is written into every lesson.. because a group ..refused to accept their language had no place in schools & built that place themselves, against a policy landscape that hadn't foreseen them" @martinderince.bsky.social @languageonthemove.bsky.social

Got myself a "hybrid"