What if we took the money healthcare is spending on AI, and used it to buy poor people medicines?

Swiss broadcaster calls out Israel's genocide in Gaza during Winter Olympics coverage uk.news.yahoo.com/swiss-broadc...

The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Please consider supporting this cause, being led by the amazing sociolinguist and "Language of Hope" author Daniel Silva. Brazil has strict rules on crowdsourced funding so when you click on the donation link choose the "Tip" option. Thank you 🙏

ok, I think we all need a dose of adorableness today like a NEWBORN GIRAFFE www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

Advertising a 0.6 FTE job for what is clearly a replacement for a full-time lecturer is unacceptable. Linguist List should take a stand and refuse to publish such ads.

Cray cray — www.bbc.com/news/article...

I can live with this.

The same side having a complete meltdown about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl wants you to believe that anger over depicting the Obamas as monkeys is “fake outrage.”

Starmer is really upset that Mandelson lied to him. He previously thought he only lied to other people.

Please don’t tell me you’re surprised. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I did not tear up. #iykyk

Route for third Edinburgh tram line unveiled. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No tolerance for transphobia. www.centralfifetimes.com/news/nationa...

Join me and Amnesty supporters in calling for a ceasefire and unimpeded humanitarian access in Gaza now! www.amnesty.org.au/act-now/aust...

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

Scots is often wrapped up in classism and labelled as 'weird' or 'uneducated', but by every standard it is its own language with its own grammar, syntax and words, and should be respected as such, writes Emma Grae ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/commen...

Representative Ilhan Omar Is Attacked at Town Hall in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Storm Chandra wtf

Rembering the Children of Gaza For two and a half continuous days, beginning January 27 , 2026, 7:00am Palestine/Israel time, we will read the names of 18454 children from more than 22,000 children have been killed in Gaza since October 2023. www.ettyhillesumcards.com/copy-of-remb...

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

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Available today on Google Books! "Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory" edited by me and @jennycz.bsky.social books.google.co.uk/books?id=T6m...

Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.

Raise your hand if you think ICE should be abolished and their murderers prosecuted 🖐️

Council-backed LGBTQ+ Gaelic choir to begin in Glasgow. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2578643...

Don't be too impressed that I so readily responded to questions asked in French; I had an English translation of them in front of me! youtu.be/Hv8ehdZrsKM?...

If only the British Library shops had on offer something useful, like a notebook that costs less than £14… @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Jewish and Yiddish Reactions to the Destruction of Gaza: A Panel youtube.com/watch?v=L4wq...

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

#OTD 117 years ago, Morris Swadesh (1909–1967) was born 🎉 A historical linguist and expert on Indigenous American languages such as Chitimacha, Menominee, and Mahican, he used lexicostatistics to develop glottochronology and compiled the so-called Swadesh lists. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

People who put “non-political” on Hinge 🧐

Find out about our University's scholarships for 2026 entry which are open to School of Modern Languages' PhD applicants. Apply by 21 January 2026: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Dr Saeed Talajooy's piece In Memoriam of Bahram Beyzaie (26 December 1938- 26 December 2025): www.iranicaonline.org/announcement...

Byre World is back for the new semester, continuing the annual series of talks, workshops, and performances bringing the School of Modern Languages' global cultural studies research to the local community. Read about our upcoming events here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Read the piece about the academics and students in Iran, for which our Saeed Talajooy was interviews: Iranian scholars fear tougher clampdown as protests spread | Times Higher Education (THE): www.timeshighereducation.com/news/iranian...

Tue 27 Jan 6pm at Byre Theatre join this semester's first Byre World event: the screening of Konrad Wolf’s Sterne, followed by a Q&A with our Prof Sean Allan & Elizabeth Ward of the University of Leipzig and author of East German Film and the Holocaust: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/east-...

No one wants to extend your 90-minute Zoom meeting to 100. Well, some do, but don’t listen to them.

Israel continues to deliberately starve the Palestinian people. Our governments are facilitating this crime. But we can help Palestinians trying to feed the people of Gaza. Please give whatever support you can. chuffed.org/project/1602...

Donald Trump has not assembled a “Board of Peace” for Gaza. He has assembled a Board of Occupation. The future of Gaza is not up to Trump, Blair or Netanyahu. That is up to the Palestinian people.

MESA Board joint letter with CAF regarding Israel’s assaults on Palestinian universities and targeting academic sector: mesana.org/advocacy/let...

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.