fellow linguistics pals, in case you missed it, this is where we’re at right now at Essex if you are a student or alumni, please please please make your concerns known to the university

NEW on Wonkhe: Understand the REF changes through the lens of money and bureaucracy bit.ly/48NzTVA

Essex shutting a whole campus. Wild! 😳

Those of you using academia.edu may want to opt-out of #AI use on your profile. . . It's actually quite simple! @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky 🗣💬 support.academia.edu/hc/en-us/art...

Joining the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s conference today on “Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI” - really excited to talk about a new line of research and to learn from colleagues who grapple with #AI and #power in language education #appliedlinguistics

Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work: accentbias.ed.ac.uk

solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.

I have noted the word “foundry” keeps popping up increasingly in the #discourse of #AI development in tech but also in #education and design. A term originally associated with metalworking, it’s about creating, melting, moulding, and building something from raw (materials) aka data in modern times

As organiser of the Language, Interculturality and Literacy (LIL) Hub Seminar Series @morayhouse.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, I’m happy to invite you to our next hybrid talk on 19th of November with Dr. Daniel Lam from the University of Glasgow. @danielmklam.bsky.social

New research published in @languageeducation.bsky.social, available open access here (tinyurl.com/bdf262jp) and a short thread on the work below. Many thanks to the reviewers & editors for their feedback and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding support.

"We urgently need language education...that enables citizens to speak effectively and fluently to each other and to people of the world..." writes Profs Norbert Pachler and Zhu Hua, 'in eager anticipation' of the Curriculum and Assessment Review's final report. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...

Interested in #multilingualism, #literacy, & #languages? Check out The Grand Multi-Literacy event this coming weekend :) It's free, online & features talks from researchers, educators, parents, authors & more! Talks are recorded, so you can catch up after if you prefer! #langsky 💙📚 #Kidlit

Hi hivemind, what do your student seminar papers or dissertations look like right now regarding AI disclaimers? Do students acknowledge AI use and list tools used (like a tick-box exercise)?

Very happy to see this paper come out which builds on our work on multilingual identity @camedfac.bsky.social 😊 It's open access so free to download - brief overview in thread below ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

* Paper hunt* At the last ISB conference, someone (I can't remember who!) mentioned a study on the fact that L2 speakers might use scales differently than L1 speakers (similarly to the idea that cultural background affects the use of extremes in scales).Who can help me find this paper?

@jslx.bsky.social are proud to publish an obituary for William Labov, written by three of Bill’s students @betsysneller.bsky.social, @laurelmack.bsky.social & M Tamminga. We are grateful to Bill’s colleagues and family for the OA costs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lhlew.bsky.social

Another lovely Labov obit by @betsysneller.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social and Meredith Tamminga. This one takes a birds eye view of how Labov has contributed to where the field is going, which is a nice forward-looking complement to Eckert's obit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I had the privilege teaching a brand-new Master-level course on "Artificial Intelligence and Applied Linguistics" at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at this term. #AI #sociolinguistics #appliedlinguistics

Exciting research opportunity - Scottish Government CivTech Challenge 11.2, tackling the sparsity of useful, available data in Gaelic. Overcoming this is essential to build more robust and trustworthy Gaelic language technologies. £650,000 funding available www.civtech.scot/civtech-11-c...

Don’t blame ChatGPT, blame society for paying women less than men!! That’s what ChatGPT actually reflects ;-)

Race Ethnicity and Education are advertising for a new editor-in-chief / team of editors: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

#ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan #leavingacademia

Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics: July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online! Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance

Kick-start to my marking season as of today: 3 full modules, with spread deadlines over the summer, 10 MA dissertation student theses in September. Plus a 9 yr-old in tow...and job applications yeahhhh. Did anyone say research or a care-free summer? Send good vibes and energy balls my darlings.

📖 @mpmilans.bsky.social & I will be presenting our new edited volume "Reimagining language and communication in collaborative projects" at VII EDiSo Symposium on 2 July 3-5 pm 🗣️ Daniel Silva, @vpajaro.bsky.social & @peterbrowning.bsky.social will present their chapters there 🌐 shorturl.at/5yo58

Focusing on the multilingual Caribbean, this book examines ethnographic data and local performances of English to explore how language is constructed in discourse and via media practices. Liquid Languages by Britta Schneider, Coming Soon #LangSky #Linguistics cup.org/4k9LXEf

Still buzzing from the fantastic #BAAL /@CambridgeUP Seminar on #GenAI in #AppliedLinguistics & #TESOL last Friday at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social! Huge thanks to all speakers, poster presenters, our volunteers & everyone who joined us! 🙏 More updates coming soon: lnkd.in/eqtZhkpR

🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

NEW #OA FROM 54(2) "Evaluative reactions to minority languages and their varieties: Evidence from new speakers of West Frisian" by Ruth Kircher, ‪@ethankutlu.bsky.social & @mirjamvellinga.bsky.social #LanguageIdeology #MinorityLanguages #LanguageRevitalisation #NewSpeakers doi.org/10.1017/S004...

Proofing this one (finally 🥳) for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics volume “#Multilingualism” (Ed. Schwieter & Dewaele) with Charlotte Selleck

At the #edtechinnovate event today in London. Super interesting to learn about the most recent debates about the future of #edtech and #AI

Register now for our upcoming (hybrid) Policy Roundtable! 📆📣 At the event, we will explore a key challenge in the field of language policy: how can we bridge the gap between the language policies we design and the realities of implementing them on the ground?

Great guest talk today by Dr Kinga Kozminska (Birkbeck) about "Why does voice #AI listen with an accent and what can we do about it?" in my "AI and Applied Linguistics seminar". We learnt so much from Kinga's sociolinguistic+socio-phonetic expertise in approaching 'voice AI' #sociolinguistics

Today is an exciting day, as we are launching the Sheffield City of Languages initiative! Working across the many sectors in the city, we are celebrating, normalising, and furthering multilingualism and language learning in all its forms! @clareallison.bsky.social www.sheffieldcityoflanguages.org

APRIL MOST READ ARTICLES #1 "Looking back – Looking ahead" by Susan Ehrlich, Tommaso M. Milani doi.org/10.1017/S004...

This looks like a great event! Who is putting a paper in? Since I am teaching a class on #AI and #appliedlinguistics this term, I feel so inspired to trial some research ideas. 💡

Check out the CFP for our upcoming conference 'Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI' We are interested in hearing about your research on the impact of AI in languages & applied linguistics. See conference website for more details #GenAI #AIineducation #OpenUni

'Making Languages Research Accessible to Policymakers' Barbara Burns talks to Olivia (Liv) Glaze, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoc Researcher, and her mentors Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Charles Forsdick, about the project linked to the 'Languages and Policy' report. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/04...

What does ‘good’ ethical conduct in #linguistics look like from the perspective of the communities with whom we work? What can we as linguists be doing better? When it comes to building funding bids here are some suggestions #langsky 👉 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Five year olds! More accent diversity and less prescriptivism in popular culture, please! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New blog with Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social published by the Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social 💡We encourage Higher Education senior leaders to take proactive steps to tackle accent bias to foster a more inclusive and equitable Higher Education system.

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open for applications. This opportunity allows postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for funding to support their research projects. Learn more: buff.ly/BrfBwSt

In my BEd class (all future English language teachers), we discussed @iancushing.bsky.social‘s concept of language policing in the classroom, and normative ideas over teaching n learning RP or GA as the standard in Austrian schools. And why speaking “Austrian English” is devalued. #sociolinguistics

Developing engaged citizens: Why you should teach young people to switch off, challenge misinformation, and fact check. www.teachwire.net/news/teach...

In my #AI and #appliedlinguistics class today, we discussed a lot about “AI and ethics”, covering bias, copyright and privacy, truth, carbon footprint, AI literacy gaps and power. Education about these topics is so vital for ethical academic practices but also our private and professional lives.

📢 Bloss das nicht! Am Beispiel der österreichischen 'Deutschförderklassen' sehen wir, wie Segregation entsteht und Kinder systemisch in ihrer Bildungsentwicklung zurückgehalten werden. Mit 'Integration' und 'Förderung' hat dies rein gar nichts zu tun! www.nau.ch/news/stimmen...

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It was great having Susan Stewart from Articulate Multilingual Ltd. as a guest speaker today in my course “English in a multilingual educational context”. Students learnt a lot from engaging with stakeholders outside the academe articulate-multilingual.com

The best sign language models are those that align with deaf languaging practices. When AI models are built on sign language as used by hearing interpreters or novice hearing sign language learners, this can lead to linguistic subordination to technology. gallaudet.edu/linguistics/...