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Alan Yu

@aclyu.bsky.social
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Linguist, speech scientist, and anime enthusiast, in no particular order. 佢。

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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Does anyone have any experience with the journal, Open Linguistics? Have you ever considered submitting something there? If not, why not?
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Ruth Arr @wrooth.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
'eliminate the departments of Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, German and Scandinavian, and Russian...[and] firing of tenured faculty from...Women’s and Gender Studies, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, history, creative writing, math, physics'
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A researcher-friendly resource for studying phonological social networks. Spread the word to your networks! #psynomBRM paper by Alderete and colleagues #Psycholinguistics #NetworkAnalysis #OpenAccess post by Caballero
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Can a “fish” be friends with a “dish” – a new open-access resource for phonological network research
A common trope in high school movies involves the protagonist being given a tour of the various student cliques, where distinctive groups like the rowdy football players, the fashionable mean girls…
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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...
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Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) at University of Glasgow
Discover Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Berkeley Linguistics Department this coming fall. I've had an incredible 22 years in Chicago, working with exceptional colleagues and students. I am deeply grateful for all the support and memories we've shared.
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
youtu.be/PsPNvOS5eiM?...
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This AI-Generated Trump x Studio Ghibli Video is INSANE! 😱 (Going Viral)
YouTube video by The Water Studio
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Meet the Speakers of the World’s Last Japanese-Based Creole Language | Connected Feature
YouTube video by CONNECTED on TaiwanPlus
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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice. It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy: shorturl.at/gDhJA
This is a screenshot of the volume cover.

The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, & Vijay A. Ramjattan

The cover art shows a green balloon with "kein mensch ist illegal" written on it.
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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We're delighted to announce that #LabPhon20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the (North American) summer of 2026, with the theme “Looking back and looking forward.” Dates, thematic sessions, invited speakers and further information will be announced by the organizing committee. #LabPhon
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
www.nwo.nl/en/news/fund... What a great opportunity!
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Funding for 'flipping' journals to diamond open access | NWO
The Dutch Research Council NWO supports academic journals that wish to transition from a subscription model to an open access model in which authors do not have to pay publication fees. They can soon ...
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Ian was such an inspirational mentor to me, both academically and athletically. He was always so sweet and so English. He will be greatly missed.
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Andrew Garrett @andrewgarrett.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I am very sad to learn of the death of Ian Maddieson (on Sunday, Feb. 2). He was a creative thinker, an inspiring linguist, and a wonderful colleague who made a big difference to me intellectually and personally.
Ian Maddieson
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I guess the whole DEL program will be scratched. 🤬
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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
How is pharyngealization realized in across linguistic contexts? In #Tashlhiyt, it's signaled in #coronals by a lowered tongue body & lowered F2 in nearby vowels, which can extend into larger phonetic domains. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #openaccess #LabPhon @phbuech.bsky.social @annehermes.bsky.social
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Pharyngealization in Tashlhiyt from kinematic and acoustic perspectives
This study investigated the implementation of pharyngealization in Tashlhiyt, across various linguistic contexts VCV, VCCV, VCCV, and VCCCV. We analyzed articulatory and acoustic data from six male sp...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 22/01/2025
What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? A study in Nature Human Behaviour reports on a survey of 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and finds that trust in scientists is moderately high. go.nature.com/3PLgKKU 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows weighted means for trust in scientists across countries and regions (1 = very low, 3 = neither high nor low, 5 = very high).
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Aaron Glantz @aglantz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Some last minute tips from me published by @poynterinstitute.bsky.social on how journalists can prepare for the next four years www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
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6 ways to prepare for a relentless news cycle as President Trump takes office - Poynter
If Trump’s first term is any guide, the media will be in his crosshairs. Here’s how to get ready.
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
We are doing an (open-rank) search for an instructional professor in computational linguistics! Come join us! linguistlist.org/issues/36/235/ #EOE/#Vet/#Disability
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LINGUIST List 36.235 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Instructional Professor (open-rank), Computational Linguistics, The University of Chicago
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Chinese map of Canada in 1902
Map of Canada from a 1902 Chinese book
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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
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Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Most models of #word recognition assume the input is faithful to #phonological specifications in the #lexicon, but it's not always the case. Results from #lenition in #Mawng & #Iwaidja explore how recognition occurs in such scenarios. @bjbaker.bsky.social #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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Lenition, fortition, and lexical access in Iwaidja and Mawng
Many models of word recognition assume that spoken words are faithful to their phonological shape in the lexicon and that word recognition begins with the first incoming segment and proceeds linearly....
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Aravind Parthasarathy @aravindhearing.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Excited to share our newest article , now in Scientific Reports @natureportfolio.bsky.social . Here we look at interactions between neural coding of temporal cues and pupil-indexed listening effort, and their combined effects on speech in noise intelligibility. - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sensory representations and pupil-indexed listening effort provide complementary contributions to multi-talker speech intelligibility - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Sensory representations and pupil-indexed listening effort provide complementary contributions to multi-talker speech intelligibility
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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
On the opportunity cost of failing – radically failing – to recognise what we can and what we need to do in arts and humanities to develop a national capability that genuinely supports this country’s future agenda. anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/f...
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Funding arts and humanities
Arts and humanities research in the UK is consistently producing outstanding work across all disciplines.  By all the criteria of judgement, the Research Excellence Framework, league tables (which …
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I can’t wait to read this new edition! What an awesome team of authors!
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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
ATTENTION ALL! This is my full academic review of the 3rd edition: “FUCK YES. Finally, something ACTUALLY badass!!!!” You can quote me. 👍🏽
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
“am not arguing that the humanities should adopt scientific norms, but that they should have the financial means to complement, contest, or rival science in explaining people, societies, and cultures. To do this properly today, they need a step-function increase in funding.”
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Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works - Volume 1
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 27/12/2024
Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.
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Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
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William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97
He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.
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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... iEEG. 1. syllabic & phonemic timescales both reflected in the acoustic spectral flux 2. cortex tracks syllabic timescale: theta range, phonemic via alpha-beta
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The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux
Human auditory cortex tracks specific acoustic features, providing a multiscale temporal template for subsequent speech parsing.
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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
In word shadowing tasks, do participants imitate formant frequencies or vowel shifts? Given the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, talkers imitate normalized phonetic properties of NCVS vowels, not the overall high F1,F2 frequencies of the model talker. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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Raw acoustic vs. normalized phonetic convergence: Imitation of the Northern Cities Shift in the American Midwest
Word shadowing tasks elicit phonetic convergence to the stimulus model talkers, suggesting a tight perception-production link. The magnitude of this convergence is affected by linguistic and social fa...
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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Hello, Bluesky! This is the account for the Association for Laboratory Phonology, #LabPhon. Follow here to learn about new publications in our journal, and other Association news. #linguistics #phonetics #phonology
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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Thanks to Marlyse Baptista and the Linguistic Society of America staff for pulling this event together so quickly. Another reason to be at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
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Joy Buongiorno, PhD @joybuongiorno.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
My team is hiring at Nature Communications! If you're at #AGU24 and would like to chat about what my (great) job is like, please DM me! Associate editor (US) - $74k/yr Senior editor (US) - $91k/yr www.nature.com/naturecareer... @natureportfolio.bsky.social @naturecomms.bsky.social #academicsky
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Communications (chemical hydrology) - Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York, Philadelphia, Jersey City (hybrid) job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12834082
Title:  Associate or Senior Editor (chemical hydrology) Organisation: Nature Communications Location(s): Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York, Phil...
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn. Received 31 July 2024, Accepted 7 August 2024, Available online 10 August 2024, Version of Record 16 August 2024. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn
The practice of neurosurgery on Saturn is almost identical to the one practiced on Earth. Because the art of practice of Medicine was transferred by h…
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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New article in our special issue 'Cognitive Technologies and their Histories': Ottaviano et al., "Metaphors and the invention of writing" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Metaphors and the Invention of Writing
Metaphor, including its sub-categories pars pro toto and metonymy, plays a crucial role in the formation of the earliest invented scripts in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China, yet it has been understudied...
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
An eloquent description of what it was like to experience the one-child policy as a child. The grief of parents who wanted more children and the grief of being told that someone can have another child - their living child will not live long. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A moment that changed me: at seven, I saw the truth of China’s one-child policy – and felt my parents’ pain
When a classmate said she’d be allowed a brother or sister, I realised what it meant: she might die young. It was a sudden insight into tragedy and trauma
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John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford @jskstanford.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The next chapter of journalism demands more than reactive reporting. JSK alum @aglantz.bsky.social highlights how journalists can reshape the narrative by digging deeper into the issues that affect communities.
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Trump’s first term shows journalists can make an impact in his second - Poynter
The press must lean in and focus on issues that matter to our audiences instead of breathlessly reporting on the circus around the president
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
First snow is so pretty!
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is really quite awesome! More work like this please!
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Shocker www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff
Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms
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Andrew Garrett @andrewgarrett.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
May I lie and say I'm passionate about linguistics? A question for the NY Times Ethicist. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/m...?
I’m a high school senior. As a good student with strong extracurriculars, I’m applying to a few of what are considered top colleges. My dream school is one of them, and the major I intend to pursue is very competitive; choosing it might make it more difficult to get in.

I have considered applying instead as a linguistics major, because I have a stronger background in that field, especially with the extracurriculars I have pursued. I do love linguistics (I founded the Linguistics Club at my school), but it is not my passion, and if I got in somewhere for linguistics, I would switch to something else.

This strategy is very common, as far as I know; most people I know who got into extremely selective colleges last year chose a less competitive arts or humanities major as either their primary or secondary interest. I am quite certain that some of them don’t actually want to pursue those fields.

I don’t judge them at all, but I am not sure if I should follow them. For one thing, everyone else who will get into the university having declared the major that I’m interested in probably worked hard all through high school to have a strong background in that academic area, unlike me. Additionally, although I doubt these schools have exact quotas to fill for each major, I may be taking the place of another student who is genuinely passionate about linguistics and depriving an already small department of that student. Also, I’d be lying, which some people might consider to be wrong on the face of it.

On the other hand, isn’t there something wrong with a college-admissions process that rewards students who know exactly what they want to do from the beginning of high school and punishes those who are honest about a change in their interests? What do I owe such a flawed process, and what do I owe other applicants?
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
youtu.be/Oq5fFjqBWSA?... Lives ruined by not knowing phonetics.
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Announcer flubs common student names at Thomas Jefferson U. graduation
An announcer repeatedly mispronounced students' names at the graduation ceremony for Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. The school later apologized...
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Glossa Psycholinguistics @glossapsycholx.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
First we have our first registered report! “Listeners’ convergence towards an artificial agent in a joint phoneme categorization task”, by Nguyen, Lancia, Hunter, Schwartz, & Diard: escholarship.org/uc/item/0dg0...
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Listeners' convergence towards an artificial agent in a joint phoneme categorization task
Author(s): Nguyen, Noël; Lancia, Leonardo; Huttner, Lena; Schwartz, Jean-Luc; Diard, Julien | Abstract: This study focuses on inter-individual convergence effects in the perception and categorization ...
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
Very cool!
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
A very timely workshop! newhorizonsinlanguagescience.github.io
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NSF Language Science Workshop
New Horizons in Language Science: Large Language Models, Language Structure, and the Cognitive and Neural Basis of Language
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
"It’s Not Your Fault That Academic Life is Getting Harder" by Glen O’Hara voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/i...
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Don’t ever use “delve” again! pshapira.net/2024/03/31/d...
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Andrew Garrett @andrewgarrett.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
I think this is a really important article. Read it if you're interested in cultural heritage archives. publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...
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View of The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records
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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
We are very excited that the first ROLE Symposium will take place on April 12th and April 19th (online). Please register if you would like to participate in this event. We will have live-captioning and ASL interpreters.
The image is a digital poster promoting a two-day online symposium organized by “The Role Collective.”
The event title is “Rejecting Harmful Native Speaker/Signer Ideologies.”
Dates are : April 12th and April 19th, starting at 9 am CST.
On April 12th, there will be seven keynote talks and short presentations by various scholars including Dr. Rachel Hayes-Harb, Dr. Yolanda Holt, Dr. Lina Hou, Dr. Kamran Khan, Dr. Evan Kidd, Dr. Wesley Leonard, and Dr. Vijay Ramjattan.
On April 19th, there will be structured discussions on research-related issues, clinical assessments, admission processes, evaluation of academic writing, and communicating with the public.
Contact info: ethan-kutlu@uiowa.edu
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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
“Who does language belong to? A fight over the Lakota language.” Great episode, definitely worth listening. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 22/03/2024
I had not been aware of the significant legal constraints that discourage international students from majoring in the humanities at US universities.
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