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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Annual reminder that the book is open access. How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing. Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective? #neuroskyence mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...

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The Entangled Brain

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David Serrano Dolader @davidavidserranin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Vía SIGLO XXI 'El palabrista creapalabras', de David Serrano-Dolader, nuevo título de Archiletras Libros. www.diariosigloxxi.com/texto-s/most...

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'El palabrista creapalabras', de David Serrano-Dolader, nuevo título de Archiletras Libros

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Aoife K. Ahern @aka-madrid.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Thank you for contributing to research that can help educators leverage multilingual children's potential through understanding their learning and language use

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

In this edition of Ideas, philosopher Susana Monsó explores a new study which has uncovered the mysterious burial of elephant calves in Indian tea plantations and what these findings reveal about elephants’ remarkable understanding of death. hubs.ly/Q03tFH6m0 #Animals #Philosophy @susanamonso.com

Photograph of an elephant. In this edition of Ideas learn about a new study which has uncovered the mysterious burial of elephant calves in Indian tea plantations, raising the question: could elephant graveyards be real after all? In her latest essay, philosopher Susana Monsó explores what these findings reveal about elephants’ remarkable understanding of death.

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

If you are in neuroscience and interested in applying for a position in Sweden at Karolinska Institutet (either one of the 20 assistant professorships or the "distinguish professor" track - se previous post by me), read more about neuroscience at KI here: ki.se/en/research/... Come join us!

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The Strategic Research Area Neuroscience (StratNeuro)

The strategic research area neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, Umeå University and KTH has the mission to integrate clinical and basic research and to foster a new generation of leaders and scient...

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Aoife K. Ahern @aka-madrid.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Congrats! So relevant to deepening knowledge about multilingual cognition🙏

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Aoife K. Ahern @aka-madrid.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Docentes de L2 inglés o español, centros bilingües, aulas multilingües: Este verano, ¡¡vente a la UIMP!! Para el curso Transforma tu enseñanza de lectura y escritura con Reading to Learn: un enfoque crítico y plurilingüe para el aula (español e inglés) BECAS: plazo hasta 25/4 Link a continuación

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Aoife K. Ahern @aka-madrid.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

How to develop students' literacy in bi/multilingual educational contexts? This July, course at UIMP, Santander: Transforma tu enseñanza de lectura y escritura con Reading to Learn: un enfoque crítico y plurilingüe para el aula (español e inglés). Grants cover full board & fees - apply by 25 April

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a cartoon of snoopy holding a piece of paper

ALT: a cartoon of snoopy holding a piece of paper

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Aoife K. Ahern @aka-madrid.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Convocatoria de 4 puestos de Prof. Ayudante Doctor, UCM Facultad de Educación. Buscamos nuev@s colegas especializad@s en enseñanza del inglés para formación inicial de profesorado de infantil, primaria y secundaria. 🔍👩‍🏫📣 www.ucm.es/convocatoria...

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Aoife K. Ahern @aka-madrid.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Vacancies for lecturers in ELT (young learners) in Madrid, Complutense University. PhD required. Come work with our international team of L2 English teacher educators at the School of Education! Reposts appreciated. www.ucm.es/convocatoria...

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Convocatoria publicada en el BOUC de 4 de abril de 2025 | Universidad Complutense de Madrid

La mayor universidad presencial de España, con la mejor oferta educativa. En Madrid, rodeada de zonas verdes y con una intensa vida cultural y deportiva.

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Mobility Behaviour👨‍🎓 @davidloisuned.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Mañana sale el sol.

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Aoife K. Ahern @aka-madrid.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Interested in working in Madrid as a teacher educator for ESL? Universidad Complutense is hiring PhDs for initial ESL teacher education. Apply here today: www.ucm.es/convocatoria... and in April, 4 more vacancies will be open :-)

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Convocatoria publicada en el BOUC de 26 de febrero de 2025 | Universidad Complutense de Madrid

La mayor universidad presencial de España, con la mejor oferta educativa. En Madrid, rodeada de zonas verdes y con una intensa vida cultural y deportiva.

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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Apple & Google can silently remove International Women’s Day From Their calendars. We're in a waking nightmare. No dignity, no respect for others. We are sinking dangerously low into who is more anti-DEI. 🤢🤮🤢

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Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano @iraideia.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

📢🚨Nuevo #SciComm en @es.theconversation.com y recomendación víspera #8M viernes Abre los ojos, los oídos y todo tu potencial percetivo... lo necesitarás para interpretar las campañas del 8M y mucho más #language #cognition @ucc.unizar.es @genero.bsky.social theconversation.com/las-luces-y-...

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Las luces y las sombras de los mensajes del #8M

Desde el lenguaje de los mensajes del 8M se pueden diferenciar las luces del movimiento y las sombras que lingüísticamente nos acompañan.

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Gerardo Tecé @gerardotece.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Atenta, guapa, que te voy a explicar lo que es el feminismo. Pero el feminismo de verdad.

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Alejandro Cencerrado 7291 @alexbici.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Han quitado todos los árboles de la Plaza Santa Ana. Todos. No ha quedado ninguno, igual que en Sol. El verano en Madrid es cada vez más insufrible.

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Dr Chloe Castle @drchloecastle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

📣📣 New paper on multilingualism alert! In our latest paper, we investigated the roles of language dominance, recency (instruction/experiment language), and linguistic property in cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1075/lab.... #lingsky #linguistics #langsky

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Josh Brake @joshbrake.com · 05/03/2025

In much of our conversation around AI's impact on education we're mixing up education and schooling. This week I turn again to Jacques Ellul and ask what his conception of "technique" might offer us as a lens through which to understand AI and its influence on us.

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Technique's Deception

Pursue education, not schooling

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Esperanza Román Mendoza @eromanme.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Este manifiesto explica por qué el inglés no tiene por qué ser la lengua oficial de EEUU.

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Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano @iraideia.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

📢📌🚨Aprovechando que estos días se habla del "lenguaje corporal" de #Macron y #Trump, aquí os dejo un texto #scicomm para comprender el alcance del carácter #multimodal del #lenguaje @zaragozaling.bsky.social @ucc.unizar.es @archiletras.bsky.social #cognition www.archiletras.com/firma/el-car...

Portada de Archiletras 14 donde se publica el artículo "El carácter multimodal del lenguaje". Spoiler: la gestualidad y los demás sistemas multimodales no son ni anecdóticos, ni secundarios, ni universales: inciden de manera directa en el procesamiento del lenguaje.

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Inma Contreras @inmitacs.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Mirad qué hallazgo: Archivo digital con más de 10000 imágenes preciosísimas Creative Commons q puedes usar sin registro: public.work Si pinchas sobre una aparecen cientos del mismo tema! De interés para el #claustrovirtual

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Ryan Rish @ryanrish.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Please share widely. We are hiring a 12-month PostDoc. Funding is for 3 years for our NSF funded project, STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming Science and Engineering via Bikes. Contact me or PI @noemiwaight.bsky.social with questions. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/53875

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Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Department of Learning and Instruction at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) invites applications for a full-time, 12-month Postdoctoral Fellowship. The ideal candidate will contribute to a three-ye...

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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Happy to share that Liz Schotter and I have just published a beginner-level tutorial introduction to eye-tracking-while-reading studies in Behavior Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Carlos Madrid 🍉 @carlosmadrid.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Si fuera la Fórmula 1, asfaltaban hasta el tendedero de su casa.

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Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin @astridensslin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Come and work with me and my team at DIMAS! We're advertising for a research associate to join an international team of interdisciplinary researchers on the DFG/AHRC "Project StoryMachine: Exploring Implications of Recommender Based Spatial Hypertext Systems for Folklore and the Humanities".

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George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com · 01/01/2025

Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025: 1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it. www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...

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2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions

Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat

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Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Good news: Routledge has allowed us to share the opening chapter of our new book 'Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction' The chapter is available here (pre-print): www.johanfarkas.com/wp-content/u...

Excepts from endorsements of the book Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction.

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PolSocGeo @polsocgeo.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#media #disinformation #misinformation According to the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Risk Report, false information is one of the major threats, with misinformation and disinformation rated as top risks.

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Mobility Behaviour👨‍🎓 @davidloisuned.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Ideología del sentido común.

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Aoife K. Ahern @aka-madrid.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Media does not tell us about the dark side of AI enough, most ppl are truly unaware of these issues

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄 🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.

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Elena Álvarez Mellado @lirondos.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Como casi siempre en la vida, lo interesante de las nuevas palabras no son los qués (qué términos) sino los cómos (cuáles son los mecanismos que tenemos los hablantes para crear palabras). Hoy escribo en @eldiario.es sobre las novedades en el diccionario de la RAE www.eldiario.es/opinion/zona...

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Nuevas palabras en el diccionario: hablemos de los cómos

La fanfarria léxica con la que cerramos el año es una buena ocasión para admirar la sofisticación lingüística de la que hacemos gala los hablantes sin apenas darnos cuenta

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María Méndez Santos @mariaparrula.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

La convocatoria de los lectorados está abierta: www.aecid.es/becaslectora...

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Aoife K. Ahern @aka-madrid.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Working on L2 acquisition of tense / aspect / modality? The next TAML2 will be in Madrid! Nov. 27-28, 2025. Call for papers open till 19 Jan eventos.ucm.es/122980/detai... reposts appreciated🙏

Conference information: Tense, Aspect and Modality in L2, November 27-28, 2025 in Madrid, Spain, at Universidad Complutense.

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Brynn Quick @brynnquick.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

In the final episode of the @languageonthemove.bsky.social Life in a New Language series, I chat with @emilyjfarrell.bsky.social about being a citizen in a new language and what that means for a person's sense of identity. Spoiler alert: It's not easy! www.languageonthemove.com/life-in-a-ne...

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“Life in a New Language” now out

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is the 6th and final episode of our series devoted to our new book Life in a New Language, which has finally come out! To read a FREE chapter abou…

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Stockholm University 🇸🇪 looking for an Associate Professor of General #Linguistics. Typology and neurolinguistics are current themes in their group; dept also works in phonetics, lang acquisition and sign language. Application deadline: January 2025 su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Senior Lecturer in General Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics offers courses and programmes in two main areas: linguistics and sign language. Our researchers are active in areas such as child language development, computational ling

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PolSocGeo @polsocgeo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Young adults in Ireland are the least likely in the European Union to know an additional language, latest official figures show. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

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Young Irish are most likely in the European Union to struggle with foreign languages

Drop-off in numbers sitting French and German for Leaving Cert sparks concern

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

📢 4 permanent junior research positions at CNRS, France in #linguistics of which as a priority : - 1 "Oral & Multimodal Corpora, NLP & Under-resourced Languages". - 1 "Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Education" One month left to apply! carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-ext... #academicsky

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Concours externes des chercheurs (H/F) - CNRS Carrières

Consultez les offres, accédez à votre espace candidat et informez-vous sur le déroulement des concours.

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Aoife K. Ahern @aka-madrid.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

😅Eloquent!! A very telling example

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Beth Sutton-Ramspeck @bsutton-ramspeck.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do; Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too. Imagine all the people Livin' life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one. John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80

Time Magazine cover, headlined, "When the Music Died: John Lennon."
Image of John Lennon.

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

1) I'd like to draw attention to, what I think, is a really cool finding! Recently I ran a meta-analysis looking at how #bilingualism affects the white matter of the brain. We found that bilingualism is selectively associated with higher fractional anisitropy in ... ars.els-cdn.com/content/imag...

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Cadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Latin American journals have been at the forefront of open access publishing, setting an example for equitable knowledge sharing. Greater international engagement can help amplify their global impact and foster meaningful collaborations. #OpenAcess #OpenScience

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Latin American journals are open-access pioneers. Now, they need an audience

SciElo, other platforms work to help journals reach readers around the world

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