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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Looking for some reading to celebrate #internationalworkersday #MayDay? The Journal of #Sociolinguistics has a brilliant back catalogue of research on #language, #labour and #workers 💪 Take your pick from the suggestions below, or visit our website for more!

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Essex shutting a whole campus. Wild! 😳

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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

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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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.

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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

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Dr. Florence Bonacina-Pugh @bonacina-pugh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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.

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UCL Institute of Education @ioe.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"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/...

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Rethinking language education: evidence for England’s Curriculum and Assessment Review

Language education in school has significant transformational potential in terms of learners’ right to a well-rounded education and the enhancement of their life chances… (read more)

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Dr. Hannah M. King @hmking-linguist.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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

The GRAND MULTI-LITERACY Event 2025

An online - live - free event for multilingual families and educators teaching multilingual students

From Friday 19th to Sunday 21st September 2025

on YouTube: Library4Multilnguals

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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)?

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Pernelle Lorette @pernellel.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

* 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?

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Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

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/...

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Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word....

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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

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Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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...

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CivTech Challenge 11.2 — Gaelic language data sparsity — CivTech

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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

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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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

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Cringe: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust @uebercringe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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

conference poster with details, see https://uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber-cringe/

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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.

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 23/06/2025

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

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Liquid Languages

Cambridge Core - African and Caribbean Language and Linguistics - Liquid Languages

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Dr Celia Antoniou @celiagr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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Linguistics in MFL Project @inmfl.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🚨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

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Linguistics could make language learning more relevant – and attractive – for school pupils

A languages curriculum enriched with linguistics is appealing to students and teachers.

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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

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RISE UP @riseup-he.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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?

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Policy Roundtable (RISE UP & NPLD)

Policy Roundtable: Bridging the Gap Between Language Policy Planning and Language Policy Making

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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

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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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

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Sheffield City of Languages

Sheffield - a City of Languages

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Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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

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Looking back – Looking ahead | Language in Society | Cambridge Core

Looking back – Looking ahead - Volume 54 Issue 1

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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. 💡

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Deirdre Dunlevy @deirdreirl.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

'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...

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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...

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“I haven’t seen any results yet”: on ethical collaborative research in linguistics and the need for a standard protocol

What does ‘good’ ethical conduct in linguistics look like from the perspective of the communities with whom we work? We address this question by drawing on observations from a community-bridging and k...

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Emma Humphries (she/her) @emhumps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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

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Five year olds 'link accents with intelligence'

A study finds young children think someone with a

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Gise Tomé Lourido @gisetomelourido.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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

White banner with an image of a researcher focused on her work. The words 'BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants' are written on the right-hand side

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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

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UCL Institute of Education @ioe.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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

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Teaching citizenship – Practical guidance, inspiration & resources

How to go about teaching citizenship in a way that develops students to be critically informed and keen to participate in democracy

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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.

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

📢 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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Wer die Sprache nicht kann, soll separat beschult werden! | Nau.ch

«Schulen sollten Kinder mit geringen sprachlichen Kompetenzen separat beschulen», findet Inklusionsberaterin Clarita Kunz in ihrer Kolumne.

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EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Get this 👇🏼

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