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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 · 19/11/2025

I SO feel you! Who designs such systems? It’s just ridiculous.

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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

What else have you noticed is trending in discourse?

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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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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

A global phenomenon liebe Judith!! Seminar aber klingt wichtig und spannend.

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Hi Julia, would you mind sending me the link to join online? Thanks ☺️

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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

"Will future theses and papers feature disclaimers such as “drafted by ChatGPT — translated by DeepL — rephrased by Quillbot — spell-checked by Grammarly — images by MidJourney — all prompts available in Appendix A”? (Teubner et al. 2023)

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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 · 08/08/2025

Oh thank you!! 🤩 and yes, totally agreed on your points!

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

Now marking my cohort's papers which are original, exploratory and daring in terms of the topics researched. Thanks to my students for shaping this novel course together with me!

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

It was so much fun learning together about the affordances, challenges and futures of AI in linguistics, to cover topics like AI and language/culture bias, voice AI and sociolinguistic disparities, AI and translation, AI and ethics.

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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 · 04/08/2025

Och! Diss-Kapitel haben sich frische Augen verdient ;-)

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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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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Wobei ich finde, dass es im dt. akademischen Raum wenig Diskussion zu Language and Social Class gibt (sei es im Edu-Bereich oder im Linguistik Bereich). Im Anglo-Bereich gibt es hier einiges einiges.

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Ja!! Genau so ist’s. Und dazu brauchen wir endlich mehr bzw. wieder Forschung - class and (language) education

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Oh I have an Osman at home as well!! Quite liked it.

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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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