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Jonathan Kasstan

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Reader in Sociolinguistics, Westminster | Research on language in society | Associate Editor, Journal of Sociolinguistics | Research Notes Editor, Journal of French Language Studies. sites.google.com/view/jonathan-kass…

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Aboriginal languages in Australia’s parliament
Last year, I wrote here on Language on the Move about Members of Parliament (MPs) across Australia making linguistic diversity visible. My research amplifies the increasing numbers of elected repre…
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29/09/2026
SNAP POLL / By 48% to 28%, Britons support Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Definitely not me. I would not have the wherewithal to come up with a title as profound as ‘Research’.
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Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus @medericgc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
« Le français standard existe-t-il ? » Le podcast enregistré avec Elisa de @FrenchMorningsPodcast est en ligne. On y parle de norme(s), d’usages, d’accents, d’affrication, de purisme, de glottophobie, du marseillais, d’histoire de la langue, de rapports de pouvoir… 👇🏼 m.youtube.com/watch?v=64Oq...
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Ep 70 - Le français standard existe-t-il? avec Médéric Gasquet Cyrus Podcast français intermédiaire
YouTube video by French Mornings Podcast
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
‘Opaque’ UK academic system a barrier for displaced scholars. UK Young Academy launches guide to help at-risk researchers rebuild careers. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
English to be taught before French in Algerian primary schools (I can attest from experience that proficiency in English is far higher in Algeria than it was a couple of decades ago. But I expect it will be a while before that filters through to most institutions...)
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jobs: Japanese; General Linguistics: Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Japanese Linguistics, The Ohio State University
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Jobs: Japanese; General Linguistics: Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Japanese Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Description: The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL) at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Japanese linguistics with a start date of August 15, 2027. We seek an outstanding scholar in any area of Japanese linguistics. The successful candidate will teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, helping them develop the analytical skills needed to investigate Japanese language data while engaging with c
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EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We remember Deborah Cameron in this piece by the emag editors and Lia Litosseliti, Jo Angouri & @iancushing.bsky.social
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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Looks like this includes linguistics!!
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rosen does historical #linguistics this week!
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A conversation with @damianblasi.bsky.social about linguistic diversity and what it can tell us. Linguistic diversity is a precious part of our species' heritage. It also offers a wellspring of clues about history, culture, and the human mind. Listen: disi.org/the-natural-...
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James Grama @dalaigrama.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
JOB ALERT! Come work with me and Isabelle Buchstaller in Essen, Germany on lifespan change! Whoever's interested can contact Isa (see ad) or, if you prefer, me! linguistlist.org/issues/37/27...
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LINGUIST List 37.2723 Jobs: Sociolinguistics: Postdoctoral Fellow With Expertise in Variationist Sociolinguistics, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Sociolinguistics Lab
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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Gabriel Gilbert @gabrielgilbert.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
hello world
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 30/08/2026
The Nordic Journal of Linguistics is curating a special issue dedicated to the past, present, and future of the Saami languages. We invite contributions on Saami languages and Saami linguistics. We also welcome studies with varied linguistic methodologies, topics and more. 📚 cup.org/49ZHZLp
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A piece on #Guaraní renaissance in #Paraguay #linguistics
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jobs: Semantics: Assistant Professor - Semantics - Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
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Jobs: Semantics: Assistant Professor - Semantics - Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Description: Position Overview: Position title: Assistant Professor Salary range: The current salary range for this position is $84,100–$132,900 (9-month academic year salary), however, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions. Anticipated start: July 1, 2027 Application Window: Open date: August 24, 2026 Next review date: Monday, Oct 5, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) - App
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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A week left to apply for this position. Full-time, permanent Lecturer in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. Come and join an amazing team. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Discourse Studies
Linguistics and English Language within the School of Social Sciences at Lancaster University seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Discourse Studies (full-time, indefinite). You will join the discipline...
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Berkeley Linguistics is hiring a semanticist! Consider applying and spreading the word! Our department was founded 125 years ago as the first linguistics department in the country. This is a nice celebration of Berkeley linguistics legacy! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05458
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Assistant Professor - Semantics - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 24/08/2026
Hey bluesky, I'm looking for some brainstorming help! So, mine and @superlinguo.bsky.social's 10th anniversary of making @lingthusiasm.com is coming up in November, and I'm trying to figure out some fun things to do for it, especially things that could get more people enthusiastic about linguistics
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John Walsh @nuachainteoir.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Proposal to promote Cornish in linguistic landscape. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Council bids to use Cornish language on road signs
Cornwall Council says using Cornish place names on road signs would help promote the language.
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In preparation for my quant methods class, I've apparently written ~35 pages of how-tos about tech config, "How do I...?" and "What is...?" They're all CC-BY-NC, and most pages have a typst pdf version.
lin611-2026.github.io
How Tos – Lin611 - Quantitative Methods
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#accent in the press last week with a write up featuring @robdrummond.bsky.social and Amanda Cole. Generic Northern (supralocalisation?) and a brief history of accent variation in the corridors of power #linguistics. Incidentally Hansard is a great tool for in-class tasks!
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oh how I miss fieldwork! #linguistics
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The OSF is being axed 😔
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A fabulous week in #Paris working on re-centring #language shift and #revitalization in #linguistics neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/research/lin...
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"I grew up speaking a language I was ashamed of."⁠ ⁠ In this new article, Louis Gomis, a speaker of Guboï from Guinea-Bissau, shares the story of how growing up away from his language never stopped him from loving it - and how he now works to keep it alive. endangeredlanguages.com/story/langua...
A hand drawn map of the “Pays Manjak” with text “The Language I was Ashamed Of, by Louis Gomis”
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🎥 Call for videos! ELP is gathering video messages to share on August 9, the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples - we invite you all to share some greetings and good wishes for other Indigenous communities on this day. ⁠ ⁠ Want to share a video? Here's how to contribute:⁠ 🧵
Flyer with title “Call for Video Greetings”. On the left is a smartphone screen with a cartoon of two people and a speech bubble with a waving hand inside it. Text reads “Share your greetings and good wishes to other communities around the world for International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples!”
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#Humanities Forward is out and it’s all 🔓 thanks to funding from AHRC. Therein we ( @inmfl.bsky.social ) we offer a manifesto for #linguistics in UK-based #language teaching off the back of work we have done with teachers ! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... @hetanshah.bsky.social
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Humanities Forward | Home
Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...
New Yorker article title "Sometimes It's Okay to Let a Language Die" with "Sometimes It's" crossed out in red ink and "IT'S NOT" written above it. To the right is text "A Response to The New Yorker" and the ELP logo.
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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I have a new paper out in Science today with colleagues Damian Blasi, Marcus Hamilton, and Russell Gray. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
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Anna Belew @nabelew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The arguments against language reclamation haven't changed much in the nearly 20 years I've been working in this field: "It costs too much." "People are choosing to abandon their languages, so let them." "They have no practical use." "It's just sentimental nostalgia." Fuck All That, a thread:
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Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die
When cultural preservation comes at the expense of speakers’ decisions, sometimes it's O.K. to let a language die.
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
For several years now, @timoroettger.bsky.social and I have been working on an online course on how to effectively communicate data. It's shaping up nicely and we can't wait to share it soon. Sign up for our mailing list to not miss the launch: making-numbers-meaningful.github.io
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Making Numbers Meaningful
Get updates about when and where we launch our online course on data communication.
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#Accents (ou bien #glottophobie) in the news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mocking regional accents is last form of acceptable discrimination, says MP
MPs debated how prejudice against strong regional accents could affect social mobility in Westminster Hall.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It’s safe to say I won’t be batting people away with a stick in a deluge of requests but just in case 🤣
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.
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UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Have a languages project in mind? Apply for a UCFL Small Grant! 📢 Deadline 17 July 2026 university-council-for-languages.org/our-research...
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Small Grants | University Council For Languages
UCFL has made available small-scale grant funding to facilitate projects that support the languages mission and values of the organisation.
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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
One more week to apply for this 3-year postdoc position on the syntax of interactive linguistics: deadline 10 July. Come work with me! careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Postdoct...
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Postdoctoral researcher Syntax of interactional linguistics
Postdoctoral researcher Syntax of interactional linguistics
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
reminder that despite valiant efforts and alternative proposals, the University of Essex now only offers Spanish & French to new students — cutting German, Portuguese and Italian + our all non-credit language classes many of our students are local & many are the first in their families to go to uni
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This smells of Turton and Schleef! #linguistics
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
BBC #QuestionTime was in #Exeter this week and inevitably the cuts to the deep university/ #Humanities came up. Completely uninspiring responses. Our elected clearly still do not have a plan, or even an idea for the sector (at least that they are willing to articulate).
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We are having our Peppa Pig moment.
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What a job Johan has done too!
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This was a fun year-end CLSS event! More in the next! #linguistics #London
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Presumably we're going to call the Northern No 10 Winterfell?
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Sabine Egger @sabineegger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Support colleagues in Exeter by signing petition c.org/yKcx6Zr29H! Reduction in staff is disproportionately focused on roles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Affected subjects include English, History, Philosophy, Sociology of Health, and Modern Languages. c.org/TZyHCcn47V
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵
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Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants
Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Children embrace Cornish language as it enjoys ‘remarkable resurgence’
Go Cornish Celebration engages younger generation as council finalises strategy to boost everyday use of Kernewek
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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I made a tutorial on how to plot grambank data with R for my grad students, thought I'd share while I'm at it. If I get around to doing part 2 (adding the second data set, highlighting one language), I'll keep you posted.
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Creating a typological map with R
In this tutorial, we learn how to create a typological map with R, in R studio. This is the first part, in which we plot data from Grambank to a map of Cameroon
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