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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 14/01/2025

In my ongoing aim of making my research more accessible, I thought I'd compile a thread of where you can find my publications in open access form, and also some TLDR summaries. Will pin this somewhere for future reference! I'll do it chronologically as a way of mapping my research journey too... 🧵

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 22/09/2026

I don't know if your podcast accepts episode requests, but this looks like it merits some kind of discussion @djag2.bsky.social @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 16/09/2026

A busy and amazing week in Ghent is almost over! So grateful for the opportunity to visit this special place once again and spend time thinking and talking about interesting and important topics with brilliant minds

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 11/09/2026

Any Bluesky friends in NSW, please consider reading and signing this parliamentary petition. Led by some fantastic colleagues, it seeks action for a 1988 murder conviction based on flawed confession evidence. Petition here: www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/parliamentar...

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 08/09/2026

Back on the road again, excited for another trip to Belgium and a quick trip to England too! Such a busy work time and early summer weather that I forgot to pack a coat! 🫣

Laura sitting at station, smiling in a selfie next to a blue suitcase

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 02/09/2026

Here's a great example of how harmful media and political discourse can presumably have a huge impact on public perception....

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ethnonationalism, to put it politely. (Source: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...)

Graph showing: The public wrongly assume most people convicted of homicide are from an ethnic minority. In fact, 64% are white – but the public's median guess is just 45%. Conversely, they overestimate the ethnic-minority share, putting it at 55% when the reality is 35%.
And Reform UK supporters are most wide of the mark on both measures, guessing just 30% of homicide convicts are white and as many as 70% are from an ethnic minority.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 31/08/2026

In a totally novel & completely surprising move [sarcasm], the "media" are questioning the trustworthiness of the PM's Chinese interpreter. "The broader danger is that citizenship remains formally equal while the burden of proving loyalty becomes unevenly distributed." 👏@elenacollinson.bsky.social

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

”Blasts have been reported in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, where a bomb-disposal team was dispatched to check a forest threatened by flames near a site of fierce fighting in the Limburg province in 1944.” #EU27 #HeatWave apnews.com/article/euro...

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Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII

The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 10/08/2026

New podcast to add to my to listen list!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Relatedly, any organization that claims to be taking a "human-centered" approach, but is only asking "How do we use [whatever tech] responsibly?" and not "Should we use [tech] at all" is in fact centering the tech, and not the people. >>

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 02/08/2026

Finally read this incredible book - Chai time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran. www.sbs.com.au/audio/podcas...

Green and colourful paperback sitting on a timber surface

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 27/07/2026

Prof Achinthi C Vithanage will deliver the UNE Law School's Kirby seminar on the 4th of August on "The evolution of the role of the lawyer in promoting environmental sustainability" in person in Parramatta and online via Zoom. All welcome! www.une.edu.au/about-une/fa...

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2026 Kirby Seminar List

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 22/07/2026

In academia, we spend a lot of time applying for things... it seems like constantly, sometimes. So this makes this award very special - I had no idea I was being nominated, and had no expectation that I'd win it. A really touching surprise all round 🩷

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 21/07/2026

Finaaaallly getting the chance to listen to Called to the Bar podcast series about international law. Excellent discussions about the law, but also really lovely reflections on career paths and life. @djag2.bsky.social 🤗

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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"The report highlighted regular lockdowns caused by staff shortages, a lack of resources to address mental health issues [...] there was no Aboriginal health worker at the time of the inspection, "despite 37 per cent of the [prison] population being Aboriginal".

abc.net.au

Aboriginal death in custody confirmed at privately-run NSW prison

A 21-year-old Aboriginal man has died at the privately-run Clarence Correctional Centre in northern NSW.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 16/07/2026

"literacy programs for marginalized populations have been pared down...we need to listen to diverse voices from varied theoretical and geopolitical backgrounds. This will foster a broad and inclusive science of reading that deepens —rather than simplifies— what it means to read &to become a reader."

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As always, if you appreciate our work, *please* consider donating. We're struggling in the current funding & media environment to keep our paywall-free, ad-free newsroom going and we need your help to do it: globalvoices.org/donate/

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Support freedom of expression for everyone, everywhere, by donating to Global Voices.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder

Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/07/2026

Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU

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Eleven more Trump deportees arrive in Eswatini from the United States, lawyer says

Eleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a policy of sending them to third ‌countries arrived in Eswatini from the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. lawyer following the case ...

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 09/07/2026

Another great episode! The genealogical approach to raciolinguistics is fantastic - as Prof Flores explains, sometimes we can more easily spot racist ideologies in the past, than in the present. Tracing their evolution over timeand context helps to call out and make sense of current ones too.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You too can have an accessible conference! Accessibility makes things better for everyone! Open access guidelines, compiled by Alexandra R. A. Lee & me, here 👉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #MedievalSky #IMC2026 🗃️

Alexandra R.A. Lee and Alicia Spencer-Hall

Making Conferences More Accessible

Introduction

Many who work in academic settings live with impairments and/or chronic con-ditions, which mean that attending conferences can be a difficult issue. This can be the case for students, early-career researchers, independent scholars, tenured academics, and support staff. All require their needs to be taken into account so that their conference experience is as good as it possibly can be. After the first meetup of Medievalists with Disabilities in 2017, we crowdsourced ideas of how to make conferences more accessible. The ideas presented here came from this meetup, Twitter discussions with the community, and from the Medievalists with Disabilities Slack channel, an online communication platform. This document is the result of that collaborative work, which we have edited together into a more cohesive format. We have revisited and updated the original document, particu-larly bearing in mind the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nature of con-ference attendance.

These guidelines aim to make conference attendance easier and indeed just simply possible for disabled people and people with chronic conditions by imple-menting certain strategies. If these guidelines are followed, it should mean less work for disabled and chronically ill people. Also, if they became standard, it would significantly improve accessibility. Many of the suggestions do not require many changes or much effort or expense but would make a huge difference to those they would support. You will notice that we have taken guidance from around the world, and a multitude of different contexts: while we are medieval-ists, after the first section, the guidance we offer is not disciplinary-specific and is universally applicable for academic events.2

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It’s the 114th anniversary of the opening ceremony of the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm—the first at which poetry was a category you could win a medal for. The gold was taken by... er, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, President of the International Olympic Committee 🧵

Orange poster for the Olympiska Spelen Stockholm 1912, 29 Juni-22 Juli, showing a naked man waving a Swedish flag. An orange ribbon curls across the picture, just concealing his groin

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 30/06/2026

Final day to read and endorse our short submission 👇🏽 We've been so happy to see the wonderful support it's already received.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 30/06/2026

"Our findings reveal that Australian media doesn’t just report on childhood multilingualism – it actively constructs and maintains linguistic inequalities through racialised framings. The same linguistic practices are valued entirely differently based on children’s racial position."

languageonthemove.com

Childhood bilingualism is a gift; for some …

*** Naomi Fillmore, Hanna Torsh, Yanisa Jakklom *** Imagine four Australian children playing in a playground. Yu speaks Chinese and English, Jakob speaks Arabic and English, Molly, who is from the …

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Access to many human rights remains substantially contingent on language proficiency Read and support our submission to the NSW Human Rights Enquiry🙏

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 25/06/2026

One week left to read and endorse this submission! We welcome endorsements from anyone, regardless of if you are in NSW/Australia or elsewhere.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 27/06/2026

So I'm just back from two weeks in Belgium and it was so (good) busy I didn't have time to post, so I'm belatedly beginning with something I brought back home. I'm calling it "for science".

Two blocks of côté d'or milk chocolate with paper wrappers. They look the same in their style, white background, red lettering, but one is primarily in Dutch and the other primarily in French. They say Tu as de la force comme les red flames/ jij bent een krak zoals de red flames, with a picture of a woman with handwritten name Tessa Wullaert

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 25/06/2026

One week left to read and endorse this submission! We welcome endorsements from anyone, regardless of if you are in NSW/Australia or elsewhere.

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Tazin Abdullah @tazinabdullah.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Please read and support this submission to the NSW Human Rights Enquiry, advocating to protect the rights of people with limited English proficiency. ⬇️ @languageonthemove.bsky.social @lawandlanguage.org

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 21/06/2026

NSW has a Human Rights Bill currently under consideration. We've put together a submission advocating for the inclusion of protections to help ensure people with limited English proficiency can equally access their rights. Endorsements are welcome. Read more @languageonthemove.bsky.social

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Rights of People with Limited English Language Proficiency

The New South Wales (NSW) Parliament is currently holding an inquiry into the Human Rights Bill 2025. The Bill proposes to establish a statutory human rights framework for NSW (for non-Australian r…

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Rights of People with Limited English Language Proficiency

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 10/06/2026

Did you know that Islam has a long tradition of celebrating drunkenness? Don't believe me? Listen to this fascinating podcast where @tazinabdullah.bsky.social interviews Dr Oludamini about both his scholarship and creative works, and how they are closely related.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

'“It remains absolutely essential that the truth regarding the history, contributions, perspectives and lived experiences of black people in Britain and across the global diaspora is preserved, taught and championed.” (Kimberlé Crenshaw) Well and succinctly put.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Heads up for academics (inc ECR/PGRs) who work in green/responsible/sustainable finance, investment, and related topics. The UN-backed PRI are offering prizes (big ones! thousands of pounds!) for the best research in this area w/opportunity to attend conference. Deadline 26 June - pdf in link

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Salesforce

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 05/06/2026

There were some really valuable reflections on collegial relationships and collaboration in this teaching case study interview. I think these reflections hold true well beyond the teaching context too

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 28/05/2026

Really excited to be returning to lovely Belgium and beautiful Ghent, not once but hopefully twice this year! 🤗

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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

These graphs are for Australian academia. But I’m sure the same must be true if the UK. The decline of academic staff is outpaced only by the increase in admin staff to ensure compliance with and deliver data for the metrics by which academic staff are evaluated.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 21/05/2026

When teaching law in context, we discuss the goals of legislation when it comes to influencing people's/ other legal entities behaviour. While I can appreciate there needed to be a maximum penalty, this is a great example of how poorly these are likely to deter big companies

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 21/05/2026

There's never a day that goes by when Critical Discourse Analysis is irrelevant. Basic journalistic ethics clearly don't even enter into the picture sometimes...

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