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Meggie Copsey-Blake

@mcopseyblake.bsky.social
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Doctoral researcher of education and language ideologies. Views my own. She/her

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
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Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Please join me on 12th November at my @universityofleeds.bsky.social professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’. More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/even...
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Professor Julia Snell's Inaugural Lecture: 'Language diversity and social (in)justice'
Drawing on research conducted over 20 years, Prof. Julia Snell interrogates the assumption that modifying children's speech will lead to educational success and social mobility.
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫 Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept doi.org/10.1002/rrq.... i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
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Stephen Pihlaja @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I'm going to make notes on Kamran Khan's plenary so follow away. #baal2025
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Meggie Copsey-Blake @mcopseyblake.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Great experience at #BAAL2025 @uofglasgow.bsky.social this weekend, presenting my PhD research on standard language ideologies in UK higher education - a really supportive and uplifting atmosphere and inspiring work being done in the field. Thanks to all involved 😊
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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Feeling the end of their city is coming, people are spending what they fear may be their last days in it with their families, having their single meal for the day, together. They are walking around their neighbourhoods, taking pictures" #GazaGenocide www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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In Gaza City, we are saying goodbye
Forced expulsion is looming and we know this time we may never see our homes again.
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Meggie Copsey-Blake @mcopseyblake.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Always deeply moved by the national marches for Palestine, we must protect our democratic right to protest. What is happening to Palestinians especially in Gaza is abhorrent - may we all be moved to action in whatever form it takes #FreePalestine
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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I’ve just read a very significant, utterly compelling article by @snelljulia.bsky.social on her research on classroom dialogue. If you read just one piece of research on Oracy between now and the summer, make it this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Using linguistic ethnography to uncover the mechanisms through which underprivileged students are denied access to classroom dialogue
This article opens up the ‘black box’ of classroom interaction to investigate why opportunities to participate in academically productive (or ‘dialogic’) classroom discussion may be more readily av...
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling. The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right. Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.
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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Anti-racism is not an individual mindset. It is collective action.
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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
A fascinating and balanced insight into ‘Whorfianism’ and related ideas www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking?
English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
As an educational linguist I would add that efforts to linguistically prepare students for ‘the real world’ erase the linguistic heterogeneity of the world by framing language as a static set of rules rather than a creative tool for making sense of the world and our role in it
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