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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

"Jonas Hassemer's clear-eyed and thought-provoking ethnography traces the complex dynamics of language underlying refugee support work, uncovering the insidious process by which neoliberal subjectivities are crafted under precarious conditions of labor." Order your copy now ⬇️

Cover of Inside Refugee Support Work - An Ethnography of Language, Labour and Subjectivity by Jonas Hassemer

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

What in the exoticization is that? (Wine was bad, too)

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

next read! (i wish i had the time to read it RIGHT NOW!) amazing @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social 💓🧠👀

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

it's out?!?! and you didn't say anything??? YAAAY

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Was sich da gestern im Regierungsviertel ereignet hat, dürfte ein denkwürdiger TV-Moment sein: Zur besten Sendezeit wird dem politischen Arm des Rechtsextremismus das Mikro gereicht, und weder Alice Weidel noch ihr Interviewer verstehen auch nur ein einziges Wort. Trotzdem machen beide unbeirrt…

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I was bored out of my mind this past month, reading paper on paper polished with GenAI, devoid of personal stances, individual voices and idiosyncracies... I will definitely ask for oral presentations next time!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/07/2025

The return to pen and paper has been a common response to A.I. among professors, with sales of blue books rising significantly at certain universities. Some instructors are even considering oral exams. “Maybe we go all the way back to 450 B.C.,” one said.

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What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

...one more reason to shift away from whatsapp and anything meta-related

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

You are all invited to the Open Launch of our edited volume "Critical Sociolinguistics: Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments" – in the presence of Monica Heller. Wed. 18 June 2025 // 8.00–9.30 Toronto (UTC-4) / 14.00–15.30 Zurich (UTC+2). For info & registration: zhaw.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Maledetti mostri, siate maledetti

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

such an important contribution. the language of AI erases all kinds of inequalities and discrimination connected to linguisitic varieties in its illusion of 'neutrality'

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

such an important contribution. the language of AI erases all kinds of inequalities and discrimination connected to linguisitic varieties in its illusion of 'neutrality'

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Das Netzwerk SprachenRechte bezieht Stellung zum neuen österreichischen Regierungsprogramm: www.sprachenrechte.at/stellungnahm... Diese kritische Stimme ist so wichtig – mehr denn je. Chapeau für das unermüdliches Engagement!

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Stellungnahme des Netzwerks SprachenRechte und des ÖDaF zum Regierungsprogramm 2025 – 2029 | Netzwerk SprachenRechte

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Seen -and appreciated - in Berne: "as long as you build on the patriarchy i will be feminist" By SOLANGE www.solange-theproject.com/netze/n31-mu...

Public art installation of a banner near the platform of the Münster im Berne that says : as long as you build on the patriarchy, i will be femimist.

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Had a lovely chat about hard men, hard times, and the funny little manosphere guys who’ve taken over the US govt — with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Alexander Reid Ross from @franetwork.bsky.social — check it out below!

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Florian @floriangrosser.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I'm delighted to announce that my first edited volume (with Patrick Heinrich and Saana Santalahti) is available for pre-order on Multilingual Matters' website. There's a 50% discount with the code: ICJ50. Our book explores new avenues to study ideologies of communication in Japan.

A flyer for the book "Ideologies of Communication in Japan". The book cover is seen on the left side and on an e book reader in the middle. On the cover, a woman is holding a phone. In the background is an imagr of Kabukicho in Tokyo. On the upper right corner information. 50 percent off with the code ICJ50 on Multilingual Matters website. The code expires on 31 July 2025.
In the lower right corner is a short appraisal by Jürgen Spitzmüller, University of Vienna.

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

it is all an absurdity. except obergurgl.

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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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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

...remember: the signifier is arbitrary

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Das weltweit größte Anti-Musk-Bild. 🙂

Ein Strand aus der Luft: jemand hat in den Sand riesig geschrieben „Don‘t buy a Tesla“

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 20/03/2025

Glad I got the opportunity to travel there in 2015...

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 15/03/2025

so many troubling things here. it really fucks me up how these stories gloss over the very obvious labour issues around fatigue, burnout, time as causes for human shortcomings, but never think to solve those problems, reaching for problematic solutions like AI instead. how very very sad for us all.

livescience.com

People find AI more compassionate than mental health experts, study finds. What could this mean for future counseling?

People find AI more compassionate and understanding than human mental health experts, a new study shows. Even when participants knew that they were talking to a human or AI, the third-party assessors ...

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

what an apt read on the brink of fascist revivals around the globe (holding my breath for the german elections today). Gary Younge is an astute observer and analyst (even if too optimistic about the real possibility of electoral facism), also when it comes to language...

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Can't spell neoliberal without AI

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

you're 100% correct! unfortunately this concerns most academic publications. also the open access options aren't equitable either. my formet university was big on financing OU, my current one not at all...

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

the book sounds very interesting!

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

translate to: "Has anyone tried any of the image-centred apps"... "Tired", oh so Freudian 😅

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

does anyone have tired any of the image-centred apps?

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DER STANDARD @derstandard.at · 12/02/2025

Blau-Schwarz geplatzt: FPÖ-Chef Kickl scheitert mit Regierungsbildung. www.derstandard.at/jetzt/livebe...

FPÖ-Chef Kickl scheitert mit Koalitionsbildung, legt Regierungsbildungsauftrag zurück

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

apparently today is the international day of women and girls in science. the fact that there is a "day" says it all. or did i miss the day dedicated to boys and men...?

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

...when you send in a chapter on questions as microaggressions and the white reviewers just don't understand the issue...

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Oder hier geht es ums Deutsch - was heisst das für das Schweizerdeutsch? Ein doppelter Aufwand quasi. Diese Sprach-Lohn-Berechnungen zeigen einen vereinfachten Blick auf komplexe Prozesse der Rekrutierung und Retention.

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Wenn es so einfach wäre. Ja zur Plurilingualität, unbedingt! Aber: mehr Sprachen sprechen, heisst nicht mehr verdienen. Es geht immer auch um die gewünschte Varietät (hier des Französischen) und den damit verbundenen Vorstellungen (prof. Habitus, Aussehen, Herkunft)... www.srf.ch/news/dialog/...

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Deutsch sprechen – ein Vorteil, der sich für Romands auszahlt

In mehr als einem Drittel der Stellenanzeigen in der Schweiz werden zwei Sprachen verlangt.

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Finally, I received the complimentary copies of the volume co-edited with Alfonso Del Percio - so satisfying to hold it in my hands! Editing this volume in the honour of Monica Heller was quite something but all the authors worked really hard and we can all be proud of it!

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