Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 02/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=omaH...youtube.comChaser the Dog Shows Off Her Smarts to Neil deGrasse TysonYouTube video by NOVA PBS Official 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/the-silico...riazlaghari.substack.comThe Silicon Oracle and the Domestic AbyssAI & Education! 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comLinguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT and Language Sciences FundingHow to Find International Funding in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT and Language Sciences 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comEgophoricity, Mental Anchoring & GrammarMartina Wiltschko’s recent work on Kathmandu Newā, presented in the Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series with Shahani Singh Shrestha, addresses a… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comThe education revolution Pakistan needsWe do not need more graduates who can reproduce information. We need young people who can question it, investigate it, write about it and… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comWhat If Universities Taught Students How to Think, Not Just What to Know?The real measure of education may not be how many courses a student completes, but how well they can question, investigate, write, reason… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comBS English to Politics: International PathwaysFrom BS English to Politics: Universities That Open the Door to a Different Academic Future 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026lnkd.in/p/dMyfegQVlnkd.inPh.D. Financial Assistance - Applied Linguistics | Riaz HussainFully Funded PhD in Applied Linguistics | Penn State University The Department of Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) states that it fully funds all of its PhD studen... 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/building-a...riazlaghari.substack.comBuilding a Capability Pipeline at Our UniversitiesFrom Inquiry to Scholarship, From Scholarship to Leadership 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026lnkd.in/p/d9nwTsAUlnkd.inWhat can we learn from the best ideas in the world, and how can we adapt them intelligently to our own students, universities and society? 1. Right Question Institute (RQI), USA Question Formulation… ...What can we learn from the best ideas in the world, and how can we adapt them intelligently to our own students, universities and society? 1. Right Question Institute (RQI), USA Question Formulation T... 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comBrain’s Default ModeThe Discovery of the Brain’s Default Mode 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comThe Lacunar UnsaidWhat Hesitations, Pauses and Silence Reveal About the Human Voice 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comWhy Are Pakistani Students Missing Out on the World’s Best Universities?The problem is not a lack of intelligence. It is a failure to build academic readiness. 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comWhen Institutions Decay, Merit Becomes a LiabilityBeyond the rhetoric of underdevelopment, the real crisis is the erosion of institutions that make competence, integrity and long-term… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comHarvesting DesperationA democracy is supposed to transform people from subjects into citizens. Yet when poverty becomes politically useful, citizenship can… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026riazlaghari.blogspot.com/2026/06/100-...riazlaghari.blogspot.com 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Two Research Fellowships at King’s College Cambridge | Theme: Replication www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSQ576/t... www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/cur...jobs.ac.ukJobs | Job Search | Job Vacancies on jobs.ac.ukStart your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top... 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comLINGUISTICS PUBLISHING PATHWAYSThe Linguist’s Publishing & Research Excellence Ecosystem 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/why-are-pa...riazlaghari.substack.comWhy are Pakistani students missing out?research-ready applicants! 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/can-the-un...riazlaghari.substack.comCan the UN General Assembly Deliver Peace and Economic Relief to Ordinary People?Beyond the Glass Podium 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/can-the-un...riazlaghari.substack.comCan the UN General Assembly Deliver Peace and Economic Relief to Ordinary People?Beyond the Glass Podium 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026riazlaghariblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/f...riazlaghariblog.wordpress.comFrom “Having” Diplomas to “Being” EducatedA diploma can be framed. A transcript can be filed. A degree can be displayed. But can education be possessed? Erich Fromm’s distinction between “having” and “being” in To Have or to Be? (1976) off… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comGrammar, Standard English, and Linguistic AgencyGrammar has an unusual place in public consciousness. Few other domains of human knowledge generate such strong feelings about correctness… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026riazlaghariblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/h...riazlaghariblog.wordpress.comHow English Teachers and Graduates Can Build Legitimate Online CareersBeyond the Classroom For generations, an English degree appeared to lead to a familiar destination: the classroom. A graduate studied language and literature, completed teacher training, entered a … 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comPāṇini: GrammarPāṇini: Grammar From Ancient Gandhāra to Formal Linguistics 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comWhen We Mistake Our Tools for Our MindsCharles Darwin made a profound observation: human beings possess an instinctive propensity for speech, visible in the spontaneous babbling… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comLinguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL and Language Sciences OpportunitiesInternational Funding and Research Opportunities in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL and Language Sciences- A guide for students… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A default mode of brain function | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgFunctional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis | PNASFunctional imaging studies have shown that certain brain regions, including posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and ventral anterior cingulate cortex ... 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comLinguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL and Language Sciences OpportunitiesInternational Funding and Research Opportunities in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL and Language Sciences- A guide for students… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comThe Ghost in the Machine Is Still a GhostWhy Yuval Noah Harari’s Theory of AI Mistakes Language for Thought 022
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comBicameralism, Inner Speech and the Making of the SelfEndophasia! 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comSilence as a Syntactic and Pragmatic PrimitiveThe Lexicon of the Unsaid 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comThe Container MetropolisIslamabad was imagined as a city of trees, avenues and measured distances: a capital whose topography was meant to embody order without… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comWhat Are We Educating Human Beings For?What if education began with a question? 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comThe Most Important Thing We Can Teach Students Is How to Ask a QuestionEducation has spent centuries teaching children to search for answers.It is time, methinketh, we taught them, systematically and patiently… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comWhat If Education Were Nothing but Questions?What if education began with the question and refused to end with the answer? 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comWhen Moore’s Law Meets the Origin of LifeFew scientific ideas are more arresting than the possibility that life began before Earth existed. In 2013, Alexei Sharov and Richard… 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026medium.com/@riazleghari...medium.comERICH FROMM: Psychology, Language, and the Human ConditionAlienation, Social Character, Cognition, and the Struggle for Meaning 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026For students interested in cognition, neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, related fields: The Max Planck School of Cognition is holding online Q&A sessions today Registration: September 23rd, 10am CET: eu02web.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... September 23rd, 5pm CET : eu02web.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...eu02web.zoom-x.deWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Q&A Session Morning. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Q&A Session Morning. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. 010
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/classrooms...riazlaghari.substack.comClassrooms as part of the security apparatus!Education as expendable variable in our crisis-management equation! 000
Reposted by Riaz Laghariphoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026For most of history, anonymous was a woman. ~ Virginia Woolf 222167510
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/cognitive-...riazlaghari.substack.comCognitive ColonialismThe Geopolitics of Prompt Literacy 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/the-sovere...riazlaghari.substack.comThe Sovereign Default as a Global Design FlawDebt crisis and way out 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/climate-ap...riazlaghari.substack.comClimate Apartheid and the Metaphysics of ResilienceClimate Uncertainty on the Horizon 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/the-bureau...riazlaghari.substack.comThe Bureaucracy of SurveillanceDigital ID and the Post-Westphalian State 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/what-pakis...riazlaghari.substack.comWhat Pakistan Reveals About a Fracturing WorldThe Crucible of the Periphery 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/a-new-soci...riazlaghari.substack.comDemocracy Must Reach the Street CornerA New Social Contract 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026riazlaghari.substack.com/p/a-dangerou...riazlaghari.substack.comA Dangerous GameA Letter to Pakistan's Young People 000
Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Fully Funded PhD in Morphosyntax — University of Surrey, UK The Surrey Morphology Group (SMG), University of Surrey is inviting applications for a fully funded four-year PhD studentship in West Nilotic morphosyntax. Application: University of Surrey PhD application www.surrey.ac.uk/postgraduate...linguistlist.org LINGUIST List 37.2908 Support: Western Nilotic; Morphology, Syntax, Typology: PhD, Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online. 000