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Riaz Laghari

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Lecturer in English | Researcher in Comparative & Theoretical Syntax and Psycholinguistics

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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Chaser the Dog Shows Off Her Smarts to Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Silicon Oracle and the Domestic Abyss
AI & Education!
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT and Language Sciences Funding
How to Find International Funding in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT and Language Sciences
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Egophoricity, Mental Anchoring & Grammar
Martina Wiltschko’s recent work on Kathmandu Newā, presented in the Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series with Shahani Singh Shrestha, addresses a…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The education revolution Pakistan needs
We do not need more graduates who can reproduce information. We need young people who can question it, investigate it, write about it and…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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What 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…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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BS English to Politics: International Pathways
From BS English to Politics: Universities That Open the Door to a Different Academic Future
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ph.D. Financial Assistance - Applied Linguistics | Riaz Hussain
Fully 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...
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Building a Capability Pipeline at Our Universities
From Inquiry to Scholarship, From Scholarship to Leadership
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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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… ...
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...
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Brain’s Default Mode
The Discovery of the Brain’s Default Mode
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The Lacunar Unsaid
What Hesitations, Pauses and Silence Reveal About the Human Voice
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Why 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.
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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When Institutions Decay, Merit Becomes a Liability
Beyond the rhetoric of underdevelopment, the real crisis is the erosion of institutions that make competence, integrity and long-term…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Harvesting Desperation
A democracy is supposed to transform people from subjects into citizens. Yet when poverty becomes politically useful, citizenship can…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two Research Fellowships at King’s College Cambridge | Theme: Replication www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSQ576/t... www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/cur...
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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LINGUISTICS PUBLISHING PATHWAYS
The Linguist’s Publishing & Research Excellence Ecosystem
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Why are Pakistani students missing out?
research-ready applicants!
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Can the UN General Assembly Deliver Peace and Economic Relief to Ordinary People?
Beyond the Glass Podium
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Can the UN General Assembly Deliver Peace and Economic Relief to Ordinary People?
Beyond the Glass Podium
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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From “Having” Diplomas to “Being” Educated
A 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…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Grammar, Standard English, and Linguistic Agency
Grammar has an unusual place in public consciousness. Few other domains of human knowledge generate such strong feelings about correctness…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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How English Teachers and Graduates Can Build Legitimate Online Careers
Beyond 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 …
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Pāṇini: Grammar
Pāṇini: Grammar From Ancient Gandhāra to Formal Linguistics
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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When We Mistake Our Tools for Our Minds
Charles Darwin made a profound observation: human beings possess an instinctive propensity for speech, visible in the spontaneous babbling…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL and Language Sciences Opportunities
International Funding and Research Opportunities in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL and Language Sciences- A guide for students…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis | PNAS
Functional imaging studies have shown that certain brain regions, including posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and ventral anterior cingulate cortex ...
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL and Language Sciences Opportunities
International Funding and Research Opportunities in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL and Language Sciences- A guide for students…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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The Ghost in the Machine Is Still a Ghost
Why Yuval Noah Harari’s Theory of AI Mistakes Language for Thought
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Bicameralism, Inner Speech and the Making of the Self
Endophasia!
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Silence as a Syntactic and Pragmatic Primitive
The Lexicon of the Unsaid
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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The Container Metropolis
Islamabad was imagined as a city of trees, avenues and measured distances: a capital whose topography was meant to embody order without…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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What Are We Educating Human Beings For?
What if education began with a question?
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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The Most Important Thing We Can Teach Students Is How to Ask a Question
Education has spent centuries teaching children to search for answers.It is time, methinketh, we taught them, systematically and patiently…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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What If Education Were Nothing but Questions?
What if education began with the question and refused to end with the answer?
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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When Moore’s Law Meets the Origin of Life
Few scientific ideas are more arresting than the possibility that life began before Earth existed. In 2013, Alexei Sharov and Richard…
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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ERICH FROMM: Psychology, Language, and the Human Condition
Alienation, Social Character, Cognition, and the Struggle for Meaning
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For 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...
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Classrooms as part of the security apparatus!
Education as expendable variable in our crisis-management equation!
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For most of history, anonymous was a woman. ~ Virginia Woolf
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Cognitive Colonialism
The Geopolitics of Prompt Literacy
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The Sovereign Default as a Global Design Flaw
Debt crisis and way out
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Climate Apartheid and the Metaphysics of Resilience
Climate Uncertainty on the Horizon
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The Bureaucracy of Surveillance
Digital ID and the Post-Westphalian State
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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What Pakistan Reveals About a Fracturing World
The Crucible of the Periphery
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Democracy Must Reach the Street Corner
A New Social Contract
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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A Dangerous Game
A Letter to Pakistan's Young People
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Riaz Laghari @riazlaghari.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fully 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...
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LINGUIST List 37.2908 Support: Western Nilotic; Morphology, Syntax, Typology: PhD, Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey
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