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Sally Akins

@sallyakins.bsky.social
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MA Applied Linguistics student @ University of Birmingham | Freelance writer | #Shropshire UK | All views my own, RT≠ endorsement, she/her

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I co- wrote this Observer Food guide to some of the world's most interesting noodle dishes with Holly O'Neill observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
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The world’s favourite noodles | The Observer
Chow mein, tonkotsu, the brilliantly named ‘ants climbing a tree’… Here are some of the world's most interesting and delicious noodles
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
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Sally Akins @sallyakins.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Oh hello Bluesky - it's been a while 👋
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/01/2026
I hope a lot of white women are seeing all those MAGA men out there claiming that Renee Good deserved to be publicly executed simply because of the way she looked and sounded - and are thinking “wait a minute, she looked and sounded just like me.”
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Looking for #Shropshire people to meet on Bluesky? I put together a starter pack for you. As more people from the county join, I’ll add them. Hope you find it helpful 😊 go.bsky.app/8LCfsU6
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Shropshire Starter Pack by jimallthetime
Join the conversation
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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Languages & #Linguistics Books ✨🎁📚 #langsky #booksky
A collage of books: Mother Tongue Tied, The Language Game, Linguistics Wars, Endangered Languages, The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall, Linguaphile, The Power of Language, Because Internet
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Juliet Campbell MP @julietcampbellmp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I am very excited to share the news about the Government’s free Breakfast Club scheme, now open for early adopter applications! I strongly encourage any state-funded schools in #Broxtowe to apply and become one of the 750 early adopters. www.gov.uk/guidance/bre...
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Breakfast clubs early adopters scheme
Information for schools on what the breakfast clubs early adopters scheme is and how to apply.
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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 01/12/2024
Linguists, is there actually work on this kind of unconventionalized onomatopoeia? 🐦🐦
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
More amazing tree ornaments from December Diamonds (yes, I bought them all)
A white twunk (he's too muscly to be a twink but do correct me if I'm wrong) Merman is suspended by a golden cord on a display rack. His tail is striped candy cane-style in pink and red on a white background. His hair is pink and quiffed. He's wearing a coy, eyes-lowered expression and a white halter-neck baking apron-and that is all he has on; one apron strap has twisted and slipped down his right arm. He's holding a slice of pink and white fruit-topped cake to his lips and the cut cake in his other hand. The slogan on his apron? "Santa I can explain." I bet you can, sweetheart. Daddy Merman is wearing an unbuttoned union suit (a onesie in modern parlance) in a bright, shimmery red- right down to his tail. His well-kept and toned hairy chest and belly are on display.  On his head, a red Santa hat with a white pompom. His beard and moustache are grey and his eyes and smile are kindly. One hand clutches a teddy bear and the teddy bear has one arm wrapped around his daddy's wrist. Two lovely freshly-showered men before or after exertion are looking straight at you. The guy on the left is Black with very well-developed pecs, trimmed body hair, thick thighs and a tiny white towel which barely hides what you'd like to see. One eyebrow is tilted. The white guy on the right looks a little like Ryan Reynolds on steroids. He's muscled, well hairy, wearing a loosely belted baby blue towelling dressing gown hanging open to reveal one thigh and holding a rubber duck in his left hand. Both guys have enormous, broad feet. Neither skip leg day. I am starting to worry about how much I am enjoying writing these descriptions. This Merman is very proud. His tail is shocking pink and glittery with a black studded waistband and rainbow logo. He's naked apart from a rainbow Pride flag slung loosely around his shoulders. He's wearing a medallion of some sort. This guy likes the gym by the look of his upper body but his forearms are slight by comparison. His hair is black, slicked back and close-cut and he's wearing aviator-style sunglasses
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is a travesty. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Smithfield and Billingsgate: Meat and fish markets to close
Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, which have traded in London for hundreds of years, face the axe.
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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Share these great case studies with your GCSE students, wondering about taking an English A Level, and your A Level students weighing up whether to do an English degree: englishassociation.ac.uk/case-studies/
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Case studies | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It didn't all start with Stonewall.
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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
+++ Remembering Sophie Lancaster, who would have been 38 today - Born on this day 26th November 1986. +++ Memorial bench in #Whitby. #sophielancaster
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Sally Akins @sallyakins.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A cold but pretty morning on the Newport canal, #Shropshire. I love these walks at sunrise ☺️
A white swan on the Newport canal basin, Shropshire, UK. The sun is just starting to rise over the opposite bank.
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Sally Akins @sallyakins.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Finally got around to watching #Elementary (so late to the party, yet again...) and it's *brilliant* My favourite Holmes? Possibly... My favourite Watson? Absolutely!
Promotional image for Elementary
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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Optimist: glass half full Pessimist: glass half empty Corpus Linguist: Which word most frequently appears in the phrase "glass half *"?
Screen shot of CoCA output showing "glass half full" (n = 123) is twice as frequent as "glass half empty" (n = 54)
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David Wright @stan-din.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
There’s a pot of gold in Church Stretton #shropshire
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Lisa Bachelor @lisabachelor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
All week this week on Guardian Seascape we are going to be looking at the real cost of cruise ship holidays with a series of reports from around the world. We kicked off this morning with this news story www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Carnival cruise line emitted more CO2 in 2023 than Scotland’s biggest city – report
World’s largest cruise line named Europe’s most climate-polluting, despite investing millions in cleaner technologies
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Wild Moon Morris @wild-moon-morris.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Whilst searching Morris dancing on here and already finding some good friends We came across some posts discussing 'blackface' makeup in Morris. Whilst Wild Moon do wear black 'mask' makeup we have never used full blackface makeup and never will. This tells you why. www.efdss.org/about-us/wha...
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Time’s up for ‘blacking up’
English Dance and Song Autumn 2020 This article was published in English Dance and Song, the magazine of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. The world’s oldest magazine for folk music and dance, ...
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Florent Moncomble @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org · 24/11/2024
🚨 My #corpus collection app for social media, Social Corpus Scraper, is now in version 0.4.7. to fix a Bluesky pagination glitch. If you haven't tried it yet, please send feedback! #linguistics fmoncomble.github.io/SocialCorpus...
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SocialCorpusScraper
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Trans bathroom bans are bad for all of us, for MANY reasons. Aside from their obvious discrimination against trans people—what they say, at heart, is “You body, especially what’s in your pants, decides what rights you get.” I hope cis folks, especially my fellow cis women, see the dangers here.
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📷 Steve Elliott 📸 @togosaurusrex.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
#Shropshire really is exceptionally beautiful in every way isn’t it! Even in #blackandwhite Sometimes I’ve taken pics and they just don’t work but they come alive once desaturated. This was one of them #photographer #shrewsbury
A Shropshire landscape with moody skies and a solitary tree in the distance
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 23/11/2024
Tonight please say hello to Dr Russ Jackson who's written just 4 articles for us ... with each one a gem! Russ is a parent, activist, sociologist and (until recently) senior lecturer in communication & public relations at Sheffield Hallam University. Follow him ➡️ @docrussjackson.bsky.social 1/5
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language science @priap.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Move over bouba-kiki! New study on crossmodal iconicity shows [r] = rough and [l] = smooth, even in langs that conflate them. The results show "that speech sounds are not just acoustic objects, but they also have a texture and a shape to them". #iconicity 🐦🐦
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The alveolar trill is perceived as jagged/rough by speakers of different languages
Typological research shows that across languages, trilled [r] sounds are more common in adjectives describing rough as opposed to smooth surfaces. In this study
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Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust @lhcrt.org.uk · 23/11/2024
This one's from March 2024, but worth another repost. One end of the Lichfield Canal. #UKCanals
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
If you like to saturate yourself in all things Christmas, here's a guide to some of my favourite festive food-themed books. topographickitchens.substack.com/p/christmas-...
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Christmas-Themed Food and Drink Books
I love a Christmas-themed cookbook, no matter how idealised or rarified the writer’s Christmas appears.
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Sally Akins @sallyakins.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Seriously, you enjoy your breakfast, I'll go round you 😂 I managed to get out for a quick walk along Newport Canal, #Shropshire, before #StormBert really sets in. Stay safe and warm today, everyone!
A group of swans and ducks enjoying breakfast by the Newport Canal, Shropshire.
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Dr Ivana_UK @drivana.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Another #snowymorning in our beautiful #Shropshire, #England How blessed we are, living here in this wonderful place! #snow #snowfall #winterishere #trees #beautifulEngland #WelshMarches
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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
⚠️ New Post ⚠️ I've have completely rewritten my article about The Devil's time in Shropshire to reflect my research. You can read all about Owd Scratch and why Shropshire really is his county by following the link below nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-... #Folklore #Shropshire
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Shropshire hills & Stokesay Castle
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Why supertasting is not a superpower
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'd like to include non- English speaking food-related accounts in my starter packs so PLEASE let me know about them.
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Sally Akins @sallyakins.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Morning all! Headed out for my walk before sunrise this morning, so it was still a little dark at the Newport Canal, #Shropshire. In better news, my boiler is now working again, touch wood! 🤞
The canal path at Newport Canal, Shropshire, just before sunrise on a late November morning. The sky is dark and cloudy and there are autumn leaves on the path.
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Save the date: 21-22 August, 2025 'Sign language contact, variation, and change' workshop at University of Birmingham. More information soon!
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Sally Akins @sallyakins.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I missed seeing this pendant last time it was on display in #Shropshire. Won't make that mistake again!
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Shroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Shropshire has stile #callow #shropshire #stile #shroppiesshropshirestuff
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Sally Akins @sallyakins.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Morning! There wasn't too much snow along the Newport Canal this morning but the blue sky and golden sunlight made it a beautiful walk 😊 #Shropshire
View of the canal basin at Town Lock on the Newport Canal, Shropshire. There's snow on the ground and a moorhen is swimming across the shot.
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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 18/11/2024
We're now following over a thousand linguists on here! If you're looking for more linguistics to enliven your feed, check out our following list! And let us know if we've missed you!
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Sally Akins @sallyakins.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
'Because Internet' is also on sale on the UK site, so I guess I'm getting it too www.amazon.co.uk/Because-Inte...
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Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing: Amazon.co.uk: McCulloch, Gretchen: 9781529112825: Books
Buy Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing 1 by McCulloch, Gretchen (ISBN: 9781529112825) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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The Wee Owl Studio, Art 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
An oil pastel painting of white birch trees in their yellow autumn colour in shady woodland. It would make a lovely gift that is guaranteed unique...better than socks! theweeowlart.etsy.com/listing/1732... #Landscape #Trees #OriginalArt #PastelPainting #OilPastels #ChristmasGifts #bsnm #ArtShop
Autumn Birch Trees - Original A5 size oil pastel artwork
An oil pastel painting of white birch trees in their yellow autumn colour in shady woodland.
an original art work
Fine art oil pastel on toned pastel paper
Size A5 (21cm x 14.5cm)
Sold unframed
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
One more open job at @wired.com. We're hiring a reporter on the climate beat; vital coverage that is now even *more* urgent. (We're also hiring a biz reporter and a culture editor.) Location: Ideally SF, LA, NY, or London, where we have offices. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...
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Senior Writer, Climate
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I decided to write about 20mph for my Guardian column. It shows that evidence based policy making does work, but if you get the messaging wrong, you leave the field open for another culture war battle.
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Dr Jessica Aiston @jessaiston.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The @mantrap.bsky.social team are organising a special issue, bringing together linguistics/discourse approaches to the manosphere which focus on A) non-Anglo-American contexts and B) positive interventions. Please see the link below for detail. Deadline 1st Dec. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CfP special issue
Call for extended abstracts: Special issue of Critical Discourse Studies The language of the manosphere: Global perspectives Guest editors: Veronika Koller, Alexandra Krendel, Jessica Aiston, Mark M...
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 18/11/2024
Wow, at the weekend Bylines Network not only passed the 30K but also the 35K barriers on BlueSky. Now on Monday we are set to pass the 40K mark if you can share this we might just do it tonight!
Screenshot of Bylines Network bio showing 39.7k followers
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Legend @fubarrockchick.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Scottish gritters are out 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Paul Meighan | Pòl Miadhachàin @pauljmeighan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Starter pack for sociolinguistics. Let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/SN3TdzY
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Sally Akins @sallyakins.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What a day!! The morning started with a lovely walk down a very foggy Newport Canal #Shropshire I came home to boiler problems - no hot water or central heating until tomorrow at the earliest, just in time for the cold snap 😭
A very foggy view down Newport Canal, Shropshire.
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