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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Fully and earnestly, my favourite book.

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I would pay good money to have Jed and Maurissa doing a Coulson eternal recurrence/return for the MCU. And I want the harbinger to be a one-shot of his continued evasion of an increasingly baffled and frustrated Rio Vidal.

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

"We cannot let them win! We cannot let them define us! Do you understand that? We are not agents of nothing, we are agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and that still carries weight! It has to carry weight. After everything we've been through, that carries weight!"

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I always thought my classical Egyptian training would eventually be useful somehow for my pol theory work. I guess it's my hieroglyphic time to shine.

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Or this one: a monolingual Anglophone nurse hears a patient speaking unintelligibly, assume it's delirium, until an L2 English speaking nurse recognises the language. The dying person isn't babbling; they've reverted to a mother tongue at the end of life.

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Why I do what I do: met a former palliative care nurse & was describing how devout Muslims can hold up a single finger to represent the Shahadah if they're unable to speak. She'd never heard of this. "I wonder how many times nurses see this, think someone is agitated, and drug them."

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

(Her speech bubble string could be fun DL Latin material).

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I swear my first thought seeing the image was "what is this hellish duolingo ghost rider streak thing"?... The crossover possibilities, my God.

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

There's something almost funny about how sometimes it's easier for L1 users of other Englishes and L2 English users to get a clearer (and more analytic) sense of that ontological conflation.

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Exactly. And, paradoxically, this very much goes back to the kind of sneaky conflation of very different types of "we" in the kind of professional English in question. Is it the editorial one? The authorial one? The generic one? The pseudo-inclusive one?

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

So much to say... but also so much still to investigate, to move away from arbitrary personal convictions imposed as authoritative, to a more systematic framework that can help colleagues not just understand the injustices/inequities, but also what pragmatic and best practices could be implemented.

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

insercurity in an already heavily-stressful profession (and discipline).

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

So much this. Plus, proficiency in written academic English should in no way be simply assumed to be linked to a particular kind of proficiency in *speaking* English, or even using spoken languages at all as L1. So many layers of linguistic ideologies, so much unnecessary stress, anxiety and -

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Lukas Schmid @lukasschmid.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading. All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Language technologies don't invalidate the case for language awareness as a basic life skill; they emphasize how crucial it is.

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Maarit Koponen @mtkopon.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The historical and cultural context of language is also very significant in translation. Knowing the background of terms, expressions, allusions etc. and what cultural, historical and intertextual connections and connotations they carry in the source & target is a major issue

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

3/ IPs may ultimately undermine integration goals by delaying and demotivating the transition to the workforce and social autonomy."

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

2/ or derail them from – social and legal integration though citizenship? And in discounting refugees’ previously acquired competences, or good faith efforts to complete introductory integration that may still fall short of arbitrary, language pass rates-

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

1/ "In sum, despite intentions to set newcomers on paths to employment and civic autonomy, participants experience the IP as a set of competing goals. Does early employment strengthen or undermine language education? Does lengthy language and KoS education prepare individuals for –

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Signal boost: CALL FOR PAPERS for the Sixth REAL symposium on language economics and policy. Full details: www.ulster.ac.uk/__data/asset...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/07/2025

“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

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The Politics of Humiliation

The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.

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Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

While #ISHPSSB2025 is underway, I'd just like to draw attention to an opportunity at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at for international researchers: senior & early-career fellowships at the new #Vienna Center for Advanced Studies #ViCAS vicas.univie.ac.at Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!

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Center for Advanced Studies

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Really wish I could be there. Lots of lemons to you both!

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

One of my favourite parts of the Yiddish LotR translation is Sam's love letter to potatoes. It works really, really well.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

DOJ directing government that application forms and processes must only be in English, on the grounds that it reduces administrative burdens. I wrote the book Administrative Burdens w @pamherd.bsky.social and this policy does the opposite www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

Office of the Attorney General
Washington, A. O. 20530
July 14, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES
FROM:
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL PU
SUBJECT:
IMPLEMENTATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 14,224:
DESIGNATING ENGLISH AS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
I. INTRODUCTION
As President Trump recognized in his Executive Order No. 14,224, 90 Fed. Reg. 11363 (Mar. 6, 2025) (Executive Order 14,224), it is in America's best interest for the federal government to have one official language: English.' A shared language binds Americans together, transcending different backgrounds to create a common foundation for public discourse, government operations, and civic life, while leaving ample room for the vibrant linguistic diversity that thrives in private and community spheres. This policy streamlines federal processes ensuring forms, notices, websites, and advisories are consistent, clear, and cost-effective thus reducing administrative burdens and enhancing operational efficiency

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Thanks for sharing this. "How are languages lost? It is land, water, and trees that nourish our languages… Languages don't die, they are systematically killed. A language dies out when its practitioners are displaced from their land." - Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Mixe linguist and language activist

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“Our languages are not dying, they are being killed”

“Your language is worthless,” they were told repeatedly. “To be a Mexican citizen, you must speak the national language, Spanish. Stop speaking your language.”

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A new award for young scholars in the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics.

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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 13/07/2025

A deaf Mongolian man has spent more than four months in the detention center without the chance to communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his civil rights attorney. “He’s basically been in solitary confinement."

timesofsandiego.com

Deaf Mongolian immigrant held by ICE in Otay Mesa for months without access to interpreter

Judge Dana Sabraw this week ordered officials at Otay Mesa Detention Center to provide him with a Mongolian Sign Language interpreter.

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Very much an "avengers assemble" moment in my network(s). We've got work to do.

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

*nods in the final fight of CA: CW*

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Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Comparative Migration Studies has opened a new thematic call for special issues on ‘Regional perspectives on migration’, deadline 1 October 2025. Please spread widely. For more information on the journal (2024 IF 3,7; citescore 7,8): comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com

Call for Special Issues with the following text: Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) welcomes proposals for the Thematic Call special issue – 2025 with as thematic ‘Regional perspectives on migration’.
Special issues can cover perspectives on migration and migration-related diversities from one specifical (global) region, compare various regions, focus on global-south perspectives on south-south migration.
We are looking for articles that push present understandings of migration, integration, and race and ethnic relations in new conceptual, methodological, and empirical, directions. A special issue should
include at least 4 original articles, plus an introduction. Proposals should provide an outline of the special issue, provisional titles and author names of contributors (who should have confirmed their
participation), and at least 1 complete paper/draft paper. All articles for CMS should include an abstract of no more than 250 words and observe a word-limit of 9,000 words.
All special issue proposals will be submitted to internal review by the editorial board CMS. If approved by the board, a clear deadline is agreed with the guest editors as for when all articles have
to be submitted via the online submission portal of CMS (SNAPP). All individual articles can be submitted on a running basis and will be reviewed (double blind peer review) individually (reviewers
will be notified that an article is part of a broader special issue).
Guest editors will be informed on the progress of the review of individual articles. Guest editors are also responsible for the communication of deadlines to the contributors involved. The decision on acceptation of articles will be taken by the editorial board. Guest editors can be asked to suggest external reviewers.
Deadline to submit SI proposals: 1 October 2025 (23:59). Please send your proposal directly via e-mail to: info@comparativemigrationstudies.org .

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Felix Bender @felixbender.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Very excited for this conference on Refuge and Displacement at the University of Oxford later this month and only slightly intimidated on being the only other person in a panel with David Miller. If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...

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Refuge and displacement

Forced displacement and refugee protection are among the most pressing moral and political challenges of our time. This workshop aims to explore how normative and empirical approaches can meaningfully...

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 02/07/2025

‘There is something very social about pain.’ In the penultimate episode of Season 8 of The We Society @tomshakespeare.bsky.social, Professor of Disability Research @lshtm.bsky.social discusses his research on the link between social science and disability. 🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/shak...

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Cringe: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust @uebercringe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics: July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online! Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance

conference poster with details, see https://uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber-cringe/

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

5/ and why are we not making this information available in people’s native languages?'. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

4/ bilingual staff available to support an LEP person in accessing lifesaving information after pressing two?” And perhaps most importantly, why does a healthcare communication platform system have disparate levels of information available for non-native English speakers,

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

3/ populations. For instance, a monolingual English speaker may hear “For Spanish press two” and conclude that translation services are indeed being offered without thinking, “Can a Spanish speaking person understand the English phrase that references how to access translation?” or "Is there-

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

2/ within the healthcare infrastructure remain embedded within the infrastructure of service delivery and are expressed through routine practices. These macro-level systems and micro-level interactions are frequently regarded as business-as-usual approaches to attending to the needs of LEP-

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

1/ 'The forms of marginalization and disparate treatment detailed in our findings oftentimes remain invisible to healthcare scholars, policymakers, and even well-meaning healthcare agency staff. Our research revealed how healthcare disparities persist, in part, because unexamined forms of racism-

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Kanta Dihal @drdihal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Job alert! We're looking for a part-time teaching fellow to deliver the module ‘Science Communication and Global Justice’ to students on our MSc Science Communication. Details here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... The deadline is 7th July. Do get in touch if you have questions and please share!

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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Restricted access to language learning, and to developing language awareness, is a serious form of deprivation of multiple affordances, *especially* given the rapid rise of language technologies.

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Boosting the signal on this one: 2-Year Postdoctoral Position 'Recognition in Language and Morality' @ Charles University, Prague. Full details groups.google.com/g/ISR-HPS-ST...

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[PHILOS-L] 2-Year Postdoctoral Position 'Recognition in Language and Morality' – Charles University, Prague

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