If you know a high school student interested in language and/or puzzles, tell 'em about the linguistics olympiads, there are lots of national versions in many countries plus an international competition!

Linguistic Discovery@linguisticdiscovery.com · 7mo ago

The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) is an annual international competition that brings together secondary school students and experts from various fields of linguistics.

2025 was a difficult year for conservation, but scientists, activists, and communities continue the struggle — and their stories hint at a brighter future. Here’s a sample of notable environmental books published this year. Views in books are the authors’, not necessarily Mongabay’s.

10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2025

The year 2025 might be seen as one of backsliding when it comes to tackling the environmental crises that face our planet. Political leadership in places like the U.S. and elsewhere chose to throw…

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Happy to have published two out of this year's top ten most read posts on Language on the Move. Listening to all the podcast episodes has also been a highlight of my year. Check them out!

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 8mo ago

End-of-year greetings and good wishes from the Language-on-the-Move Team, along with our 2025 annual report 🤗 Check out most-read posts, most-downloaded podcasts, and other highlights 🤩 www.languageonthemove.com/language-on-...

So happy that my paper with Philip Leifeld, “Up and Down With… Polarisation? Intrinsic and Instrumental Polarisation Dynamics in US Climate Policy Debates,” is included in this issue. The topic is particularly relevant now www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Up and Down With… Polarisation? Intrinsic and Instrumental Polarisation Dynamics in US Climate Policy Debates | Article | Politics and Governance

Philip Leifeld, Dana R. Fisher

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🐬 Can friendship slow ageing? In wild bottlenose dolphins, strong social relationships aren’t just important for social life — they may actually influence biological ageing. @liviagerber.bsky.social #ScienceCommunication #MarineMammals #Ageing #MAVELab www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins - Communications Biology

Across 40 years of behavioural and epigenetic data, male dolphins with stronger social relationships show lower epigenetic ages and therefore appear to age slower compared to those with weaker social ...

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Good starter packs circulating here on science and environment

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re getting lots of new Bluesky friends! Please share your favorite science and conservation starter packs as a reply here and I’ll share them. Let’s get our science and conservation friends lots of followers! 🧪🌎🦑

Open PhD position in Political Science with specialization in political economy and political behavior at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Details below: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/10...

Hard to overstate how concerning this is. There are over 46,000 people, a school, and a hospital in the flash flood warning area. Washington communities have been bracing for levee failures as another round of atmospheric rivers arrives to full rivers and saturated soils.

Gov. Bob Ferguson@governorferguson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

what's in a meow?? 🐈 New from @berlinbatlab.bsky.social! 1. "we examined meows and purrs to establish how individual identity is encoded" 2. stronger individual signature in purrs than in meows 3. domestic cat meows more variable than those of wild felids #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroskyence

Working on #CriticalDiscourseStudies? ⌛The deadline for abstract submission to #CADAAD2026 is fast approaching! 🔽 www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai... @cadaad.bsky.social @cadaad-journal.bsky.social

CADAAD 2026

Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...

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CADAAD 2026@cadaad2026.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🗣️📢LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🗣️📢 The final deadline for abstracts for CADAAD 2026 (Universidad de Valladolid) is DECEMBER 15th, 2025. There are still twelve days left for you to send your poster and presentation proposals. And remember: you'll be sad if you miss CADAAD 😉

New from us theconversation.com/temperatures...

Temperatures in a patch of Antarctic moss can vary as much as an entire mountain range

The moss beds in Antarctica are like miniature forests – they create their own climate.

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in case you weren't aware of r/petswithbuttons!🐈 "My cat has started to use 'vacuum' as a curse word": "For example, he will ask for "snackie” when we JUST got done with snackie and I will say “snackie all done” and then he will go spam the vacuum button." languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72193...

Oh, seeing now that Kai Erikson passed away last month. “Everything in its Path” was really formative to me early on in grad school, and when I decided to study Paradise after the Camp Fire. It’s probably become more relevant than even he could have imagined…an important legacy to leave behind.

Kai Erikson, Sociologist Who Probed Invisible Scars of Disasters, Dies at 94

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New report from Eurocities "While most cities rely on municipal revenue (87%) and EU funding (83%) for climate adaptation, only around 50% have or are developing a dedicated financing strategy. Alarmingly, 28% said national or local regulations prevent them from accessing certain types of funding."

European cities warn: without more support, urban climate resilience plans risk collapse - Eurocities

A new Eurocities Pulse survey of 54 cities from 17 European countries reveals that cities face growing climate threats, but limited funding, staffing shortages, and fragmented governance are holding b...

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Interesting new free course in ecolinguistics & environmental communication from UN SDG:Learn!🌿: The Search for New Stories to Live By: Econarrative and Ethical Leadership www.unsdglearn.org/courses/the-...

The Search for New Stories to Live By: Econarrative and Ethical Leadership

This course is for anyone who is aware of the trajectory of society towards collapse under ever-growing inequality and environmental destruction, and who wants change at the only level that can make a...

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"Deborah Cameron, former professor of language and communication at Oxford university, said using terms for staff that are “so out of step with what most people think your business is” risked attracting “incomprehension or ridicule”. www.ft.com/content/6689...

Accenture dubs its 800,000 staff ‘reinventors’ as it adapts to AI

Move follows in footsteps of Disney’s ‘imagineers’ and Amazon’s ‘ninja coders’

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My advisee Milo Watson just had his essay published by ISLE as an advance article! It’s a great piece on field guides: how they traditionally worked as a genre and how the genre is changing to address ongoing ecological catastrophe. Currently open access—check it out! #envhum

Is the Field Guide Sustainable? Rethinking Genre in the Face of Ecological Catastrophe

In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson’s Field Guide to Birds became an unexpectedly hot commodity. Booksellers blazed through Houghton Mifflin’s cautious initial re

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"During the next year AI LEARN will be hiring approximately 25 PhD, Postdoc, and Researcher positions in a variety of fields at locations: NTNU (Trondheim, Norway), University of Bergen (Bergen, Norway), University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway), and the University of Murcia (Murcia Spain)."

Scientists explore underwater calls of Hawaiian monk seals: “We found that wild Hawaiian monk seals are producing lots of vocalizations all of the time,” said Kirby Parnell, a PhD candidate with the Marine Mammal Research Program."

Scientists explore underwater calls of Hawaiian monk seals

When Hawaiian monk seals vocalize underwater, they’re not just making random noise.

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Reading today!📚 "In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras, the people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh." #ethnography

River Life and the Upspring of Nature

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"when subsequently forming advice on the topic based on their search, those who learn from LLM syntheses (vs. traditional web links) feel less invested in forming their advice, and, more importantly, create advice that is sparser, less original and ultimately less likely to be adopted by recipients"

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

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The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 9mo ago

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

"Can AI translate Native languages in times of disaster? In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty."

Can AI translate Native languages in times of disaster? - High Country News

In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty.

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"Experts have attributed the rise in attacks partly to climate change, with storms wreaking havoc on vegetation like beech trees, which produce the nuts that bears depend on. Bears have grown increasingly brazen in their quest for calories, venturing into urban centers in search of scraps."

The Hunt Is On for Bears in Japan After Deadly Attacks

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My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!

PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger

Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026

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LMU Munich offers a funded PhD position for three years at the Graduate School of Language & Literature. The deadline for applications is 7 December 2025: www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...

Job!📣 "The Script Encoding Initiative (SEI) in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral scholar position. The postdoc will contribute to an NSF-funded project on the politics of digitizing newly-invented writing systems"

Postdoctoral Scholar - Script Encoding Initiative - Linguistics Department

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

Job!📣 "The Department of Anthropology...University of Miami, invites applications for a faculty position in anthropological linguistics to begin August 15, 2026. The rank of the appointment is tenure-track assistant professor to tenure-eligible associate professor, as appropriate."

CAS-Anthropology: Linguistics (Computational/Data) at the rank of Assistant Professor – Associate Professor

Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to...

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Job Market Alert: We're hiring and invite applications for 2 post doc positions in Labour Economics @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-cele.bsky.social. Application deadline: 30 November 2025 midnight UTC. #econjobmarket econjobmarket.org/positions/12...