Diane Nelson
@gplady.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leeds. Leverhulme Extinction Studies DTP. Linguistic diversity and biodiversity. All views my own.
Excited to be part of this gorgeous film homage to the natural world through language inspired by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, screening at Sheffield DocFest on 21 June! @HannahPapacekHarper @RetroviseurProductions @extinctionleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social www.lostforwords.fr
Project | Lost For Words
Lost For Words A feature documentary directed by Hannah Papacek Harper
lostforwords.fr
Excited to be part of this gorgeous film homage to the natural world through language inspired by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, screening at Sheffield DocFest on 21 June! @HannahPapacekHarper @RetroviseurProductions @extinctionleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social www.lostforwords.fr
Project | Lost For Words
Lost For Words A feature documentary directed by Hannah Papacek Harper
lostforwords.fr
This is an excellently clear account of how LLMs work and why they hallucinate. I would like all my students to read it.
Gary Marcus@garymarcus.bsky.social · last yr.If you don’t understand why GenAI hallucinates so often, and most people don’t, read this: garymarcus.substack.com/p/why-do-lar...
A very exciting afternoon! I’m so grateful to the Faculty and all my wonderful collaborators - all the tackling accent bias in HE work has been (and continues to be) a huge collaborative effort! Congratulations to Henry, Karen, and all colleagues in @lcsleeds.bsky.social and the Language Centre! 🥳
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds@lcsleeds.bsky.social · last yr.Celebration time 🎉🎈💐 We have been awarded AHC School of the Year 2025 in the partnership awards! Many congratulations to our winners @gisetomelourido.bsky.social for Equality and Inclusion @henryhbclarke.bsky.social for Feedback & Assesment and our Language Centre for Global Impact! 🥳 🎉 🎈
'Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics' by @mishee54.bsky.social, Alice Corr, Anna Havinga, @jrkasstan.bsky.social & Norma Schifano argues for linguistics in the UK Mod Langs curriculum. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-linguisitics @ciol-linguists.bsky.social
Fantastic HEPI blog by @gisetomelourido.bsky.social and Julia Snell, calling on UK universities to tackle accent bias and promote #linguisticdiversity
Tackling accent bias in Higher Education could improve students’ success, sense of belonging, and wellbeing - HEPI
One in three students fear their accent could harm future success, yet accent bias remains largely unaddressed in higher education.
hepi.ac.uk
I wish the media including @theguardian.com would stop promoting a stupid “hierarchy” of UK accents. This is a story about celebrating Kate Adie’s career - why choose this headline? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Birmingham accent ranked ‘most hated’ on BBC’s unofficial league table, Kate Adie reveals
Journalist shares details of broadcaster’s dislike for Brummie accent as archives of her life and career to be catalogued
theguardian.com
Went to the wonderful #GrantMuseum of Zoology the other day. If you like the Jar of Moles, you’ll love the Jar of Assorted Lizards
I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
We're very much looking forward to this - “Watch your language! A linguist‘s tale of education, science and scholarship” @saschastollhans.bsky.social professorial inaugural lecture on 7 May at 5pm. We've got our tickets, to get yours register via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/prof-sasch...
Prof. Sascha Stollhans - Inaugural Lecture
Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT , #origin.bottle.wishes
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You have until the 4th of April to apply for the Linguastars Residential! A great opportunity to explore what it’s is like studying languages at uni! For more information and how to apply, read below 👇 #languages #mfl #mfltwitterati
Bettina Hermoso Gómez@bttnhg.bsky.social · last yr.Have you applied for our Linguastars residential yet? The Linguastars residential is a great opportunity to explore what studying languages at University is like! Applications are now open! 📢 24-26th June #mfltwitterati #mfl #languages artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-activiti... #languagelearning
If anybody needs me I’ll be glued to the University of Leeds live peregrine falcon cam. She’s sitting on 3 eggs! sustainability.leeds.ac.uk/our-work/bio...
University of Leeds peregrines | Sustainability Service
Stay up to date on the the University of Leeds peregrines, which have been nesting intermittently on the Parkinson Tower since 2018.
sustainability.leeds.ac.uk
"To live and die in an age of extinction: a conversation with Juno Salazar Parreñas." A new paper published by #Extinction Studies PhD student MT Talensby explores experiences of studying #conservation, #death, #loss, and wider socio-cultural aspects of #fieldwork
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Seeing as it’s the Ides of March, here’s our very fun guide to how Julius Caesar rose to power and then destroyed the stability of the state, ignored the law, undermined political institutions, and leveraged the wealth of the richest man in the nation… ahem… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Julius Caesar’s Rise To Power - BBC Sounds
Join Greg Jenner in Ancient Rome to meet one of history’s biggest names, Julius Caesar.
bbc.co.uk
First egg of 2025! From the brilliant peregrine falcon who lives at Parkinson clock tower, University of Leeds. sustainability.leeds.ac.uk/our-work/bio...
For Indigenous Families in Russia, Keeping Language Alive Is an Impossible Task www.themoscowtimes.c...
For Indigenous Families in Russia, Keeping Language Alive Is an Impossible Task - The Moscow Times
Friday marks the 25th annual International Mother Language Day, a holiday established by UNESCO to “underscore the role of languages in promoting inclusion.” Russia has 155 living and 15 extinct languages native to the country as classified by the Linguistics Institute of the Russian Academy of Science. While Russian is named as the sole “state-founding” language in the country’s Constitution, more than 30 languages of minoritized Indigenous communities are also recognized as official in Russia’s 21 ethnic republics. In Dagestan, a North Caucasus republic known for its high linguistic diversity, this applies to 13 of more than 50 languages Indigenous to the region. On paper, this special legal status allows these Indigenous languages to be used in lawmaking, court proceedings and as the language of school instruction. But in reality, the number of speakers of most languages of Russia’s republics is on the decline, as they are primarily spoken inside the home.
themoscowtimes.com
"How #poetry can help us understand mass extinction events" - a new post on @theconversation.com by #Extinction Studies Researcher @kate-elspeth.bsky.social on #paleontology and poetic methods (strata/stanza, negative space) and how they interact
How poetry can help us understand mass extinction events
Poetry and palaeontology both work with strata.
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Congratulations to @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social, one of our PhD students, who has been selected to give an invited seminar on their recent paper on "Rethinking #extinction 'crises'" by Cambridge Prisms Extinction. Tune in online on 11th March at 2pm UK time. Register here: buff.ly/42BfgtZ
Beautiful photography and blogs by PhD students in the Extinction Studies DTP @extinctionleeds.bsky.social, Land Lines Project
Leverhulme Extinction Studies DTP@extinctionleeds.bsky.social · last yr.#Extinction in the Small Isles: A fantastic photo blog from a recent group trip to the Scottish Small Isles, by Extinction Studies PhD students Alfie Howard, MT Talensby, Jon Roberts, @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social, Lydia Woods, Serena Turton-Hughes, Jenny Kennedy
“Imperial language departments”? No, modern language study fosters global collaboration and decolonisation, argues our HoS @emmacayley.bsky.social and colleagues
Emma Cayley 谷曦@emmacayley.bsky.social · last yr.A response: www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...
Happy publication day to Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2020: Land Lines (Paperback) www.waterstones.com/book/modern-... #naturewriting #envhum
Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020 by Will Abberley, Christina Alt | Waterstones
Buy Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020 by Will Abberley, Christina Alt from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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‘We teach each other how to live’ - Anne Michaels. ‘Each language [is] a powerful transporting river bearing its own rich history, its own literature, its kitchens and songs.’ A little corner of multilingual reflection on the university campus in Toronto. 🍁🇨🇦
#linguistics - sociolinguist Paul Kerswill on The Cockney Yiddish Podcast on language and immigration
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast@cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · last yr.In ep 1 we chat with linguist Paul Kerswill about the migration of Yiddish into Cockney English and listen to a Yiddish music hall song from 1900 about the immigrant experience of language & culture being turned upside down @lexispodcast.bsky.social @davidadger.bsky.social @stancarey.bsky.social
