The Young Women's Movement is looking for young women, trans women and non-binary people aged 16 to 30 to take part in their latest research on tackling digital violence. Have your say: buff.ly/ZeJgKH7

Status of Young Women in Scotland research

Status of Young Women in Scotland is our flagship research project. In the past, Status of Young Women in Scotland has explored young women's human rights; access to healthcare; employment…

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Oh Joy! Check out Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan Senate Candidate doing another great interview, in the gym. Hope Michigan listens to his messages and send him to the Senate despite the millions being spent to take him out. Share this with Michigan voters & get out the vote everywhere for him!

Abdul El-Sayed On Fetterman: "He's Also Just An Asshole"

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Yair Golan, Leader of the Israeli Democrats Party, meets with Palestinian & Bedouin communities ahead of Israeli elections

I hope every day you all are trying to cultivate joy. A kindness to a neighbor. A long walk. Poetry. Birdwatching. Meditation. Being silly and playing peekaboo in a checkout line with a cute baby. These are dark times, and joy is something the bastards cannot take from us. Fight for it.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

NBC: “3yo shot dead in Gaza… Al-Ajeen tried to call for an ambulance, Israeli soldiers took his phone and dragged him beyond the yellow line, still carrying Rayan, who was bleeding from his chest… No medical assistance was provided to his dying son…” www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/s...

Why aren't more people talking about the ICE surge in Memphis? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

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‘It's Necessary to Step Outside the Furrow’: An Interview With Emili Boix‐Fuster

In this interview Emili Boix-Fuster, one of the most prominent figures of post-Francoist Catalan sociolinguistics, reflects on his work and academic trajectory as well as on the contribution of Catal...

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The Journal of Sociolinguistics editorial board extends sincere thanks to Yoshiko Matsumoto for a fitting tribute to the life & work of Robin Lakoff, whose contributions to our field & advocacy for marginalised groups in society will be long remembered. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Robin T. Lakoff and Her (Socio)linguistics

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Just a reminder that you can check out all our #EarlyView articles here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679841... Topics include reverse #linguistic #stereotyping, #language & #socialjustice, language #policing, and much more! Each of these will be assigned to an upcoming issue. Watch this space 😎

Commit to boycotting Israeli academia: www.bricup.org.uk/commitment-t... Why? www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... h/t Anna Kristina Hultgren #academia #Palestine

📣 Heyyy sociophoneticians and fans of speech variation! Check out this #EarlyView paper from the Journal of #Sociolinguistics on Sanzhi Dargwa, an endangered East Caucasian language spoken in a community with rigid gender roles. Important findings for /s/! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Haben Girma rocks!!! Illuminating, powerful, and also funny :)

France made me a Knight, and my mission is Braille!

Official website of Haben Girma, keynote speaker, bestselling author, and advocate.

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Haben Girma@habengirma.bsky.social · 3w ago

France made me a Knight, and I made France a promise. I may have a guide dog instead of a horse and a keyboard instead of a sword, but I pledge to champion Braille across the globe. Descriptive Transcript and full-length video: habengirma.com/2026/07/13/f...

He should have gone to prison for pressuring Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes. That’s the very definition of election interference. We all heard the call.

Can we all agree that Mark Zuckerberg is a scumbag?

I wish there was a way to tell ResearchGate and the like that, no, I can't invite my co-author to claim his publication, because he is deceased. Also, that was an upsetting email to get. #academia

Fascinating report.

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 3w ago

This list by Amnesty International is 100% accurate. The Gender Critical are terrified of it because it speaks the truth. Keep sharing it. Send it to your MPs. web.archive.org/web/20260709...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Tech billionaires are getting richer while we pay the price for the real-world harm their platforms cause. The "neutral host" loophole lets them off the hook for pushing dangerous content. MPs are demanding emergency laws to make them pay. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

I appreciate this table! Voice quality is so complex! Podesva & Callier (2026) "Understanding voice quality variation by attending to multiple phonetic dimensions: The rise of creaky voice in California." doi.org/10.1017/S095... #creakyvoice #vocalfry #phonetics #sociophonetics #voice

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that Mexico is taking legal action against the United States in regards to the cold blooded murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE killer in Texas. They’ll pursue justice for the mistreatment of Mexican nationals. Good. 💙👊

Google Scholar is a trans-exclusionary site. Read more and sign the petition: scholar.hasfailed.us #academia #academic #google #googlescholar #deadnaming

Google Scholar has failed us.

Google Scholar is a trans-exclusionary site. Don’t use it. Help us demand change.

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Well blow me down with a feather!! For some strange reason the huge Media, Political and Police response toward the Golders Green attack, was completely absent when it came to the Edinburgh attacks… Surprised? open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows

The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson

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Sociolinguists: any emails you've gotten from "me" today are not actually from me. (The "from" email address you'll see makes this pretty obvious, but the fact that I'm currently signed off work for burnout should make it absolutely clear.) Thanks to all of you who alerted me to the spammer.

In a country of 340+ million people, there should be 100s of thousands outside this concentration camp to force it to shut down. The people have to start flexing their collective power before its too late.

Charles Keener@charleskeener.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Please joining me in supporting this important short film! I would pay to see it in a theatre, therefore I donate. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/no-identit... #Palestine #Palestinian #Syria #Syrian #Home #Identity #IndependentFilm #film #support #donate

“Abortion bans don’t stop abortions, but they do kill people. They kill women, in higher numbers, but in many of the same, preventable ways, that these women were dying before. All of which was completely and utterly predictable.” - @amylittlefield.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

4 Years After “Dobbs,” How Do We Count the Dead?

In the post-Roe world, we know that abortion bans don’t stop safe abortions, but they do kill people.

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A BUMPER issue of the Journal of #Sociolinguistics is out just in time for your summer reading list! We have articles on #AAVE & 'TikTok' language; #uptalk; #genderinclusive language; & #raciolinguistics, along with a brilliant dialogue on #ethics, a response to our book symposium, & 2 interviews!

This petition has almost reached 10,000 signatures at which point the government must respond. If you haven’t already, please sign and post on all your social media feeds. & to friends and family petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026

I want the House of Commons to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026 laid on 21 May 2026.

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With hardly any media coverage one of Britain’s few world-leading sectors is, right now, being decimated. The university funding model does not work and anti-immigrant hysteria has deprived the country of the means by which we met the shortfall: international students.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

A grim day in a grim week in a grim month for UK higher education, with Dundee, Exeter and Hertfordshire all making major announcements of planned redundancies. Shrinkage of the research & teaching base by the invisible hand's visible fist is not an 'us' or 'them', SHAPE or STEM phenomenon. 1/2