Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos
@masaonav.bsky.social
Teacher of #Spanish @MMU_Languages. #LLSNS Researcher. #PhD #Linguistics & #Education. #LGBT+. 🏳️🌈🇵🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧
¿Por qué somos (casi todos) diestros? Dos millones de años de misterio evolutivo. #cerebro #lenguaje #lateralidad #gestos #evolución. 🧠🔍🤓 elpais.com/ideas/2026-0...
¿Por qué somos (casi todos) diestros? Dos millones de años de misterio evolutivo
No hay una sola causa, sino varias de ellas, entrelazadas. La hipótesis con más fuerza apunta al desarrollo de nuestro cerebro y al origen del lenguaje: los gestos
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Check out this article from USA TODAY: Bruce Springsteen honored alongside Colin Kaepernick by ACLU www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
Bruce Springsteen honored alongside Colin Kaepernick by ACLU
Bruce Springsteen accepted an ACLU award and reflected on activism. See what he told the crowd.
usatoday.com
lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
An injury to one is an injury to all. Tens of thousands of Sudanese workers face mass dismissal as part of an attack on democratic and trade union rights. We must stand in solidarity and oppose this assault on workers. #Sudan 🇸🇩 🔍 ✊🏿 Sign and share: actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-t...
Stop the Attack on Sudanese Workers – Oppose Mass Dismissals
We condemn Ministerial Decision No. (22) of 2026 issued by Sudan’s de facto Ministry of Human Resources and Social Welfare, establishing a committee to “audit” federal government employees and prepare...
actionnetwork.org
Cutting language courses puts #SocialMobility at risk, say #UK experts. #HE, #MFL, #languages, #HigherEducation. 📚📝🎧🗣️🔍📉☹️ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts
Exclusive: University moves and falling exam entries fuel concerns about opportunities for working-class pupils
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Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say. #Languages, #MFL, #Learning, #ageing. 📚📝🎧🗣️ 🧠 🔍🤓 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say
Study finds those who speak two languages have brains that appear around six years younger than those who speak one
theguardian.com
How AI is changing language. 📝📚 🔍 🧐 www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
How AI is changing language
As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine language, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson ref...
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¡Gracias, #LolaPonsRodríguez, una vez más, por tan excelente artículo! #español "Quienes hablamos en público sin esconder el acento no estamos forzosamente enarbolando nada, aunque naturalizarlo haya ayudado a dignificarlo." 🇪🇸🗣️🔍💪🏾😍🤩🥳 Cómo se pronuncia #Andalucía elpais.com/opinion/2026...
Cómo se pronuncia Andalucía
Todas las posibles variaciones están dentro de la diversidad interna de la pronunciación del español: vea usted a qué grupo pertenece
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En marcha, Observatorio del Español en América Latina y el Caribe. 🤓 😍 🤩 👏 🥳 www.gaceta.unam.mx/la-unam-y-el...
En marcha, Observatorio del Español en América Latina y el Caribe - Gaceta UNAM
El uso del idioma está ligado a condiciones de reconocimiento, pertenencia y ejercicio de derechos: Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas
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From the year 2000 to 1000, how far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change. 🤓 🤩 🥳 www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
deadlanguagesociety.com
Trump’s escalation of the illegal blockade on Cuba has triggered a humanitarian crisis. This is but the latest attempt by the U.S. to destroy Revolutionary Cuba. For more on that history, consider these titles.
HANDS OFF CUBA | Reading List
The United States, emboldened by its kidnapping of Venezuela’s sitting President, Nicolás Maduro, openly declared in January that it aims to destroy the Communist Party of Cuba by the end of the year....
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@europeanmovement.co.uk Urge Your MP to attend the #Brexit Referendum Anniversary Debate! On 24-02-26, MPs will gather in Westminster Hall to debate the impact of the 2016 EU membership referendum. Write to your MP today to ensure your area is represented! www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-e...
Urge Your MP to Attend the Debate on the EU Referendum Anniversary
Nearly a decade after the 2016 referendum, the effects of Brexit are no longer theoretical. They are visible in the economy, in pressures on public finances, and in the UK’s changing role internationa...
europeanmovement.co.uk
Have a look at the reasons and effects of the Unison strike at MMU. #Solidarity 🏳️🔍✊🏾 @unisonmmu.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @unisonmedia.bsky.social @uniteucu.bsky.social @manmetucu.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqn...
“Universities Are On Fire”: Staff Strike at MMU Over Pay
YouTube video by The Northern Rose
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I love Green Day so much and I’m so very happy they performed‘American Idiot’ because, well…you know… 😁
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”
@vickyblake.bsky.social Certification Officer Hearing: #Blake & #McGaughey v @ucu.org.uk. They will discuss @drjogrady.bsky.social 2024 election, and the @uniteucu.bsky.social #dispute as evidence. @manmetucu.bsky.social #Democracy, #Transparency, #Fairness! 🏳️🔍✊🏾 vickyblakeucu.uk/2026/02/09/c...
Certification Officer Hearing: Blake & McGaughey v UCU
This is about trust and proper process: an explainer ahead of the 10 February Certification Officer hearing in Blake & McGaughey v UCU, concerning alleged non-compliance with UCU’s election rul…
vickyblakeucu.uk
Marie is our Regional Support Officer & is fantastic. Trade union victimisation is indefensible & abhorrent. To see it done by a union employer undermines the work of all trade unionists. We have written to the GS to call for a stop to the victimisation and to settle the dispute. #HandsOffMarie
Unite UCU@uniteucu.bsky.social · 6mo ago📣 Hands off Marie! Tell @drjogrady.bsky.social and @ucu.org.uk to stop victimising Unite UCU's safety rep. ✍️ jgrady@ucu.org.uk #HandsOffMarie #UniteTheUnion @unitetheunion.bsky.social
📣 Hands off Marie! Tell @drjogrady.bsky.social and @ucu.org.uk to stop victimising Unite UCU's safety rep. ✍️ jgrady@ucu.org.uk #HandsOffMarie #UniteTheUnion @unitetheunion.bsky.social
The most recent global scientific study on transgender and gender-diverse adults' violence. I think it may be of interest to some of our members. 🏳️⚧️🔍✊🏾 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Violence Against Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults
This systematic review and meta-analysis estimates the prevalence of overall, physical, sexual, and psychological violence against transgender and gender-diverse adults globally.
jamanetwork.com
"Debt is old. It’s older than writing. The first writing system, Sumerian cuneiform, evolved out of marks used for accounting. From the beginning, writing was used to track who had what, and, crucially, who owed what to whom." 🤑💰🔍🧐 www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-debt-s...
How debt shaped the way we speak
And what it shows about how language works
deadlanguagesociety.com
🇮🇹Italy: Thousands demonstrate against Prime Minister Meloni's budget. Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense. #Wrldpoli🌐 www.dw.com/en/italy-tho...
Italy: Thousands demonstrate against Meloni's budget – DW – 12/13/2025
Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense.
dw.com
La justicia tumba los argumentos del Gobierno de Ayuso para no entregar las actas de inspección de las residencias en lo peor de la pandemia social.elpais.com/67kdt4
La justicia tumba los argumentos del Gobierno de Ayuso para no entregar las actas de inspección de las residencias en lo peor de la pandemia
El TSJM rechaza un recurso de Madrid de 2023 contra un dictamen del Consejo de Transparencia, y el ejecutivo asegura que viene aceptando las peticiones de acceso desde que anonimizó los documentos
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Donald Trump doesn't want to release the Epstein files because he's in the files. Trump is in the files because he was "best friends" with Epstein for years. He was "best friends" with Epstein for years because they were abusing women and girls together. His attacks won't change any of that.
‘Democrats are going to come to regret this’: After Epstein vote, Trump ready to attack
The White House is frustrated about being backed into a corner on the Epstein vote. They plan to punish Democrats for it.
politico.com