HAPPY LINGUISTICS DAY!🥳🎉🗣️ @lagbling.bsky.social @baal-linguistics.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org and the University of Birmingham are running two competitions in linguistics for ALL UG/PGT/PGR students and ECRs to enter! find details on both competitions below 👇🏽 Good luck! 💸

it’s been a very sad day within our v big, v active (with v strong record of funding!) linguistics/modern languages group at nottingham💔 still just so lost for words at how incredulous this is (esp finding out via an instagram bbc news post & STILL not from uni comms…) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham - BBC News

In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".

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Jonathan Kasstan@jrkasstan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

Truly awful news. Ruthless, short-sighted and ill-informed. I remember working at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social about a decade ago and the University taking great pride in being one of the biggest languages departments in the country… Where’s that pride gone?! www.bbc.com/news/article...?

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham

In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".

bbc.com

Jonathan Kasstan@jrkasstan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

FYI: LAGB Student Event Sponsorship – Applications open until Nov. 15th

Das crazy! Ich wurde für die SZ zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres interviewt - hier ohne Paywall (checke hätte gewonnen 🥀) archive.ph/202510171219...

somewhat poignant yet comforting end to our AHRC Midlands4Cities returners day in Birmingham, from a room full of incredible, impostery phd students all just muddling through.🥹❤️‍🩹 and now i officially enter second year… what!! 😵‍💫

conference clash week in linguistics for me🐝 started with a fab few days in rainy oxford ☔️ at @ags-gbi.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social presenting what i’ve been up to in Y1 of my phd🇦🇹🏔️🗣️✨ next stop LAGB! 🔜 (ps oxford johns is nice n all but I was def at the better johns in cam… just saying🤪)

🔔 LAST DAYS TO REGISTER 🔔 Don’t miss our @lagbling.bsky.social summer school for 2025 including a range of academic & developmental talks below @linguistlaura.bsky.social 👇🏽 Reserve your spot today!* *The full conference package does not include the summer school. Please register for this separately

LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee@lagbpsc.bsky.social · last yr.

Time is running out to register for the LAGB Summer School! Today (21st) is the last day to register for conference dinner. Tomorrow (22nd) is the last day to register for the summer school & conference. Don't miss out on these fantastic workshops. Register here: lagb.org.uk/page-1829124

had a nightmare last night about results day (??) where i opened my results live on TV, saw i didn’t get an A* in my french a level and meant i couldn’t do my c19th french gorilla placement anymore 🦍 what 😭 your honour take me away i fear i’ve officially lost the plot with this sodding gorilla- 😵‍💫‼️

I welcome the UK Government’s commitment to recognise the State of Palestine, but it shouldn’t be subject to conditions. It must be unequivocal, irreversible and backed by sanctions on Israel. Israel must agree to a ceasefire now and allow more aid into Gaza to stop starvation.

When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering. It wasn’t quite 90%. This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships. Next year they’re giving us 3. So 89% then.

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

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

SO excited to share our new series on ‘Applying for a PhD in Linguistics’ with Fae @lagbpsc.bsky.social @lagbling.bsky.social on all from choosing a project & supervisor to hopefully deciding between offers! Join our first session (07/08) where we’ll explore PhDs in the UK & choosing a supervisor!👇🏽🌟

happening in one hour! come join us for our final ‘careers for linguists’ talk of the series today, 10 July at 16:30 BST. joining details are on our @lagbpsc.bsky.social website! 👇🏽👇🏽 www.lagbpsc.co.uk/events/caree... @lagbling.bsky.social

LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee@lagbpsc.bsky.social · last yr.

📣📣 Careers Event Incoming 📣📣 10th July 1645-1730 link on our website *Computational Linguists in Industry: Two Insiders' Perspectives*

✨ The Languages in UK Education special issue is now complete! Many thanks to our guest editors @wendya-b.bsky.social & @cforsdick.bsky.social for compiling this important collection, and to every contributor for sharing bold ideas to shape language education policy. 🔗 www.lspjournal.com

LANGUAGES, SOCIETY AND POLICY - HOME | LSP

Languages, Society and Policy

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excited to be sharing preliminary research from my PhD (on language contact in Vienna) at the @oxfordgerman.bsky.social ‘German Graduate Symposium’ in a v sunny oxford today☀️, with broader themes of ‘constructions of sameness, constructions of difference: identity discourses in Germanophone culture’

Hello hello, our final event of this Careers Event series will be on the 10th of July at the usual time in the usual place! More details to come, or you can check out our website lagbpsc.co.uk

so many chaotically nonsensical (but v exciting!) things going on in the phd over the next few months that i fear i’m entering whatever the academic equivalent is of a brat summer💚

Find out how to embrace the diverse cultural and linguistic perspectives of your students and prepare them to thrive in an interconnected world, with this guide from educators at @sfu.ca : ow.ly/NXMm50WaGUK #highered #language #inclusion #edusky #academicsky #teaching

A practical guide to creating a linguistically inclusive classroom

Here’s how to embrace the cultural and linguistic perspectives of your students and prepare them to thrive in an interconnected world

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Such fun discussions today at the Natural History Museum (London) on ‘named historical animals’ & my AHRC-funded M4C placement w/ Nottingham Museums/Uni of Nottingham (with Dr Holly Miller), in which I’ll be researching & decolonising the C19th history of George the Gorilla. Next stop: Paris..?🇫🇷🦍🔎

I have a new paper out in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (and it's open access!): "“And it just becomes queer slang”: Race, linguistic innovation, and appropriation within trans communities in the US South" doi.org/10.1111/jola...

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article examines how seven transgender South Carolinians drew on racialized conceptions of linguistic ownership during metalinguistic discussion about queer and trans language during ethnographi...

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so in the same week as me winning a travel scholarship to part-fund my phd fieldwork in vienna next year, austria has also just won #eurovision (and thus hosting next year while i’m there)…. don’t give me ideas… 👀🏔️ what a slay✨

Eurovision Song Contest@eurovision.tv · last yr.

We have a winner 🇦🇹 Congratulations to Austria's JJ, who has won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest with the song Wasted Love.

As many federal governments slow — or reverse — climate action, Austria's capital, Vienna, wants to show how cities can take the lead. 🍃🇮🇩 The first in a series (!) of positive climate solution stories, only on @npr.org 📻🎧

This country is slowing climate action. Its capital city is stepping up

As many federal governments slow — or reverse — climate action, Austria's capital, Vienna, wants to show how cities can take the lead.

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Don't worry if you couldn't make it to our last careers event, Navigating Academia with more Possibilities, you can ow check it out on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RiE...

Navigating Academia with more possibilities

YouTube video by LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee

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‘gosh, what a week!’ she says. on a tuesday. 😵‍💫

We need a new treasurer! If the idea of managing the finances of a national postgraduate linguistics society sounds fun check out our website for details of the application.

How do we meet the challenge of language teacher shortages? Read Lisa Panford's new thought-provoking piece in LSP on the recruitment of teachers of Colour: www.lspjournal.com/post/the-rec... @cforsdick.bsky.social @lspjournal.bsky.social

The Recruitment and Retention of Languages Teachers of Colour from the Global South in England

In the following opinion article Lisa Panford finds that urgent intervention is needed to address the conditions into which languages teachers of Colour from the Global South are inducted. Further, th...

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!! Careers Event incoming !! Join us on Thursday for a panel discussion of tips and tricks for navigating academia. 1630-1745 link on our website

The School of History at Leeds is offering a BAME Doctoral Scholarship starting in October 2025! Potential postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who are eligible for the Home/UK rate of tuition fees can read more and apply here:

Five year olds! More accent diversity and less prescriptivism in popular culture, please! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Five year olds 'link accents with intelligence'

A study finds young children think someone with a

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The basic foundation of DEI is that bringing people with different experiences together to solve pressing social problems is a good thing and that structural barriers need to be addressed for this to become a reality. The fact that this is controversial is an indictment on this country.