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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Jul 14

I'm excited to teach #UMDLangIDRacism for the first time with readings from the new volume and companion site.

anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · Mar 4

Glad to see that this classic has been updated -- will have to check it out!

Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Feb 28

Today's news. This new edition. Connect the dots.
www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ev...

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Jun 6

#UMDLangIDRacism

Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Jun 6

📣Happy to announce I'm teaching my Language & Racism course again 💻online later this Summer @univofmaryland.bsky.social. Content is shaped by former students (undergrad/grad) & input from folks over on the other platform in past. @umd-arhu.bsky.social ✅ exst.umd.edu/current-inco... Please share 📣

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Jun 6

Sharing beauty:

Albert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · Jun 6

A fairytale in Tuscany. Fun fact: Taken with my smartphone

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Apr 25

Good article w/link to Prof. Vanessa Diaz' Bad Bunny Syllabus for those interested in race, discourse, music, Puerto Rico, pop culture #UMDLangIDRacism2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

Bad Bunny (the College Course) Heads to the Ivy League

www.nytimes.com

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Apr 24

Add to summer course ✅
#UMDLangIDRacism2025

(HT @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social)

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · Apr 24

Half the Answer #9: Trent and Caitlin talk with Dr. Aris Clemons about the illusion of objectivity, the futility of being “apolitical” in a political institution, ethnography and lived experience, “other ways of knowing,” and other concepts that get weaponized in attacks on the academy.

Half the Answer #9: Language, Identity, and Anti-Woke Academic Slander

Trent and Caitlin talk with Dr. Aris Clemons, an Assistant Professor in Linguistics, about the various slanders and misapprehensions that plague her field of study. We discuss language ideologies, the...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Apr 24

This!

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · Apr 24

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · Apr 24

Half the Answer #9: Trent and Caitlin talk with Dr. Aris Clemons about the illusion of objectivity, the futility of being “apolitical” in a political institution, ethnography and lived experience, “other ways of knowing,” and other concepts that get weaponized in attacks on the academy.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Apr 24

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT.

sincerely,

a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Mar 19

And for some good news from Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla over on LinkedIn and @amyfou.bsky.social

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Cam Arnzen @camarnzen.bsky.social · Mar 12

Amidst all the chaos and upheaval in the education policy world, @annenberginstitute.bsky.social will be hiring several senior research associates in the coming months. Hopefully this helps some of the stellar education policy people find their footing again!

Hiring Soon flyer for the Annenberg Institute at Brown University for senior research associates positions. More information will be shared on the institute's website soon.

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Society for Linguistic Anthropology @soclinganth.bsky.social · Mar 11

Check out SLA's brand-new Starter Pack and join the conversation!

go.bsky.app/66Z6QWb

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Apr 24

Are you teaching undergraduate students in a language-related course this semester? Or, do you know some undergraduate students interested in language?
If so, I'd appreciate you sharing some info about a study I'm doing on podcasting and critical language awareness!
bit.ly/psuplp

Graphic with information about a research study for undergraduates. Participants are eligible if they are 18 years or older, an undergraduate student, and they are studying in the US. They will be asked to listen to a 25-minute podcast and take two short surveys. It will take one hour or less.

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Mar 6

Excellent!

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Mar 6

Well it's too late for this timely workshop but back over on the other platform I had found these posts by @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social‬ to be inspirational.

Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · Feb 14

The conditions we’re dealing with are making it so hard to focus on writing & scholarship.

If you’d feel supported by having a dedicated hour to reconnect with why you’re writing a scholarly book in the first place, my free workshop on March 5 is for you

courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/book...

Workshop: Clarify Your Book Goals

This free workshop from Laura Portwood-Stacer of Manuscript Works teaches scholarly authors at all career stages to explore what's possible and decide what you really want your scholarly book to DO fo...

courses.manuscriptworks.com

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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · Mar 4

Glad to see that this classic has been updated -- will have to check it out!

Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Feb 28

Today's news. This new edition. Connect the dots.
www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ev...

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · Mar 3

#AWP IS COMING SOON and I’m thrilled to be joining this panel called Beyond Tiger Moms and Model Minorities: Imagining the Asian American Family w/ @salesses.bsky.social @kirstinchen.bsky.social @kimlet.bsky.social @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social!! Come see us on Thursday afternoon, 3/27!😎

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Feb 28

Today's news. This new edition. Connect the dots.
www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ev...

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Feb 21

So I've been (continually) reading the news, the country & world are a %&*+ mess with more suffering than ever. I'm going to hide out, grateful for work & other sustenance, drink my petit café & read, write, and edit, edit, edit from this little corner of my sociolinguistics/anthropology universe🕊️

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · Dec 29

Several scholars of color and marginalized academics have said this several times on Twitter and here, but many people remain there because that’s where their communities reside and there are huge exit costs. Not everyone has the PRIVILEGE to leave a community behind.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Dec 29

I'm at a point where I'm honestly vaguely surprised that anyone who isn't an admitted fascist (or at least fascist-comfortable) and/or a corporate account is still actively on the former Twitter. The best time to have left is long gone, but the second-best time is now.

www.pcmag.com/opinions/my-...

My #1 New Year's Resolution: Dump Twitter, Embrace Bluesky

I'm quitting Twitter in 2025, and you should, too. Join me in jumping over to the platform that brings fun back to social media.

www.pcmag.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · Feb 19

In the face of these assaults on education & civil rights, students & faculty nationwide are organizing in their communities. Join us. The way to confront those intent on dismantling our democracy is to join together in mass action.

Full statement here:

www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

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AAUP President: ED's Office of Civil Rights Has Declared War on American Civil Rights in Education

A new statement by AAUP President Todd Wolfson speaks out against the potential elimination of federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds, the latest blat...

www.aaup.org

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NPR @npr.org · Feb 19

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

www.npr.org

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · Feb 18

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA.

The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

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Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social · Feb 17

The app deadline for the Assistant Teaching Professor opening in my department (Media Studies, U of CO Boulder) is less than 2 weeks away! This is a contracted/renewable, non-tenure-track faculty line. Read on for additional information about the position:
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant Teaching Professor of Media Studies

jobs.colorado.edu

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ReDICo @redico.eu · Feb 3

📢 #CfP "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality" - Online Conference

Join us 23-24 June 2025
Submit by 28 Feb 2025

Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social, @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan

hub.redico.eu/call-for-pap...

“Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality”

Call-for-Papers: The Fourth ReDICo (Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively) Conference
Online, 23-24 June 2025

In this conference we would like to bring together scholars who engage with internet histories, digital futures and digital interculturality so as to initiate a discussion regarding the reimagining of digitality, not least its relationship to interculturality. We are, thus, interested in wide and interdisciplinary approaches that go beyond the presentism that often marks media and communication studies, while also engaging with alternative visions of how digitality can be construed, not least from an intercultural perspective.

For more details see: https://hub.redico.eu/call-for-papers/111/digital-pasts-and-futures-internet-histories-digital-interculturality-and-reimagining-digitality-conference-online-23-24-june-2025

Please send an abstract (250 words) of your intended paper to: redico@uni-jena.de by 28 February 2025. It is intended that a selection of the papers presented will be published following a peer review process in book form, funding pending, with the transcript Publishing House in the Series “Studies in Digital Interculturality”. The conference is without fees, completely online and is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).

Keynote speakers that have already been confirmed include Prof. Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg), Associate Prof. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Aarhus University), Prof. Ethan Zuckerman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan (University of California, Los Angeles).

apl. Prof. Dr. Fergal Lenehan and PD Dr. Luisa Conti
(Friedrich Schiller University of Jena)

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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · Feb 16

Hi! NVIVO can also do this but I haven’t tried it for this task yet.