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Danijela Trenkic

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Psycholinguist, professor of L2 education, former EuroSLA president.

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Danijela Trenkic @danijelatrenkic.bsky.social · Dec 11

What is the state of international students' English language proficiency at UK universities?

I review the evidence in this thread, prompted by the excellent BBC podcast and report by @paulkenyontv.bsky.social #UKHE

Danijela Trenkic @danijelatrenkic.bsky.social · Dec 10

1/ Last week, a BBC report and podcast claimed UK universities enrol students with poor English to balance books. This sparked two reactions: "no shit, Sherlock" or outright denial. 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mzdejg1d3o

Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds

Institutions may be overlooking inadequate language skills to receive high fees from overseas students.

www.bbc.co.uk

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HUM.AI.N-ACCENT Project (MSCA Doctoral Network) @humain-accent.bsky.social · 1d

🎓 13 PhD POSITIONS available across Europe!

🌍 HUM.AI.N-ACCENT is an EU-funded research project that explores the impacts of foreign-accented speech in human-human and human-AI interactions.

More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#PhD #MSCA #HorizonEurope #CognitiveScience #AI

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 6d

Nominate yourself to come run your own research dept in lovely MPI-PL in the woods. Or nominate someone amazing - your colleague, supervisor, former student.... Deadline for nominations 19th December

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 6d

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

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Susanne Brouwer @susannebrouwer.bsky.social · 6d

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!

Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Application deadline: 19 October 2025

For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Danijela Trenkic @danijelatrenkic.bsky.social · 7d

Tansies of York

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 8d

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

psychiatry.ucsd.edu

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 8d

** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Applications are invited for a 3-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.This position is funded by an ESRC resear...

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 12d

...I mean that even with careful prompts I would not be confident LLMs could perform the function I'd want. How do I know that any bland AI summary of a paper is going to extract what might be of value to *me* in it? I don't even know that myself before I read it...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 12d

We are worried about our students. There is a misapprehension that behaving "unhappy" gives an impression of worldliness or that it signals empathy to the world’s problems. What is worse- suppressing happiness changes your capacity for joy.

www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

Opinion | How Young People Learn to Be Unhappy

By focusing so heavily on stress and depression, we’ve given them the idea that misery is virtuous.

www.wsj.com

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 15d

If you haven’t joined the union - time to do it right now! Better and stronger together 👏

#ucu #jointheunion #universityoflincoln

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Charlene Polio @charlenep.bsky.social · 15d

The full program for our hybrid symposium on the quan/qual divide in applied linguistics is now available. October 17 - no fees or preregistration. Luke Plonsky and Bethany Gray are giving keynotes along with nine other talks and a panel discussion. corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/

Hybrid symposium on the quantitative/qualitative divide in applied linguistics – Second Language Studies Corpus Lab

corpus.cal.msu.edu

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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 15d

Call for Papers for EuroSLA 35
Lisbon 24-27 July 2026
www.eurosla.org/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers for EuroSLA 35, 2026 – EuroSLA

www.eurosla.org

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 15d

Deadline Nov 1: Asst prof (tenure track), Syntax and Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Ohio State University osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 15d

Jobs: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics: Assistant Professor in Language Science/Linguistics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Description: The School of Modern Languages (www.modlangs.gatech.edu) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Language Science/Linguistics. Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to teaching and mentoring students. Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an o

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Andrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 15d

Haystacks at dawn

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 15d

I screen out Frontiers emails so hadn't seen a colleague's invite to their editorial board. so the colleague emailed me directly to ask again (we're friendly w/ each other)

I don't like saying 'no' to service for good colleagues, but one must act on principle against bad publishers. here's my reply

email screenshot:
Dear XX, thanks for thinking of me. Unfortunately I need to decline — I am one of those people who feels that Frontiers and big-money-OA is corrupting the scientific enterprise beyond repair, so I don't submit, review, or edit for their journals. I feel the same for journals like Scientific Reports, Communications Psychology, MDPI journals, and the like. In my opinion the only way to improve scientific publishing is to vote with our feet and our grant dollars.

Sorry that I don't have a more positive response....!

best from NZ
Sam

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17d

We need more in-depth reporting on UK university finances like this. Research , research funding and their relation to teaching and teaching funding could do with a similar level of detail. Here's a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3ImSMWa

The shadow economy behind the international student boom

A lucrative revenue stream for universities has led to an industry of unregulated agents now under scrutiny for making lofty promises

www.ft.com

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Stefan Frank @stefanfrank.bsky.social · 19d

Announcing the first (and perhaps only) Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting! Come join us in Nijmegen, June 22-23, 2026, if you are interested in computational models of human multilingualism: mmmm2026.github.io

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 19d

It's #WorldChildlessWeek

Here is a really useful article that discusses this "quieter experience that tends to go unnoticed" and what organisations may consider.

#WorldChildlessWeek2025 #Infertility

The Invisible Experience: Childlessness in the Workplace
www.linkedin.com/pulse/invisi...

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 19d

Interspecies love at its very best.

I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · 20d

Dog teaches the pig how to use the doggy door! 😊

#dog #dogday #bluesky #animals

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 19d

Excellent news. I'm just off to the off-license then (Ik ga nu naar de slijterij)... congratulations Matt et al!

Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social · 20d

Extremely proud and a bit jealous that my excellent colleagues @fieldmatt.bsky.social and Inge Kersbergen have won this year's Ig Nobel Peace prize for showing that being a bit tipsy makes you better at speaking Dutch.

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners

The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures.

arstechnica.com

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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 26d

@langtestjournal.bsky.social has made our article "A survey of English language proficiency tests in international student admissions at US research-intensive universities" free to read/download for 1 year! Mahalo!

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 21d

The past tense of ‘to go’ is ‘went’, but this form used to belong to the verb ‘to wend’.

We call such verbs suppletive.

Surprisingly, ‘to bring’ is suppletive too: ‘brought’ comes from a different verb.

My new graphic tells you all about their past.

In certain varieties of English, ... 1/

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IRIS Database @irisdatabase.bsky.social · 26d

📢📢📢The fifth round of the IRIS Replication Award is now open for submissions and will close at midnight (GMT) on 30th November 2026.

▶️For more information or to submit your application, please follow this link: www.iris-database.org/replication-...

IRIS: Instruments and Data for Research in Language Studies

www.iris-database.org

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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 22d

Nottingham colleagues @uonucu.bsky.social and UoN Unison are on strike next week in defence of jobs. Please donate to their hardship fund if you can, and please share the link 👇
#UnionStrong #DefendJobs #DefendHE #WeAreTheUniversity #UCU

University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 23d

Join us on the picked line! And if you can't, show your support by spreading the word on here, letting the university know that you stand with us, and contributing to our hardship fund.

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £10000 to support UCU members facing financial hardship taking IA to protect jobs – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to support UCU members facing financial hardship taking IA to protect jobs. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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Smylers @smylers.uk · 21d

Or, just tell the students if they'd like some friendly feedback, to put the bullet points into AI and help themselves to whatever style of feedback they'd prefer!

That's no sillier than the suggestion here, and arguably fairer cos it's completely open.

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