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Li Wei 李嵬 @professorliwei.bsky.social · 9h

blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...

Rethinking language education: evidence for England’s Curriculum and Assessment Review

Language education in school has significant transformational potential in terms of learners’ right to a well-rounded education and the enhancement of their life chances… (read more)

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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 9h

🧪 PhD opp on mental distress & opioid tapering via the Midlands MHN PhD Programme for Healthcare Professionals! 🎓
✅ 3 yrs on NHS salary (backfill funded)
✅ Fees, research, training & travel
💡 Up to 0.2 FTE clinical work
#PhD #MentalHealth #Bigdata #Opioids
🔗 midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk/project/2026...

2026 Nicole Tang - Midlands Mental Health and Neurosciences PhD Programme

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12h

Octopus in Yoruba is apparently "Ayéfófo" or more recently "ẹja ẹlẹsẹ mẹjọ." The latter literally means the eight-legged fish. When consumed as meat, it's called "fọ́ntọ́nfọ́ntọ́n", which I personally translate as "eww! yuck! Squishy!"

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 12h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 1d

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 1d

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win publication in Babel!

📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Babel article: Rethinking the biases of language and society

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Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social · 12h

What have I missed?

Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social · 4d

Mmm still confused - let me keep reading.

Thomas Harvell-DeGolier, ABD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 5d

So can someone explain waffles?

Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social · 5d

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... Curious to see the effect of this.

Government to scrap target for 50% of young people to go to university

Sir Keir Starmer said he wants to promote a ‘gold-standard apprenticeship’.

www.independent.co.uk

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Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social · 5d

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... For people interested in the links between AL and AI.

Latest volume | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

www.cambridge.org

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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 6d

PROOF OF AN EXTERNAL WORLD
The Language of Memes was officially published on 11 September, but a +/- 6 MB download doesn't really beat the physical object. It exists in the tangible universe! Yay @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org

Crazed man holding up two copies of The Language of Memes

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Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social · 6d

www.newscientist.com/article/2498... RIP

How Jane Goodall changed the way we see animals - and the world

Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but she leaves a lasting legacy on how we view the natural world

www.newscientist.com

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Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social · 11d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Million-year-old skull rewrites human evolution, say scientists

New analysis suggests our species began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought

www.bbc.co.uk

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 19d

In today's post I take a proposal by Alondra Nelson for AI ELSI as a springboard to reflect on obstacles and opportunities for community engagement with AI makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/19/p...

Participation at the core: AI, ELSI and community engagement

Alondra Nelson, a sociologist, STS scholar and expert on AI policy and ethics, recently published a letter in Science proposing that artificial intelligence (AI) should adopt the Ethical, Legal, an…

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 24d

#linguistics / #conlang / #comics Apparently _Dan Dare: Marooned on Mercury_ originally published in Eagle comics in the '50s, featured an alien Mercurian language, which may or may not (probably not) have been an actual worked-out conlang. Anybody know about this?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26d

Did any of these people actually read or listen to what Kirk actually said or did?

I don’t know how you can portray someone who created a “professor watchlist” as a free speech champion or how someone who said vile things about minorities and immigrants was being civil.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 26d

Believe it or not this is from an entirely different column. And again—no.

Stephen Collinson: In some ways, Kirk's events were about trying to do politics the right way. He was fostering direct but civil political discourse and courting skeptics, even if the events were also choreographed to create clips that he'd send viral on
YouTube.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/politics/kirk-murder-political-2026-campaign-events-analysis

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 26d

I love finding the makeshift bookmarks of previous owners in secondhand books.
I really had to fight off* the compulsion to waste hours scouring the internet for the film the ticket holder saw decades ago...

*Fought but lost: The Quiet Man (1952), directed by John Ford (Victor McLaglen Marathon)

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Dr Jessica Gagnon @jessgagnon.bsky.social · 29d

#BERA2025 starting now with BERA President @drmoncrieffe.bsky.social opening the keynote panel: What is being done and what must be continued for advancing the power of anti-racism and decoloniality in educational research, policy and practice across the four UK nations?

Photo from the BERA conference featuring a full lecture hall of hundreds of conference attendees while the opening slide of the keynote panel for the conference is in view

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Erin Early @erinearly.bsky.social · 28d

A wonderful way to spend a Wednesday afternoon with @beranews.bsky.social Research Methodologies SIG Co-Convenor @dramandan.bsky.social & Social Justice SIG Convenor Liliana Belkin delivering a workshop on narrative methods and social justice research in education at #BERA2025.

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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · 28d

Great to see Mary Richardson, author of Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment, at #BERA2025! Her book explores how to restore trust in assessment systems.

📖 Read it here: bit.ly/3JXDhnW
#OpenAccess #EducationResearch #Assessment

Mary Richardson standing at a UCL Press booth, smiling and holding her book, surrounded by various publications on a display table.

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Dr Jessica Gagnon @jessgagnon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Are you attending BERA in Brighton #BERA2025?

On Wed 9am @marcoreggiani.bsky.social & I are presenting

Who has the time? Clocking the hidden burdens impacting LGBTQ+ and women researchers in STEM

Including findings from EPSRC funded STEM Equals and RSC & UKSIN funded LGBTQual+

Screenshot of a PowerPoint title slide for presentation titled Who has the time? Clocking the hidden burdens impacting LGBTQ+ and women researchers in STEM. Presented by Drs Jessica Gagnon and Marco Reggiani. The image features a pale yellow background on the right side with geometric rainbow pattern on the left side. Logos from two research projects, STEM Equals and LGBTQUAL+, and logos from project funders EPSRC, Royal Society of Chemistry, and UK Science and Innovation Network are included.

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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 27d

A keynote to language the heartbreak and failure, the work of living with genocide #BERA2025
We are humbled by your response, tears, plans for action & your standing ovation.
History is being made #GazaMatters
gla.ac.uk/research/az/un…

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 27d

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Reuters @reuters.com · 27d

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l

Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.

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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 28d

After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

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Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social · 28d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greenwich and Kent announce merger to form 'super-university'

Universities are facing ongoing financial worries, with the regulator saying other mergers could follow.

www.bbc.co.uk

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 28d

ok so since it isn't common knowledge and i think y'all'd like it: "corgi" is just welsh for dwarf (cor) dog (ki>gi because of lenition) 🐦🐦

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