Ivan Brown
@ivanbrown-1577.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. at Joetsu Univ. Educ. Japan.
EFL/ELF/L2 teaching & learning, teacher education, intercultural communication, conversation analysis (EMCA).
Diversity, inclusivity, justice, sustainability.
I express opinions in a personal capacity.
EFL/ELF/L2 teaching & learning, teacher education, intercultural communication, conversation analysis (EMCA).
Diversity, inclusivity, justice, sustainability.
I express opinions in a personal capacity.
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🌥️Innovating with CARM in L2 Conversation Pedagogy🌤️
1. I recently adapted Elizabeth Stokoe's Conversation-Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) for a demonstration of training in intercultural L2 conversation in a module for graduate students. Great overall response & sense of breakthrough. #CARM #L2IC 🧵
1. I recently adapted Elizabeth Stokoe's Conversation-Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) for a demonstration of training in intercultural L2 conversation in a module for graduate students. Great overall response & sense of breakthrough. #CARM #L2IC 🧵
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Unless you're reading this from your private jet, the same system is oppressing us all.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Unless you're reading this from your private jet, the same system is oppressing us all.
linktr.ee/boldpolitics
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WATCH: @climatechoirs.bsky.social flashmob at lighting of Norwegian Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square
Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.
#StopRosebank
Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.
#StopRosebank
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
WATCH: @climatechoirs.bsky.social flashmob at lighting of Norwegian Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square
Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.
#StopRosebank
Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.
#StopRosebank
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This is wake-up call for Labour MPs. 👋
Vote for our EU customs union bill on Tuesday so we can start to undo the damage done by Brexit.
Vote for our EU customs union bill on Tuesday so we can start to undo the damage done by Brexit.
December 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is wake-up call for Labour MPs. 👋
Vote for our EU customs union bill on Tuesday so we can start to undo the damage done by Brexit.
Vote for our EU customs union bill on Tuesday so we can start to undo the damage done by Brexit.
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
Invaluable educational journey through the excellent 20th Refugee Film Festival (by "Japan for UNHCR"), online + screen shows. Spreading it around my local community, connecting it to "intercultural communication" in my university seminars, etc. www.japanforunhcr.org/how-to-help/...
www.japanforunhcr.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Invaluable educational journey through the excellent 20th Refugee Film Festival (by "Japan for UNHCR"), online + screen shows. Spreading it around my local community, connecting it to "intercultural communication" in my university seminars, etc. www.japanforunhcr.org/how-to-help/...
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This really shouldn't feel so unusual and like such a breath of fresh air. Almost a relief.
If British politicians had had the basic integrity to send and repeatedly affirm this kind of message over the past 20 years then we wouldn't be dealing with the far right now.
If British politicians had had the basic integrity to send and repeatedly affirm this kind of message over the past 20 years then we wouldn't be dealing with the far right now.
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This really shouldn't feel so unusual and like such a breath of fresh air. Almost a relief.
If British politicians had had the basic integrity to send and repeatedly affirm this kind of message over the past 20 years then we wouldn't be dealing with the far right now.
If British politicians had had the basic integrity to send and repeatedly affirm this kind of message over the past 20 years then we wouldn't be dealing with the far right now.
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it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day
October 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day
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In all seriousness, the "LLMs are people and you're racist if you don't like them" shit is the natural endpoint of a consumerist society in which consuming and fandom are the only modes of identity-building many people understand. Finally, a product no one can tell you not to love.
October 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
In all seriousness, the "LLMs are people and you're racist if you don't like them" shit is the natural endpoint of a consumerist society in which consuming and fandom are the only modes of identity-building many people understand. Finally, a product no one can tell you not to love.
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ICE is illegally raiding apartments in minority neighborhoods and Trump is trying to deploy the national guard to suppress dissent and people are really out here wasting their time arguing that LLM bigotry is a thing ??? please wake up and care about literally anything that matters
October 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
ICE is illegally raiding apartments in minority neighborhoods and Trump is trying to deploy the national guard to suppress dissent and people are really out here wasting their time arguing that LLM bigotry is a thing ??? please wake up and care about literally anything that matters
Just unbelievable…
Oh, but then maybe not.
Hoping people will get off Meta platforms.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Oh, but then maybe not.
Hoping people will get off Meta platforms.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Just unbelievable…
Oh, but then maybe not.
Hoping people will get off Meta platforms.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Oh, but then maybe not.
Hoping people will get off Meta platforms.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵
April 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵
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Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary .
Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.
Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.
September 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary .
Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.
Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.
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Zack Polanski, "Let's subsidise good behaviour, rather than subsidising fossil fuel companies, oil and gas"
"There's no coincidence that this Labour government took £4.1 million from a hedge fund that have assets in oil and gas, arms and gambling"
"There's no coincidence that this Labour government took £4.1 million from a hedge fund that have assets in oil and gas, arms and gambling"
September 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Zack Polanski, "Let's subsidise good behaviour, rather than subsidising fossil fuel companies, oil and gas"
"There's no coincidence that this Labour government took £4.1 million from a hedge fund that have assets in oil and gas, arms and gambling"
"There's no coincidence that this Labour government took £4.1 million from a hedge fund that have assets in oil and gas, arms and gambling"
🌥️Innovating with CARM in L2 Conversation Pedagogy🌤️
1. I recently adapted Elizabeth Stokoe's Conversation-Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) for a demonstration of training in intercultural L2 conversation in a module for graduate students. Great overall response & sense of breakthrough. #CARM #L2IC 🧵
1. I recently adapted Elizabeth Stokoe's Conversation-Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) for a demonstration of training in intercultural L2 conversation in a module for graduate students. Great overall response & sense of breakthrough. #CARM #L2IC 🧵
September 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
🌥️Innovating with CARM in L2 Conversation Pedagogy🌤️
1. I recently adapted Elizabeth Stokoe's Conversation-Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) for a demonstration of training in intercultural L2 conversation in a module for graduate students. Great overall response & sense of breakthrough. #CARM #L2IC 🧵
1. I recently adapted Elizabeth Stokoe's Conversation-Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) for a demonstration of training in intercultural L2 conversation in a module for graduate students. Great overall response & sense of breakthrough. #CARM #L2IC 🧵
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NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
🧵 [1/8]
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
🧵 [1/8]
September 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
🧵 [1/8]
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
🧵 [1/8]
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Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
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Regarding the liberal fantasy of saving X by posting on it more — @pbump.com has it exactly right www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...
August 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Regarding the liberal fantasy of saving X by posting on it more — @pbump.com has it exactly right www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...
I've finally de-activated my Facebook account, after considering it for several years. ATM, I feel like I'll permanently delete it, but I decided to take this step for now. Main reason: increasing resentment of being a cog in Zuckerberg's weird massive machine.
August 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I've finally de-activated my Facebook account, after considering it for several years. ATM, I feel like I'll permanently delete it, but I decided to take this step for now. Main reason: increasing resentment of being a cog in Zuckerberg's weird massive machine.
I might block a few people who have followed me.
Please don't take it personally - it's just to do with whether I think we have shared interests or not.
My interests are clear enough on my profile and my posts.
For example, I'm definitely NOT interested in finding dating partners - human or bot!
Please don't take it personally - it's just to do with whether I think we have shared interests or not.
My interests are clear enough on my profile and my posts.
For example, I'm definitely NOT interested in finding dating partners - human or bot!
August 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I might block a few people who have followed me.
Please don't take it personally - it's just to do with whether I think we have shared interests or not.
My interests are clear enough on my profile and my posts.
For example, I'm definitely NOT interested in finding dating partners - human or bot!
Please don't take it personally - it's just to do with whether I think we have shared interests or not.
My interests are clear enough on my profile and my posts.
For example, I'm definitely NOT interested in finding dating partners - human or bot!
Great resource here. TBH, not really sure yet whether I’m completely “anti-AI” (I make cautious use of AI translation, etc), but I’m alarmed by the uncritical cult-driven rush towards AI dependence, and I think this critical questioning is a welcome eye-opener and braking & thinking mechanism.
great thread! i agree that we have to fight. i put together a resource to help people who want to convince others how bad the genai situation is, 11 pages of links that i keep updating: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Questioning AI Resource List
Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...
docs.google.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Great resource here. TBH, not really sure yet whether I’m completely “anti-AI” (I make cautious use of AI translation, etc), but I’m alarmed by the uncritical cult-driven rush towards AI dependence, and I think this critical questioning is a welcome eye-opener and braking & thinking mechanism.
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I never thought I’d be cheering on a former Tory Cabinet minister.
But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.
But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.
July 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I never thought I’d be cheering on a former Tory Cabinet minister.
But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.
But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.