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Jonathan Kasstan

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Senior Lecturer in French and Linguistics, Westminster | Research on language in society | Associate Editor, Journal of Sociolinguistics | Research Notes Editor, Journal of French Language Studies. https://sites.google.com/view/jonathan-kasstan/home

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · Jun 20

🔓 An inter-pandemic project that has *finally* appeared! We propose a community-based model of digital #language #revitalization for #Francoprovençal that can be applied to other minoritized contexts. #edusky #langsky muse-jhu-edu.uow.idm.oclc.org/pub/24/artic... @languageonthemove.bsky.social R/T!

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Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · 2h

We're hosting this event at @unikent.bsky.social at the end of the month! So excited to hear all the goss about transcribing the House of Lords bickering! It's free and there is wine, so I'm in #linguistics #language

Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 6d

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 4 weeks to go...
🧑‍🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm

🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

Babel Lecture 2025: John Vice on Hansard

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 8h

Conservatives: the Party that deplores aspiration. #edusky

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · 4d

Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’

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Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’

In 2004, language learning ceased to be compulsory at Key Stage 4, aged 14 to 16.

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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!

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 5d

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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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 6d

My article exploring the connections between language revitalization backlash and genocide is now out. Complimentary copies are available using the link below, or feel free to message me for a copy if the link doesn't work for you.

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Black text on a white background, showing the title and abstract of an academic article. The title is ‘Conquered Primitives Have No Written Language’: Language Revitalization, Reactionary Settler Colonialism, and Perpetual Genocide. For the abstract, please visit https://doi.org/10.3138/GSI-2024-0011.

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School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social · 8d

We are so sorry to announce the death of our long time colleague and friend, Nigel Armstrong. He taught and researched here in French for twenty years and will be deeply missed by colleagues and students alike.

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 9d

On language laws in the Hermit Kingdom - via @economist.com #linguistics

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 11d

From A Coveney: "It is with a heavy heart that I'm writing to let you know of the recent death of Nigel Robert Armstrong, at the age of 70, just 2 years after his retirement as Senior Lecturer at @lcsleeds.bsky.social ”. A towering figure in #French #linguistics with yrs of service to the field.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 11d

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 11d

www.economist.com/science-and-...

The Economist is hiring a science and technology correspondent

We’re looking for a writer to join us in London for 12 months

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations!!

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 14d

Jobs: Syntax: Assistant Professor of Syntax and Artificial Intelligence, The Ohio State University

Description: Position Overview: The Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor who specializes in syntactic theory, with additional interest in artificial intelligence. We are interested in candidates who apply a mathematically rigorous (e.g., logical or statistical) approach to hypothesizing about empirical syntactic data. While theoretical syntax is the primary foc

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 14d

I was not disappointed!

Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 16d

I’m taking my Larousse into class next week and fully expect it to be described as a historical artefact.

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 15d

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 16d

New Word of Mouth podcast with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and @jessaiston.bsky.social on language and the ‘manosphere’ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #linguistics

Word of Mouth - The Language of the Manosphere - BBC Sounds

Michael Rosen hears how words are used as weapons against women

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 16d

I’m taking my Larousse into class next week and fully expect it to be described as a historical artefact.

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Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · 17d

Rethinking language education in the school curriculum in England

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Rethinking language education in the school curriculum in England

This Special Collection comprises contributions to the debate on languages across the school curriculum from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. It aims to support the strengthening...

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 18d

I suspect this was be controversial.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 19d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 21d

In London, hate will never win.

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Linguistics in MFL Project @inmfl.bsky.social · 23d

It's been a busy summer for @inmfl ! We recently won @newcastleuni.bsky.social's Inclusive Education, Life Long Learning and CPD Award.

For teachers interested in our project here's a little video about us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT9R... #linguistics #edusky

Inclusive Education, Life Long Learning and CPD Award - Linguistics in Modern Foreign Languages

YouTube video by Newcastle University Engagement

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 23d

Academia is getting weird.

Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 23d

Not only is this a real book, but the two editors, and a third collaborator (Weixiao Wei), have published 9 Routledge handbooks since 2017. Very confused about what is going on here. 1/x

A book cover. There is a photo of tree branches against the sky, and below that is a black background with white text. The white text reads The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering.

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 23d

I thought this too. Properly good sleuthing!

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 24d

September issue of @jslx.bsky.social is out with some very touching contributions @lhlew.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social #linguistics

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