This one's interesting about accent attitudes, 'accent recovery' and it even features @christianilbury.bsky.social!
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HI. It's me.

WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.

Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

I recently appeared on the UNESCO Chair podcast series on refugee integration. We discussed how - in the midst of growing and unacceptable hostility - the UK continues to be a multilingual country, enriched by speakers of many languages. @uofgunescorila.bsky.social
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DIVERSITY IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION

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www.gov.scot/publications...

Feel free to send me enquiries about our master's degrees.

Looking forward to talking all things digital comms and why it's difficult (or even possible!) to disentangle what is an 'offline' and 'online' identity.

The ways in which sign languages can be shaped by specific deaf schools is so interesting. Waddell & Lafferty's #uklvc15 poster documents the mixed signs of a Glaswegian school initially staffed by Irish nuns: things like BSL signs with ISL handshape. Now a generational marker; an endangered lect.

The poster competition at #BAAL2025 includes an entry from LASS member @danielcalvert.bsky.social on Glasgow-based refugee community groups, looking at the role of translanguaging and decolonial struggle in the lives of people seeking refuge in Scotland.

Kamran, who opened #BAAL2025 this week, also launched our network back in March with a talk on language teaching and securitisation.

This was an excellent panel - couldn't be more timely in thinking about how we can be both activists and a academics #BAAL2025

One symposium participant gave the example of this recent letter, co-signed by 7,500 citizens and 400 academics stopreturnfascism.org/english/

LASS member @katyhighet.bsky.social co-hosted a symposium on scholar-activism in Applied Linguistics today at #BAAL2025. How are researchers received when they position themselves as activitists? And how can we work in strategic collaboration with others beyond academia? @baal2025.bsky.social

Save the date for our next big event!

"Language and AI", University of Edinburgh
Friday 28th November, 3-5pm, followed by a networking reception

More info to follow soon ...