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Lauren Hall-Lew
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Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-housing, adoption-critical, Gàidhlig learner, BSL learner, musician, Trekkie, dysthymic, bleeding-heart cynic. She/her.

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · Oct 28
My inaugural lecture is now online 🥰
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#sociophonetics #sociolinguistics #linguistics #phonetics #semiotics #Peirce #indexicality #social #meaning #research #academic #academia #lecture #Arizona #SanFrancisco #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scots #English #professor #babyphotos
Professor Lauren Hall-Lew Inaugural Lecture
Professor Lauren Hall-Lew's Inaugural Lecture from 25th September 2024. Sociophonetic indexicality as a window onto language and society.
media.ed.ac.uk

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 14h
Check out our new Interview series 🌟
In conversation with @lhlew.bsky.social, John Rickford reflects on his career in Guyana and the U.S. Through personal and professional stories, he shows how the personal and political are entwined in a life in sociolinguistics.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d
Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance

Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26

He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums

He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Insulin's High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing
Alec Raeshawn Smith was 23 when diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and 26 when he died. He couldn't afford $1,300 per month for his insulin and other diabetes supplies, so he tried to stretch the doses.
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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 2d
Not sure I've ever published something so blatantly personal -- and it's a book review, of all things! I even cited my mom's book! Here's to normalizing the practice of positionality statements. Thanks to the editors and authors for the opportunity. #inclusion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Book Review: Inclusion in Linguistics - Lauren Hall-Lew, 2025
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 3d
Um, @variety.com?

That’s…not what that means. 😳 variety.com/2025/music/n...
Screenshot from a Variety article: “Kendrick Lamar, the man who put the phrase ‘they not like us’ into the lexicon, will now have to admit: They like him, they really like him.”

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 3d
"The UK urgently needs cohesive and foundational principles to guide policymaking in this field and agreement on these principles must be led by the Deaf community"

bda.org.uk/bsl-is-not-f...

via @bda.org.uk via @debrief.disabilitydebrief.org.ap.brid.gy
BSL is not for sale: a Deaf-led approach to AI procurement
Today, the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge has published a new report, BSL is not for Sale: a Deaf-led approach to AI procurement.
bda.org.uk

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 4d
Chance of a rain of lizards on Tuesday (real)
Weather forecast: falling iguanas possible Tuesday morning.

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 4d
In her #NWAV53 plenary, King discusses an example of a juror being dismissed from the pool due to forestressing in the word police (so PO-lice), because the prosecutor claimed that the pronunciation showed animus towards law enforcement. And this is exactly why I study prosody!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d
There’s not enough attention being paid to the fact that ICE deported a man in a persistent vegetative state

Or the fact that he was perfectly healthy when he was detained, and his family have no idea what was done to him to cause such a severe decline

He died shortly after being deported to Cuba

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 5d
Oops, this was from #NWAV52!

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 5d
Attention #linguistics nerds, the #NWAV53 live feed has begun!
jennycz.bsky.social Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 6d
On my way to Michigan for #NWAV53 ✈️ flying northwesterly to DTW, like northern cities TRAP
Picture of an in-flight screen showing a map of the northern US, with flight path from DCA to DTW

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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 6d
Zohran Mamdani’s victory means so much — including a 'fuck you' to the Islamophobic weaponization of antisemitism... @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/04/z...
They Tried to Smear Zohran Mamdani as an Antisemite. Voters Saw Right Through It.
Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York City means so much — including the repudiation of Islamophobic attacks and weaponization of antisemitism.
theintercept.com

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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 6d
On my way to Michigan for #NWAV53 ✈️ flying northwesterly to DTW, like northern cities TRAP
Picture of an in-flight screen showing a map of the northern US, with flight path from DCA to DTW

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10d
The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP

You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670

Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem

If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?

You’re doing their dirty work.

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Kate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social · 10d
Looking for folk involved in community organising or grassroots movement building for social justice in Scotland!

If this sounds like you, please take a few minutes to respond to our survey! www.surveymonkey.com/r/26CCL2P

And please share with your networks 😍
Logos: Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the collective Text: What do grassroots movements in Scotland need to thrive? Are you invovled in community organising or grassroots movement-building for social justice in Scotland? We'd love you to respond to our survey! Image: Four campaigners, holding megaphones and signs, one sign says: Take our survey! And be in with a chance of winning £50 in vouchers. Others signs say social justice and act now. At the bottom is the link to the survey

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 12d
"Edinburgh is one of the wealthiest universities in the UK" and, yet, here we are. How? Why? Staff/students did not create this problem-- they keep the uni running through endless crisis. It's time for "leaders" to accept they have failed and step down.

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/gacde2g...
The Academic Contribution Framework: a flawed, discriminatory response to a failure of management’s making — UCU Edinburgh
The ACF is the mechanism by which management will size up workers for redundancy targets that we already know are arbitrary. The ACF is obviously bad. It will be personally devastating for many collea...
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13d
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 14d
“My findings were beyond reasonable doubt that this was an intentional killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.”

Retired Army Colonel Steve Gabavics tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, was intentional according to his findings.

Watch the episode:
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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 15d
Got to see Dr Riley speak today at the The Afro Celt Exhibition in Leith, Edinburgh. Gasps around the room when he recounted asking top magazine editors why they didn't put Black British musicians on their covers and the answer was that they didn't want to pay for the extra ink.

#BlackHistoryMonth
soulcitysigma.bsky.social Jason "Jase" Alston @soulcitysigma.bsky.social · Jan 16
We talk to Dr Mykaell Riley, Director of The Black Music Research Unit at the University of Westminster, abt Beyond the Bassline - an exhibition with the British Library that explored hidden stories of Black British music and ran from April to August 2024 pro.europeana.eu/post/beyond-...
Beyond the Bassline: confronting misconceptions of the history of Black British music | Europeana PRO
We talk to Dr Mykaell Riley, Director of The Black Music Research Unit at the University of Westminster, about Beyond the Bassline - an exhibition with the…
pro.europeana.eu

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 20d
Thought experiment, how much of the White House could the president tear down before anyone in power did anything meaningful to stop it? Like if he just kept going?

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 22d
Good point.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22d
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
Israel just massacred 11 members of the same Palestinian family in Al-Zaytoun, Gaza
Israel breached the ceasefire again as a tank fired directly at a civilian car. The dead include seven children and three women.
www.thecanary.co

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 22d
US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-politic...
US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22d
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
BREAKING: video emerges from Israel's ceasefire-breaking onslaught in Gaza
Video is coming out of Gaza as Israel conducts numerous airstrikes and kills dozens - breaching the ceasefire agreement once again
www.thecanary.co

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22d
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The Green Party is now bigger than the Tory Party
Under Zack Polanski, the Green Party is surging. Under Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party is doing whatever the opposite of that is.
www.thecanary.co

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 22d
"When success is built on racism, racism is successful."
- @jparchment

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 22d
Please join me in telling Starmer to shove his ID tool..

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Tell Keir Starmer to scrap his ID card scheme
With his government in turmoil and Nigel Farage breathing down his neck, Keir Starmer has reached for the panic button, announcing a scheme for ID cards that would be compulsory to prove your right to...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23d
HMRC to restart powers to take money directly from bank and building society accounts for tax owed.

How will it identify vulnerable people? What if money removed in error? Need safeguards.

The real culprits use offshore bank accounts or complex dodge schemes, and escape.
HMRC to begin taking money from bank accounts in bid to close £47bn tax gap
Tax authorities resume use of power after it was paused during pandemic
www.independent.co.uk

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 23d
More than 2,500 demonstrations have taken place across the United States, to express opposition to the policies of US President Donald Trump
Thousands challenge Trump policies in 'No Kings' rallies
More than 2,500 demonstrations have taken place across the United States, to express opposition to the policies of US President Donald Trump.
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