Danijela Trenkic
@danijelatrenkic.bsky.social
Psycholinguist, professor of L2 education, former EuroSLA president.
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1/ Last week, a BBC report and podcast claimed UK universities enrol students with poor English to balance books. This sparked two reactions: "no shit, Sherlock" or outright denial. 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mzdejg1d3o
Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds
Institutions may be overlooking inadequate language skills to receive high fees from overseas students.
www.bbc.co.uk
What is the state of international students' English language proficiency at UK universities?
I review the evidence in this thread, prompted by the excellent BBC podcast and report by @paulkenyontv.bsky.social #UKHE
I review the evidence in this thread, prompted by the excellent BBC podcast and report by @paulkenyontv.bsky.social #UKHE
Looking forward to Devyani Sharma’s inaugural lecture.
February 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Looking forward to Devyani Sharma’s inaugural lecture.
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Applications are open for doctoral and postdoctoral roles with the Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales (CURLEW). Work with Prof Paul Foulkes and colleagues to map language change across the UK. Positions available in York, Bern and Oxford. www.curlew.info/jobs #langsky
February 4, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Applications are open for doctoral and postdoctoral roles with the Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales (CURLEW). Work with Prof Paul Foulkes and colleagues to map language change across the UK. Positions available in York, Bern and Oxford. www.curlew.info/jobs #langsky
Looking forward to visiting the Samurai exhibition in London, based on research by the wonderful @olegb.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Samurai review: Japan’s lethal warrior class are shown in all their sexy, demonic glory
Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Looking forward to visiting the Samurai exhibition in London, based on research by the wonderful @olegb.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Open Science in linguistics – free EuroSLA webinar, 27 Feb 2026 – EuroSLA
www.eurosla.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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📣 Calling first-time authors!
To mark the 10th anniversary of JESLA, we’re offering 3 prizes for papers accepted in 2026 🏆
Details & submissions: www.euroslajournal.org
Open to EuroSLA members in good standing (for co-authored papers, at least one author must be eligible).
To mark the 10th anniversary of JESLA, we’re offering 3 prizes for papers accepted in 2026 🏆
Details & submissions: www.euroslajournal.org
Open to EuroSLA members in good standing (for co-authored papers, at least one author must be eligible).
January 21, 2026 at 2:33 PM
📣 Calling first-time authors!
To mark the 10th anniversary of JESLA, we’re offering 3 prizes for papers accepted in 2026 🏆
Details & submissions: www.euroslajournal.org
Open to EuroSLA members in good standing (for co-authored papers, at least one author must be eligible).
To mark the 10th anniversary of JESLA, we’re offering 3 prizes for papers accepted in 2026 🏆
Details & submissions: www.euroslajournal.org
Open to EuroSLA members in good standing (for co-authored papers, at least one author must be eligible).
Fertility struggles are usually told through the stories of those who eventually had a child. That can offer hope - but it also quietly erases those who didn’t get there. Giving them voice matters. We need more stories like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I love my life - now I have made peace with not having a baby
After a decade of trying for a baby, Caroline and her husband decided they needed to build a different future.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Fertility struggles are usually told through the stories of those who eventually had a child. That can offer hope - but it also quietly erases those who didn’t get there. Giving them voice matters. We need more stories like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Happy Christmas from the Yorkshire Wolds. ( photo taken a few weeks ago , see you after the holidays , best wishes James )
December 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Happy Christmas from the Yorkshire Wolds. ( photo taken a few weeks ago , see you after the holidays , best wishes James )
Exciting times ahead! After 22 wonderful years in York, I’ll be heading to Oxford in January to take up a Professorship in Applied Linguistics. To say it’s a privilege would be an understatement. Joy and exhilaration mixed with awe and that familiar “what-have-I-just-done?” feeling.
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Exciting times ahead! After 22 wonderful years in York, I’ll be heading to Oxford in January to take up a Professorship in Applied Linguistics. To say it’s a privilege would be an understatement. Joy and exhilaration mixed with awe and that familiar “what-have-I-just-done?” feeling.
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Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
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For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.
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💡 Expressions of Interest: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026
Deadline: 30 Nov
Submit: Completed EOI form, CV (1 page), and proposal outline (max 2 pages) to: research.facilitation@education.ox.ac.uk
Complete the form here 👉 shorturl.at/0O2f4
Deadline: 30 Nov
Submit: Completed EOI form, CV (1 page), and proposal outline (max 2 pages) to: research.facilitation@education.ox.ac.uk
Complete the form here 👉 shorturl.at/0O2f4
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
💡 Expressions of Interest: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026
Deadline: 30 Nov
Submit: Completed EOI form, CV (1 page), and proposal outline (max 2 pages) to: research.facilitation@education.ox.ac.uk
Complete the form here 👉 shorturl.at/0O2f4
Deadline: 30 Nov
Submit: Completed EOI form, CV (1 page), and proposal outline (max 2 pages) to: research.facilitation@education.ox.ac.uk
Complete the form here 👉 shorturl.at/0O2f4
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I wrote this morning to the VC and Deputy VC of Nottingham to urge them to rethink the plans for closing languages. You can too, addresses here. www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wrote this morning to the VC and Deputy VC of Nottingham to urge them to rethink the plans for closing languages. You can too, addresses here. www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
Lovely day for the York 10 mile run today 🌤️🕶️🏃🏻♀️
October 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Lovely day for the York 10 mile run today 🌤️🕶️🏃🏻♀️
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The outcome of organisational reviews captured:“Everything was over-organised and so failed to work properly. The new bureaucracy, which was supposed to impose order, was still enjoying itself writing memos and making out permits, and everything was delayed” (Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday)
October 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The outcome of organisational reviews captured:“Everything was over-organised and so failed to work properly. The new bureaucracy, which was supposed to impose order, was still enjoying itself writing memos and making out permits, and everything was delayed” (Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday)
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stop thinking right now
October 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
stop thinking right now
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🎓 13 PhD POSITIONS available across Europe!
🌍 HUM.AI.N-ACCENT is an EU-funded research project that explores the impacts of foreign-accented speech in human-human and human-AI interactions.
More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#PhD #MSCA #HorizonEurope #CognitiveScience #AI
🌍 HUM.AI.N-ACCENT is an EU-funded research project that explores the impacts of foreign-accented speech in human-human and human-AI interactions.
More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#PhD #MSCA #HorizonEurope #CognitiveScience #AI
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October 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎓 13 PhD POSITIONS available across Europe!
🌍 HUM.AI.N-ACCENT is an EU-funded research project that explores the impacts of foreign-accented speech in human-human and human-AI interactions.
More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#PhD #MSCA #HorizonEurope #CognitiveScience #AI
🌍 HUM.AI.N-ACCENT is an EU-funded research project that explores the impacts of foreign-accented speech in human-human and human-AI interactions.
More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#PhD #MSCA #HorizonEurope #CognitiveScience #AI
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Nominate yourself to come run your own research dept in lovely MPI-PL in the woods. Or nominate someone amazing - your colleague, supervisor, former student.... Deadline for nominations 19th December
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
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Nominate yourself to come run your own research dept in lovely MPI-PL in the woods. Or nominate someone amazing - your colleague, supervisor, former student.... Deadline for nominations 19th December
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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...
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!
www.ru.nl
October 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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...
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...
Tansies of York
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tansies of York
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Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
psychiatry.ucsd.edu
September 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
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** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Applications are invited for a 3-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.This position is funded by an ESRC resear...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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...I mean that even with careful prompts I would not be confident LLMs could perform the function I'd want. How do I know that any bland AI summary of a paper is going to extract what might be of value to *me* in it? I don't even know that myself before I read it...
September 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
...I mean that even with careful prompts I would not be confident LLMs could perform the function I'd want. How do I know that any bland AI summary of a paper is going to extract what might be of value to *me* in it? I don't even know that myself before I read it...
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We are worried about our students. There is a misapprehension that behaving "unhappy" gives an impression of worldliness or that it signals empathy to the world’s problems. What is worse- suppressing happiness changes your capacity for joy.
www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...
Opinion | How Young People Learn to Be Unhappy
By focusing so heavily on stress and depression, we’ve given them the idea that misery is virtuous.
www.wsj.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
We are worried about our students. There is a misapprehension that behaving "unhappy" gives an impression of worldliness or that it signals empathy to the world’s problems. What is worse- suppressing happiness changes your capacity for joy.
www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...
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If you haven’t joined the union - time to do it right now! Better and stronger together 👏
#ucu #jointheunion #universityoflincoln
#ucu #jointheunion #universityoflincoln
September 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If you haven’t joined the union - time to do it right now! Better and stronger together 👏
#ucu #jointheunion #universityoflincoln
#ucu #jointheunion #universityoflincoln
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The full program for our hybrid symposium on the quan/qual divide in applied linguistics is now available. October 17 - no fees or preregistration. Luke Plonsky and Bethany Gray are giving keynotes along with nine other talks and a panel discussion. corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/
Hybrid symposium on the quantitative/qualitative divide in applied linguistics – Second Language Studies Corpus Lab
corpus.cal.msu.edu
September 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The full program for our hybrid symposium on the quan/qual divide in applied linguistics is now available. October 17 - no fees or preregistration. Luke Plonsky and Bethany Gray are giving keynotes along with nine other talks and a panel discussion. corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/