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
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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/
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Deadline Nov 1: Asst prof (tenure track), Syntax and Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Ohio State University osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...
September 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Deadline Nov 1: Asst prof (tenure track), Syntax and Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Ohio State University osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...
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Jobs: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics: Assistant Professor in Language Science/Linguistics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jobs: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics: Assistant Professor in Language Science/Linguistics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Description:
The School of Modern Languages (www.modlangs.gatech.edu) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Language Science/Linguistics. Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to teaching and mentoring students.
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an o
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September 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Jobs: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics: Assistant Professor in Language Science/Linguistics, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Haystacks at dawn
September 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Haystacks at dawn
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I screen out Frontiers emails so hadn't seen a colleague's invite to their editorial board. so the colleague emailed me directly to ask again (we're friendly w/ each other)
I don't like saying 'no' to service for good colleagues, but one must act on principle against bad publishers. here's my reply
I don't like saying 'no' to service for good colleagues, but one must act on principle against bad publishers. here's my reply
September 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I screen out Frontiers emails so hadn't seen a colleague's invite to their editorial board. so the colleague emailed me directly to ask again (we're friendly w/ each other)
I don't like saying 'no' to service for good colleagues, but one must act on principle against bad publishers. here's my reply
I don't like saying 'no' to service for good colleagues, but one must act on principle against bad publishers. here's my reply
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We need more in-depth reporting on UK university finances like this. Research , research funding and their relation to teaching and teaching funding could do with a similar level of detail. Here's a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3ImSMWa
The shadow economy behind the international student boom
A lucrative revenue stream for universities has led to an industry of unregulated agents now under scrutiny for making lofty promises
www.ft.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
We need more in-depth reporting on UK university finances like this. Research , research funding and their relation to teaching and teaching funding could do with a similar level of detail. Here's a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3ImSMWa
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Announcing the first (and perhaps only) Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting! Come join us in Nijmegen, June 22-23, 2026, if you are interested in computational models of human multilingualism: mmmm2026.github.io
September 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Announcing the first (and perhaps only) Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting! Come join us in Nijmegen, June 22-23, 2026, if you are interested in computational models of human multilingualism: mmmm2026.github.io
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It's #WorldChildlessWeek
Here is a really useful article that discusses this "quieter experience that tends to go unnoticed" and what organisations may consider.
#WorldChildlessWeek2025 #Infertility
The Invisible Experience: Childlessness in the Workplace
www.linkedin.com/pulse/invisi...
Here is a really useful article that discusses this "quieter experience that tends to go unnoticed" and what organisations may consider.
#WorldChildlessWeek2025 #Infertility
The Invisible Experience: Childlessness in the Workplace
www.linkedin.com/pulse/invisi...
September 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's #WorldChildlessWeek
Here is a really useful article that discusses this "quieter experience that tends to go unnoticed" and what organisations may consider.
#WorldChildlessWeek2025 #Infertility
The Invisible Experience: Childlessness in the Workplace
www.linkedin.com/pulse/invisi...
Here is a really useful article that discusses this "quieter experience that tends to go unnoticed" and what organisations may consider.
#WorldChildlessWeek2025 #Infertility
The Invisible Experience: Childlessness in the Workplace
www.linkedin.com/pulse/invisi...
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Interspecies love at its very best.
September 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Interspecies love at its very best.
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Excellent news. I'm just off to the off-license then (Ik ga nu naar de slijterij)... congratulations Matt et al!
Extremely proud and a bit jealous that my excellent colleagues @fieldmatt.bsky.social and Inge Kersbergen have won this year's Ig Nobel Peace prize for showing that being a bit tipsy makes you better at speaking Dutch.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures.
arstechnica.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Excellent news. I'm just off to the off-license then (Ik ga nu naar de slijterij)... congratulations Matt et al!