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Linguistic diversity in social life

By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"

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Ingrid Piller is an Australian linguist, who specializes in intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and bilingual education. Piller is Distinguished Professor at Macquarie University and an elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Piller serves as Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Multilingua and as founding editor of the research dissemination site Language on the Move. She is a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts. .. more

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท 7d
Little piece of good news to end the year on a high note: the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social has won the Australian Linguistic Society's 2025 Talkley Award in recognition of our contributions to public knowledge about language ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿซถ

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Language on the Move Podcast wins Talkley Award 2025
Final piece of good news for the year before we head into a publishing break over January: weโ€™ve just heard that the Language-on-the-Move Podcast has won the 2025 Talkley Award ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป Thโ€ฆ
www.languageonthemove.com

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social ยท 7d
Honored that our article, "The Myth of AGI", was one of Tech Policy Press's Top 30 read pieces of the year.

In some great company here, especially with @eryk.bsky.social's "Anatomy of an AI Coup".

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(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
Top 30 Most Read Pieces on Tech Policy Press in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
In 2025, Tech Policy Press published over 1,100 posts, including articles, analyses, perspectives, transcripts, trackers, podcasts, and more.
www.techpolicy.press

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org ยท 14d
Been seeing a lot of blacked out text recently?

Well here's a post that looks similar but shares something altogether different. A poem about language, identity and migration from the @languageonthemove.bsky.social
Malay Sketches
Editorโ€™s note: We are delighted to bring to our readers today another outstandingย experience of bilingual creativity, the poemย Malay Sketches by Sydney author Aisyah Shah Idil, a runner up ofโ€ฆ
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท 14d
End-of-year greetings and good wishes from the Language-on-the-Move Team, along with our 2025 annual report ๐Ÿค—
Check out most-read posts, most-downloaded podcasts, and other highlights ๐Ÿคฉ
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Language on the Move 2025
Unbelievably, another year has passed and itโ€™s time to write another annual report. 2025 has been incredibly busy for us. Apart from everything we do in the real world, weโ€™ve published 64 blog postโ€ฆ
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social ยท 16d
The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social ยท 16d
Not a part of the article I just linked, but: of the most important things Iโ€™ve learned is how the hippie to technofascist pipeline occurred in part bc men like Jobs understood that computers, which were once seen as โ€œthe system,โ€ needed to be marketed as tools of free thinking individualism.

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Rizwan Ahmad @zabanwala.bsky.social ยท 19d
On the World Arabic language day, read my article:
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Is Arabic under threat on the Arabian peninsula?
Editorโ€™s note: UNESCO has declared December 18 as World Arabic Language Day. Arabic is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. It has around 400 million speakers and is an officโ€ฆ
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท 19d
If you missed out on the Language-on-the-Move Symposium about "New Technologies in Intercultural Communication" at Macquarie University last week, Jemima Rillera Kempster has a wrap for you: tech must always be about centering people!

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Centering people in technology-mediated communication
On a crack-of-dawn flight early Monday morning last week, I flew to Sydney for the day to attend โ€œNew Technologies in Intercultural Communicationโ€, a symposium hosted by the Language onโ€ฆ
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com ยท 22d
Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social ยท 22d
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting. BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social ยท 22d
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting. BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Ingrid Piller, Alison Phipps , and 4 more

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social ยท 24d
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.

For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท 25d
This is the 2026 fortune I drew at today's end-of-year party in the Macquarie #Linguistics Department - watch out for the Piller spot ๐Ÿ˜…

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท 26d
With cool recommendations by @schenior.bsky.social, @tazinabdullah.bsky.social, @brynnquick.bsky.social, @martinderince.bsky.social, @marakyrou.bsky.social, @juaninlanguage.bsky.social, @nicolemarinaro.bsky.social, and others

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท 26d
The Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge 2026 just dropped! Check it out and start reading!

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Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2026
The Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge 2026 is out! Now in its ninth year, the goals of our reading challenge have remained broadly unchanged since 2018: to encourage reading in the discipline โ€ฆ
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท Dec 2
Policies increasingly acknowledge multilingual realities but neglect to imagine the language work that is involved and how to build it into workflows in healthcare and elsewhere, as this new article by @brynnquick.bsky.social etal shows

Behind paywall until Jan & OA afterwards

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Brynn Quick @brynnquick.bsky.social ยท Dec 2
I'm published!!!!!!! This is my very first academic paper that I've published! Ever! I'm so thankful to my co-authors @languageonthemove.bsky.social Ingrid Piller and @loylising.bsky.social Loy Lising <3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The (un)imagined work of determining patientsโ€™ English language proficiency
This study investigates how Australian healthcare policies imagine communication between limited English proficiency (LEP) patients and healthcare providers to occur. This is done through a work as...
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท Dec 1
Did you attend the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Conference @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social in Garramilla/Darwin a few weeks ago? Relive the fun and compare notes with Sophie Munte in our new Language-on-the-Move post
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ALAA 2025 at Charles Darwin University
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Conference, held at Charles Darwin University in Garramilla/Darwin on Larrakia Country from Noโ€ฆ
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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org ยท Dec 1
Also, because I've had the.. pleasure... of going through Australian borders a couple of times recently, let's re-up this one from a great project with Ingrid Piller (@languageonthemove.bsky.social) and @htorsh.bsky.social
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On the Border Security tv show
๐Ÿ“ธfrom recent travels
Qantas sign at airport check-in in Manila: your checked baggage is subject to additional security checks. Ensure your baggage is unlocked and free of any wrapping. Present baggage to security staff are (sic) directed. Screen on back of emirates aeroplane seat with large text: don't be 'sorry', just declare it (with Arabic captions at the bottom) Screen on back of emirates aeroplane seat with a blue suitcase open, filled with what looks like "exotic" souvenirs made of wood and other natural materials. Arabic captions at the bottom.

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท Nov 29
If you'd like to own a copy of "Intercultural Communication", make use of this weekend's St. Andrew's Day sale of @edinburghup.bsky.social - 50% off this and all their other titles ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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Intercultural Communication
Intercultural Communication
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Der Juan @juaninglanguage.bsky.social ยท Nov 26
Apply to be a research assistant in Language Diversity! Only in Hamburg!

@nicolemarinaro.bsky.social @martinderince.bsky.social @marakyrou.bsky.social @languageonthemove.bsky.social

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท Nov 25
New on Language-on-the-Move: fascinating longitudinal linguistic landscape study by @sarapatra.bsky.social and team, chronicling the shifts from Texan English to Qatari Arabic in a Middle Eastern university
www.languageonthemove.com/from-howdy-t...
From โ€œHowdyโ€ to โ€œHayakomโ€: A shifting university linguascape
Sara Hillman, Aishwaryaa Kannan, and Tim Tizon *** ย  Walking into the Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) building today feels different from just a year ago. As part of an ongoing projeโ€ฆ
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social ยท Nov 25
๐Ÿšจ #DECRA #DE26 announcement:

โ—๏ธOutcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026โ—๏ธ

See ARC's RMS for list โžก๏ธ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท Nov 20
Germany has a "Shared Reading Day" ๐Ÿ˜ - Vorlesetag!
Great opportunity to join the fun and read to a child in your life!
This year's Vorlesetag is even dedicate to multilingual reading!
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Shared Reading Day 2025
Editorโ€™s note: Shared reading โ€“ the practice where adults read to children โ€“ has many benefits: it improves childrenโ€™s language and literacy development, as well as their inโ€ฆ
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท Nov 20
Wait - what? Why?

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Zgur (le mรชme mais sans le _ , BlueSky n'en veut pas) @zgur.bsky.social ยท Nov 19
REMINDER : ALL modern infrastructure evolution 2003-2025

#Cloudflare

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Tazin Abdullah @tazinabdullah.bsky.social ยท Nov 19
โ€œMultilingual learners do not need us to fix their Englishโ€ฆbut they need us to design learning where their full linguistic repertoires are seen as an asset.โ€
Insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast -@agib.bsky.social speaks with Cindy Valdez!
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Your languages are your superpower!
In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Cindy Valdez, an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) specialist, and Founder & CEO of Teach To Learn, aโ€ฆ
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social ยท Nov 18
โ€œCSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges โ€ฆ with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.โ€

Not โ€œchallengesโ€. Theyโ€™re choices. ๐Ÿ˜ก
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au

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Hanna Torsh @htorsh.bsky.social ยท Nov 17
Great first day of the ALAA (Australian Association of Applied Linuguistics) conference here in at CDU in Darwin, Northern Terrtitory. The conference theme is: Language and the interface of mono-/multi-/translingual mindsets.

The Macquarie Linguistics crew is ready! @languageonthemove.bsky.social

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท Nov 17
In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, @agib.bsky.social chats with Cindy Valdez about how to best support the education of multilingual children
www.languageonthemove.com/your-languag...
Your languages are your superpower!
In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Cindy Valdez, an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) specialist, and Founder & CEO of Teach To Learn, aโ€ฆ
www.languageonthemove.com

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org ยท Nov 14
@mcanzanella.bsky.social is another member of the Language on the Move starter pack. He spoke with @tazinabdullah.bsky.social . I learned so much from this podcast ep about three Neapolitan language, and was inspired by Massimiliano's incredible scholarship and activism
Lingua Napoletana and language oppression
Have you ever heard of Lingua Napoletana or Neapolitan, the language of Naples? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks to Massimiliano Canzanella, a Neapolitan lโ€ฆ
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