Sophia Smith Galer
@sophiasgaler.bsky.social
Journalist, author, creator. 170m video views. Winner of a British Journalism Award & the Georgina Henry Award for digital innovation. Writing a book on linguicide. Ex BBC & VICE. I also run language events at Casa Italiana 🇮🇹
I’m back from my honeymoon in Japan - please behold my new food discoveries
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I’m back from my honeymoon in Japan - please behold my new food discoveries
Wedding cake ❌
Oyster cake ✅
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Oyster cake ✅
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October 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Wedding cake ❌
Oyster cake ✅
:)
Oyster cake ✅
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not to blow my own trumpet too much - sorry - but someone needs to take notice of how many women journalists are using Sophiana. They’re not only lots of my users but they’re the users specifically *overperforming* with Sophiana. I am certain more women innovators = more women adopters!!!
October 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
not to blow my own trumpet too much - sorry - but someone needs to take notice of how many women journalists are using Sophiana. They’re not only lots of my users but they’re the users specifically *overperforming* with Sophiana. I am certain more women innovators = more women adopters!!!
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Yes, we have lots of detail about which groups are getting news from various social media sites!
www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...
www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...
September 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Yes, we have lots of detail about which groups are getting news from various social media sites!
www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...
www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...
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Can highly recommend listening to this.
Top university sector voices like @viviennestern.bsky.social are very clear and articulate about the local economic role universities play.
Top university sector voices like @viviennestern.bsky.social are very clear and articulate about the local economic role universities play.
My brand new Radio 4 series Universities Challenged - the crisis facing our higher education sector - is on RIGHT NOW!!!
September 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Can highly recommend listening to this.
Top university sector voices like @viviennestern.bsky.social are very clear and articulate about the local economic role universities play.
Top university sector voices like @viviennestern.bsky.social are very clear and articulate about the local economic role universities play.
My brand new Radio 4 series Universities Challenged - the crisis facing our higher education sector - is on RIGHT NOW!!!
September 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
My brand new Radio 4 series Universities Challenged - the crisis facing our higher education sector - is on RIGHT NOW!!!
My brand news Radio 4 series Universities Challenged - the crisis facing our higher education sector - is on RIGHT NOW!!!
September 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
My brand news Radio 4 series Universities Challenged - the crisis facing our higher education sector - is on RIGHT NOW!!!
the AI bio losers have come for me - as one follower put it “why do you look like a Democrat candidate” 🙃 Amazon: you’re a joke!!
September 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
the AI bio losers have come for me - as one follower put it “why do you look like a Democrat candidate” 🙃 Amazon: you’re a joke!!
I'm so happy to announce the winners of the Sophiana x Women in Journalism fellowship.
I promised I’d pay my Georgina Henry Award win forward - here we go! Vertical video training & Sophiana access for 6 months for my 14 fellows :)
I promised I’d pay my Georgina Henry Award win forward - here we go! Vertical video training & Sophiana access for 6 months for my 14 fellows :)
August 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I'm so happy to announce the winners of the Sophiana x Women in Journalism fellowship.
I promised I’d pay my Georgina Henry Award win forward - here we go! Vertical video training & Sophiana access for 6 months for my 14 fellows :)
I promised I’d pay my Georgina Henry Award win forward - here we go! Vertical video training & Sophiana access for 6 months for my 14 fellows :)
The Guardian asked me to write about multilingualism in the UK. You don’t need to ask me twice! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer
For all the talk of addressing the problem, things have got worse. Which is criminal when there is so much we could do, says journalist Sophia Smith Galer
www.theguardian.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The Guardian asked me to write about multilingualism in the UK. You don’t need to ask me twice! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If your pupils get a grade lower in MFL than their other subjects, that is in line with how the grades are handed out.
If your pupils got the same grade as in other subjects, that means someone else's pupils are getting 2 grades lower.
whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/unfa...
If your pupils got the same grade as in other subjects, that means someone else's pupils are getting 2 grades lower.
whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/unfa...
Unfair grading and its impact in Languages
Imagine you are selling petrol for £1.40 a litre, and the other garages down the street all sell it for £1.30. Should you be surprised or c...
whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If your pupils get a grade lower in MFL than their other subjects, that is in line with how the grades are handed out.
If your pupils got the same grade as in other subjects, that means someone else's pupils are getting 2 grades lower.
whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/unfa...
If your pupils got the same grade as in other subjects, that means someone else's pupils are getting 2 grades lower.
whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/unfa...
yuck - I guess it was inevitable but the deepfake ghouls have finally come for me. There are so many fake accounts on TikTok pretending to me - but pretty sure this is the first to use AI in this way.
August 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
yuck - I guess it was inevitable but the deepfake ghouls have finally come for me. There are so many fake accounts on TikTok pretending to me - but pretty sure this is the first to use AI in this way.
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A theme emerging from #LingComm25 is "niche-blending" aka combining linguistics with something else to stand out more
Started with Sophia Smith Galer applied to linguistics + food, picked up by @languageatplay.de re linguistics + videogames
Started with Sophia Smith Galer applied to linguistics + food, picked up by @languageatplay.de re linguistics + videogames
April 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A theme emerging from #LingComm25 is "niche-blending" aka combining linguistics with something else to stand out more
Started with Sophia Smith Galer applied to linguistics + food, picked up by @languageatplay.de re linguistics + videogames
Started with Sophia Smith Galer applied to linguistics + food, picked up by @languageatplay.de re linguistics + videogames
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I'm a huge fan of @molly.wiki. The work she does is inspiring - and this is a great interview. www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/inde...
Independent journalist Molly White knows how to follow the memecoin
The cryptocurrency and tech newsletter Citation Needed is pay-what-you-want. White currently has about 29,000 subscribers including about 2,400 paid subscribers despite the lack of a paywall.
www.niemanlab.org
August 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I'm a huge fan of @molly.wiki. The work she does is inspiring - and this is a great interview. www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/inde...
Bet you’ve never seen an artichoke flower before! Here it is, growing in my garden, having defied the English frost after planting it last year.
August 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Bet you’ve never seen an artichoke flower before! Here it is, growing in my garden, having defied the English frost after planting it last year.
Coucou les gars 😎 French Sophiana is here!
August 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Coucou les gars 😎 French Sophiana is here!
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@sophiasgaler.bsky.social - first time trying out Sophiana & found it a great, simplistic tool to use. Especially for journalists, it opens up creative doorways which have previously only been ajar; there is now no excuse for trad journalists to abstain from content creation 👍
August 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
@sophiasgaler.bsky.social - first time trying out Sophiana & found it a great, simplistic tool to use. Especially for journalists, it opens up creative doorways which have previously only been ajar; there is now no excuse for trad journalists to abstain from content creation 👍
I have a million thoughts about Dave leaving WAPO and will write something up tomorrow
Till then:
Till then:
July 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I have a million thoughts about Dave leaving WAPO and will write something up tomorrow
Till then:
Till then:
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Dear Jeff Bezos …
July 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Dear Jeff Bezos …
"I'll never forget the day when an editor at the BBC told a 25-year-old me that journalists shouldn’t be on TikTok because 'there’s so much misinformation on there.'”
I wrote about my career, and the wild attitudes I’ve encountered along the way, for IJNet.
ijnet.org/en/story/i-b...
I wrote about my career, and the wild attitudes I’ve encountered along the way, for IJNet.
ijnet.org/en/story/i-b...
I blew up on TikTok with journalism — here's how you can, too
I’ll never forget the day when an editor at the BBC told a 25-year-old me that journalists shouldn’t be on TikTok because “there’s so much misinformation on there.” By that point, I had maybe 10,000 f...
ijnet.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"I'll never forget the day when an editor at the BBC told a 25-year-old me that journalists shouldn’t be on TikTok because 'there’s so much misinformation on there.'”
I wrote about my career, and the wild attitudes I’ve encountered along the way, for IJNet.
ijnet.org/en/story/i-b...
I wrote about my career, and the wild attitudes I’ve encountered along the way, for IJNet.
ijnet.org/en/story/i-b...
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🎧: In the age of TikTok, how can newsrooms earn attention?
On Media Confidential, @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social are joined by @sophiasgaler.bsky.social to discuss vertical video as a form of journalism: www.prospectmagazine...
On Media Confidential, @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social are joined by @sophiasgaler.bsky.social to discuss vertical video as a form of journalism: www.prospectmagazine...
July 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🎧: In the age of TikTok, how can newsrooms earn attention?
On Media Confidential, @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social are joined by @sophiasgaler.bsky.social to discuss vertical video as a form of journalism: www.prospectmagazine...
On Media Confidential, @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social are joined by @sophiasgaler.bsky.social to discuss vertical video as a form of journalism: www.prospectmagazine...
A few weeks ago I hosted Have I Got Fake News For You in the House of Commons for @shoutoutuk.bsky.social. Four Year 12s were pitted against journalists and politicians in a quiz on media literacy. Highlights: @stephenkb.bsky.social’s endless quest for greatness 1/
July 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
A few weeks ago I hosted Have I Got Fake News For You in the House of Commons for @shoutoutuk.bsky.social. Four Year 12s were pitted against journalists and politicians in a quiz on media literacy. Highlights: @stephenkb.bsky.social’s endless quest for greatness 1/
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At the forefront of a deep shift in the news landscape, one of journalism’s biggest personalities – also one of its biggest champions – @sophiasgaler.bsky.social goes beyond advocacy to application with Sophiana, an app to help journalists build audiences...
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Journalists: ‘It’s time to muck in – there should be way more of us (on social media)’ – Sophia Smith Galer
2025-07-11. At the forefront of a deep shift in the news landscape, one of journalism’s biggest personalities – also one of its biggest champions – Sophia Smith Galer is going beyond advocacy to appli...
wan-ifra.org
July 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
At the forefront of a deep shift in the news landscape, one of journalism’s biggest personalities – also one of its biggest champions – @sophiasgaler.bsky.social goes beyond advocacy to application with Sophiana, an app to help journalists build audiences...
wan-ifra.org/2025/07/jour...
wan-ifra.org/2025/07/jour...
appropriate reading as I fly to the AI For Good Summit in Geneva from @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
appropriate reading as I fly to the AI For Good Summit in Geneva from @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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I am FoI'ing the BBC on some issues to do with Israel-Gaza. DG Tim Davie told MPs on Mar 4: “Part of what I have tried to do for the BBC is to be a guardian of true impartiality through thick and thin, and that requires being completely transparent.“ But the BBC has so far withheld this information
July 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I am FoI'ing the BBC on some issues to do with Israel-Gaza. DG Tim Davie told MPs on Mar 4: “Part of what I have tried to do for the BBC is to be a guardian of true impartiality through thick and thin, and that requires being completely transparent.“ But the BBC has so far withheld this information