Yael Peled
@ypeled.bsky.social
A language ethicist in the baking. Research fellow at the MPI MMG (www.mmg.mpg.de/home); website: www.peledy.com.
If there were ever a time for white Americans to learn a language besides English and speak it loudly in public, it's now.
September 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Or this one: a monolingual Anglophone nurse hears a patient speaking unintelligibly, assume it's delirium, until an L2 English speaking nurse recognises the language. The dying person isn't babbling; they've reverted to a mother tongue at the end of life.
August 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Or this one: a monolingual Anglophone nurse hears a patient speaking unintelligibly, assume it's delirium, until an L2 English speaking nurse recognises the language. The dying person isn't babbling; they've reverted to a mother tongue at the end of life.
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Why I do what I do: met a former palliative care nurse & was describing how devout Muslims can hold up a single finger to represent the Shahadah if they're unable to speak. She'd never heard of this.
"I wonder how many times nurses see this, think someone is agitated, and drug them."
"I wonder how many times nurses see this, think someone is agitated, and drug them."
August 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Why I do what I do: met a former palliative care nurse & was describing how devout Muslims can hold up a single finger to represent the Shahadah if they're unable to speak. She'd never heard of this.
"I wonder how many times nurses see this, think someone is agitated, and drug them."
"I wonder how many times nurses see this, think someone is agitated, and drug them."
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For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs -
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
Language technologies don't invalidate the case for language awareness as a basic life skill; they emphasize how crucial it is.
AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT
AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.
www.wired.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Language technologies don't invalidate the case for language awareness as a basic life skill; they emphasize how crucial it is.
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The historical and cultural context of language is also very significant in translation. Knowing the background of terms, expressions, allusions etc. and what cultural, historical and intertextual connections and connotations they carry in the source & target is a major issue
AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT
AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.
www.wired.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The historical and cultural context of language is also very significant in translation. Knowing the background of terms, expressions, allusions etc. and what cultural, historical and intertextual connections and connotations they carry in the source & target is a major issue
1/ "In sum, despite intentions to set newcomers on paths to employment and civic autonomy, participants experience the IP as a set of competing goals. Does early employment strengthen or undermine language education? Does lengthy language and KoS education prepare individuals for –
Happy to share my latest: "How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway", coauthored with Edit Bugge and Marte Nordanger, is now online at @scmrjems.bsky.social (a short thread) 1/9
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway
This study examines the impact of immigrant integration programmes on low-literate refugees, focusing on the Norwegian Introduction Programme (IP). Like other obligatory integration courses across ...
www.tandfonline.com
July 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
1/ "In sum, despite intentions to set newcomers on paths to employment and civic autonomy, participants experience the IP as a set of competing goals. Does early employment strengthen or undermine language education? Does lengthy language and KoS education prepare individuals for –
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Nothing to see here, just messianic racist war criminals having a conference about messianic war criminal things and other "tremendous opportunities" for crimes against humanity in the Knesset
Smotrich: Gaza will be ‘inseparable part of Israel,’ IDF chief favors ‘security annexation’
At Knesset conference on 'Gaza Riviera,' whose name and focus play off Trump announcement, far-right finance minister touts 'tremendous opportunity' to reestablish settlements in Strip
www.timesofisrael.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Nothing to see here, just messianic racist war criminals having a conference about messianic war criminal things and other "tremendous opportunities" for crimes against humanity in the Knesset
Signal boost: CALL FOR PAPERS for the Sixth REAL symposium on language economics and policy. Full details: www.ulster.ac.uk/__data/asset...
www.ulster.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Signal boost: CALL FOR PAPERS for the Sixth REAL symposium on language economics and policy. Full details: www.ulster.ac.uk/__data/asset...
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“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
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While #ISHPSSB2025 is underway, I'd just like to draw attention to an opportunity at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at for international researchers: senior & early-career fellowships at the new #Vienna Center for Advanced Studies #ViCAS vicas.univie.ac.at
Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!
Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!
Center for Advanced Studies
Center for Advanced Studies
vicas.univie.ac.at
July 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
While #ISHPSSB2025 is underway, I'd just like to draw attention to an opportunity at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at for international researchers: senior & early-career fellowships at the new #Vienna Center for Advanced Studies #ViCAS vicas.univie.ac.at
Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!
Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!
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So it is worth repeating - people will die as a result of this executive order: www.languageonthemove.com/language-acc...
July 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
So it is worth repeating - people will die as a result of this executive order: www.languageonthemove.com/language-acc...
One of my favourite parts of the Yiddish LotR translation is Sam's love letter to potatoes. It works really, really well.
Reading Winnie the Pooh in Yiddish is harder than I would have thought but very much worth it to see Pooh shout OY GEVALD as he tumbles out of a tree while trying to nab some honey
July 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
One of my favourite parts of the Yiddish LotR translation is Sam's love letter to potatoes. It works really, really well.
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New paper! In collaboration with health behavior, health services researchers, and geographers, I examined differential access to acute care at the nexus of ethnicity, immigration status, and language dominance among rural-dwelling Latine people in the South link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Spatial-Structural Disparities in Acute Care Accessibility Among Latin American Immigrants and Spanish Speakers in the Rural US South - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Given that rural hospital closures in the USA have increasingly occurred in rural communities with higher-than-median shares of Latinx residents, this study examines disparities in travel times to acc...
link.springer.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
New paper! In collaboration with health behavior, health services researchers, and geographers, I examined differential access to acute care at the nexus of ethnicity, immigration status, and language dominance among rural-dwelling Latine people in the South link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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DOJ directing government that application forms and processes must only be in English, on the grounds that it reduces administrative burdens.
I wrote the book Administrative Burdens w @pamherd.bsky.social and this policy does the opposite www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...
I wrote the book Administrative Burdens w @pamherd.bsky.social and this policy does the opposite www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...
July 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
DOJ directing government that application forms and processes must only be in English, on the grounds that it reduces administrative burdens.
I wrote the book Administrative Burdens w @pamherd.bsky.social and this policy does the opposite www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...
I wrote the book Administrative Burdens w @pamherd.bsky.social and this policy does the opposite www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...
Signal boost: CFP - Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusion (Feb Ghent, 2026) clades.prd.ugent.be/en/call-cont...
Call for contributions
Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusion We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference on ‘Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusi...
clades.prd.ugent.be
July 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Signal boost: CFP - Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusion (Feb Ghent, 2026) clades.prd.ugent.be/en/call-cont...
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Thanks for sharing this.
"How are languages lost? It is land, water, and trees that nourish our languages…
Languages don't die, they are systematically killed. A language dies out when its practitioners are displaced from their land."
- Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Mixe linguist and language activist
"How are languages lost? It is land, water, and trees that nourish our languages…
Languages don't die, they are systematically killed. A language dies out when its practitioners are displaced from their land."
- Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Mixe linguist and language activist
“Our languages are not dying, they are being killed”
“Your language is worthless,” they were told repeatedly. “To be a Mexican citizen, you must speak the national language, Spanish. Stop speaking your language.”
globalvoices.org
July 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Thanks for sharing this.
"How are languages lost? It is land, water, and trees that nourish our languages…
Languages don't die, they are systematically killed. A language dies out when its practitioners are displaced from their land."
- Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Mixe linguist and language activist
"How are languages lost? It is land, water, and trees that nourish our languages…
Languages don't die, they are systematically killed. A language dies out when its practitioners are displaced from their land."
- Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Mixe linguist and language activist
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A new award for young scholars in the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics.
📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August.
cepr.org/events/ghaza...
#EconSky
cepr.org/events/ghaza...
#EconSky
July 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A new award for young scholars in the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics.
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A deaf Mongolian man has spent more than four months in the detention center without the chance to communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his civil rights attorney.
“He’s basically been in solitary confinement."
“He’s basically been in solitary confinement."
Deaf Mongolian immigrant held by ICE in Otay Mesa for months without access to interpreter
Judge Dana Sabraw this week ordered officials at Otay Mesa Detention Center to provide him with a Mongolian Sign Language interpreter.
timesofsandiego.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A deaf Mongolian man has spent more than four months in the detention center without the chance to communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his civil rights attorney.
“He’s basically been in solitary confinement."
“He’s basically been in solitary confinement."
Very much an "avengers assemble" moment in my network(s). We've got work to do.
Pam Bondi calls support for languages other than English "virtue-signaling."
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department Releases Guidance on Implementing President Trump’s Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of the United States
WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Justice released Guidance to ensure compliance with President Trump’s Executive Order No. 14224, which establishes English as the official language of the United ...
www.justice.gov
July 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Very much an "avengers assemble" moment in my network(s). We've got work to do.
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Comparative Migration Studies has opened a new thematic call for special issues on ‘Regional perspectives on migration’, deadline 1 October 2025. Please spread widely. For more information on the journal (2024 IF 3,7; citescore 7,8): comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Comparative Migration Studies has opened a new thematic call for special issues on ‘Regional perspectives on migration’, deadline 1 October 2025. Please spread widely. For more information on the journal (2024 IF 3,7; citescore 7,8): comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com
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Very excited for this conference on Refuge and Displacement at the University of Oxford later this month and only slightly intimidated on being the only other person in a panel with David Miller.
If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...
If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...
Refuge and displacement
Forced displacement and refugee protection are among the most pressing moral and political challenges of our time. This workshop aims to explore how normative and empirical approaches can meaningfully...
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Very excited for this conference on Refuge and Displacement at the University of Oxford later this month and only slightly intimidated on being the only other person in a panel with David Miller.
If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...
If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...
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‘There is something very social about pain.’
In the penultimate episode of Season 8 of The We Society @tomshakespeare.bsky.social, Professor of Disability Research @lshtm.bsky.social discusses his research on the link between social science and disability.
🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/shak...
In the penultimate episode of Season 8 of The We Society @tomshakespeare.bsky.social, Professor of Disability Research @lshtm.bsky.social discusses his research on the link between social science and disability.
🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/shak...
July 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
‘There is something very social about pain.’
In the penultimate episode of Season 8 of The We Society @tomshakespeare.bsky.social, Professor of Disability Research @lshtm.bsky.social discusses his research on the link between social science and disability.
🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/shak...
In the penultimate episode of Season 8 of The We Society @tomshakespeare.bsky.social, Professor of Disability Research @lshtm.bsky.social discusses his research on the link between social science and disability.
🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/shak...
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Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics:
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics:
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance
1/ 'The forms of marginalization and disparate treatment
detailed in our findings oftentimes remain invisible to
healthcare scholars, policymakers, and even well-meaning healthcare agency staff. Our research revealed how healthcare disparities persist, in part, because unexamined forms of racism-
detailed in our findings oftentimes remain invisible to
healthcare scholars, policymakers, and even well-meaning healthcare agency staff. Our research revealed how healthcare disparities persist, in part, because unexamined forms of racism-
July 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
1/ 'The forms of marginalization and disparate treatment
detailed in our findings oftentimes remain invisible to
healthcare scholars, policymakers, and even well-meaning healthcare agency staff. Our research revealed how healthcare disparities persist, in part, because unexamined forms of racism-
detailed in our findings oftentimes remain invisible to
healthcare scholars, policymakers, and even well-meaning healthcare agency staff. Our research revealed how healthcare disparities persist, in part, because unexamined forms of racism-