New episode out. It's a preview of the @yorktoolkit.bsky.social workshops for 2025. We hear about: child-directed speech, forensic linguistics, gender, sexuality & language in a women's football team, and an update of research into media representations of MLE.
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when racially marginalised and working-class children’s language is framed as symptomatic of ‘misbehaviour’, this contributes to broader ideologies of deficit and low expectations that shape their unjust experiences of school

Also in Finnish:

”Mitä sä traihardaat?” Why do you try hard?

See Leea Lakka’s dissertation www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/tu...

The German verb 'lassen' looks a lot like French 'laisser'. They even have the same meaning: "to let".

However, that's a coincidence. These words are entirely unrelated etymologically.

'Lassen' is related to English 'to let', while 'laisser' is related to 'lax'.

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I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!

Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.

As someone who uses Duolingo daily: If Duolingo is a guide for the use of AI in education then we will have students who can’t spell, read, or speak but they’ll be excellent at guessing patterns in a multiple choice setting

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Aston, led by us and in consortium with Universities of Leicester and Birmingham has been recognised as a Police Academic Centre of Excellence for our policing research 👇

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I guess it's better late than never! Here's a short post about the #manosphere and the Netflix's mini series 'Adolescence' I wrote a few weeks ago for the @aifl.bsky.social blog 👉 medium.com/aston-instit...

#academicsky
#masculinities
#linguistics

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.

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Join us for a free research seminar on Thursday, May 8th, 4-5pm. Marie Bojsen-Møller (University of Copenhagen) will show how the humor-hate nexus is present in far-right extremists’ communications

Register here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dark-humor...

I am on the look out for linguistically diverse picture books. Specifically, books that integrate multiple languages - not as bilingual picture books, but as part of the general narrative. (Bonus if they include more than two languages, but not requirement!) #langsky Please share!

Every year at the end of the semester, I ask the students in my Psych of Language class to create memes about what they've learned. They then vote for their favorites.
Here's the winner about how the idea of a universal grammar is no longer as compelling as it once seemed.
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We are excited to welcome @veronikakoller.bsky.social & @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social for the keynote event of our lecture series "TaalX: #Discourses of #Discrimination" - register to attend online/in-person 👉 sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx2 @rug.nl

By age five, kids are already linking certain accents to intelligence, according to research by Dr Ella Jeffries.

However, if children were exposed to a broader range of accents at home, they were more positive to different accents overall.

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#langsky #linguistics

Episode 5 of 'Writing Wrongs' will drop this Friday! In this episode, @timgrant123.bsky.social & @drniccimacleod.bsky.social discuss a murder case where Nicci was called upon to decode an obscure language game...

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'Forensic Conversations' hybrid symposium is BACK!
📆 17 Sep 2025

An informal day of networking, discussions & presentations with researchers using EMCA methods to explore conversations in policing and criminal justice contexts.

Reg & call for abstracts now open: darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/forens...