somewhat poignant yet comforting end to our AHRC Midlands4Cities returners day in Birmingham, from a room full of incredible, impostery phd students all just muddling through.🥹❤️‍🩹 and now i officially enter second year… what!! 😵‍💫

conference clash week in linguistics for me🐝 started with a fab few days in rainy oxford ☔️ at @ags-gbi.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social presenting what i’ve been up to in Y1 of my phd🇦🇹🏔️🗣️✨

next stop LAGB! 🔜

(ps oxford johns is nice n all but I was def at the better johns in cam… just saying🤪)

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SO excited to share our new series on ‘Applying for a PhD in Linguistics’ with Fae @lagbpsc.bsky.social @lagbling.bsky.social on all from choosing a project & supervisor to hopefully deciding between offers! Join our first session (07/08) where we’ll explore PhDs in the UK & choosing a supervisor!👇🏽🌟

happening in one hour! come join us for our final ‘careers for linguists’ talk of the series today, 10 July at 16:30 BST. joining details are on our @lagbpsc.bsky.social website! 👇🏽👇🏽

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excited to be sharing preliminary research from my PhD (on language contact in Vienna) at the @oxfordgerman.bsky.social ‘German Graduate Symposium’ in a v sunny oxford today☀️, with broader themes of ‘constructions of sameness, constructions of difference: identity discourses in Germanophone culture’

Such fun discussions today at the Natural History Museum (London) on ‘named historical animals’ & my AHRC-funded M4C placement w/ Nottingham Museums/Uni of Nottingham (with Dr Holly Miller), in which I’ll be researching & decolonising the C19th history of George the Gorilla.

Next stop: Paris..?🇫🇷🦍🔎

as a german linguistics debutante (if you will), feels somewhat fitting in this #ShoutOutForGerman week that i introduced some preliminary research from my phd at our @uniofnottingham.bsky.social modern languages department research seminar today, wonderfully chaired by @k8ybirch.bsky.social 😇🇦🇹🏔️🗣️

I love this!! When in Austria, a colleague of mine gifted me a pig 🐷 charm (pictured here with my actual piggies!) as a symbol of good luck (“Schwein haben” (?)) around the holiday season/new years and I always thought it was unique (& not something I’d heard before!) - is it the same in Germany?