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Introducing this week’s reading 🤗

Today, watching the lecture Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation with Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller. It’s inspiring to see where this work had led to not only the creation of responsible research communities but has also generated impact on the lives of participant and language perception.

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Score!

Muchas gracias 🙏 Happy to get to know you more and work together! What are your interests? 🍎

Today marks a milestone in my professional career after 8 years of migration history behind me and constant life learnings. I presented my MAs thesis and opened the path to future research for my PhD at @uni-hamburg.de . Ready excited about what will come 🎩 @languageonthemove.bsky.social

How to manage your supervisor You know that feeling you get in your stomach when you’ve climbed to the top of a rollercoaster, and you look down to see that first huge drop that’s rapidly approaching? That’s exactly what it can…

The time will come

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@nicolemarinaro.bsky.social 🍎

Life lately.

Exciting new job ⚓️ and onboarding , wrapping up my MAs thesis, traveling, following my favorite musician, all in 4 days.

A part of me was lowkey hoping it had ended up being 🪑 while I was reading this.

So sweet to discover that "Linguistic diversity and social justice" is part of someone's holiday memories 🤩

To ending eras and welcoming new beginnings ❤️💪

I hope we will still have undergrad courses in 30 years 🥲

Beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪

Autumn afternoons

That moment when your theoretical framework gets a bit extended and for a second you forget what your topic is under so much abstraction 🫠

🤓 Meine Uni

I just found a comment from my professor about one of my articles coming from a predatory website.

It’s not like I had used that same article to form one of my core concepts in my theoretical framework 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

Great news coming from South America!

It’s still kind of sad that we have to commemorate people who stand for democracy and we still cannot take it for granted.

We have a long way before us 💪

I also purchased a subscription to @babelzine.bsky.social this week to change a bit of format. Let me know if you have an issue or article you recomend :)

Today, it was time to reflect on intercultural care; sometimes, we are so engaged with the idea of mediating with the culture of the patient, while the caregiver seems overshadowed. It is not a matter of which is more important, but one to understand why some (caring) actions are taken for curing.

Event: New Technologies in Intercultural Communication You are invited to join us on Monday, December 08, at Macquarie University for a workshop to explore New Technologies in Intercultural Communication. Description: Digital technologies are in the pr…

If you are in Sydney on Dec 8, join us for a 1-day research symposium to explore new technologies in intercultural communication: how do migrants and international students use AI to manage life in a new country? how do language learners use social media?
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Lovely gifts for friends supporting my entry in the upcoming PhD student life.

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

Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big global player unless we speak more languages

In case someone is feeling generous and wants to make a linguistics student happy. Here’s how:

At your service, for your memories.

As a non-programmer, this gave me hope to think about the possibility of approaching this field from my curious perspective on language development and how I might have a stronger base than I thought.

Just learned about the Polish cemetery in Tehran: ~2,000 graves of WWII refugees. Families divided not only by displacement, but even in death — women who married Iranian men were buried separately due to religion.

The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees [The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]: a comm n pr ble  whe  writin p ems in the shape of decid o s  trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t sti rings of  he new aut mn breeze,  he   oems will begi  to shake  hemselves  ge tly  ntil their letters loos n d  like leaves, an    they  start                                     to  float  down then [The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase] turntomushuponthegroun [The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

Yuval-Davis was right about that weary feeling towards "belonging" when we stop taking it for granted. Especially as an immigrant in today's political weather.