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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.

Wishing to go back to those days in May.

We need more of this 💪

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

What can we, as language scientists, be doing right now to combat the hateful (and incorrect) language ideology that the US government is pushing?

Especially as a sociolinguist, I feel a duty/calling to spread the word and combat linguistic prejudice, but I'm not sure practically how to do so 🗣💬

Foto: Studierende im Henry-Ford-Bau der Freien Universität Berlin

Foto: Studierende im Audimax des Henry-Ford-Baus der FU Berlin

🎉Das #Wintersemester 2025/26 an der #FUBerlin hat offiziell begonnen!
Für tausende Erstis ist es der Start in einen neuen Lebensabschnitt. Bei der zentralen Einführungsveranstaltung im HFB waren heute alle Plätze gefüllt.
Wer jetzt einen Schreck bekommen hat: Die Vorlesungszeit beginnt am 13.10. 🤭

Beautiful Hamburg. My home.

With a population of 1.862.565 people, 390.000 are immigrants, with the biggest groups being Türkiye and Ukraine.

Congrats! It was surely a great deal of work! 💪

My pleasure!

It’s now on my list for readings to do after I’m done with my MA Thesis 👌 📖. Coming from the queer studies, I find fascinating how some terms go through amelioration and pejoration… and this word, a big part of pop culture, is so nuanced and rich.

Excited about it! 🤓

So I found myself lost in this audiobook just in the moment I am starting the writing process of my thesis and conceiving the idea of… writing?

Depicting the life of a woman diving into success in the editorial world through some unconventional methods.

It’s a good break from academic reading 💛

Since today is the #EuropeanDayOfLanguages, let's not forget that you are not required to keep your languages separate, pure, intact or in any way feel inadequate about your way of using your own language/s.
And don't let anyone take away your co-ownership of the languages you have.

❤️‍🩹

My breakfast took a turn today as I listened to @karenstollznow.bsky.social ’s interview on the New Books in Language podcast about the evolution of one of my favorite words — apparently more academic than one might think. 👠 LINK: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/n...

And started the day with Márquez and fall sunrises.

First check: in the middle of a theoretical framework on identity and belonging while I’m getting concert tickets for Doja Cat.