Abdelaziz Amine Benyamina

A day in Brighton 🌊

I will have to walk in the middle of the night to Baker Street to find Sherlock Holmes, it’s a tough case Beto 🧐

In economics, mentoring Ph.D. students and new doctorates from historically underrepresented minority groups appears to boost their probability of ultimately holding a tenure-track or tenured position.

www.nber.org/papers/w33689

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Revolutionizing Education. A journal of education policy and practice.

New journal alert! My union @massteacher.bsky.social just established "Revolutionizing Education," a journal of education policy and practice that challenges entrenched inequities and amplifies voices often marginalized in mainstream discourse. 🔥 Consider submitting! www.rev-ed.org

In light of the recent U.S. policy prohibiting government personnel in China from engaging in romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens , I've coined the term "Sexopolitical Racism" to describe this intersection of personal relationships and political control.

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LMs need linguistics! New paper, with @futrell.bsky.social, on LMs and linguistics that conveys our excitement about what the present moment means for linguistics and what linguistics can do for LMs. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.17047. 🧵below.

Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction Cambridge Core - Discourse Analysis - Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction

What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

First page of the journal article from the December 2024 issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology, which arrived in my mailbox yesterday.

Incorporating Sex-Diverse and Gender-Inclusive Perspectives in Higher Education Biology Courses. Really glad to finally see this in print. And proud to have played a small role in writing it.

#sex #gender #STEMeducation

@sicbjournals.bsky.social #SICB2025

academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

Had an amazing time visiting Torquay with friends from around the world! One highlight was taking a picture with the Agatha Christie statue-Torquay is her hometown, which was a big reason for our visit. We also explored the historic Kent's Cavern, a fascinating glimpse into Britain’s ancient.

Amazing day in London. Yesterday brought memories back from 10 years ago.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,798,054, Abdelaziz Amine Benyamina ‪@aminebenyamina.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 29, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,798,054!

Hi, I'm interested! Could you share the link to register for the zoom meeting, please!

Striking the balance: A review of 11–16 curriculum and assessment in England Read more about OCR's review of 11-16 curriculum and assessment in England. Watch our video and download the full report.

I've had a quick look at this report out today on Curriculum published by OCR, chaired by Charles Clarke. On an initial skim read, it seems excellent. A thorough and very well researched report, drawing on the views of many teachers, academics, Headteachers & others. teach.ocr.org.uk/striking-the...

Why “Special Needs” is _______ Why “Special Needs Student” is not the preferred lexicon

Side-eyeing the term 'special needs': "There’s not a need you have, that a person with a disability does not. Our needs maybe more complex, or require skillsets the ableds don’t have […] but they’re still just basic needs." By @rebeccacokley.bsky.social:

rebecca-cokley.medium.com/why-special-...

Phonetic cues to depression: A sociolinguistic perspective Phonetic data are used in several ways outside of the core field of phonetics. This paper offers the perspective of one such field, sociophonetics, towards another, the study of acoustic cues to clin...

There's a whole field of study on the phonetic cues to depression. Researchers from psychiatry, neurology, computational linguistics, and phonetics all work in this area; no one in sociolinguistics ever has, as far as I know. So I wrote this.

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How Language Connects - Imminent - Translated's Research Center A study about embodied minds when speaking in a multilingual mode and brains synchronization while processing the language.

"in #multilingual contexts, the activation of synchronization processes involving both linguistic and non-linguistic mechanisms...is necessary to enable effective linguistic communication, comprehension and translation"

#language

imminent.translated.com/how-language...

🎉 Excited to be at the 2024 Accelerate Literacy Summit! 🚀 Join us for an epic warm-up with #TheTruthaboutReading 📚✨ An amazing 90-min doc featuring stories from all ages and insights from top scientists, educators, and psychiatrists. A must-watch for everyone in the field! #LiteracySummit2024

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Simple & safe. Unlike mobile phones, no matter how long you use this, you won't suffer from terrible headaches afterwards. Technology isn't flawless, innit!

Libraries are one of the most radical social institutions we have, because they’re based on the idea that *everyone* has the right to information, for free. It’s also what makes them crucial to democracy. I will never stop yelling about this!

WTF is AI? | TechCrunch What is AI? We've put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today's AI works.

This is a decent summary of the octopus thought experiment from Bender & Koller 2020, with two glaring exceptions, right at the start:

techcrunch.com/2024/06/01/w...
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Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Developmental Education Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Developmental Education

Free to read for 2 weeks!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Btw Blueski DMs don’t tell the other person you’re typing, so you’re safe to change your mind mid text

Monumental Changes: Confederate Symbol Removals and Racial Attitudes in the United States | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

the removal of Confederate symbols decreased racial resentment, increased support for affirmative action and warm feelings toward Blacks, and decreased anti-Black hate crimes.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...