Louise Rolland

1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader This playful exhibition of new and existing works by artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader explores sign language and the right to communicate.

🗓️ Exhibition exploring sign language and the right to communicate: "1880 THAT" @wellcomecollection.bsky.social until 16 November 2025 👇🏻
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...
#DeafRights #lingsky #langsky #SignLanguage
#London #museum

Procrastinating? I give you an inspirational quote in #Swahili:
Wakati uliokuwa mzuri wa kupanda mti uliokuwa miaka ishirini iliyopita. Wakati nzuri wa pili ni sasa!
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now!
#Langsky #Writing #Quotes #Procrastination #Growth

Beautiful #multilingual #picturebook by Palestinian American writer @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social! Infused with love for her Homeland and told through her father's evocative stories. Featuring #Arabic words/script (& glossary), beautiful illustration. Keep teaching kids about the world! 🇵🇸
#langsky

A parent in my kid's class just asked if she could send me a voice note of her 6 year old son - who has Russian and Chinese heritage - speaking French, as they are on holiday and he wants to share what he's learned with his friend! This is what language learning is about ❤️
#langsky #lingsky

UAE Bilingual children’s early linguistic environments: nannies and maids as embodied agents of parental language ideologies Children’s early social environments are crucial for their emotional, social, cognitive, and, most importantly, language development. Parents and caregivers design environments through deliberate a...

Thrilled to share my latest paper: "UAE Bilingual children’s early linguistic environments: nannies and maids as embodied agents of parental language ideologies". We view domestic workers as co-constructors of the family’s linguistic ecology... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Photos of different Story Explorer packs, each including books, activities and leaflets. Plus a quote from a foster carer receiving Story Explorers: "I think it made him feel special that he had this box sent to him with such lovely books inside"

"It was a very happy time for him."

Our #StoryExplorers book subscription service is specifically designed for children in kinship care, foster care and adoption, because we know the difference shared reading can make to them.

Find out more:

www.booktrust.org.uk/how-we-help/...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

Open letter for members of the UK academic community (staff) to sign, pressing UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students w/ offers from UK universities. There is a short window of opportunity for them to take up their places. Please sign & share! tinyurl.com/3d56wu8j
#HE

As I write about my teaching ethos
I wonder: who is teaching the children of Gaza?
Silly me!
The world is teaching them now
That no-one will put bodies on the line
To feed their little bellies.
And by the time the world reacts
Will there be any children left to teach?
Any children left to reach?

What if they were ours? | BPS Aneeza Pervez on moral failure and the lives of Palestinian children.

"Gaza stands apart, not only because of the staggering scale of harm, but because speaking plainly about that harm has become so difficult. The fear of being seen as taking sides has silenced even the most basic truth: children are being killed and need protection."
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

At bedtime, "I carry my children one by one, laying their small bodies on the worn-out mats, trying to convince them that sleeping is better than thinking about hunger.
One of them whispers: Daddy, no dinner? I swallow hard and tell him: Tomorrow, my love, tomorrow, God willing"
#StopStarvingGaza 💔

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

Unspeakable crime.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

www.tenement.org/summer-insti... this looks interesting! #HistoryEducation 🗺️

The journey plot as a multimodal interview method 👇🏻
Looking forward to this online talk hosted by IAPLL, featuring Prof. Bojana Petrić, on Thurs 24th July, 5 pm (UK)

"we live day to day between death and hunger"
All Gazans, inc. children, doctors, teachers, journalists, are being starved or actively bombed to death. Use your voice today & make our elected representatives STOP the genocide!
#StopGazaGenocide
#pressfreedom #HumanRights #ICJBreach

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is calling on every single leader in the world: DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD and WATER INTO GAZA RIGHT AWAY. JUST DO IT. Just do it. Genocide must not be allowed to continue while we all watch.

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER,
YOU MUST USE IT.

Great analogy! Thanks for sharing the book, which makes these points from an interesting angle.

YouTube video by The Bilingual Professor What I’d Say About Bilingualism if I Wasn’t Afraid to Hurt Your Feelings | The Bilingual Professor

An unapologetic canter through key facts about #bilingualism, by @kevinwongla.bsky.social ! Number three on #accent is a zinger, a handy retort for all those comments on #accent, which we see for what they are: racism. Enjoy!
youtube.com/shorts/dDAUT...
#multilingualism #comebacks #lingsky

It was never about English
#KeepTellingofGaza #GazaGenocide

This is the shiny new account for BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics), checking in before our next annual conference - organised by the fantastic local team at Glasgow @baal2025.bsky.social in September 2025

Please give us and them a follow!

Hi everyone, I'm currently researching how second-generation migrant young adults - those born in Ireland to at least one migrant parent - experience identity and belonging.

I'm especially interested in what 'home' means to them and how they negotiate Irish and local identity.

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Celebrating the life of Agnès Marchessou, five years after losing our dear friend. Her ethnographic research shed light on the youth vernacular of Neuhof, Strasbourg, an exciting site of language contact 👇🏻
www.unice.fr/ILF-CNRS/ofc...
#lingsky #sociolinguistics
#France
Pour toujours dans nos ❤️

Gazan aid-seekers ‘sniped in the head’ at GHF distribution center, witnesses say Israeli forces carried out another massacre at an aid center in southern Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Witnesses described Israeli tanks shooting toward the crowds with machine guns and...

Israeli forces carried out another massacre at an aid center in southern Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Witnesses described Israeli tanks shooting toward the crowds with machine guns and soldiers sniping aid-seekers in the head.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/gaza...

#Palestine #Israel

"an end to DEI at Harvard among (....) conditions for restoring federal research funding.(...) Harvard’s adoption of a new administrative vocabulary: (no) mentions of race, gender, or equity while emphasizing words like “community,” “diverse viewpoints,” and “growth.”"
#lingsky #LanguagePolice #EDI

“How can I thrive in an institution that hates me?”: impact of racism and other stressful life experiences on black postgraduate students’ mental health Black postgraduate students in the UK are exposed to institutional and interpersonal racism that may impact their mental wellbeing and educational experiences. Minimal research exists to understand...

This study on experiences of Black postgrad students (UK) is a wake-up call for educators to work to reduce the “impact of #racism and other stressful life experiences on black postgraduate students’ mental health", by
@nkasistoll.bsky.social & team 👏🏻
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#EDI #HE

The call for the British Academy International Writing Workshops 2025 is out! Take a look in case you have the opportunity to build an international team and support emerging scholars from the Global South in this very rewarding format: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/writ...
#Grant #Writing

"Love doesn't exist between a Nought and a Cross." At @OpenAirTheatre until 26th July. Age 14+. Go and see it!
#Love #Antiracism #Theatre #London

Gaza beach cafe: Strike on al-Baqa killed a Hamas operative, but many more people were killed The attack raises more questions over whether Israel’s use of force is proportionate, as required by international law.

You need to do better than these headlines that foreground Israel's operational targets and trivialise the huge loss of civilian life, BBC News !
#StopTheGazaGenocide #Media #News #Discourse #Bias #Lingsky #HumanRights #KeepTellingofGaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza

It's called Gaza: Doctors Under Attack

And you can watch it here:
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...

Methodological implications of participant and researcher multilingualism: making language dynamics visible Language can impact the research process in complex ways. This special issue (SI) brings together seven contributions which discuss the methodological implications of researching in a multilingual ...

We introduce "Linguistic reflexivity" in the introduction to our JMMD special issue, co-edited with @hmking-linguist.bsky.social & @pernellel.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Free to read (Open Access)!
#LanguagesInResearch #LinguisticReflexivity #Multilingualism #Lingsky #Methods