What happened when English-speaking missionaries came into contact with multilingual Indigenous Australians?
I had this fascinating conversation with @laurarad.bsky.social on the 1st @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast of 2026 on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!
Language teaching and translation: competitions over who can name, own, and control
In 1st Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for 2026, @tazinabdullah.bsky.social speaks with Laura Rademaker about the Christian mission in North Australia
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"To junior scholars, this volume opens paths into research by presenting the value and importance of a long-term, coherent research agenda."
Thanks to @jupurkarthofer.bsky.social & @languageinsociety.bsky.social for new review of "Life in a New Language" (@academic.oup.com)
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News alert! New study from @oii.ox.ac.uk and the University of Kentucky finds that ChatGPT amplifies global inequalities. Researchers find that large language models reflect historic biases in the data sets they learn from whilst shaping how people see the world. More here: bit.ly/4bF4K9B 1/4
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Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Randa Abdel Fattah Legal Fund chuffed.org/project/rand...
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As this article shows: "AI models had become genuinely useful for cybersecurity operations, both for good and for ill."
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign www.anthropic.com/ne...
Thanks to @Nicolas Gertler for the usual input and great conversation about this.
AI-based review. As I stressed some time ago, see
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this is going to happen, more or less properly, depending on whether decision-makers will embrace, shape, and steer this technology or resist it.
Stanford Agentic Reviewer - Submit Paper https://paperreview.ai/
Detail of the steel engraving of 1817 titled "Doctor Martin Luther, in das Glaubensbekenntniß des heiligen Bischofs Athanasii gekleidet u. mit dem Apostol. u. Nicenischen Glaubensbekenntniß umfasset". You see Luther's head and hands, and the rest of the figure is made out of words. Source: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:KVC-LUT-0000000000078409?lang=en (originally in the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg VI,449,3g).
Steel engraving of 1817 by Theodor Goetz titled "Doctor Martin Luther, in das Glaubensbekenntniß des heiligen Bischofs Athanasii gekleidet u. mit dem Apostol. u. Nicenischen Glaubensbekenntniß umfasset". You see Luther head and hands, and the rest of his figure is made out of small words surrounding him. Source: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:KVC-LUT-0000000000078409?lang=en (originally in the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg VI,449,3g).
A man of words made out of words. This printed carmen figuratum, in German Figurengedicht, shows Martin Luther as a figure made out of words. And the words form the three creeds used in the Lutheran tradition: the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed.
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I'm published!!!!!!! This is my very first academic paper that I've published! Ever! I'm so thankful to my co-authors @languageonthemove.bsky.social Ingrid Piller and @loylising.bsky.social Loy Lising <3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"[L]inguistics is uniquely positioned to teach us both about what all humans share and what makes cultures and individuals distinct"
@adamcschembri.bsky.social expressed it so nicely, read more here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...
🚨The Russian government has banned us as an “undesirable” foreign organization. Our work hasn’t changed. But what’s changed is Russia’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies, its staggering rise in repression & the scope of the war crimes its forces are committing in Ukraine.
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If you'd like to own a copy of "Intercultural Communication", make use of this weekend's St. Andrew's Day sale of @edinburghup.bsky.social - 50% off this and all their other titles 😃
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New on Language-on-the-Move: fascinating longitudinal linguistic landscape study by @sarapatra.bsky.social and team, chronicling the shifts from Texan English to Qatari Arabic in a Middle Eastern university
www.languageonthemove.com/from-howdy-t...
"falling back on speaking English and using technology to aid translation may be easier in the short term, but this undercuts long-term language and integration goals. Language learners constantly face this choice between short-term ease and long-term impact."
17.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Francesca Albanese's report for the UN. Solidarity to a smart and honest lawyer and to her indefatigable fight for the truth
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Our brand new catalogue is now available! 📚
Browse all our exciting new and forthcoming titles here: buff.ly/XLWEvQ0
