Jonathan Kasstan

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"Data without generalization is just gossip" Chambers quoting Persig in this insightful little read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A marseillais word advent calendar anyone? 👇 #mfl #edusky #langsky

The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview

University of Essex to shut Southend campus and cut 400 jobs The Southend-on-Sea campus is home to the award-winning East 15 drama school.

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And now this! www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

You know you're working in Finland when the room booking system includes a sauna - or indeed, a meeting room with a sauna!

Maybe when I meet some of the shaded goals 😂

Beats my gantt chart hands down!

My understanding is that this status is within the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Why did signed varieties require a separate act?

This just in from #Cornwall on #Kernewek #linguistics

Nottingham University urged to reconsider proposed course suspensions Dozens of students and staff gathered to protest against the potential future course closures on Monday.

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Sign the Petition SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.

Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...

savenottinghamlanguages The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…

Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university

www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

@houseoflords.parliament.uk has published a survey to gather views from Chagossians on the UK’s Agreement with #Mauritius concerning the #Chagos Archipelago. The survey is available in #Creole and #French but answers have to be in #English, effectively locking out the generation forcibly displaced 🤦‍♂️

Congrats to Professor Lindsey who recently published in Open Text Collections at Language Science Press! Available for download: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Compiled by the Ende Language Committee, the texts represent a diverse set of authors, illustrators, and translators from the community.

Help the the University of Leicester and the University of Nottingham save languages. Links in comments.

This free online workshop “From linguistic research to classroom practice: how different perspectives shape #grammar #teaching” may be of interest to teachers on here: linguisticsinmfl.co.uk/events/works... #edusky #langsky #linguistics @inmfl.bsky.social @saschastollhans.bsky.social

This is a damning indictment of where the Higher Ed sector now finds itself.

It broke a tile hitting the floor as it popped through the letterbox.

It should pay more attention to its regional languages that it doesn’t valorise, Francoprovençal included which has hardly any recognition at all #linguistics

How the manufactured narrative of ‘failure’ is distracting us from resolving the systemic problems holding back the study of Modern Languages – Part 2.  - HEPI This post was kindly written by Vincent Everett, who is head of languages in a comprehensive school and sixth form in Norfolk. He blogs as The Nice Man Who Teaches Languages.  In Part 1, I looked at h...

We CAN do something about this. If universities help us.

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The effects of the proposed cull of languages provision at the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester will be massive: for the wonderful staff, for current students, and for future budding linguists. Esp those who, like me, come from working-class backgrounds in the East Midlands.

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Staggering harm is being done to #language learning in Higher Ed. No oversight or strategic thinking, with cold spots now present. Petitions alone this week in response to closures:

Nottingham · Change.org
Leicester · Change.org

#edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

#Multilingualism and purported cognitive advantages in the news again, this time on #BBCRadio4 (around 49mins): #language learning (like other complex regular activities) boosts ‘brain resilience’ (i.e stronger synaptic circuits).

the curriculum and assessment review is 197 pages long and does not make a single reference to multilingualism. in England's schools, ~20% of children (~2 million children) are multilingual. this is just another example of how multilingual identities and knowledges get erased in policy and practice.

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Book Review: Inclusion in Linguistics - Lauren Hall-Lew, 2025

Not sure I've ever published something so blatantly personal -- and it's a book review, of all things! I even cited my mom's book! Here's to normalizing the practice of positionality statements. Thanks to the editors and authors for the opportunity. #inclusion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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#NWAV54 !! Bravo @julieauger.bsky.social

That IS a fun fact! Typical ‘That’ll do’-ism for which we are renowned.