And this edited volume by Nancy Dorian was a must read when I started graduate school

Sad to hear of the passing of Nancy Dorian, this was such an important early work, and besides being an amazing scholar, she was also my late colleague Nora England's teacher at Bryn Mawr

This is absolutely devastating. I wouldn’t be doing what I do without her foundational work in the 80s. Regretfully I never got to tell her that.

Two four-year PhD positions (100%) | Italian variationist sociolinguistics -

lotschool.nl/two-four-year-…

Universities in the US are no longer what we thought they were.

The repercussions will be so far-reaching.

📌My project Adaptations to Multilingualism offers a funded, flexible/hybrid, 6month research assistant position, 50% dedication, running 01/09/24-28/02/25. If you know Spanish & R, apply here! If you don't like hybrid, Barcelona is a treat.😉tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do?i… Please RT!

We are excited to invite you to a series of workshops startijng 20th May culminating in a public lecture from this year’s Randolph Quirk Fellow, Prof. Veneeta Dayal (Yale University) Linguistics@QMUL

details including zoom links etc at qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguisti…

If you’re in Oxford on Wednesday, come to my talk on language change! 🙂

Julia Black The British Academy: 'we need an urgent review and thorough overhaul of the way government engages with universities, including a robust, independent regulator responsible for the system as a whole – both teaching and research.' 1/2

This is an inaccurate headline that will only fuel community concerns.

The decision to cover the memorial was taken by park authorities, not the police.

As the paper’s own article makes clear, it is a precaution Royal Parks have taken for a number of different events.

Regardless of the sector-wide crisis, if you’re making redundancies every year but still putting up shiny new buildings, you’ve no business running a university. Solidarity with my former colleagues suffering at the hands of incompetent senior managers. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The destruction of English Higher Education continues apace. All the skills and buildings and infrastructure that you the taxpayer paid for, poured down the drain. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

We are happy to share that a new, special issue of Language is out, the first of our 100th volume! As well as the usual slate of articles, it includes the first of an 8-part celebratation of Language's Centennial!

muse.jhu.edu/journal/112

More details soon, and happy reading!

A welcome suggestion in face of the UK University crisis: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/just-like…

WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.

I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.

This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. Atlanta News First

Darn French pilot strike. Didn't make it to the Unversité de Strasbourg in the end by invitation to their Lilpa lab. Still, the joy of presenting from the dinner table hasn't lost its charm.

An insane level of self sabotage: the SMG at University of Surrey are internationally renowned and attract massive external funding. When is The Labour Party going to articulate a position on the implosion of UK HE? LAGB LinguisticsUK - UCGAL Times Higher Education

.Charles Forsdick: “The lack of [coordinated government support for languages] in the UK means that the provision is primarily subject to perceived student demand and at the whim of institutional autonomy”
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timeshighereducation.com/depth/ai-final… via Times Higher Education

Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation dlvr.it/T5yNWk

Language, volume 100!
Very fitting to re-publish this piece by Bloomfield #Linguistics Linguistic Society of America 💯
muse.jhu.edu/article/922002