it is unacceptable to be naive about what happened yesterday. its not surprising, it’s totally in-line with what we know nazis, terfs and cops do

Ph.D. student position available in sign language linguistic. Join us at Dept of Linguistic, a deaf-rich and deaf-led dept. Doctoral students get salary during the studies that is 4 year full-time. Apply before 15 April. su.se/english/about-…

📌 We have 1 PhD scholarship for an international student willing to relocate to Canberra/Australia 🦘and work in the area of deliberative democracy at DelDemUCan University of Canberra More info👇 & will also be available online soon.

I would be very interested in your recommendations for accessible books/papers on corpus-based discourse analysis for students who are not familiar with either #CorpusLinguistics or #DiscourseAnalysis . Bonus points for recommendations in German and French! 📚

Ellen from the Philippines came to Australia for work

Ellen left her 2 young children in Manila to work as a meatpacker in an abattoir and to send money back home to secure their future. She missed them everyday💔
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Yumiko from Japan came to Australia to find love

As a teenager, Yumiko developed a crush on Tom Cruise. In Australia, she hoped to meet people like him
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White migrants see themselves or their children on trajectory towards full inclusion in Australia. African and Asian migrants less so.
Daniel from Sudan observed that language wasn't key when he told us 'African girls and boys speak English but do not get positions.”
7/n

Great to attend a session hosted by UTS Faculty of Law Law teaching and learning Community of Practice on the implications of recent advances of AI in higher ed...
A valuable discussion on how to respond to GenAI and the opportunities it creates to rethink learning and assessment. ✨

HEY KFC Australia there’s a young woman dressed in a long sleeve red shirt and long pants holding a giant sign and it’s THIRTY SIX DEGREES At your coorparoo store - it’s awful. I’ve called the store and the manager explained it’s not them it’s head office. Pls RT

THREAD: Friends may have noticed I've been distracted recently. Now you know why: a few weeks ago Australian Catholic University banned the display of rainbow flags & symbols in the library. I've been working behind the scenes to contest this discriminatory move The Sydney Morning Herald
smh.com.au/national/nsw/u… 1/8

Pl RT! I’ll soon be on the search for a 2 yr, full-time Post Doc fellow starting 1st Oct 23, for The Leverhulme Trust project. PhD in #Media #Comms #Digital in hand by 1st Oct + ideally expertise in #Survey #interview #news #users #audiences . Will tag colleagues in replies 2 tweet ..

Migrants are often made to feel out of place

Dagmar from Austria was told to 'Go back home' when she made a passing observation about Australian drinking culture in a pub
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Fascinating replies, including links to other tweets - how people claim shared nationality/connection with winners...

Thanks to everyone who has reached out to translate the Global Coalition for Language Rights statement. We are now working on versions in Urdu, Marathi, Greek, Filipino, and Lothringian. If you can help translate into other languages, please get in touch!

The statement on language rights from Global Coalition for Language Rights is now available in Catalan!
Many thanks to Núria Jiménez for translating.

The whole ‘agree to less than what you need or get nothing/wait forever’ extortion attempt is an interesting move to make against a very unwell participant NDIS 🤔But wholly predictable in light of the adversarial nature of the relationship they like to set up with us.

BREAKING: PARAMEDICS HAVE LAUNCHED AN ONGOING BAN ON BILLING PATIENTS, AND HAVE REVERTED TO PAPER RECORDS

The proposed changes are absolutely outrageous, but even the visa cancellations under current law that are outlined in this article are chilling...