Veldig, veldig kjipt. Ble snytt for seieren på grunn av kuttene i Forskningsrådet: — Det er skikkelig surt khrono.no/ble-snytt-for-…

Kloke ord om en viktig sak. Dette forslaget fra Senterpartiet og Arbeiderpartiet må fjernes fra statsbudsjettet. Men så dumt at vi må nok en gang bruke krefter på det! khrono.no/utenlandske-st…

AcqVA/PoLaR lab representing at SNL (Society of the Neurobiology of Language) in Philadelphia yesterday. More later today, stay tuned.

Second day of SNL comes to an end… 4 presentations done, hitting the gamut of our collective work in bi-/multilingual neurocognition and linguistic processing. What a great team! 🧠💪🧠

Regjeringen lovet å ikke ta skolepenger fra internasjonale studenter. Nå skal de gjøre det. De lover at de ikke skal ta skolepenger fra norske studenter. Har de troverdighet på det? Når skal vi tro på det de sier og når skal vi ikke? ⁦Norsk studentorganisasjon⁩ nrk.no/norge/regjerin…

Håper Utenriksdepartementet og Utviklingsminister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim jobber for å få Kunnskapsdepartement og kollega Ola Borten Moe til å skjønne at forslag om skolepenger fra de fattigst er ikke noe god sak for Senterpartiet å profilere seg på. Tvert i mot.

Join our Master's Program in English Acquisition and Multilingualism! Deadline is November 15: en.uit.no/education/prog… youtu.be/htPROqGdQfc

Tom’s is a rock star!!! AcqVA Aurora center theme IV project on individual differences in bilingual language experience and degree of effects on cognitive aging! Pitch with NRK. @tvoits AcqVA_Aurora

Are you a second-language speaker of Norwegian whose native language is not a Slavic language? We are currently recruiting participants for a study on the 15th of November. The study should take roughly half an hour, and participants will receive a 100kr gift card!

We are looking for participants for our latest study! If you know anyone who would be interested, please let me know or ask them to scan the QR code to book in! 🙂

We are excited to announce the call for the workshop on Heritage Languages at the Crossroads: Cultural contexts, individual differences and methodologies (HL@Cross 🤩)! Submit your abstract by December 15th and join us in Istanbul on May 29th & 30th 2023! site.uit.no/polar/hlcross2…

An exciting new EEG study from the ADIM Team - Linguists at work! project is underway in the lab!

We are happy to announce that Pouran Seifi is joining our team at AcqVa Aurora as a MSCA Fellow! She will be working on the project with Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard as her supervisors! Welcome, Pouran!

We are delighted to announce that Federico Gallo is soon starting his MSCA Fellowship at the AcqVA Aurora Center! He will be working on the project Bilingual Experiences, Cognitive Ageing and underlying Mechanisms (BECAME) with Jason Rothman and Vincent DeLuca as his supervisors

Here are some photos from #ScienceIsWonderful by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions where Maki Kubota, Judith Schlenter and Marit Westergaard represented the AcqVA Aurora Center!

Linguists from UiT got high scores in the QS World University Rankings and made the news! Read the article here (in Norwegian): uit.no/nyheter/artikk…

Are you a native Tromsø dialect speaker? Or do you speak Polish as your first language, and also speak Norwegian and English, living in Tromsø? We would love to hear from you! If you are interested in signing up, please use the QR codes below! UiT Norges arktiske universitet AcqVA_Aurora

CLIMAD (Cross-Linguistic Investigations in Multilingualism Across Domains), a joint research project with ADIM has launched its website! Check them out to see their ongoing research in cross-linguistic influence and multilingualism. climad.web.amu.edu.pl #multilingualism #L3

We welcome Selim Tiryakiol with his MSCA project "Capacity, Opportunity and Desire in Heritage Language Variation (CODE-V)" supervised by Fatih Bayram. Congratulations to Selim and Fatih!

The 5th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2024) will be held from 23rd – 24th May 2024 at Swansea University, UK. All information on the conference website isbpac.info