You can't run universities like businesses. Not because of an ideological reason, but because universities don't work like businesses.

Rishi Sunak says his parents wanted him to speak without an accent to ‘fit in’ | Rishi Sunak | The Guardian theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Is there anything to be said for NOT building 3rd terminal at Dublin Airport & putting more flights through Cork, Shannon & Ireland West? Y'kno - for the 3m who DON'T live in the Greater Dublin Area ?

At work today I had to explain to some colleagues that I didn’t write anything in English until I went to university. It is very much my second language I was not taught English grammar and work hard every day in my writing. This level of ignorance is exhausting.

Two men, shaking hands over a shared 'hatred' of the Irish language in front of (i)a woman who is learning the language again, and (ii)a native speaker, living in a Gaeltacht area and raising her children through Irish Would this be acceptable behaviour for any other minority?

The Beatles’ “Yesterday” is actually about regret over #accent shaming? Wow. Just … wow. #English #language #EngLang theguardian.com/music/2024/feb…

Very sad to see this. Linguistics in peril: An open letter - UCGAL: University Council of General and Applied Linguistics linguistics.ac.uk/university-of-…

🎙️My second podcast episode is now out. . This week we are talking all things Anti-Black Linguistic Racism, Linguistic Justice, the mocking of Diane Abbott’s speech and Big Manny on Blue Peter! open.spotify.com/episode/1FsV3l…

10/ For more details and examples of how Americans talk &differ from their neighbors down the street they don't talk to, see the open access paper "Evolving linguistic divergence on polarizing social media" over at Humanities & Social Sciences Communications nature.com/articles/s4159…

"Decolonizing language education" will be published soon in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. "Decolonizing language education is not just a political issue, but rather a question of basic and fundamental human and linguistic rights, as underscored by UNDRIP.”

📯Small bit of news - the lovely people at The People's Museum of Limerick have been good/mad enough to put together an exhibition of my work, launching on Saturday 27th April at 5pm. There'll be light refreshments, doodles, and me having a nervous breakdown in a corner somewhere. All welcome!

The Guardian view on endangered languages: spoken by a few but of value to many theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Full article: The resistance to translanguaging, spontaneous translanguagers and native speaker saviorism tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Very proud to be part of such an amazing group of colleagues in calsul Languages @ UL and EnglishUniversity Of Limerick A huge achievement to be in the top 101-150 in the English Language and Literature subject rankings. @UL Professor Shane Kilcommins

ARTICLE ANNOUNCEMENT: “Semiotic whitening: whiteness without white people”, By: Mike Mena. NEW in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology!

“Alarm bells have been ringing on #Sudan for a year, but there’s been a spectacular silence in international response. Today could – should – see a shift in the world’s approach.” 🎧Listen to Andrew Stroehlein’s Daily Brief: trib.al/kZcYEkV

The frequency of use of the word "unqualified" in student reviews of women teaching engineering is so high compared to that for both men and women in other disciplines that it barely fits on the graph. Lads, do you really think unqualified women get to teach tech at universities?

It's truly heartbreaking that so many people in this country are made to feel bad about their accent to the extent that they feel the need to change the way they speak to fit in more in the workplace or in academia. Accent discrimination needs to stop! edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh…

TCD effectively in lockdown. Trinity College Dublin now has to decide between tourist revenue or unequivocal solidarity with Palestine, including breaking all ties with Israeli institutions. Trinity college students continue protest over Gaza rte.ie/news/2024/0504… via RTÉ

We should try get this trending : a wonderful picture of this amazing athlete ….