🔥🧨 Currently reading: How the reports of the English agrégation, a prestigious competitive exam in France, are imbued with native speakerism, and raciolinguistic, prescriptive, standard language ideologies. journals.openedition.org/erea/17702#toc…

Just asked a manspreader on the train to close his legs, and was violently told to shut up and stand. Another woman stepped up and defended me publicly. Didn’t make him stop his behavior, but it *did* help me feel seen and safe(r). It If you can, always speak up! 🗣️🙏

🤩 Cool event in 2025! Laure Gardelle and I are co-organizing an international conference on “Generics and stereotypes in discourse: a cross-disciplinary perspective” at Leiden University Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities, 5-6 June 2025. The CfP is now out! staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/06…

Fascinating facilitative effect of a "less emotive" L2: "language ideologies play a more significant role and are more deeply rooted in the L1, (leading) to an easier acceptance of creative gender-inclusive practices in the L2", which then transfer to the L1! #multilingualism

Louise Rolland Still a good job that I should have done myself :) There is a more theoretical paper in English, in Open Access, in which I sum up the main arguments in Section 5, Why integrating a wide variety of language users of a language is worth it, if that helps! degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all Routledge Books data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

Last work days before the summer break!

Science paper shows pregnancy requires 10x more energy than we previously thought. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… How should this impact parental leave policy? 🧵1/n

Inbox zero 💌✅ Automatic reply set already 👀🍹

slow summer days

🚀 Free (!) Workshop on Open Research: Principles, Practices, and Implementation! 🌍🔬 🗓️ When: Sep 3, 2024, 9am-5pm 🏢 Where: Berlin, Weizenbaum-Institut & online 🎯 Level: Beginner 🎟️ Seats: 20 in-person; unlimited online! #OpenScience #OpenAccess #AcademicTwitter (1/2)

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers: Revenue: Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Taylor & Francis: $800M Wiley: $1.8 billion They pay: Academic authors: $0 Peer reviewers: $0

Now that we are slowly prepping for the winter term (at least in some academic systems), here is a friendly reminder that our conference "Generics and stereotypes in discourse", co-organized by Laure Gardelle and me, is accepting abstracts! staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/06…

Researchers initiated petition: call upon institutions and national stakeholders to commit to community-driven OS values when renegotiating publishing contracts. Sign: openscienceretreat.eu/call-to-commit…. #futureproofOA #openaccess  #openscience Open Science Community Maastricht Open Science Community Groningen Open Science Community Amsterdam

did something scary this morning 😳

pre-conference coffee in Dresden 🌻 ☕ wer ist auf der #GAL auch dabei? 😊 [Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik]

Allez, je vous raconte pourquoi cette année j'ai pas fait ma rentrée. Trigger Warning : éducation nationale 🤡

Just presented the critical insights of a complex collaboration with an external partner on multilingualism in the classroom, reflecting on what did *not* go as planned. Excited to keep asking how sociolinguistics and applied linguistics can help foster more inclusive settings 🙏