Universities : We will help you develop critical thinking skills. Also universities: Do not use these skills to challenge how we operate.

Institutions often resist change. What happened when Victoria Odeniyi conducted a research project in an arts school to bridge educational outcomes -- and made her recommendations? Read a summary of her talk at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/che/2024/02/05… UCL Arts & Humanities #PROLang

The presence of linguistic diversity in an organization does not mean that there is no linguistic inequality.

🚨NEW LOCATION INFO - National March for Palestine - Saturday 30 March, 12 noon 📍 Assemble Russell Square, London We will be marching again in London on 30 March, demanding our government call for #CeasefireNOW to #StopGazaGenocide. Join us. #FreePalestine

How can hospitals provide appropriate language support for linguistic minority patients? Brynn Quick /brɪn kwɪk/ chats with Erin Mulpur in the latest Language on the Move podcast languageonthemove.com/reducing-barri…

When will people (and journalists in the The New York Times) stop calling West African languages "dialects"?

Join us on Fri April 12 at 10am UK time for our Zoom event on "Higher Education's Language Problem". In the this revised schedule, Prof. Othman (Osman) Barnawi will be presenting the second provocation, alongside Prof Rui Yang and Iker Erdocia. We hope to see you there! srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civiw…

The IDF has killed some 10,000 people in #Gaza in 2024 & yet the Times hasn't had one front page in that time featuring a photo of even a single Palestinian victim. And that remains the case today.

The print edition of my Atlas of Endangered Alphabets is now up on Amazon for pre-order! Check it out at amazon.com/Atlas-Endanger…. The first person to contact me identifying all the scripts represented on the cover wins an Endangered Alphabets tote bag!

Today marks the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda. On its 30th anniversary, let's honour the memory of the victims & renew our commitment to preventing such atrocities. shorturl.at/wzMN #Kwibuka30 #PreventGenocide

But there is no direct relationship between pronunciation & spelling even for those who speak in a Received Pronunciation(RP) accent. Spellings were standardised in 1400s but pronunciations continued to evolve. Std Eng spelling system doesn’t correspond to any modern accent. Eg👇

Exciting new volume of 'Thinking Other-wise: Decoloniality and the Global Racial Order' edited by Ibtisam Abujad has now become available! Decolonial Subversions

Brits' poor language skills inhibit opportunities for learning and intercultural exchange.

Aye, regional accents are also worth saving | Brief letters theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Language and race - Gullah Geechee is a complex language not ‘broken English’ theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/…

Happy international worker's day! I am celebrating in style at the @leedstheory Racial Capitalism and Cultural Resistance symposium, where I will be talking about Amílcar Cabral, language, and revolutionary praxis 🎉 If you're in Leeds, drop by! ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/event… #IWD24

Beautiful banner made by organizers in Hiroshima demanding the city #DisinviteIsrael for the ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb #虐殺国家招待するな

A statement from UNHCR and UK for UNHCR.

Britain's political and media class must stop their pandering to racism against migrants and refugees. Our statement on fascist violence in recent days: