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Aoife K. Ahern

@aka-madrid

Language teacher educator based in Madrid, Spain. L2s, multilingualism, literacies, pragmatics. Facultad de Educación - Centro de Formación de Profesorado, Universidad Complutense. Socia de Pedalibre & cycle wherever I can.

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Es una idea pero tras tantos intentos fallidos en UK no doy crédito a que desde España habría posibilidad de conseguir eso. Si como sociedad estamos todxs deslumbradxs, enganchadxs y distraídxs no vamos a llegar lejos en hacer palanca contra los poderes detrás de las redes

03.02.2026 20:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Entangled Brain Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but The Entangled Brain tackles a much bigger ...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...

28.12.2025 17:56 👍 148 🔁 51 💬 4 📌 3

Tx, it's time to say f*** off to the average white male voter

18.12.2025 20:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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'El palabrista creapalabras', de David Serrano-Dolader, nuevo título de Archiletras Libros ...

Vía SIGLO XXI

'El palabrista creapalabras', de David Serrano-Dolader, nuevo título de Archiletras Libros.

www.diariosigloxxi.com/texto-s/most...

03.12.2025 17:08 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for contributing to research that can help educators leverage multilingual children's potential through understanding their learning and language use

26.07.2025 15:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photograph of an elephant. In this edition of Ideas learn about a new study which has uncovered the mysterious burial of elephant calves in Indian tea plantations, raising the question: could elephant graveyards be real after all? In her latest essay, philosopher Susana Monsó explores what these findings reveal about elephants’ remarkable understanding of death.

Photograph of an elephant. In this edition of Ideas learn about a new study which has uncovered the mysterious burial of elephant calves in Indian tea plantations, raising the question: could elephant graveyards be real after all? In her latest essay, philosopher Susana Monsó explores what these findings reveal about elephants’ remarkable understanding of death.

In this edition of Ideas, philosopher Susana Monsó explores a new study which has uncovered the mysterious burial of elephant calves in Indian tea plantations and what these findings reveal about elephants’ remarkable understanding of death. hubs.ly/Q03tFH6m0 #Animals #Philosophy @susanamonso.com

25.06.2025 20:21 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

If you are in neuroscience and interested in applying for a position in Sweden at Karolinska Institutet (either one of the 20 assistant professorships or the "distinguish professor" track - se previous post by me), read more about neuroscience at KI here: ki.se/en/research/...

Come join us!

20.06.2025 07:13 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats! So relevant to deepening knowledge about multilingual cognition🙏

01.05.2025 08:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Becas cursos avanzados - UIMP Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo. UIMP

EL CURSO (7 a 11 julio 2025) www.uimp.es/agenda-link....
BECAS - plazo abierto hasta 25/4 www.uimp.es/actividades-...

20.04.2025 19:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Docentes de L2 inglés o español, centros bilingües, aulas multilingües: Este verano, ¡¡vente a la UIMP!! Para el curso Transforma tu enseñanza de lectura y escritura con Reading to Learn: un enfoque crítico y plurilingüe para el aula (español e inglés)
BECAS: plazo hasta 25/4
Link a continuación

20.04.2025 19:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cursos - UIMPActividades Académicas Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo. UIMP

Course info: www.uimp.es/agenda-link....
Grant applications: www.uimp.es/actividades-... ONLY TILL 25 APRIL - DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE📣

20.04.2025 19:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a cartoon of snoopy holding a piece of paper ALT: a cartoon of snoopy holding a piece of paper

How to develop students' literacy in bi/multilingual educational contexts? This July, course at UIMP, Santander: Transforma tu enseñanza de lectura y escritura con Reading to Learn: un enfoque crítico y plurilingüe para el aula (español e inglés). Grants cover full board & fees - apply by 25 April

20.04.2025 19:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Anti-immigration conspiracy beliefs are associated with endorsement of conventional and violent actions opposing immigration and attitudes towards democracy across 21 countries - Communications Psycho... The link between conspiracy beliefs and reactionary movements that promote intolerance and undermine democracy was investigated in 21 countries. Economic prosperity and democratic functioning moderate...

Anti-immigration conspiracy beliefs are associated with endorsement of conventional and violent actions opposing immigration and attitudes towards democracy across 21 countries www.nature.com/articles/s44...

19.04.2025 09:47 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Convocatoria de 4 puestos de Prof. Ayudante Doctor, UCM Facultad de Educación. Buscamos nuev@s colegas especializad@s en enseñanza del inglés para formación inicial de profesorado de infantil, primaria y secundaria. 🔍👩‍🏫📣 www.ucm.es/convocatoria...

05.04.2025 13:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Convocatoria publicada en el BOUC de 4 de abril de 2025 | Universidad Complutense de Madrid La mayor universidad presencial de España, con la mejor oferta educativa. En Madrid, rodeada de zonas verdes y con una intensa vida cultural y deportiva.

Vacancies for lecturers in ELT (young learners) in Madrid, Complutense University. PhD required. Come work with our international team of L2 English teacher educators at the School of Education! Reposts appreciated. www.ucm.es/convocatoria...

05.04.2025 13:09 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Adriana Hoffmann, la voz de las plantas nativas de Chile - Mujeres con ciencia Adriana Hoffmann. Biología. Agronomía. Flora Silvestre de Chile de la Zona Central. Medio ambiente. Ecosistemas.

El 22 de marzo de 2022, el Senado chileno se mantuvo en silencio durante un minuto en memoria de la investigadora botánica Adriana Hoffmann Jacoby.

22.03.2025 13:02 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Mañana sale el sol.

22.03.2025 13:08 👍 40 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 1
Convocatoria publicada en el BOUC de 26 de febrero de 2025 | Universidad Complutense de Madrid La mayor universidad presencial de España, con la mejor oferta educativa. En Madrid, rodeada de zonas verdes y con una intensa vida cultural y deportiva.

Interested in working in Madrid as a teacher educator for ESL? Universidad Complutense is hiring PhDs for initial ESL teacher education. Apply here today: www.ucm.es/convocatoria... and in April, 4 more vacancies will be open :-)

17.03.2025 19:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Writing Well and Being Well for Your PhD and Beyond: How to Cultivate a Strong and Sustainable Writing Practice for Life Prioritizing wellbeing alongside academic development, this book provides practical advice to help students write well, and be well, during their PhD and throughout their career. In this unique book,...

Something I dislike and regret about the steady degradation of the Twitter experience (no, not calling it, so sue me) is the decline in #AcademicTwitter interactions.

I completely missed @katherinefirth.bsky.social 's book and it's 2023/2024.

www.routledge.com/Writing-Well...

16.03.2025 14:08 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Apple & Google can silently remove
International Women’s Day From Their calendars.
We're in a waking nightmare.
No dignity, no respect for others.
We are sinking dangerously low into who is more anti-DEI.
🤢🤮🤢

07.03.2025 20:06 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Las luces y las sombras de los mensajes del #8M Desde el lenguaje de los mensajes del 8M se pueden diferenciar las luces del movimiento y las sombras que lingüísticamente nos acompañan.

📢🚨Nuevo #SciComm en @es.theconversation.com y recomendación víspera #8M viernes

Abre los ojos, los oídos y todo tu potencial percetivo... lo necesitarás para interpretar las campañas del 8M y mucho más

#language #cognition

@ucc.unizar.es @genero.bsky.social

theconversation.com/las-luces-y-...

07.03.2025 15:32 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

Mine are age 27, 23 and 18. They all seem to me to maintain traits and personality that was already present from infancy: intro- vs extroversion, certain kinds of sensitivity, ...

07.03.2025 20:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Atenta, guapa, que te voy a explicar lo que es el feminismo. Pero el feminismo de verdad.

07.03.2025 20:40 👍 1043 🔁 267 💬 60 📌 26

Han quitado todos los árboles de la Plaza Santa Ana. Todos. No ha quedado ninguno, igual que en Sol. El verano en Madrid es cada vez más insufrible.

06.03.2025 21:40 👍 46 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 1
Figure 5 from LAB paper

Figure 5 from LAB paper

📣📣 New paper on multilingualism alert! In our latest paper, we investigated the roles of language dominance, recency (instruction/experiment language), and linguistic property in cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1075/lab.... #lingsky #linguistics #langsky

07.03.2025 03:41 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Technique's Deception Pursue education, not schooling

In much of our conversation around AI's impact on education we're mixing up education and schooling. This week I turn again to Jacques Ellul and ask what his conception of "technique" might offer us as a lens through which to understand AI and its influence on us.

05.03.2025 21:14 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Este manifiesto explica por qué el inglés no tiene por qué ser la lengua oficial de EEUU.

07.03.2025 04:54 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Portada de Archiletras 14 donde se publica el artículo "El carácter multimodal del lenguaje". Spoiler: la gestualidad y los demás sistemas multimodales no son ni anecdóticos, ni secundarios, ni universales: inciden de manera directa en el procesamiento del lenguaje.

Portada de Archiletras 14 donde se publica el artículo "El carácter multimodal del lenguaje". Spoiler: la gestualidad y los demás sistemas multimodales no son ni anecdóticos, ni secundarios, ni universales: inciden de manera directa en el procesamiento del lenguaje.

📢📌🚨Aprovechando que estos días se habla del "lenguaje corporal" de #Macron y #Trump, aquí os dejo un texto #scicomm para comprender el alcance del carácter #multimodal del #lenguaje

@zaragozaling.bsky.social @ucc.unizar.es @archiletras.bsky.social
#cognition
www.archiletras.com/firma/el-car...

26.02.2025 16:55 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Mirad qué hallazgo: Archivo digital con más de 10000 imágenes preciosísimas Creative Commons q puedes usar sin registro: public.work Si pinchas sobre una aparecen cientos del mismo tema! De interés para el #claustrovirtual

07.02.2025 16:59 👍 43 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0
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Postdoctoral Fellowship The Department of Learning and Instruction at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) invites applications for a full-time, 12-month Postdoctoral Fellowship. The ideal candidate will contribute to a three-ye...

Please share widely. We are hiring a 12-month PostDoc. Funding is for 3 years for our NSF funded project, STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming Science and Engineering via Bikes. Contact me or PI @noemiwaight.bsky.social with questions. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/53875

02.12.2024 16:34 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0