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About - Bayala Bayala (means to "speak" in Dharug). Bayala fosters a vibrant community of Dharug Dhalang (language) learners and speakers.

This makes me happy to see! This site describes the revitalisation of the language of the Dharug people, the traditional owners of the Sydney region in Australia where I was born and grew up. bayala.net.au/about/

11.03.2026 10:50 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day In the late Victorian era, Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system (and a womanizer) argued that women make excellent librarians because we have “a clear head, strong hand… and great hea…

Jess deCourcy Hinds celebrates the librarians who inspired her for International Women’s Day.

06.03.2026 18:30 👍 23 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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Kyrgyzstan: Women, Girls with Disabilities Face Abuse Women with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan face alarming rates of harassment, physical and sexual abuse, and economic discrimination, despite legal reforms, Human Rights Watch said today, ahead of Internat...

Women with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan face alarming rates of harassment, abuse, and economic discrimination, despite legal reforms.

Ahead of International Women’s Day, a reminder that Kyrgyz authorities should make their promises a reality and address existing gaps. #IWD26

06.03.2026 19:38 👍 44 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
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Iran: Internet Shutdown Violates Rights, Escalates Risks to Civilians Iranian authorities should immediately end the ongoing internet shutdown and communications restrictions, which place civilians at risk of further harm.

Iranian authorities should immediately end the ongoing internet shutdown and communications restrictions.

These shutdowns violate human rights and place civilians at further risk of serious harm.

06.03.2026 20:45 👍 48 🔁 35 💬 6 📌 2
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"This rubble is of my first home. The home where my father also grew up. Where my husband and I said our marriage vows."

What’s happening in Lebanon is a “human rights and humanitarian disaster in the making,” says HRW’s @lamafakih.bsky.social, whose family home in Beirut was struck.

06.03.2026 22:51 👍 124 🔁 93 💬 2 📌 2
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Summer school and conference: Literacies for Social Participation The Literacy in Diversity Settings Research Center (LiDS) at the University of Hamburg will host a summer school and conference devoted to “Literacies for Social Participation” in July …

"Literacies for Social Participation" - join us for an exciting summer school and doctoral conference in July at @uni-hamburg.de

languageonthemove.com/summer-schoo...

06.03.2026 10:04 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

What happened when English-speaking missionaries came into contact with multilingual Indigenous Australians?
I had this fascinating conversation with @laurarad.bsky.social on the 1st @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast of 2026 on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!

26.02.2026 09:56 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Found in Translation In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah talks to Dr. Laura Rademaker (Australian National University), the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australia…

Language teaching and translation: competitions over who can name, own, and control

In 1st Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for 2026, @tazinabdullah.bsky.social speaks with Laura Rademaker about the Christian mission in North Australia
languageonthemove.com/found-in-tra...

26.02.2026 07:49 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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"To junior scholars, this volume opens paths into research by presenting the value and importance of a long-term, coherent research agenda."

Thanks to @jupurkarthofer.bsky.social & @languageinsociety.bsky.social for new review of "Life in a New Language" (@academic.oup.com)
doi.org/10.1017/S004...

20.02.2026 16:25 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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2026 New Books Network Listener Survey New Books Network is trying to learn more about our listeners to improve our content. We will only collect your personal contact information if you choose to provide it. Respondents will be entered in...

Support the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social by filling in their listener survey:
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28.01.2026 20:17 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Deborah Cameron obituary Linguist, feminist activist and author of influential books on how language can shape gendered experiences

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

28.01.2026 23:35 👍 43 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 2
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Mourning Bondi. Australia's hierarchy of grief - Michael West Australia suffers from selective empathy. And nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who can mourn.

michaelwest.com.au/mourning-bon...

25.01.2026 23:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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News alert! New study from @oii.ox.ac.uk and the University of Kentucky finds that ChatGPT amplifies global inequalities. Researchers find that large language models reflect historic biases in the data sets they learn from whilst shaping how people see the world. More here: bit.ly/4bF4K9B 1/4

20.01.2026 10:17 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.

ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.

This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

22.01.2026 01:42 👍 7556 🔁 3345 💬 158 📌 235
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Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

21.01.2026 15:28 👍 289 🔁 95 💬 15 📌 12
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Randa Abdel Fattah Legal Fund This fundraiser is being run for Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah by Readers and Writers Against the Genocide. RWAG is a community of readers and writers who believe in the power of literature to enable us to sp...

Randa Abdel Fattah Legal Fund chuffed.org/project/rand...

22.01.2026 10:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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20.12.2025 07:43 👍 49 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1

Congrats @draliaamir.bsky.social

09.01.2025 02:52 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

@auslingsoc.bsky.social Who has won the Talkley award for 2025?

09.12.2025 12:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Infantino and co: yuk!!!!

06.12.2025 05:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From “Howdy” to “Hayakom”: A shifting university linguascape Sara Hillman, Aishwaryaa Kannan, and Tim Tizon ***   Walking into the Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) building today feels different from just a year ago. As part of an ongoing proje…

From “Howdy” to “Hayakom”: A shifting university linguascape

04.12.2025 18:05 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack

As this article shows: "AI models had become genuinely useful for cybersecurity operations, both for good and for ill."

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign www.anthropic.com/ne...

Thanks to @Nicolas Gertler for the usual input and great conversation about this.

04.12.2025 22:55 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

AI-based review. As I stressed some time ago, see
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
this is going to happen, more or less properly, depending on whether decision-makers will embrace, shape, and steer this technology or resist it.
Stanford Agentic Reviewer - Submit Paper https://paperreview.ai/

04.12.2025 23:45 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Detail of the steel engraving of 1817 titled "Doctor Martin Luther, in das Glaubensbekenntniß des heiligen Bischofs Athanasii gekleidet u. mit dem Apostol. u. Nicenischen Glaubensbekenntniß umfasset". You see Luther's head and hands, and the rest of the figure is made out of words. 
Source: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:KVC-LUT-0000000000078409?lang=en (originally in the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg VI,449,3g).

Detail of the steel engraving of 1817 titled "Doctor Martin Luther, in das Glaubensbekenntniß des heiligen Bischofs Athanasii gekleidet u. mit dem Apostol. u. Nicenischen Glaubensbekenntniß umfasset". You see Luther's head and hands, and the rest of the figure is made out of words. Source: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:KVC-LUT-0000000000078409?lang=en (originally in the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg VI,449,3g).

Steel engraving of 1817 by Theodor Goetz titled "Doctor Martin Luther, in das Glaubensbekenntniß des heiligen Bischofs Athanasii gekleidet u. mit dem Apostol. u. Nicenischen Glaubensbekenntniß umfasset". You see Luther  head and hands, and the rest of his figure is made out of small words surrounding him.   
Source: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:KVC-LUT-0000000000078409?lang=en (originally in the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg VI,449,3g).

Steel engraving of 1817 by Theodor Goetz titled "Doctor Martin Luther, in das Glaubensbekenntniß des heiligen Bischofs Athanasii gekleidet u. mit dem Apostol. u. Nicenischen Glaubensbekenntniß umfasset". You see Luther head and hands, and the rest of his figure is made out of small words surrounding him. Source: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:KVC-LUT-0000000000078409?lang=en (originally in the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg VI,449,3g).

A man of words made out of words. This printed carmen figuratum, in German Figurengedicht, shows Martin Luther as a figure made out of words. And the words form the three creeds used in the Lutheran tradition: the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed.

#earlymodern #bookhistory

25.03.2025 12:27 👍 138 🔁 48 💬 4 📌 4

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02.12.2025 04:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The (un)imagined work of determining patients’ English language proficiency This study investigates how Australian healthcare policies imagine communication between limited English proficiency (LEP) patients and healthcare providers to occur. This is done through a work as...

I'm published!!!!!!! This is my very first academic paper that I've published! Ever! I'm so thankful to my co-authors @languageonthemove.bsky.social Ingrid Piller and @loylising.bsky.social Loy Lising <3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

02.12.2025 00:11 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 1

"[L]inguistics is uniquely positioned to teach us both about what all humans share and what makes cultures and individuals distinct"
@adamcschembri.bsky.social expressed it so nicely, read more here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...

28.11.2025 07:57 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨The Russian government has banned us as an “undesirable” foreign organization. Our work hasn’t changed. But what’s changed is Russia’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies, its staggering rise in repression & the scope of the war crimes its forces are committing in Ukraine.
bit.ly/48mvicJ

28.11.2025 18:03 👍 120 🔁 61 💬 1 📌 1
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Intercultural Communication Intercultural Communication

If you'd like to own a copy of "Intercultural Communication", make use of this weekend's St. Andrew's Day sale of @edinburghup.bsky.social - 50% off this and all their other titles 😃

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-intercu...

29.11.2025 04:35 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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From “Howdy” to “Hayakom”: A shifting university linguascape Sara Hillman, Aishwaryaa Kannan, and Tim Tizon ***   Walking into the Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) building today feels different from just a year ago. As part of an ongoing proje…

New on Language-on-the-Move: fascinating longitudinal linguistic landscape study by @sarapatra.bsky.social and team, chronicling the shifts from Texan English to Qatari Arabic in a Middle Eastern university
www.languageonthemove.com/from-howdy-t...

25.11.2025 23:30 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1