British culture: health and safety means you can’t have power sockets in bathrooms and you have to pass through thousands of fire doors to get into someone’s apartment
Also British culture: do you want a pint of beer with those roller skates?
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Adam Schembri
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Professor of linguistics . Easily distracted academic, , #FirstGen, hearing L2 signer (Auslan/BSL), gay. He/him.
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Not an interpreter nor an interpreter researcher, but I must say I wish I was there: looks to be some really great presentations! #awkward #efslimanchester2022
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Incredible to learn 85% of survey respondents experience impostor syndrome in SL interpreting. What might deaf people do to alleviate/contribute to such feelings? In alleviating, deaf people might work toward viewing SLI as linguistic care work. we have mutual responsibility.
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In the last month we’ve seen the best anti-casualisation deal the sector has ever seen at the Open University.
Now we’ve forced the UKRI to respond to a cost of living crisis
When we act together we can win
Vote YES next week in your #ucuRISING ballot
We can do this 👏🏻🔥
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NEW: We're increasing our minimum student stipend by 10% from 1 October 2022. Full details: ukri.org/news/ukri-incr
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Thank you Australian Prime Minister for ensuring the Deaf #Auslan Community are included and can access your Press Conferences by providing Auslan Interpreters. Keep it up! #JobSummit2022
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Is there anything more lovely than when you’re out and suddenly an ex student appears out of nowhere and asks if you remember them (of course you do!) and just wanted to come up and say hi? ❤️
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Did this usage of 'daddy' start amongst gay men (this advert isn't addressing us specifically though), or did we get it from somewhere else? Do you know ?
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To help staff who are new to (F2F) lecturing I have pulled together some guidance on how to write & deliver a lecture covering content, reading lists, slides, preparation, performance, activities, inclusivity, tech issues & evaluation.
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If you plan to start a master's in the UK in 2023, applications for the Chevening Scholarship are open. You get a full scholarship, monthly stipend & no debt. I'd highly recommend applying for it. Happy to help with applications esp. if you're from a marginalised background.
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Who's excited for #TheRingsofPower? To celebrate, here are some images of Tolkien's Birmingham. If you want Mordor, why not head over to our website bit.ly/3QbL675 #Tolkien #RingsOfPower #LordOfTheRings
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The benefits of clear writing: articles with concrete language, examples, active voice, and common (vs. technical) words are better cited. Articles +1 SD clearer got 157 more Google Scholar citations than comparable articles with less clear writing #AcWri #AcademicTwitter 😎
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Yesterday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released their report on human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. I'll look briefly at mentions of language & education.
Link to the PDF:
ohchr.org/sites/default/
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Talking racism at work has to be an absolute top priority for organisations
Data showing that over 120,000 workers have quit jobs because of #racism, UK study by
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Typical academic email exchange.
A: Thank you for your feedback on our article. When do you want the revisions by?
B: I'm sorry but I am out of the office on annual leave and will not reply to emails during this time.
Also B: Please send them back to me in 7 days. Thank you!
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‘There is no point in pursuing the globalised free-market policies which failed to prevent stagnation in the first place. The crucial first step is rather to get out of our growth-fixated mindset and accurately diagnose the problems we face.’
Is anyone in government listening?
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Global economic headwinds have been gathering strength for years: according to a study, 1978 was the best year the world economy ever saw. bit.ly/3wP4Bey
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The co-editors of this special issue of Translation & Intepreting are keen to get submissions from sign language interpreting/translation researchers. Deadline extended to 30 Sept for SLTI researchers only:
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Published a book chapter on Social Justice in Interpreting. My video summary of the chapter is number 16 on the playlist:
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My book's out - its "written" in Auslan, and composed in a unique format designed to make Auslan the focus language in storytelling and reading, rather than English, with use of depicting signs with handshapes. myauslan.com #auslan #auslanliteracy #book
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Our Modern Idioms book has been out for 6 months so to mark the occasion we're giving away 2 free copies! Retweet this message by midday (BST) on August 25th and we'll randomly choose 2 Retweeters to receive a copy. Good luck!
modern-idioms.com/books
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Solidarity with @HuddLinguistics colleagues as our department closes & contracts of redundant colleagues end today. 
As Linguistics PGRs we fight on for proper consultation on our replacement supervision & compensation for all issues caused by making our supervisors redundant.
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Carl Croneberg, explorer of deaf culture, dies at 92
Read more about this here: ow.ly/UVvg50Kv98Q
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Wonderful news that through many kind donations including from @Just_Sign_BSLI @SignVideo @HeriotWattUni has raised £215k through the 1821 appeal to support deaf students! Deaf students enrolling this year will get a £2k bursary per year & other other initiatives coming soon!
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I’m unsure what to think of this. From a historical linguistics perspective, it seems partly accurate, and partly very problematic. But it’s also very interesting as a reflection of language ideologies about ‘sign language families’ in signing communities.
Thoughts?
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"Forty years of Thatcherite-inspired economic consensus and 12 years of cruel austerity
"Have left cities like Manchester and Liverpool defenceless for its residents"
Labour's Ian Byrne speaks at the rally in Manchester
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Yes, but one that opened in the late morning and stayed open into the evening. 😂
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Is there an academic who doesn't secretly dream of opening a cafe/bookstore somewhere?
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I love that some colleagues suggest arbitrariness in language is an epiphenomenon, not a design feature.
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Want to understand how our ability for arbitrariness evolved? We’ll discuss perspectives from philosophy (Ron Planer), linguistics (@BodoWinter, @MarcusPerlman) and biology (@zannaclay) in our @JCoLE2022 workshop next Monday, Sept 5th at 6:30am (CEST). More info here: 1/2
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Rose Ayling-Ellis: ‘I’m done with being token deaf character on TV’
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Lived car-free in five cities: Sydney, Bristol, London, Melbourne, and Birmingham. London was the easiest place of all to live car-free, and the Australian cities were the most challenging (although much less so if you live in their inner cities).
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"In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived."
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Don’t know why I never learn. I was just so angry and upset about the incredibly biased media stories and social media tweets from journalists about Cardiff Pride. But trying to talk with people who don’t argue in good faith is just stupid.
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Private account for now. Had a nasty run in with a GC person. Tried to engage in a discussion about why the framing of inclusive language as a linguistic loss to cis women doesn’t stand up. She tagged in a lot of her GC friends, and I fled the pile on she clearly wanted to start.
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I adore the waitress at and could listen to her lovely Black Country variety for days: ‘I tried to talk proper but I cor’
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My fella from the WM has never heard it. Neither have I.
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Very marked as southeastern English, but very widely understood throughout the UK, I'd have said. (It's not rhyming slang, but it's similarish.) twitter.com/churchnw6/stat…
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Canada refuses to extend bilingual bonus to Indigenous-language workers
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Most importantly, this applies to our very notion of what ‘language’ is and isn’t.
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A persistent concern of mine is when linguistics confuse language with linguistics—phenomena with analyses of phenomena (granting that there are no pre-theoretic characterization of phenomena). 
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In signed language linguistics, we all need to reflect more on our assumptions. Of course signed languages differ structurally from each other and they all change over time, but we do need to consider why we draw a line and say that X is ‘language’ and this somehow Y isn’t.
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Replying to @linasigns
I questioned this in a recent review I did of a paper saying sign languages emerge when there is a community of deaf ppl.
I used to say this too in my own work.
Implication of course is that practices used in a signing community around one deaf child are not a ‘sign language’.
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One of the best things about SLE is that the winner of the best PhD award gets the chance to present a plenary - right now @BonnieMayMcLean is presenting joint work with @DingemanseMark & Michael Dunn on form-meaning associations as drivers of language change #SLE2022
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