Easily-distracted Australian professor of linguistics @UniBirmingham, UK.Hearing person interested in sign languages.Opinions my own.He/him.🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺🏳️🌈
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Well as predicted, Cadent have come, destroyed less than 3 year old paving and left off leaving tarmac to blight the area.
Another one to add to the list
I tried 3 times to get an NHS appointment to discuss the results from my assessment. Once I messed up and missed the date and had to ask to reschedule. The two other times -despite waiting online- the specialist didn’t keep the appointment. They then threw me off the waiting list
Its fine, there isn't really any actual support for neurological disability in adulthood anyway, Daniel's mum just hasn't realise that yet.
The cost to the global economy of not treating & supporting ADHD *alone* is estimated to be $123 billion/yr in costs incurred elsewhere.
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Excl: ADHD and autism are not widely overdiagnosed in the UK, a major Government review is expected to find.
The report is set to conclude that growing numbers are incentivised to seek an official diagnosis because support can be hard to get without one.
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The UK's universities are under pressure from every direction. We asked eight higher education leaders for their thoughts
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Debunking the myths around sign languages.
Adam Schembri, Kearsy Cormier and colleagues explore common misconceptions about sign languages and what research reveals about how they really work.
Watch: scitube.io/adam-schembri-kea…
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Out now! Sign Language Linguistics by Schembri et al. | A uniquely international and comparative introduction to the structure and use of ASL and BSL.
Find out more: ☑️ cup.org/4uu0pfg
ALT Cover image of the book titled 'Sign Language Linguistics', by Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon, Kearsy Cormier and Trevor Johnston
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UK is sabotaging its own future by closing university courses in:
Chemistry, Nursing, Physics, Modern Languages, Music
Astronomy, Creative Arts, English, History, Classics
A gutting of the disciplines that keep people alive, drive discovery & sustain any claim to culture
Now fix the bloody toilets in Grand Central: it's just appalling how they're falling apart.
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Electric cars were not invented to save the planet, our lives or our cities. They were only invented to save the car industry.
(🖼️ by Antonio Huerta)
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So... for those not keeping score.
He'll retain Shabana's racist, nativist nonsense. He'll retain Reeves' austerity economics. He'll retain Starmer's foreign policy positions.
What exactly is the point of Andy Starmer (sorry, Burnham) becoming Prime Minister?
No change at all.
Andy Burnham has pledged to make 'greater use' of migrant detention centres if he succeeds Keir Starmer as Prime Minister thenational.scot/news/261780…
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Shabana Mahmood, we’re told will get a senior position in an Andy Burnham government.
She needs to explain this strange and worrying decision, and Andy Burnham needs to make his view clear.
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I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter dire threat of a Reform UK government theguardian.com/politics/202…
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More prime ministers were educated at Mason College, the ancestor of Birmingham University, than any English university outside Oxbridge.
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In contradiction to much popular wisdom, language loss is not an inevitable, spontaneous trend, caused by globalization, modernization, or technological progress. It is the outcome of deliberate policies and practices that aim to eliminate diversity.
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There really is no need for the catastrophic redundancies hitting our university sector. The UK is an educational powerhouse and its resources are being squandered.
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Yesterday Keir Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel and save 2700 jobs.
The Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy.
This is just one university.
Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving.
Where is the rescue package for our universities?
Cities and towns will be devastated by these job losses.