Immigrant. Cognitive Science/Linguistics. Things look blurry when my glasses aren't on my face.

London, UK
Joined February 2012
How I love being a young woman in higher ed
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Phonetics at Goethe University Frankfurt is at risk of being shut down -- sign the petition here chng.it/78wDGKTL via @Change
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Terrible news that @UniKent is planning on cutting linguistics along with a range of other Humanities and Social Science courses. The kind of courses that give students the skills employers are looking for, but also the courses that help us make sense of the world.
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Call for Applications for Yerevan Academy of Linguistics and Philosophy (YALP) 2024 is now out! The summer institute will take place July 15-July 26, 2024. Please see the website below and spread the word! sites.google.com/view/yalp20…
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Thanks @LingSocAm for having our backs. It means the world to me. linguisticsociety.org/news/2…
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I came up as a baby linguist going to lots of LSA annual meetings (including many memorable evenings spent with friends and academic idols in Hilton lobby bars), LSA summer institutes in random cities.
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Over 8,000 signatures already to save Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences @UniKent - a strong call to maintain a relevant offer of languages and humanities programmes at the institution to benefit the schools and students in the region. @ArtsandHums Please sign and share 👇
Over 7,000 signatures already to save Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences @UniKent - a strong call to maintain a relevant offer of languages and humanities programmes at the institution to benefit the schools and students in the region. @ArtsandHums Please sign and share 👇
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So, in which universities are modern languages being culled? 1: Kent
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FYI: Linguistics under threat at the University of Kent: Colleagues and friends: Linguistics is going to be shut down at the University of Kent (UK). Some context below, but please take a look at this petition, consider signing, and share widely.… dlvr.it/T2ZTbb
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Over 7,000 signatures already to save Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences @UniKent - a strong call to maintain a relevant offer of languages and humanities programmes at the institution to benefit the schools and students in the region. @ArtsandHums Please sign and share 👇
Over 5,000 signatures already to save Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences @UniKent - a strong call to maintain a relevant offer of languages and humanities programmes at the institution to benefit the schools and students in the region. @ArtsandHums Please sign and share 👇👇
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The University of Kent has two Nobel Prize winners among its alumni: Kazuo Ishiguro and Abdulrazak Gurnah. Both were recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Slashing these courses is a complete disgrace and robs the world of the next generation of writers, artists, scholars
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Read this to understand why UK HE is dead. An explicit admission of a plan to reduce academic standing on the basis of leadership's failure to secure a short term market position. This is considered mainstream managerial decision making for VCs.
Replying to @Jon_Williamson_
I received this standard statement from the university...
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"We have pledged to be a leading civic university by 2025, to serve the communities around us and to help them flourish in every possible way. That’s a mission and a vision that fills us with great excitement and pride."
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