Incredibly sad to learn this, spent my teen reading many of his work 🥲

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87 The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English.

“He also dropped English as the primary language for his literature and vowed to only write in his mother tongue, Kikuyu.
He published his last English language novel, Petals of Blood, in 1977.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Joey Chung & I are thrilled to learn that our #Trove
@TroveAustralia #Australian children's #picturebooks translated into #Chinese was the most viewed #Trove list (Jul - Dec 2024)! 🦾 #community #demand for #multicultural translation @tonyburkemp.bsky.social‬

trove.nla.gov.au/list/179558

Almost time! #NationalSimultaneousStorytime #ALIA #TheTruckCat is a wonderful #picturebook!

Putting this plant on my balcony to remind myself that upside under is real #strangerthings

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Wollemi pine | Australian threatened plants | NSW National Parks The critically endangered Wollemi pine is one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees. With less than 46 adult trees in the wild, this Australian species has special protections to ensure its survival.

This weekend I had the pleasure of having a long chat w a neighbor - his story of moving from #Poland to #UK to #Australia. His family's stories of surviving the war, reunion, & life. Now showing us a rare #Wollemi pine tree that he planted #multicultural www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/plants-and-a...

On Sunday we made #Baccala #Mantecato, dreaming of #Venice

Happy Lunar New Year! 恭喜發財🎊🎊

Autistic comic book fans asked to help Cambridge University study The Collaboration For Comics And Autism study has been organised by University of Cambridge experts.

I'm excited that our new project about #autism and #comics got reported by the BBC!

If you're autistic and into comics, #manga or graphic novels please check it out - there's a link in the article to a research survey.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world

Listening to Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari. It is blood chilling. #read2025

www.penguin.com.au/books/nexus-...

So happy that the hiker was found, and I was in tears yesterday reading the news. We all need every bit of good news in 2025.

An absolutely mad but delicious #tteokbokki #Frenchtoast w #gochujang sauce & #maple syrup #ONACoffee #Marrickville

Beautiful

Absolutely thrilled to find this edition in a 2nd bookshop! 1 day will find the 1967 ed illustrated by Virginia Smith #children #picturebook

Maybe it’s 2024, my voice has ‘an edge of #hysteria’ as well, but can’t believe I read this in a children’s book #oliviagoestovenice to be clear, right now, I’ll be fine w being hysteria in #Venice #holidayneeded

The Bluesky Directory is now huge. Something for everyone, please share.

Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

Interested in doing a PhD on language acquisition in Oslo?

Check application process: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and feel free to reach out for more information!

PS. We have a nice growing community including Natalia Kartushina, Luca Onnis, @audunrosslund.bsky.social, and many more!

Islamophobia is an everyday reality for too many Australians | Aftab Malik Sometimes it’s discrimination or harassment. Sometimes abuse or outright hatred. And sometimes violence. It must stop

Asking Santa for a kind 2025

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

the same goes for character encodings...

Using Memes to Facilitate TESOL Student Teachers' Reflections on Identity While reflection on one's own developing language teacher identity is a valuable experience for TESOL student teachers, written reflections and concerns about evaluation make it challenging to engage...

I'm excited to finally be able to share this article, just published in TESOL Quarterly, where I explore the possibilities of inviting (student) teachers to create and collaboratively analyze memes as a way to reflect on their (practicum) teaching experiences and identity development.

“I keep meeting people who are extremely burned out. I meet them so often that I’m beginning to think burnout is something that exists by design”
@patrickfreyne.bsky.social on toxic productivity & the myths of meritocracy.

[hint: this is not a bug, it’s a feature]

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 was awarded to Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life"

Han Kang's Nobel lecture is now online.

Please note that this was filmed *before* the events of 12/3 and only *released* now.

Good point…I thought 郎in Chinese is an old-fashioned term for a man

More interesting is 郎

Just read one of the full articles that this blogpost by @lauraskh.bsky.social is based on - great stuff. I have always hated Border Security as a show and the paper articulates beautifully why I had such a visceral reaction to it.

Here's the one I read: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The album cover to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, John Coltrane with a furrowed expression in a black and white photo

60 years ago today, John Coltrane recorded his masterpiece, "A Love Supreme." So that's what I'm compelled to listen to this evening & I invite anyone to do the same. @hystericalblkns.bsky.social @arbuscular.bsky.social

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Proud #supervisors & amazing new #PhD #MacquarieU

Excited to share my resources for learning Basque! 📚 From grammar guides to textbooks and graded readers. What are your favourite resources for learning this beautiful language?

Excited to share my resources for learning Basque! 📚

From grammar guides to textbooks and graded readers.

What are your favourite resources for learning this beautiful language?

#langsky #basque #euskara #euskera