A purple flower stretches upward, growing from a crack in the sidewalk concrete

Like a stubborn bloom
Living in cracks of concrete
You cannot kill hope.

#poetry #Haiku

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Presenting my PhD study on WA behaviour in people with aphasia at BAS Conference 2025
#BASconf2025
@tessf10.bsky.social

Starmer says migrants should speak English – but all of the UK’s languages are important for integration Mike Chick, Senior Lecturer in TESOL/English, University of South Wales, Gwennan Higham Senior Lecturer in Welsh, Swansea University, Sarah Cox, Research Fellow, The Open University When Keir Starmer…

If the UK is serious about being a modern, inclusive and multicultural state, it must embrace the reality that it is also multilingual, and that different nations may choose different routes to welcome those seeking sanctuary

It was fascinating to hear about Prof. @tessf10.bsky.social, @steveabertawe.bsky.social & Dr Theo Mills' work this PM.

Their site contains a range of word association data to investigate the mental lexicon, including semantic dementia & cancer care.

Link: mental-lexicon.swansea.ac.uk

#langsky

@perkinskeighley.bsky.social analyses the ‘technological wild west’ of social media to classify groups on the far right continuum - understanding self-legitimisation strategies can help law enforcement agencies to construct counter-narratives

#langsky #linguistics

On Wednesday, I'll be giving a talk as part of @swanseauni.bsky.social Language Research Centre's seminar series.

In it, I'll be exploring the political identities constructed by the radical right on Twitter & how #linguistics can help law enforcement tackle extremism & radicalisation.

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From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Really enjoyed (remotely) attending today's #LRC seminar at @swanseauni.bsky.social where @tessf10.bsky.social, @steveabertawe.bsky.social & Dr Theo Mills talked about the #bilingual #lexicon.

It was interesting to hear how closely people's word association answers are across languages.

#Langsky

Gwerddon | ‘O sero i dri chant’: technegau caffael dwys ar gyfer y 300 gair cynnwys a ddefnyddir amlaf yn y Gymraeg Mae’r erthygl hon yn amlinellu ymchwil a gynhaliwyd ymhlith dysgwyr Cymraeg sy’n ddechreuwyr wrth iddynt gaffael geirfa Gymraeg a ddefnyddir yn aml. Gofynnwyd i 23 chyfranogwr ddysgu 300 gair cynnwys ...

O sero i dri chan gair – sut i ddysgu geirfa yn gyflym!
New paper on Welsh vocabulary learning / Papur newydd ar ddysgu geirfa Gymraeg bit.ly/3AWqHkN @steveabertawe.bsky.social @swanseauni.bsky.social
#Gwerddon #AppliedLinguistics #DysguCymraeg