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An invitation to a book launch featuring the book cover.

In these times, it‘s important to savour good moments. Come and join me in celebrating this book!

Brown Bag Seminar | Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities | University of Helsinki Brown Bag Seminar meetings every Wednesday.

On Wednesday, I'm making first forays into machine translation and so-called low-resource languages and the question whether machine translation can be useful for languages spoken in multilingual environments by multilinguals at #HSSH. All welcome onsite or online: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

I have been invited to give a talk on globalising multilingualism research at the University of Graz on March 6 from 17:00 to 18:00 local time (18:00-19:00 in Helsinki).

The talk is hybrid, all welcome! More info and the Zoom link are available here: lnkd.in/ePXVZiij

Jos teillä on vinkkejä tai työmahdollisuuksia, lähettäkää minulle yksityisviesti tai laittakaa minulle sähköpostia. Kiitos etukäteen!

“Olen Max, syntynyt Lontoossa, 18 vuotta vanha ja etsin töitä! Olen sosiaalinen, nopea oppimaan ja rauhallinen, ja puhun sujuvasti suomea, englantia, ja saksaa. Osaan lisäksi ruotsia, ranskaa ja espanjaa keskitasolla. Minulla on hygieniapassi ja kokemusta ravintola-alalla.”

Pyyntö helsinkiläiselle verkostolleni: poikani Max etsii vielä kesätyötä, noin kuukaudeksi tai alle. Hän on erittäin luova lukiolainen, joka pitää musiikista (ja tekee sitä itse), taiteesta, muotoilusta ja muodista. Tässä mitä hän kirjoittaa itsestään:

We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences | Nesrine Malik Almost two years into the war, Sudan is facing anarchy, famine, genocide – and ambivalence from the rest of the world Sudan’s war, which began in April 2023, is closing in on its second year. No one expects or becomes accustomed to war, but it is…

We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences | Nesrine Malik

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You just gave me a beautiful example for my class on multilingualism and writing. Surekeetouksit!

Is there any legal way to stop this? What is the intellectual property rights perspective on this issue?

Daily Debate: Do you speak Finnish? Is it possible to live and work in Finland without speaking the language?

Keskustelemme tänään suomalaista yhteiskuntaa jakavasta ja koko Euroopassa ajankohtaisesta aiheesta: siitä, miten käsitellä lisääntyvän maahanmuuton tarvetta ja siihen liittyvää kysymystä maahanmuuttajien kielitaidosta. Keskustelussa käytetään osallistavaa kaksikielisyyttä englanniksi ja suomeksi.

Daily Debate: Do you speak Finnish? Is it possible to live and work in Finland without speaking the language?

Today, we are debating an issue that is dividing Finnish society and is topical across Europe: how to deal with the need for increased immigration and the concomitant issue of language skills of immigrants. The debate will use inclusive bilingualism in English and Finnish.

Tosi hyvä malli. Saatan lainata! Se koskee myös opettajia, jotka opettavat kielellä, joka ei ole heidän vahvin kielensä.

Is there any alternative to the gamification of academic metrics? Drawing on discussions with academics who have oriented their work around public engagement and social impact, Daniel Pearson suggests these academics present an opportunity to rethink the existing…

"It is far easier to quantify a researcher’s output than it is the actual outcome of their work."

Dan K. Pearson discusses the gamification of #academic metrics and alternative ways for assessing and valuing researchers. Check out the post on the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇

#ScholComm

A Better Conversation | David M. Perry Get more from David M. Perry on Patreon

Every time you share a "The Conversation" post I want to remind you that they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and pay writers zero dollars, including adjuncts and grad students. We cannot rely on exploited labor to achieve a better public humanities.

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Door of a subway seen from the inside closing automatically with a flashing red light

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why?
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
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If you work in a language programme at a European university, take part in this very important survey! And please also share in your networks.

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Stunning, thanks for sharing!

Threats to academic systems are not uniquely Dutch. Across the globe, we see regimes dismantling those equipped to critique them, disrupting the cosmopolitan academic space that resists nationalist and xenophobe policymaking. This calls for solidarity and even more cosmopolitan worldviews! 4/

📢 4 permanent junior research positions at CNRS, France in #linguistics of which as a priority :
- 1 "Oral & Multimodal Corpora, NLP & Under-resourced Languages".
- 1 "Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Education"

One month left to apply!
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#academicsky

A most convincing case for case!

The Word explanation game Alias with some cards I created for my students.

Guess what this course I taught was about!

Arvaa, mistä tällä minun opettamalla kurssilla on kyse!

A conference announcement. The information is contained in the link provided.

More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1LWm2...

Namens @woinactie.bsky.social:

Aanstaande woensdag 11 december zullen er vanaf 13.00 uur nieuwe acties plaatsvinden in Nijmegen, Enschede, Tilburg, Leiden, Maastricht, Utrecht, Groningen, Amsterdam, en Rotterdam.

Doctoral Research Fellowship within language and linguistics (271069) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship within language and linguistics (271069), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

2 PhD fellowships in language and linguistics at the Uni of Oslo. Fully funded 3 years, plus if you submit in time an extra year to work on publications and do some teaching. Area open; project has to fit a research group. Deadline 28 Feb.
Please repost. #linguistics
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Valtaosa ‘ulkkareista’ (kauhea sana!) haluaa oppia suomea, mutta tavalla, joka on sopusoinnussa heidän uravaiheensa ja täysipäiväisen työnsä kanssa.

Entä miltä sosiaalinen elämämme ja osallistumisemme suomalaiseen yhteiskuntaan näyttäisi ilman suomen kieltä? Joustava monikielisyys on ainoa ratkaisu, jos meidät nähdään myös ihmisinä, ei vain työvoimaresurssina.

Tämä olisi hienoa, ja tämäntyyppistä kielenkäyttöä koskevia suosituksia on olemassa, mutta niitä ei koskaan noudateta käytännössä.