Row Imperial
@rowimperial.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics (TESOL), Trinity College Dublin. DPhil in Education, Oxon
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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
(Published May 2025)
(Published May 2025)
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...
www.propublica.org
August 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
(Published May 2025)
(Published May 2025)
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Yay this article is finally out and can be downloaded for free here: jelipub.com/volume-3-iss...
Again I’d like to thank my research participants — this paper wouldn’t be possible without you. 🩷 And also to JELI and my anonymous peer reviewers for their invaluable support and feedback ☺️
Again I’d like to thank my research participants — this paper wouldn’t be possible without you. 🩷 And also to JELI and my anonymous peer reviewers for their invaluable support and feedback ☺️
August 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Yay this article is finally out and can be downloaded for free here: jelipub.com/volume-3-iss...
Again I’d like to thank my research participants — this paper wouldn’t be possible without you. 🩷 And also to JELI and my anonymous peer reviewers for their invaluable support and feedback ☺️
Again I’d like to thank my research participants — this paper wouldn’t be possible without you. 🩷 And also to JELI and my anonymous peer reviewers for their invaluable support and feedback ☺️
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Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.
April 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.
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LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.
There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
April 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.
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The proofs have arrived! Countdown to our summer of publication. Looking forward.
April 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The proofs have arrived! Countdown to our summer of publication. Looking forward.
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Join us (online/in person) on 16 April to discuss Social Theory & the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge w/ the authors/eds of 3 fantastic new books in our Global Epistemics series w/ Rowman & Littlefield (Bloomsbury) edited by @berytia.bsky.social. Info & registration here: tinyurl.com/nonhege
Social Theory and the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge - gloknos
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April 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Join us (online/in person) on 16 April to discuss Social Theory & the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge w/ the authors/eds of 3 fantastic new books in our Global Epistemics series w/ Rowman & Littlefield (Bloomsbury) edited by @berytia.bsky.social. Info & registration here: tinyurl.com/nonhege
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📢 We’re Hiring! We are seeking applications for the role of Assistant Professor in Applied Sign Linguistics.
To teach and conduct research in the areas of sign linguistics, sign language interpreting, and sign language teaching.
Info at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
Contact👉 [email protected]
To teach and conduct research in the areas of sign linguistics, sign language interpreting, and sign language teaching.
Info at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
Contact👉 [email protected]
March 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
📢 We’re Hiring! We are seeking applications for the role of Assistant Professor in Applied Sign Linguistics.
To teach and conduct research in the areas of sign linguistics, sign language interpreting, and sign language teaching.
Info at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
Contact👉 [email protected]
To teach and conduct research in the areas of sign linguistics, sign language interpreting, and sign language teaching.
Info at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
Contact👉 [email protected]
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My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!
March 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!
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If you haven’t read it yet, this is essential for understanding the economic situation universities find themselves in as federal funding gets cut off.
March 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you haven’t read it yet, this is essential for understanding the economic situation universities find themselves in as federal funding gets cut off.
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Video shows former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte being arrested on a plane at Manila airport on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant over alleged crimes against humanity during his crackdown on drugs.
March 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Video shows former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte being arrested on a plane at Manila airport on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant over alleged crimes against humanity during his crackdown on drugs.
Super happy to share that my doctoral thesis was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Dissertation Award by the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Truly grateful for everyone who made this thesis possible 🥰💗
March 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Super happy to share that my doctoral thesis was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Dissertation Award by the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Truly grateful for everyone who made this thesis possible 🥰💗
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We're Hiring: Departmental Lecturer, Modern Language (Mandarin) Education
The post-holder will teach the PGCE Modern Language programme, the MSc in Learning and Teaching programme and the PGDip in Learning and Teaching in Mandarin.
If you're interested, apply now!
🔗 bit.ly/43qWzK6
The post-holder will teach the PGCE Modern Language programme, the MSc in Learning and Teaching programme and the PGDip in Learning and Teaching in Mandarin.
If you're interested, apply now!
🔗 bit.ly/43qWzK6
March 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We're Hiring: Departmental Lecturer, Modern Language (Mandarin) Education
The post-holder will teach the PGCE Modern Language programme, the MSc in Learning and Teaching programme and the PGDip in Learning and Teaching in Mandarin.
If you're interested, apply now!
🔗 bit.ly/43qWzK6
The post-holder will teach the PGCE Modern Language programme, the MSc in Learning and Teaching programme and the PGDip in Learning and Teaching in Mandarin.
If you're interested, apply now!
🔗 bit.ly/43qWzK6
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Academia already acting like the ethnic cleansing of gaza is complete. Shame on Leiden and Cambridge Uni press. Utterly disgusting.
December 12, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Academia already acting like the ethnic cleansing of gaza is complete. Shame on Leiden and Cambridge Uni press. Utterly disgusting.
I was just reminded by Facebook memories that I submitted my DPhil thesis for examination this day last year. I can’t believe that was already a year ago. Time flies 🫨
December 12, 2024 at 10:11 PM
I was just reminded by Facebook memories that I submitted my DPhil thesis for examination this day last year. I can’t believe that was already a year ago. Time flies 🫨
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So this is at least the second horrific murder in the US within the last six months predicated on “speak English”.
Please keep this in mind as you interact with English-only movements. Language ideologies are not benign or apolitical.
Please keep this in mind as you interact with English-only movements. Language ideologies are not benign or apolitical.
I am devastated. A 17 year old boy was just stabbed to death outside our building because he didn’t speak English. An 18 year old was also stabbed for the same reason but survived. They have not captured the men who did this yet. I am shaking.
www.amny.com/new-york/man...
www.amny.com/new-york/man...
Lower Manhattan stabbing leaves teen dead, another wounded because victims did not speak English: sources | amNewYork
One teenager is dead and another was seriously injured in a Lower Manhattan stabbing on Thursday night carried out by a group of attackers allegedly angered
www.amny.com
December 7, 2024 at 5:06 PM
So this is at least the second horrific murder in the US within the last six months predicated on “speak English”.
Please keep this in mind as you interact with English-only movements. Language ideologies are not benign or apolitical.
Please keep this in mind as you interact with English-only movements. Language ideologies are not benign or apolitical.
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when you stop reading "believe women" as "women never lie" and see it as "one of the foundational myths of patriarchy is that women can never be trusted" it makes a lot more sense.
November 25, 2024 at 9:50 PM
when you stop reading "believe women" as "women never lie" and see it as "one of the foundational myths of patriarchy is that women can never be trusted" it makes a lot more sense.
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Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here:
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem – Demystifying Language Project
Students of color are always being told that they need to change the way they speak. But what if, instead, educators changed the way they listen?
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu
November 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here:
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
Hello bsky, I just wanted to share my first publication from my PhD thesis: doi.org/10.1002/tesq...
This paper is an attempt at rethinking the Global Englishes paradigm and conceptualising a critical-ethical framework for addressing social injustices in TESOL and language education more broadly. 🙏
This paper is an attempt at rethinking the Global Englishes paradigm and conceptualising a critical-ethical framework for addressing social injustices in TESOL and language education more broadly. 🙏
November 15, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Hello bsky, I just wanted to share my first publication from my PhD thesis: doi.org/10.1002/tesq...
This paper is an attempt at rethinking the Global Englishes paradigm and conceptualising a critical-ethical framework for addressing social injustices in TESOL and language education more broadly. 🙏
This paper is an attempt at rethinking the Global Englishes paradigm and conceptualising a critical-ethical framework for addressing social injustices in TESOL and language education more broadly. 🙏
Today marks my official first day as an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics (TESOL) at the School of Linguistic, Speech & Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. Truly very grateful for this opportunity. I look forward to meeting my colleagues and students in the new academic year 💕
August 1, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Today marks my official first day as an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics (TESOL) at the School of Linguistic, Speech & Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. Truly very grateful for this opportunity. I look forward to meeting my colleagues and students in the new academic year 💕
I had the most wonderful and meaningful time at AAAL. Reconnected with old friends and made new ones. Listening to the many people who do amazing work within their respective communities makes me truly feel hopeful about our capabilities as applied linguists to help make this world a better place. 💕
March 19, 2024 at 5:11 PM
I had the most wonderful and meaningful time at AAAL. Reconnected with old friends and made new ones. Listening to the many people who do amazing work within their respective communities makes me truly feel hopeful about our capabilities as applied linguists to help make this world a better place. 💕
Hello, Houston! I look forward to this year's AAAL conference.
March 14, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Hello, Houston! I look forward to this year's AAAL conference.