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Language on the Move
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Linguistic diversity in social life

By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"

https://www.languageonthemove.org/
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DECRA success rate is the lowest in 14 years, since 2012 (1st year the scheme ran).

What a pathetic system we have for supporting new ideas, new people…

DE26: 13.1%
25: 17.9
24: 19.6
23: 15.0
22: 19.7
21: 17.1
20: 16.0
19: 17.2
18: 16.3
17: 16.7
16: 16.4
15: 14.3
14: 13.6
13: 15.6
12: 12.8
arc-tracker.bsky.social ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 22h
🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285

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November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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agib.bsky.social
It was such a great experience to chat with Cindy Valdez! Listen to the full podcast 👇
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
languageonthemove.bsky.social
Germany has a "Shared Reading Day" 😍 - Vorlesetag!
Great opportunity to join the fun and read to a child in your life!
This year's Vorlesetag is even dedicate to multilingual reading!
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Shared Reading Day 2025
Editor’s note: Shared reading – the practice where adults read to children – has many benefits: it improves children’s language and literacy development, as well as their in…
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November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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zgur.bsky.social
REMINDER : ALL modern infrastructure evolution 2003-2025

#Cloudflare
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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sluntz.bsky.social
As an English speaking country (with nice beaches to boot) for the cost of a small tax on fossil fuel exports or high incomes Australia could invest in science, recruit researchers fleeing the US and become the knowledge powerhouse of the 21st Century. Instead we're doing this.
arc-tracker.bsky.social ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 7d
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”

Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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tazinabdullah.bsky.social
“Multilingual learners do not need us to fix their English…but they need us to design learning where their full linguistic repertoires are seen as an asset.”
Insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast [email protected] speaks with Cindy Valdez!
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Your languages are your superpower!
In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Cindy Valdez, an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) specialist, and Founder & CEO of Teach To Learn, a…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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htorsh.bsky.social
Great first day of the ALAA (Australian Association of Applied Linuguistics) conference here in at CDU in Darwin, Northern Terrtitory. The conference theme is: Language and the interface of mono-/multi-/translingual mindsets.

The Macquarie Linguistics crew is ready! @languageonthemove.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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martinderince.bsky.social
Your/our languages are your/our superpowers!

The new podcast from the @languageonthemove.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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maryparks.bsky.social
In this podcast Cindy Alvarez talks about how to center and celebrate each person’s language (and identity) in learning contexts, but applicable in so many other contexts. As she says “You are your language” and “you all have to celebrate what you bring in”
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
languageonthemove.bsky.social
In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, @agib.bsky.social chats with Cindy Valdez about how to best support the education of multilingual children
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Your languages are your superpower!
In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Cindy Valdez, an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) specialist, and Founder & CEO of Teach To Learn, a…
www.languageonthemove.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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mcanzanella.bsky.social
I cannot thank @tazinabdullah.bsky.social and the whole @languageonthemove.bsky.social Team enough. You have literally put our language and the plight of its speakers on the world linguistics map. And thank you, @lauraskh.bsky.social, for your deeply humbling words. 🙏
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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edinburghup.bsky.social
🎧 Author Interview: Ingrid Piller joins @languageonthemove.bsky.social
 to discuss the third edition of our popular textbook, Intercultural Communication!

 Delve into the podcast: 
Intercultural Communication - New Books Network
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November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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lauraskh.bsky.social
This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast.
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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lauraskh.bsky.social
I've started a Starter Pack for the Language on the Move research community 🥳
For members of the research group, contributors to the blog/podcast.
Please shout out if you're part of the LOTM community and I'll add you/tag suggestions (or lmk if you're on there but would prefer not to be)
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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lauraskh.bsky.social
It's not every day we get to welcome several new amazing members to our research community in one go. Check out the new dream team joining Prof Piller in Hamburg 🤩
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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schenior.bsky.social
Continuing to be absolutely thrilled about my postdoc, in the project "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan"!! 😍😍

Check out the Language on the Move website + podcast and follow my new colleagues if you're interested in multilingualism & applied sociolinguistics!
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
languageonthemove.bsky.social
Exciting news: 6 new research fellows have joined Ingrid Piller's @humboldt-foundation.de Professor team @uni-hamburg.de
Meet them at www.languageonthemove.com/introducing-...
Welcome @schenior.bsky.social @marakyrou.bsky.social @juaninlanguage.bsky.social @nicolemarinaro.bsky.social 🤗
Introducing the Humboldt Professorship team
Attentive readers will remember that in May this year we advertised six doctoral and postdoctoral positions to conduct research related to “Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the …
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November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
languageonthemove.bsky.social
So sweet to discover that "Linguistic diversity and social justice" is part of someone's holiday memories 🤩
juaninlanguage.bsky.social Der Juan @juaninlanguage.bsky.social · Oct 2
Wishing to go back to those days in May.
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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lauraskh.bsky.social
@schenior.bsky.social has just begun a post-doc with Ingrid Piller (@languageonthemove.bsky.social) at Hamburg, with a bunch of other cool people. Follow her for research, stay for the book reviews 😀

Project overview here
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November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
languageonthemove.bsky.social
New on Language-on-the-Move: the native speaker is dead and everything but, even so, there is such a thing as native listening and explicit instruction matters in language learning, as Andrea Pešková explains
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Native listening and learning new sounds
I hear what you don’t hear Have you ever listened to a language you don’t know and thought you recognized a word—only to realize later that you were completely mistaken? Our ears play tricks on us.…
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November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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davidandress.bsky.social
Nobody in authority ever suggested that "Essay mills are just an inevitable part of modern life, you should change your teaching-methods to circumvent them". They fucking MADE THEM ILLEGAL.
davidandress.bsky.social Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 28d
It's useful to recognise that, just 3 years ago, the UK government made it a specific CRIMINAL OFFENCE to procure a live person to complete university coursework for a student, but that government, and all major institutions, are now saying the use of a machine to complete such work is inevitable.
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
languageonthemove.bsky.social
New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: Alex Grey speaks with Zoe Avery (AIATSIS) about the 4th National Indigenous Languages Survey
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Australia’s National Indigenous Languages Survey
In this podcast, Dr Alexandra Grey speaks with Zoe Avery, a Worimi woman and a Research Officer at the Centre for Australian Languages within the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Stra…
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October 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
languageonthemove.bsky.social
3 tips for Life in a New Language:

1. It’s not just about language
2. Find allies and embrace the growing pains
3. You are playing a long-term game: fluency and belonging may not come as quickly as you’d hoped but they are achievable

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Language Expert Ingrid Piller Shares 3 Tips for Life in a New Language
Podcast Episode · All Ears English Podcast · 10/28/2025 · 20m
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October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
languageonthemove.bsky.social
Textbook example of the perennial power move to delegitimize the content of what someone is saying by focusing on the way they say it.
Also, English native speakerism is making a comeback in international communication ...

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Trump: “Israel’s not going to do anything with the West Bank”
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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October 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM