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#SpiritAwards WINNER for Best Feature and Best Director! Congratulations to Celine Song and the whole #PastLives family 🤍 Film Independent

Hayao Miyazaki is a two-time #Oscar  winner for Best Animated Feature • Spirited Away (2001) • The Boy and the Heron (2023)

I’m always sold when an article starts with “you’re not just getting older”.

Perhaps a tad overdue but oh so worthy

Looking for an academic post from September? If you have expertise in Romance languages and in syntax/semantics, then come and work with me and a wonderful group of people on a The Leverhulme Trust project at Language & Linguistics at Newcastle. DEADLINE 27th MAY! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-…

Hayao Miyazaki’s oft-repeated imperative—tomo ni ikiru (to live together)—means to find respite in those around you. With “The Boy and the Heron,” tomo ni ikiru is used not to collapse a binary—man and nature, man and woman—but to address the self. nyer.cm/j5I2GxI

Theoden is my favourite LOTR character and Bernard Hill portrayed him perfectly.

Love it when a new term gets coined and then a lot of ideas around it, that of course pre-existed, suddenly fall into place. Genuine language and thought question: why is it easier to discuss something when it gets a name? nytimes.com/2024/05/08/wel…

So goad to see our LAwKS-3 resources now hosted also The Languages Gateway

It takes women almost 15 years longer than men to progress to full professorships at top UK universities on average, says study timeshighereducation.com/news/women-tak… via Paddy Jack

(Apply to) Come and work with me! NB: yes, this really is an open-ended position. Some of the jargon/boilerplate may be confusing, so drop me an email or DM if you have questions.

Σοκαριστικό αλλά πέρα για πέρα αληθινό: ΕΣΥ: Η μεγάλη παραίτηση | LiFO lifo.gr/stiles/optiki-…

We are delighted to announce that School of Communication and Media has been awarded an Advance HE Athena Swan Bronze award - congratulations to the team who worked so hard on this, led by Dr Christina Sevdali and Morgan Macleod, and including many other colleagues #AthenaSwan #GenderEquality

This is one of the most beautiful Unplugged ever made

""But he has nothing on at all," said a little child at last”. Truly, no need to overthink. The emperor is not wearing anything. Can’t really think of a better description of the state of the world at the moment.

“This is not serious trade policy or grand strategy,” said Tooze. “The boss hates trade deficits and his team of willing sycophants came up with a formula, however idiotic, that ticked the box.” Someone should tell them to beware of sycophants though… theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

That was quick

Our #LanguageTrendsNI 2025 report is published today! It examines language teaching and learning in Northern Ireland, based on responses from primary and post-primary schools and over 1,000 Year 9 pupils. Full report here: tinyurl.com/4dcxykpr #MFLtwitterati #MFLChat