Thomas H Bak
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Cognitive neuroscientist, passionate multilingual with incurable curiosity, STGA tourist guide for Scotland (in English, German, Spanish, Polish & Portuguese).
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http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/people/thomas-bak 29-04-2016 21:07:38
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MULTILINGUALISM, 27 March (the day engraved on the Rosetta Stone)! And here some readings for the day: a new Healthy Linguistic Diet framework Dina Mehmedbegovic: healthylinguisticdiet.com/bali-hld-model… & an article from Laura Spinney in The Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Thank goodness people are waking up to the fact that there is a crisis for clinical research in the UK Financial Times High on the list are the bureaucratic processes that have become such an obstacle to getting things done
Masud Husain Financial Times This list applies to all medical research. Investigations involving patients in the hospital has become particularly difficult because it cannot attract large grants and with few exceptions is published in journals with lower impact factors leading to its academic devaluation
The LSP series on Languages in UK Education is back! Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social Neil Kenny explores alternative qualifications in languages post-GCSE. With A level choices narrowing, would a level 3 certificate allow more students to continue language learning? lspjournal.com/post/time-for-…
Marcus Barry 🇺🇦🌹 John Swinney Scottish Parliament Linguists class Scots as a distinct branch within the Anglic Group of the Germanic language family. It shares a common ancestor with English, a language you appear to have failed to master, in Later Anglic.
And here is a nice example that Scots as a literary language is alive and well. The book will be launched at Edinburgh book festival on 22 August 2025. Prof Joanna Kopaczyk Michael Dempster
