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Adam Schembri

@AdamCSchembri

Professor of linguistics @UniBirmingham. Sign languages. Easily-distracted gay Australian academic in the UK. Born/raised on Darug land. He/him.🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺

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Greens for HS2(@Greens4HS2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Cancelling HS2 means 'higher fares and congestion for decades', as 'passengers will have to be priced off the railways' to reduce demand.

The Green Party policies call for *more* rail travel and cheaper fares - this requires new railways, including HS2.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/d…

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World Federation of the Deaf(@WFDeaf_org) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2023 was a year focused on strengthening. Our 5 major achievements:
➡️Congress
➡️Guidelines for Achieving
➡️ Declaration on the Rights of
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➡️Action Plan 2023-2027

Read more ➡️wfdeaf.org/news/2023-revi…

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Adam Bassett (he/him) (sign name 🤘🏻)(@adambassetthull) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When they announced this, most of you commenting “What about Makaton?” Jeez. Makaton is not a language and Makaton stealing BSL for 50 years. Stop it now.

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Lauren Fletcher-Harris(@MsLoloJ) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wonderful interview!

But how ironic it has neither captions nor an in-vision BSL interpreter so viewers can watch it.

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Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust(@WTBBC) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today is the Winter Solstice, the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year. From tomorrow, our days will begin to become brighter once more - spring is on the way! Before it arrives, let's savour all of the beauty winter has to offer!

Today is the Winter Solstice, the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year. From tomorrow, our days will begin to become brighter once more - spring is on the way! Before it arrives, let's savour all of the beauty winter has to offer! #WinterSolstice
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EASIER project(@EASIERproject) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out the highlights from the EASIER-SignON concertation event “Outcomes and outlooks of Research on Sign Language Technology in Europe”

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Adam Schembri(@AdamCSchembri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have heard a rumour the DfE has washed its hands of teacher training aspects and will leave it to ‘market forces’ to get it done. But don’t quote me…

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Adam Schembri(@AdamCSchembri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great news! But how will the UK provide enough teachers to meet the demand? There are lessons here from the Australian experience where too many poorly qualified hearing teachers are brought in to teach Auslan.

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Linguistic Discovery(@lingdiscovery) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'[L]inguistics as a discipline is often misunderstood[.] This is not really surprising, for a number of reasons. First of all, language is seen, rightly, as something that belongs to all of us. Most people can speak and/or write and/or sign, and so it is no surprise that most…

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Adam Schembri(@AdamCSchembri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Neither major party is 100% behind LGBT+ people in the UK.
How did we get here?
It’s very much the result of a trans moral panic whipped up by those who should be our allies, including a minority of our queer siblings.

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Bite Your Brum (She/Her)(@BiteYourBrum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Not like the government to take dedicated funding from the midlands and north and giving it to London 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

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Adam Schembri(@AdamCSchembri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Keep your cats indoors.
'Killer kitties: cats are eating 2,000 species, including hundreds that are at risk' theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Adam Schembri(@AdamCSchembri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m a fourth generation migrant.
My great-grandparents moved from Malta to Algeria, from British to French colony.
Their daughter, my grandmother, moved to Malta when she married. She then emigrated with her family, including my dad, to Australia.
And I moved to the UK.

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Hans-Joerg Schmid(@HJ_Schmid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New preprint.
I identify a number of challenges that Construction Grammar has to face and offer some thoughts on how the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model might help to overcome them.

osf.io/b2rnv

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