Having gone to university from a South Wales comp via an FE College and benefited massively from HE outreach and encouragement to aim high, I’m always delighted to participate in Widening Participation events 🫶

Finally 70% of civilian fatalities in Gaza are women or children. 1m women & girls have been displaced. 50,000 women are pregnant in Gaza. It’s the most dangerous place on Earth to be a child. For #InternationalWomensDay to mean anything, we must acknowledge this genocide 10/10

Come and join us from wherever you are in the world! 💻🌎

I have just learned that “peach” in Cymraeg/Welsh is “eirinen wlanog” which translates to “wooly plum”.

This has made me very happy 😊 🍑

Looking forward to this!

Thanks to Calle Börstell for this meme.
Linguists, let’s just be honest.
#linguistics

📢 BAAL Language & New Media SIG announcement!

The CfP has been released for this year's seminar, taking place at Queen Mary, University of London on 24th May.

Theme: Digital Health Communication

Abstract deadline: Fri 15th March - see below for details
#baal

Come and hear about why you should study with us 😁

It's PANS/PANDAS UK #PansPandasHour AND the 3rd Twitterversary. Hoozah!
2024 is set to be the year of the Panda (and Pans!). 🐼🍳💜Please share for every child with this brutal condition. DrSarahJarvis Dr Amir Khan GP Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 Dr Beth Malory (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪 tern Long Covid Kids - #LongCovidKids

Featuring yours truly talking about the swears in today’s The Guardian 🤬

“Miscarriage is a horrible word…the suggestion that a mistake has been made. Whose mistake?”

Steve Bloomfield in today’s Observer, highlighting a key theme emerging from the Challenges in Pregnancy Loss Communication project so far: culpability.

theguardian.com/society/2023/d…

The Welsh word for solstice is 'heuldro' pronounced 'high-el-dro (as in drone without the n sound)' Roll the r sound please. Now say it aloud. Lovely, isn't it? Literally 'sun-turn.' Such a celebratory sound- longer days coming.

What a spectacular privilege it was to host so many passionate individuals at the first Symposium on Pregnancy Loss UCL today! We had some really productive, stimulating discussions, and are looking forward to the next one in June.
Tommy's
Rich Sands
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Christmas looks good on UCL 🎄✨

The Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡 Listening Project, published today, has also found differences in how bereaved Black and Asian parents were treated by healthcare staff.

Families said not being listened to, or having their concerns taken seriously, led to missed opportunities to save babies’ lives.

Getting ready to host the First Symposium on Pregnancy Loss Communication at UCL next week with Tommy's, Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡 and Eloise Parr

Anyone have full access to this article? It’s behind the paywall and I’d like to read it

irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/1…

I can hardly believe what’s happening on the streets of Dublin tonight, and yet I can: “a petri dish in which, under the right conditions, something very dangerous could grow” is bang on

theguardian.com/global/comment…

Erasmus changed the lives of more than 10 million people over last 25 yrs

EU wanted UK to remain in Erasmus

The UK govt said no. By doing so they denied young Brits incredible opportunities & experiences, all for Brexit ideology

The UK must participate in Erasmus again