@AdamCSchembri

Easily-distracted Australian professor of linguistics @UniBirmingham, UK.Hearing person interested in sign languages.Opinions my own.He/him.🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

 Birmingham, England
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Excl: ADHD and autism are not widely overdiagnosed in the UK, a major Government review is expected to find. The report is set to conclude that growing numbers are incentivised to seek an official diagnosis because support can be hard to get without one. inews.co.uk/news/claims-mass…

ADHD is not being overdiagnosed, major Government report set to find

Landmark report expected to rule out mass overdiagnosis but warn support can be hard to obtain

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Sep 14
The UK's universities are under pressure from every direction. We asked eight higher education leaders for their thoughts go.nature.com/4cKLRSJ
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Aug 28
Debunking the myths around sign languages. Adam Schembri, Kearsy Cormier and colleagues explore common misconceptions about sign languages and what research reveals about how they really work. Watch: scitube.io/adam-schembri-kea…

Professor Adam Schembri – Professor Kearsy Cormier | Debunking the Myths Around Sign Languages -...

Sign languages are rich, complex languages used by deaf communities all over the world. Yet despite decades of research showing this clearly, many people still hold on to outdated misunderstandings...

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CUP Linguistics@CambUP_LangLing
Jul 9
Out now! Sign Language Linguistics by Schembri et al. | A uniquely international and comparative introduction to the structure and use of ASL and BSL. Find out more: ☑️ cup.org/4uu0pfg
Cover image of the book titled 'Sign Language Linguistics', by Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon, Kearsy Cormier and Trevor Johnston

ALT Cover image of the book titled 'Sign Language Linguistics', by Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon, Kearsy Cormier and Trevor Johnston

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21group@21percentgroup
Jul 13
UK is sabotaging its own future by closing university courses in: Chemistry, Nursing, Physics, Modern Languages, Music Astronomy, Creative Arts, English, History, Classics A gutting of the disciplines that keep people alive, drive discovery & sustain any claim to culture
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Now fix the bloody toilets in Grand Central: it's just appalling how they're falling apart.
Harry Leach@HarrylLeach
Jul 3
Things you love to see birminghammail.co.uk/news/mi…

New Street station's iconic 'eyes' to return after blackout

Work is underway to switch the station's iconic 'eyes' back on after a three-year blackout

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Electric cars were not invented to save the planet, our lives or our cities. They were only invented to save the car industry. (🖼️ by Antonio Huerta)
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I have a stovetop Moka pot and I live in the JQ.
Ruth Millington@ruth_millington
Jul 3
Birmingham as coffee choices City centre: pods Bournville: cafetiere Stirchley: aeropress Moseley: stovetop Am I right? ☕️🫕
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Rob@carreg_y_defaid
Jun 9
So... for those not keeping score. He'll retain Shabana's racist, nativist nonsense. He'll retain Reeves' austerity economics. He'll retain Starmer's foreign policy positions. What exactly is the point of Andy Starmer (sorry, Burnham) becoming Prime Minister? No change at all.
The National
@ScotNational
Jun 9
Andy Burnham has pledged to make 'greater use' of migrant detention centres if he succeeds Keir Starmer as Prime Minister thenational.scot/news/261780…

Andy Burnham pledges to expand use of migrant detention centres if prime minister

ANDY Burnham has pledged to make “greater use” of migrant detention centres if he succeeds Keir Starmer as prime minister.

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Zack Polanski
@ZackPolanski
Jun 1
Shabana Mahmood, we’re told will get a senior position in an Andy Burnham government. She needs to explain this strange and worrying decision, and Andy Burnham needs to make his view clear.
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The UK's university system is about to collapse. Discuss.
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So mostly shit coffee and food options. When you think about all the great cafés and restaurants we have in Brum, and yet we see none of them on campus.
Simon J Dixon@WoodinRivers
May 27
University Birmingham now has its own station, a Wetherspoons, 3 Costas, a Starbucks, a subway, and no bookshop.
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Caroline Lucas@CarolineLucas
May 15
I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter dire threat of a Reform UK government theguardian.com/politics/202…

Greens suggest they will properly contest byelection, in blow to Burnham

Statement follows speculation party would not field candidate in Makerfield or barely fight seat

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JN@JonNeale
May 15
More prime ministers were educated at Mason College, the ancestor of Birmingham University, than any English university outside Oxbridge.
Ramin Nasibov
@RaminNasibov
May 12
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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Dr Gerald Roche@GJosephRoche
May 9
In contradiction to much popular wisdom, language loss is not an inevitable, spontaneous trend, caused by globalization, modernization, or technological progress. It is the outcome of deliberate policies and practices that aim to eliminate diversity. politicsrights.com/state-sov…

How State Sovereignty Fuels Language Loss: Lessons from Tibet

State sovereignty drives global language loss and fuels attacks on diversity, as shown through fieldwork in Tibet.

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Helen Russell@helengoth
May 13
A splash of colour in the grey! 🏳️‍🌈🌈#Birmingham
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There really is no need for the catastrophic redundancies hitting our university sector. The UK is an educational powerhouse and its resources are being squandered.
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Jo Grady
@DrJoGrady
May 12
Yesterday Keir Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel and save 2700 jobs. The Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities? Cities and towns will be devastated by these job losses.
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SAVE #BlackStudiesBCU @MyBCU has cut the MA Black Studies and Global Justice with NO notice or consultation AND targeted the 5 Black members of staff for potential risk of redundancy Read the open letter to the Board of Governors and add your name: change.org/Saveblackstudies

Sign the Petition

Save Black Studies at Birmingham City University

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Birmingham City University urged not to axe Black Studies MA and target 5 Black members of staff for redundancy. “In the US there is an attack on Black intellectual thought, in the UK there is so little in higher ed that the problem is erasure" theguardian.com/education/20…

Birmingham City University urged not to axe Black studies MA

More than 100 figures sign open letter criticising closure, just months after MA was launched

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