Professional linguist, amateur human. I want to understand what people mean and how. She/her
Joined October 2016
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Alice Gaby retweeted
Almost all research on the mind is in English. That’s a problem @blasi_lang @leraboroditsky @ev_fedorenko wired.co.uk/article/language…
excited to read every word of this special issue!
In time for #CogSci2023, thrilled to announce a special issue devoted to the "Conceptual Foundations of Sustainability" @cogsci_soc This emerged from a symposium at #CogSci2021 with @Barbara_Malt onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Alice Gaby retweeted
What can we do?
See our list of potential solutions (infographic below) and this piece (doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-0…).
We already know the answer – it’s just a matter of individuals, institutions, journals, funders and conferences having the will to implement these solutions.
5/9
Alice Gaby retweeted
Is this their own problem?
NO - it's everyone's problem because
Ethnic diversity = higher scientific innovation/impact (doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378…; doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-0…)
Science by non-native English speakers is crucial for tackling global challenges (doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…)
3/9
I have only ever written about or presented my research in English, my first language. It is such a massive(ly unfair) advantage to be able to do so, and to engage with scholars around the world through this medium with so little effort on my part
How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences.
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…
1/9
Alice Gaby retweeted
But I don't like the idea of google giving one answer when it can see certain info about who I am, and a different answer when it can't, to a scientific question where there is definite consensus.
Alice Gaby retweeted
Sharing my recent Guest Lecture hosted by the University of Bayreuth, Germany
African Languages and African Studies-Theories, Debates and Controversies youtube.com/live/btdFs5rT5v4… via @YouTube
This looks like a brilliant project and a fantastic opportunity!
We've advertised a postdoc position on our project Indigenous Language Resilience: From learners to speakers (SPEAKERS) hf.uio.no/multiling/english/… #isb14 colleague, please share jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
Alice Gaby retweeted
Where do questions come from, how are they framed, whose interests do they reflect, what purpose do they fulfill, what knowledge do they contribute to, what’s their accountability back to communities? Important Qs re research sovereignty from Linda Tuhiwai Smith #Lowitja2023
"she danced past every bullet and kept running, wild, into the wind of life" -- Nick Evans
theage.com.au/national/austr…
Alice Gaby retweeted
New book, Forensic Linguistics in Australia, by Diana Eades: Helen Fraser and @HeydonFL out now. Free PDF download until June 17!
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/languag…
acknowledging students' life experience & promoting growth mindset does "little to address structural sources of exclusion, such as academic inequities and disadvantages in resources like time"
Very excited to share this article I coauthored with my friends and colleagues Jesse Cordes Selbin and Sarah Macdonald in @Teaching_Soc for a special issue focused on First-generation and Working-Class (FGWC) students!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Hi, hello! If you've been wondering what I've been up to this month:
May 1:🚲heading off to give a talk at Melb Uni. Excited to meet CogSci colleagues and talk about stuff that has been niggling at the back of my mind, but outside my usual presentation topics
ALT picture of Alice's masked face in a hospital bed
So I've been offline. Enduring. Staring at the ceiling fan (unlike boy genius at least I do know why I am the way I am)