Research to action timelines are rarely linear, Pharos involves sequences of both, informing and enriching each other.

Please pray for Rohingya

Buthidaung & Maungdaw are v impt in the history of struggle for Rohingya people’s rights. It sadly looks like the next chapter being written will be another terrible instalment. Australia’s fmr Foreign Minister takes up UN Special Rapporteur for Myanmar in June: do something!

LaetitiavandenAssum SAC junta leader Gen. Min Aung Hlaing is part of the problem, not part of the solution. The only thing that should be discussed with him is his accountability for the massive rights abuses the military have inflicted on Burmese civilians at his direction. #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar

Australia has much at stake in securing a robust China knowledge capability. 🇦🇺 produces 4th highest volume of English-language research on 🇨🇳. Pleasure to talk to Professors Joseph Lo Bianco & Louise Edwards about the 2023 report by Australian Academy of the Humanities - relevant findings for 🇫🇮 too.

Super ironic that sign languages, so admired for their beauty and expressiveness and used to hot house the linguistic development of hearing kids, are dismissed and devalued by health professionals and educators, and seen only as languages of last resort for deaf children.

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Il ‘politicamente corretto’ ha “stancato” 3 persone su 5. 🤣 gay.it/per-il-54-degl…

A marzo l’Università di Trento ha annunciato la scelta di stilare il proprio Regolamento usando solo il genere femminile per indicare tutte le funzioni professionali. Claudio Marazzini commenta in questa scheda l'uso del cosiddetto 'femminile sovraesteso': bit.ly/femminile_sovr…

There is a patriotic pride in telling people Burmese is a language of its own and not related to Chinese or Thai (and a unique writing system on top of that). No mutual intelligibility. None. How does it even happen historically and geographically?

It's not a detail. It's the story.

When you are writing about language rights violations, you need to understand and report on what languages people speak so you can communicate whose rights are being violated, and how they're being violated. It's not a detail. It's the story.

Lots of good reading.

Update on the destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas, with some (seemingly remote) prospects for their reconstruction.

“The perverse principles of the 1970s that powered the tech titans have left us with a world where the richest 1% own nearly two-thirds of its wealth” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Our Academies (Hum & Soc Sci) are collaborating on a symposium on academic freedom in Nov (great to be working w Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social on this). Will explore concept, scope, current cases of restricted rights in Aust & Asia, and solidarity to scholars struggling against such attacks.

One of the many good things about living in Australia is if you can’t sleep at night you can watch the amazing Tadej Pogačar win stage 8 of the Giro in the beautiful mountains of Abruzzo.

Lil bro, why don’t you do your homework?

Part of community language revival is working with the media to shift their reporting into a more informed, more positive, more supportive direction. That’s what we are doing with Pharos this afternoon.

On the disturbing rise of anti-black racism in North Africa.