Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri)
@AdamCSchembri
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Easily-distracted Australian professor of linguistics @UniBirmingham, UK.Hearing person interested in sign languages.Opinions my own.He/him.🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Birmingham, England
Joined September 2011
We aim too low. I feel like Brum sees Manc as the opposition whereas Manc looks straight past us and sees itself in competition with London. :-(
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Although autistic people have long been asking for greater acceptance and justice, I'd like to thank the good folks at Stanford University for ignoring all of that and curing mouse autism instead. https://t.co/av96so9tvk
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Stanford scientists reversed autism-like symptoms in mice using an experimental epilepsy drug, offering new hope for autism research.
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The Deaf community in Jamaica is working to recover from the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa. If you'd like to support, please share and/or donate. International donations can be made by paypal, info on the flyer. 🤟
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Shove this up your stocking 🧦 It's the Gingerdread Bun!
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New old streets in Dresden. The city’s recreation of its traditional heart is utterly beyond the comprehension or imagination of most British planners, developers, architects or “heritage experts” & yet is profoundly popular, sustainable. It is the people who made this happen.
es ist geschafft! #Dresden hat nach 80 Jahren nun wieder eine vollständig bebaute Rampische Straße; die letzten Gerüste sind gefallen, Dank besonders an die Gesellschaft historischer Neumarkt e.V. - alle Häuser wurden erst nach 2006 gebaut; am Schluß des Videos die Frauenkirche
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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"AI-powered" automated sign language interpreting really is the new "sign language gloves."
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A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.
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Might have to start a petition for me and @jordanbhx to design the German Market going forward because this is ridiculous.
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This is horrid. Why would you ruin independent businesses in favour of the Christmas monstrosity - They'll have 2 months of this!? And that bottleneck, like WTF.
Might have to start a petition for me and @jordanbhx to design the German Market going forward because this is ridiculous.
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What if we rob the Louvre instead of trying for that big grant?
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The Greens appear to polling first - above Labour and Reform - among under 50s. Its one poll, but that is completely insane. The Greens.
Our latest Westminster voting intention (26-27 Oct) has Labour on their lowest figure ever recorded by YouGov, with the Greens on their highest Reform UK: 27% (+1 from 19-20 Oct) Labour: 17% (-3) Conservatives: 17% (=) Greens: 16% (+1) Lib Dems: 15% (=) SNP: 3% (-1)
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Our public spaces sold off for private profit
The worst thing about the Christmas markets and those in St Phillip’s, is that it removes all the public space for people to sit and congregate in the city centre.
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I was woken by Diwali fireworks at 3am! We have Guy Fawkes night coming up next month and it will start all over again. I wish the UK would ban personal use of fireworks like Australia did years ago…
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What Reiss said: this is sociopathic levels of bad planning.
Another year on the bounce with this stupid decision to take 3/4 of space away whilst inviting 1000s more people to the area 😂 Seriously who is behind this planning? I guess it has something to do with the Paradise area being privately owned?
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*fourth* year of asking.
Possibly my third year of asking. But *now* that this space is open and forms a coherent and continuous square, some of these market units should face outwards so as not to be antisocial neighbours. The market should feel like part of the city, not an enclave.
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Gotta love our public spaces being fenced off. 🙄🤷🏻♂️
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If they put in that bar that blocks most of the passage through to Chamberlain Square again, I may scream. It's the single most annoying thing about the Christmas markets...
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Fun fact: The new Elizabeth Metro line in London moved more people in 2024 than Highway 401, the busiest freeway in North America.
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Many cities in Britain want to build trams, but there's a problem: it takes way too long. Why? Mayors have to get planning approval from the DfT and lack the powers to self-fund via local taxes. Let's devolve the powers so Mayors can get on with it. https://t.co/s2dZRnIr4X
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The UK has fewer mass transit systems than other European countries. This paper, co-authored with the Centre for British Progress, argues that giving metro mayors the power to fund and approve new...
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