Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri)

not a fan of the 'rock star/rising star' terminology some people use to describe colleagues, and not just because I'm not in either category 🤣

Insanely infuriating that this massive station in one of the UKs most worst rail bottlenecks will be limited to handling only a few trains an hour because Rishi Sunak wanted to win a by-election… which he still lost. 🤬

Almost feel sorry for the haters who are trying to spin Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man is evidence of Islamist sectarianism 😂 In fact it’s evidence of genuine tolerance, rejection of superficial identity politics and ability to prioritise tackling common concerns of cost of living, protecting public services and rejecting war mongering. And the promotion of mutual respect and individual freedoms. The coming together of people is terrifying for the ruling elites.

I was explaining at dinner that linguists disagree radically about almost everything and one person said so what do they actually agree about? Just that languages exist? And I was like: Well you might want to sit down for this.

@alexandersclark 🤣

I cleaned toilets while studying at the University of Sydney, one of Australia’s most prestigious institutions. Why is this a BBC headline?

@adamnfurman @BhamColmore @LiveTheModaLife @BhamCityCouncil @gardnergareth It's lovely - it makes the walk through the tunnel a pleasure now (although we still need to ensure the space stays clean).

The ceramic Livery St Subway Mural that I designed in Birmingham, commissioned by @BhamColmore, @LiveTheModaLife & @BhamCityCouncil, project managed by Philip Singleton, video by @gardnergareth

Ironically Australians are shoes on in the house, and barefoot in the street! 🤣

I mean I've already left.

We need an LGBT boycott of Bannatyne's gyms.

New angles on old buildings. #Birmingham #BirminghamUK

The West Midlands, population circa 6 million, produced Shakespeare, Darwin, George Eliot, Tolkien, Elgar and Larkin, but no one thinks its inhabitants are uniquely gifted; in fact quite the opposite

@DeafProgrammer @MoundLore Plains Indian Sign Language - yes! Amazing old clip.

@MoundLore @AdamCSchembri Have you seen this old video clip of Indian Sign Language? I thought of you when I saw it.

Chief Iron Tail and Buffalo Bill

A-fucking-men.

The University of Birmingham is hiring through its 125th Anniversary Fellowships and Chairs scheme! birmingham.ac.uk/jobs/125th-ann…

This article (that I wrote) is good & I hope some linguists will read it. It's a reinterpretation of Krauss's influential 1992 paper 'The World's Languages in Crisis.' Here's a short quick thread with two key insights from the paper. scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/…

Neuroscience of language has a dilemma: how do we reconcile extensive patient and imaging evidence for **language-specific** processing with the fact that naturalistic language evokes extensive activity all over the brain? We propose a framework that accounts for both.

@sqstudios @brianpiehouse I wish - 10 years I’ve been living in the city centre and it hasn’t stopped 😂

@brianpiehouse While I do agree, could really do with like a one year pause on the city centre being a building site.

Would like to see this built on next please.