LIP Programme – Term 1, 2025/26 We’re excited to share the programme for this term. 🥰 📌 Abstracts and links to the talks will be shared one week ahead of the event. We welcome all researchers, students, and interested colleagues to join our sessions and engage with our community.

We're hosting Lavender Languages from 2-4 September 2026. Save the date! Plenaries and a formal announcement to be follow shortly...

Hi! Happy Monday! A little update on the CfP: It is now open to (a limited number of) posters! The guidelines are: - State in the form that it is a poster. - Abstract: 300 words (references included) - Individual or co-presented - Language: English or Spanish - Deadline: 21/11/2025

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

**CALL FOR PAPERS** Upcoming workshop at QMUL in January, looking at autism, focused interests, and communication across diverse contexts. How can we centre autistic interests as a strength rather than a symptom? Contributions outside academia welcome. Please share widely!

The CfA for the @cadaad2026.bsky.social conference at @uva-es.bsky.social is now open! The conference theme is "Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies." Dates: 8-10 July For more details on the conference: www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...

Featuring @jessaiston.bsky.social from the @mantrap.bsky.social team

12 more days to apply! Let us know if you have questions!

📢Join us on the IGALA Executive Committee! 📢 Nominations are open NOW for President-Elect, Secretary, Comms Officer or Treasurer. Apply before the end of Sep to help inform the shape and direction of the International Gender and Language Association. Just let me know if you have any questions!

We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid. The #CFP will be launched soon. We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information. Follow us there & help us spread the word! #CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies

Join us for the new season of online talks, this year co-organised by OSSO and the Digital Discourse & Interaction research network @lulind.bsky.social The first talk is already tomorrow! @nounfraze.bsky.social

After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

📣CADAAD book call!📣 We've taken a little break and we're refreshed (ish). If you've had a book published over the summer, please send the details over to [email protected] and we'll include it our next circular in a week or so.

📢 Season 2 of Writing Wrongs kicks off tomorrow! 📢 The first episode is a two-parter exploring the classic case of #DerekBentley. We're joined by Prof. Malcolm Coulthard whose analysis contributed to Derek's posthumous acquittal. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

In a new paper, Prof. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus & Dr Craig Evans presents the first comprehensive account of online grooming discourse. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TLDR 👇 #DRAGON #onlinegrooming #onlineharms #onlinesafety #childprotection #childsafeguarding

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

We are looking for a new secretary! our huge thanks go to @nounfraze.bsky.social who has been a wonderful secretary for many years! Info here⤵️

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online 🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pretty exciting delivery today - hard copies of my first book! 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐮𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐀 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Over 3000 signatures! ✨👊 Please keep signing and sharing our petition to stop mass redundancies at @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1 in 4 staff will lose their jobs in a year or less if plans go ahead. chng.it/4FDtZnfdGj

My Berkeley colleagues & I are saddened by the death of our colleague Robin Lakoff. Her 1972 book Language & Women's Place created the modern field of language & gender. She also wrote articulately, passionately & impactfully about Latin linguistics (Abstract Syntax & Latin Complementation, 1968) 1/

Excellent report by colleagues at @runnymedetrust.bsky.social on how racism underpins political and media language representations of immigration in the UK and how these, in turn, normalise hostile policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!

Temporary post at Nottingham - Teaching Associate in Applied LInguistics. Come and work with us in @uonenglish.bsky.social! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...

The Women and Equalities Select Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk has accepted our team's evidence as part of it's public enquiry into 'Misogyny: the manosphere and online content' Read our submission below committees.parliament.uk/work/9089/mi...

Element alert! I've had the pleasure of working with @paulari.bsky.social and Yufang Qian on evaluating automatic image tagging for multimodal corpora. It was a pleasure to collaborate and identify the associated challenges, e.g. What is an accurate newspaper image tag? What is a relevant one? [1/4]

Preparations for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse International Conference at Lancaster University are under way! We will be sharing information on dates for your calendars, plenary speakers, and the upcoming call for papers very soon. Follow here for updates, and please share widely! #CADS2026

Come work with us at Liverpool! @liverpooluni.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT935/l...

A huge "thank you" to those who participated in our event on Wed! @aimeebailey.bsky.social did a wonderful job to put everything together and chair it beautifully! We all made a lot of notes and we look forward to getting to know more about the research of our 4 invited speakers (see post below).

The online manosphere poses a real threat to society Our response published today in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I’m happy to see Prof @veronikakoller.bsky.social, Dr Jessica Aiston, Dr @alexiconartist.bsky.social & Dr Mark McGlashan challenging both Ofcom and The Guardian’s portrayal of the manosphere as benign. You can read their letter here: tinyurl.com/mtktjcrb

Lancaster University can't slash its workforce and still provide the same level of provision to students Our members at will fight these cuts www.ucu.org.uk/article/1406...

We are recruiting! An English linguistics professorship in Tampere (tenure track, open rank). Application deadline August 18 tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

For those of you who don't know, DMU is currently proposing mass redundancies, with nearly 100 academic staff 'at risk', sadly including me. It is absolutely brutal. Please spread the word about this protest rally happening next week in Leicester and come and support us if you're able. #DefendDMU

Important work by the brilliant Craig & Fiona about misogynistic & homophobic banter online. Contradicts Ofcom's consultancy company that said that most men have the appropriate critical thinking to not believe the manosphere. Maybe consult with academic experts?😉 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox MP was murdered by a far-right extremist while serving her constituents in Batley and Spen. Jo dedicated her life to building a fairer, more compassionate society, and her belief that “we have more in common than that which divides us” continues to resonate.

"[MGTOW] been described as misogynistic, but Ofcom’s interviewees insisted it was not because it was about choosing to live without women, not hating them." Fun fact: there is rather a lot of woman hating source: I literally wrote a book about this group

When your team's work - based on six years of research - gets cited but the core message is ignored, because 38 men say it's no big deal 😡 @mantrap.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Lancaster Summer Schools kick off next week — we are all excited! 🎉 Watch this space for links to public lectures throughout the week. A true highlight of the year for corpus linguistics! #LancsSS25 #CorpusLinguistics

JOB! The Dept of Communications and Media are advertising a fixed term one-year lecturer in MEDIA and POLITICS! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...

📢 We're #hiring! 🚨 Join us at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social as a #Lecturer in #Linguistics & #TESOL (.6 FTE, grade 7, 2-year fixed term), and become part of our Centre for #Language & #SocialJustice #Research! Apply by 15 June: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNF488/l... Questions? [email protected] 📧

New article out, with @alicedeignan.bsky.social‪‬, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes! Rhetorical moves in teachers’ PowerPoint presentations: Variation across disciplines and school stages: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #openaccess

We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...

🤩 New week, new CADAAD Journal Special Issue! 🤩 “Power relations in digitally-mediated communication: Exploring inequalities, discrimination, and new forms of injustice”, edited by Marina Niceforo, Francesco Nacchia and Sole Alba Zollo. ➡️ Open Access: ugp.rug.nl/cadaad/issue...

📢 Come work with us 📢 We're recruiting a new Research Assistant to work alongside @drniccimacleod.bsky.social on her project Talking Rape: Operation Soteria and the Police Interview, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship 👇 jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Happy to share the rarest of things these days: an ad for a permanent full-time lectureship in linguistics: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in Language Teaching and Technology.

Hey there! Just a heads up about June 3 online event 'Beyond the Manosphere: Exploring the Wider Phenomenon of Male-Centred Online Communities' featuring @debbieging.bsky.social, @craighaslop.bsky.social, Saba Hussain & @joshuathorburn.bsky.social! Register now! www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/fron...

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...