Gorse and bluebells shining and deer sightings in Borrowdale and Buttermere.

AI overemphasing Farage/Reform is a direct reflection of the overemphasis in mainstream news. I mean, where does AI source the materials that it churns?

Lancaster has won the Roses (an annual all sports event against York) for the fifth consecutive year! Huge congratulations to all competitors. youtu.be/tMKX73l1bdM?...

I think I found the perfect beer!

A great start for Lancaster in the Roses - probably the most important event in the university calendar!! Best of luck to all those competing (from York as well as Lancaster) over the coming days and at the weekend. www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/studen...

Some very wispy clouds above campus today. The view from my office window.

Check out some of Lancaster’s eateries with Only Scrans www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/business/pop...

Come and work with me! ICYMI: I'm advertising a fully funded PhD studentship at Aston in cognitive stylistics, starting in October 2026 Details are also now up on the university website --https://www.aston.ac.uk/study/courses/re-reading-wellbeing-phd/october-2026 Any questions, please get in touch

In a change from pictures of the Lake District, here’s a few photos of some classic Norfolk scenery taken over Easter.

Linguistics at Lancaster has been ranked 2nd in the QS world rankings! What a privilege it is to work in such an esteemed environment and what a joy and honour it is to work among all the wonderful people that make it such a great place. www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...

One of the many beautiful blossom trees to be found around @lancasteruni.bsky.social campus at this time of year.

Post-doc position at Basle :-) jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Similar. Dropped out of A-levels after two months. Dossed around for a couple of years before getting a place at my local uni (UEA). Always exceedingly grateful for the system that allowed non-traditional entry and to the admissions tutor who interviewed me and gave me a chance.

Barrow Fell with views of the Coledale Horseshoe at the weekend.

A selection of fascinating projects in CDA from my MA students.

A few views from a great scramble up Riggindale Ridge on a glorious day today.

Delighted that our article analysing the forms and functions of Trump’s shrug gestures has been nominated for the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division’s “Outstanding Journal Article of the Year” award. The article is published in Visual Communication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Just a couple more days before the submission deadline for this event.

CfP: The Language of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from Critical Discourse Analysis. Symposium organized at University of Warwick, UK. Submission deadline: 27th Feb. linguistlist.org/issues/37/345/

CfP: The Language of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from Critical Discourse Analysis. Symposium organized at University of Warwick, UK. Submission deadline: 27th Feb. linguistlist.org/issues/37/345/

Beautiful light over Ullswater on NYE. From Gowbarrow Fell.

Delighted to have contributed an article on Donald Trump’s pointing gestures to the latest issue of the amazing Babel Magazine.

Come and join us in Valladolid in July for the CADAAD conference Deadline is Monday 15th Dec.

🗣️📢LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🗣️📢 The final deadline for abstracts for CADAAD 2026 (Universidad de Valladolid) is DECEMBER 15th, 2025. There are still twelve days left for you to send your poster and presentation proposals. And remember: you'll be sad if you miss CADAAD 😉

Beautiful views from the top of Silver How on a crystal clear day today.

I did a lecture yesterday on time conceptualisation in different languages pointing to different axes and orientations of the mental timeline. A student very sensibly asked whether “reversed” mental timelines exist in any sign languages around the world. Does anybody know of any papers on this?

⌛One week left to submit panel proposals! 🗓️ And then two more to submit abstracts for papers and posters!! Do not miss the deadline... It's closing soon! #CADAAD2026 🔗 www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...

Views of Loughrigg Tarn on a low level walk.

Light Up Lancaster - spectacular.

New paper: delighted that this paper should be published while I happen to be at the multimodality conference in Groningen: doi.org/10.1177/0957...

Very excited to be arriving in Groningen for the International Conference on Multimodality. Such an amazing looking program. sites.google.com/rug.nl/12icom

Our study of Trump’s shrugging gestures features in the PsyPost with a nice summary from Eric Dolan: www.psypost.org/what-scienti...

Autumn colours in one of the many quads on campus.

New paper out in Visual Communication with Steve Strudwick (open access). Taking a stance through stance: The forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump. doi.org/10.1177/1470...

Incredible temperature inversion seen from the top of Fairfield.

Views from the Fairfield horseshoe on a lovely autumn day.

It’s been a while since I posted a pic of this fabulous boy so here he is today. Milo the cat.

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...

Two reviews in two days! Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics reviewed by Lili Gui and Shaohua Wang in the Journal of Language and Politics: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Thanks to Matthew Voice for this lovely review of Language, Image, Gesture just out in Discourse & Society. Captures perfectly what I was trying to achieve in the book. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Attention young linguists! @BabelZine.bsky.social is running their 11th-annual Young Writer’s Competition! If you’d like to get your writing published in Babel and win a free year’s subscription, consider submitting your work! Submission details below.

New linguistics meme dropped

If you're interested in sociolinguistics, mining communities, and can speak German, this will be fascinating and is a great opportunity: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Stunning colours on Place Fell today as autumn dawns.

Save the date! We'll be hosting an A Level English Language Student Conference at Friends House, London, on 27th November! Booking opens 17th September, and keep an eye on our website for more details: buff.ly/Xka0Qu9

Which newspapers get talked about in UK parliament debates you (didn't) ask? Well, these ones. The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so. Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open

🚨 CfP open! ❓Are you a young researcher in Cognitive Linguistics? ➡️Present your work at the "4th International Conference for Young Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics", hosted by @uco.es online. 📝Deadline: Sept 1, 2025 🎤Four plenary speakers 🗓️Dec 10-12, 2025 eventos.uco.es/132298/detai...

Needed to take my daughter into work for a short time today so while there our amazing @phoneticslab.bsky.social let her ultrasound her tongue! She thought it was very, very cool.

Turned off the England-Sweden match last night around 65 minutes! What a terrible mistake! 🤦‍♂️

Loving the ‘catch box’ mic at #cl2025. Hoping to see some impressive lobs to back of the hall!