I'll take that! Happy New Year 🎉

Pleased to be interviewed for this much needed piece on the rising transphobia in higher education. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s... (Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)

🗣️📢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 😉

Good news indeed!

Just published: an article on pronoun specification in email signatures in German, using the University of Hamburg as an example. I examine how and which pronouns are specified and how participants comment on their rejection, non-usage, and usage.

Oh my goodness, it gets earlier every year. The Word of the Year thread starts here with the 2025 German Youth WotY: das crazy uk.news.yahoo.com/das-crazy-vo...

This path leads to chaos.

It's on Linguist List so I guess it's official....Language & LGBTQ+ Youth is out now!! 🎉 📚

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

So delighted to be in Leeds for Professor Julia Snell's @snelljulia.bsky.social inaugural lecture! 👏

Join us at @uonenglish.bsky.social on 9th December for a talk by @elenasemino.bsky.social on Metaphors and Narratives in Health Communication! Register here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even...

Students fight 'insane' cull of University of Nottingham courses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”

'On 29 October, Research England revealed that a shake-up in the purpose of HEIF will see the programme—which distributes £280 million annually towards knowledge exchange activities in universities—narrow its funding focus towards activities that can be proven to drive economic growth.' 1/3

So good to see #LavLang32 being shared so widely! Join us for the annual Queer Linguistics conference, which in 2026 travels to Scotland for the first time thanks to @christianilbury.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

Just published! Another fantastic new Element in the Cambridge Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality series written by Beth Malory which explores an extremely timely and important topic. Freely available to access online for the next two weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Postdoc in #sociolinguistics jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Yesterday I had an emotional conversation on the phone with Arteja. She was trafficked into this country and terrible exploited by gangs before finding safety and community in Liverpool. Now she’s been detained and is set to be deported back into the hands of those who caused her so much trauma.

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives" “Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

This is utterly horrifying. At the same time, we've had a national GOP that has implied these things, without saying them outright, for decades. That has done every hateful thing possible to every minority group, to make us second class citizens. This is what happens next, in their worldview.

I gave a keynote on accent bias and social mobility at the ABI (Assoc. of British Insurers) last week. Alongside my keynote, they invited me to write a blog post on our work which you can now read below: www.abi.org.uk/news/blog-ar...

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

🏳️‍⚧️ Every UK GIC's waiting list times, based on painstaking FOIs and research, are now available as part of our new investigation. Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life, and some will never receive care. Understand why: 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Fear-based narratives around autism don't protect autistic people they dehumanize us. When autism is framed as a tragedy, we are treated like tragedies. That hurts. It isolates. It kills. We need understanding, not fear.

Follow up announcement: IGALA is now on Bluesky! 🎉 @igala.bsky.social

IGALA is on Bluesky & Instagram (IGALA_insta) now! Help us grow online and off by following AND nominating yourself or a colleague for an executive board position 🙃

📢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!

"Foreign-born UK residents are much more likely to be of working age than the UK-born — and thus less of a fiscal burden. They tend to be healthier than the UK-born, and are much more likely to have a university degree. 75% have lived in the UK for more than 5 years and 90% speak good English."

Over the past two weeks I've only assigned articles written by women in one of my classes and the amount of he/him's I get on homeworks when referring to the paper author is Too High

Education is the enemy of fascism.

A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

👇🎯 Quite literally, the published course descriptions at most universities are <decades> old & incredibly generic because the course has been taught by dozens of different professors over many years & stop it, this is not serious behavior from Texas A&M leaders & we don't need to pretend that it is.

If I've understood this correctly, an academic at a Texas university & two of her managers have been fired because course content deviated from what was advertised. But specifically, according to this article, because she taught LGBTQ content. This is terrifying. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

This is disgusting. No surprise from the Mail, but still. Utterly disgusting.

For info on how to become the BAAL SIG new secretary see here ⤵️ #BAAL2025

Looking forward to the Language, Gender and Sexuality SIG @lgas-baal.bsky.social session today at #BAAL2025! baalgensex.wordpress.com

Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.

This was an excellent panel - couldn't be more timely in thinking about how we can be both activists and a academics #BAAL2025

Fantastic and fascinating talk on the reductive, limited representations of dementia in generative AI from @uonenglish.bsky.social alumnus @emma-putland.bsky.social #BAAL2025

Oops - should've included #BAAL2025

Fantastic plenary by Kamran Khan this morning - and a really good summary from Stephen here!

To reiterate; This is how the Guardian describes a tweet that advocates assaulting trans women; “Posts on transgender issues”

NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City. Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.

Meanwhile, over the pond, the White House proudly announces the cutting of "initiatives that are antithetical to American values" such as those tackling "climate change (...), LGBTQ activities, and other projects (...) that are of no value to American taxpayers” www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...