#today at the Open Research Group: #LancsBox and Corpus linguistics tools in the age of AI ⌛️ 12.00-12.50pm UK time teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

📊 Statistics in Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide—now available in Mandarin Chinese 🇨🇳 and Korean 🇰🇷! It could be a great summer read to explore at your own pace. #CorpusLinguistics #Statistics @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Missed the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics? 🎓 Catch up with free lecture recordings from #LancsSS25 here 👉 cass.lancs.ac.uk/free-lancast... #CorpusLinguistics #FreeLectures @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Great to represent @lancslinguistics.bsky.social and give a Darwin College lecture at the University of Cambridge this evening on Polari. Among others, the series has hosted Mary Beard, Desmond Tutu, David Crystal, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking and Sandy Toksvig. It was a bona nochy.

My recent Darwin College lecture at the University of Cambridge on Polari is now available on YouTube eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Very proud that my department (Linguistics and English Language) is placed 3rd in the world for a second year www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...

A great week at the Lancaster University Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. I think this is the 15th year I've taught on it.

📊MORNING RECAP: Some standout moments from @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social ‘s talk on the visualization of corpus data and practical session using the Lancaster Stats Tool online! #LancsSS25

🧑‍💻An afternoon at #LancsSS25 ! With a talk from @danagablas.bsky.social on analysing and describing L2 production and a practical session from Dr. Andrew Hardie using CQPweb

🚶📸Some snapshots from the Lancaster Walk yesterday afternoon! Highlights included Lancaster Castle, Lancaster Priory and J.L. Austin’s birthplace! #LancsSS25

‼️TODAY’S LIVESTREAMED LECTURE: Prof. Vaclav Brezina discusses the underlying principles of collocations—word combinations that occur together more frequently than by chance. #LancsSS25 🕥10:30-11:30am 🔗 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

🚀 #LancsBox X 5.5.0 is here! The latest version of the powerful, free software tool for the analysis of large language datasets is now available. 📌TODAY AT 12:35 🔗LIVESTREAM OF THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

🔴STARTING NOW: Drawing on insights from corpus linguistics, @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social demonstrates how collocations can be effectively identified, analysed, and visualised using corpus tools and techniques. #LancsSS25

🧬 @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social demonstrates the corpus linguistic phenomenon of collocation using a molecular structure. #LancsSS25

🚀 #LancsBox X 5.5.0 is here! #LancsBox X 5.5.0 introduces cool new features including: 🖍️Colour annotation of concordance lines 📝Metadata highlighting in texts and concordances 🗂️Advanced filtering options ...and much more 👉 Download now: lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk

💥An action-packed morning at #LancsSS25 ! With talks from @tinekebrunfaut.bsky.social , @issyclarke.bsky.social , @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social , a practical session on collocations and the launch of #Lancsbox X 5.5.0!

👋The week has finally drawn to a close at #LancsSS25 ! Thank you to all our participants, speakers and helpers!

@vaclavbrezina.bsky.social shows us another fascinating object related to today’s talk on data visualization in corpus linguistics!💡#LancsSS25 🔗Join via the link to find out more: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

🌤️Welcome to Day 3 of #LancsSS25 ! Coming up today: sessions from Dr Raffaella Bottini, @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social , @danagablas.bsky.social and Dr Andrew Hardie, as well as our Lancaster Walk!

🕰️Prof. @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social introduces two interesting objects relevant to our lectures today on corpus building and statistics! #LancsSS25 🎦Join the livestreams to find out more!

Live streamed lectures available from 16 June... cass.lancs.ac.uk/free-online-...

🚨 Join us for our next webinar in the @LancasterUni series on online MA & PG Cert programmes in Corpus Linguistics! 📢 Corpus Linguistics and AI: Challenges and Opportunities 📅 11 June | 🕙 10–11am (UK time) 👉 Register: forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF #AI #CorpusLinguistics #Future

We are very excited that Samuel Schmück has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a great project on speech analytics and under-represented language varieties in speech technology. Many congratulations Sam! @samschmueck.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

Some excellent news! Come and join us and study Corpus linguistics @lancasteruni.bsky.social We offer flexible (Online) programmes and we are recruiting right now! www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/...

Today at the @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Open Research Group: Corpus Linguistics & AI – which professions will survive and which will be replaced? We compared Hamlet's "To be or not to be..." performed by an AI bot vs. a great Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh. 🎭 Can you tell the difference?

A great meeting with the amazing #LancsSS25 volunteers today — full of enthusiasm and positive energy! Lancaster, hurrah! 🙌🎓✨

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

📢 Read our latest blog post about a recent visit from the Consul General of the Czech Republic to @corpussocialsci.bsky.social ! From @lancasteruni.bsky.social 's early contributions to corpus linguistics to cutting-edge analysis of policy documents. t.co/Fowug85S42

Lots of ways to celebrate matariki this year. Ria Hall with the Philharmonia is gonna be amazing! aucklandphil.nz/concert/mata...

2-yrs full-time #postdoc position in #digitalhumanities and #oldnorse in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social open for applications - there were some issues with the pdf circular, so I published the text on my blog. Please circulate widely. www.kakapitan.com/post/postdoc...

I have written a piece for @theconversationuk.bsky.social about our study on a new form of vaccine scepticism: people questioning the status of some vaccines as vaccines, starting during the pandemic theconversation.com/its-not-a-va... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

📚 Flicking through Johnson’s Dictionary on its 270th anniversary while finalising a Frequency Dictionary of Multi-Word Expressions It took Johnson 9 years to complete his — hopefully the frequency volume emerges a bit faster @lancasteruni.bsky.social @corpussocialsci.bsky.social #270YearsOfJohnson

🚨 A blogpost by Adrian Hemler: how an MA in Corpus Linguistics from @lancasteruni.bsky.social helped shape a cutting-edge legal research career. 📚⚖️ From semantic precision to real-world legal applications—ideal for high-flyers in law, language & data. 👉 cass.lancs.ac.uk/corpus-lingu...

🚀 Curious about the future of Corpus Linguistics and #AI? Check out this position paper: Corpus Linguistics and AI: #LancsBox X in the Context of Emerging Technologies (2025) published in International Journal of Language Studies. 📖 drive.google.com/file/d/1nBbP...

Join us today 12pm UK time for our first session in the Summer Term to discuss #CorpusLinguistics and #AI Free registration: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

[email protected] is offering a series of informal meetings to explore key issues in corpus linguistics. 🤖 How Not to Be Replaced by #AI: Corpus Linguistics Reflections 🗓️ Starts: 14 May, 12pm (UK time) 🔗 Register now: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka

✨ Ad fontes! The Prague School 🎓 played a key role in linguistic functionalism ✒️. Their 1929 theses 📜 laid the groundwork for analysing language as a structured system 🔄 with meaningful functions 🎯. #Linguistics #Functionalism #PragueSchool

Today 12pm UK time: A discussion about #repetition and #replication in #corpus #linguistics. @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Open research group (online and in person): cass.lancs.ac.uk/open-advance... Everybody is welcome.

📢 Join us for another webinar in our series on MA & PG Cert programmes in Corpus Linguistics @lancasteruni.bsky.social We'll explore explore #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities🔍📊 2 April 2-3pm UK time. Register: forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF

We have an opening for a post-doc in English linguistics starting on the first of August this year (please repost) jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Between #naturalism and #conventionalism: 1. How does language differ from a stone? 2. How does what a linguist does differ from what a geologist does? @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Open research group meeting. 🕛Today 12pm Everybody is welcome forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka

Institutions and Traditions of #Languages #Corpora can facilitate the study of these. 🤔Find out how. cass.lancs.ac.uk

New paper from Questioning Vaccination Discourse project (Quo VaDis www.lancaster.ac.uk/vaccination-... ) in Vaccine X: "It's a shot, not a vaccine like MMR": A new type of vaccine-specific scepticism on Twitter/X during the COVID-19 pandemic. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Save the date! On 11-12 September 2025, we are hosting the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) at Lancaster University. We hope you will join us! For more information, see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

I always say that every project needs a linguist. Today I'm the linguist at the launch of the EU-funded PROACT-EU RESPONSE project in Paris - on pandemic preparedness in Europe. Lancaster's role is to study attitudes towards clinical trials via corpus methods. www.eu-patient.eu/projects/ong...

New open access paper by Questioning Vaccination Discourse (Quo VaDis) project team (www.lancaster.ac.uk/vaccination-...) on expressions of #vaccine #indecision on a parenting forum. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My study of pointing gestures in the spoken performance of Trump has been picked by @psypost.bsky.social. You can read Eric Dolan's excellent piece on the research here: www.psypost.org/the-power-of...

Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster: 'The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations.' Open to applicants with a background in Linguistics as well as Psychology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Great audience today @ Xi'an Jiaotong University #CorpusLinguistics Masterclass ❓Does frequency matter? ❓How to interpret #corpus data? ❓What is the future of data-driven learning? @tonymcenery.bsky.social

I suppose one way to start here is to share a new publication. Here it goes: '‘I am still unsure’ - Spontaneous expressions of vaccine indecision on Mumsnet' with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @elenasemino.bsky.social @williamdance.bsky.social @drclaireh.bsky.social et al. #healthcomm #vaccinations