@baal-health-sig.bsky.social are now looking for a SIG Secretary. This post offers a great opportunity to get involved with the linguistics health and science communication community, BAAL more broadly and to help steer the direction of the SIG. For info, please go to baalhealthsci.wordpress.com

Thank you to all contributors to this @corpussocialsci.bsky.social event: two days of thought-provoking presentations on different issues in health communication, using different methodologies and with data from Europe, Africa, Asia and the US. See you all at the next @ic4ch.bsky.social event!

"Since 1800, there’s been a sharp decline in nature-related words in English language books. It closely matches a simulation of nature–human interactions." A new piece in @grist.org by Kate Yoder, with some #ecolinguistics input from @repoole.bsky.social grist.org/language/nat...

As we enter day 2 of #baal2025, I'm reflecting on all of the thoughtful talks, plenaries and conversations from yesterday. Some of my personal highlights include:

Thank you so much to @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social for your summary and response to my talk at #baal2025 - there are some impressive speed typing skills on display there and it's really interesting to read your thoughts and experiment with a prompt that aims to avoid dementia stereotypes!

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

🚨 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

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

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!

It's less than two months until our 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care! 📆When: 11-12 September 2025 📍At: Lancaster University, UK (in person) or Microsoft Teams (free online) For more info and to register, see: ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

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

Really enjoying being part of the CASS Lancaster Summer Schools this week! It's great getting to meet so many fantastic people during a week dedicated to corpus linguistics! 😊✨️ #LancsSS25

Join us for our 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care! 📆When: 11-12 September 2025 📍At: Lancaster University, UK Early bird registration is open until June 15th registration.lancaster.ac.uk/Registration... More info: ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

Enjoyed giving a plenary talk at the CIRLAM conference today, and sharing work on generative AI, discourse and ideology with @emma-putland.bsky.social & Chris Chikodzore-Paterson. Great questions and discussion afterwards, too! @pubdiscdementia.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

📬Registration is now open for the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH)! 📆When: 11-12 September 2025 📍At: Lancaster University, UK For more event information (registration, programme, speakers, abstracts, etc.) see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

We have a new blog post! Here, @emma-putland.bsky.social, @fliss-slocombe.bsky.social, Hannah Thompson-Radford and @gavinbrookes.bsky.social explore how football, traumatic brain injury and dementia are represented in the British Press: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...

We now have a Bluesky account for the Public Discourses of Dementia project! Check out what we're doing, and what we've been up to, below! 👇 #dementia #appliedlinguistics #discourse #corpuslinguistics

Hello! At the Public Discourses of Dementia Project, we aim to identify and challenge stigma around #dementia by analysing how people and organisations communicate about the syndrome in public. You can find out more on our website: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco... and in this thread 😊

🎉Passed my viva yesterday!🎉

Day 1 of our @baal-health-sig.bsky.social event, supported by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. Were in-person @lancasteruni.bsky.social and you can register at our events page for the online broadcast link and watch along

We are really looking forward to the event today - some wonderful presentations ahead!! Welcome to Lancaster @lancslinguistics.bsky.social baalhealthsci.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/2...

Super-excited for our upcoming workshops: in person this Friday 21/3 @lancslinguistics.bsky.social and online on Tuesday 25/3. Plenaries by @elenasemino.bsky.social & @fmfederici.bsky.social + wonderful presentations! Please join us baalhealthsci.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/2...

Huge thanks to the event organisers, @emma-putland.bsky.social and @lukeccollins.bsky.social, for the opportunity! If you have time, you can watch both the session on March 21 and on March 25 (when I'll be presenting) online by registering here: forms.office.com/e/Ks0VihGXpc

Hello! The International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) is an international, interdisciplinary collaboration of leaders in the field of healthcare communication. You can find out more on our website ic4ch.wordpress.com and we've made a thread to introduce ourselves here, too 😊

A reminder that we are hosting the BAAL Health and Science Communication SIG event on the topic of Inequalities, inclusion and innovation Day 1: Friday 21 March, Lancaster University (hybrid) Day 2: Tuesday 25 March (online only) Registration is open and FREE: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Looking forward to welcoming both in person and online attendees to Lancaster for our 2025 health and science communication workshop series this March! We've got great speakers and fascinating topics lined up... For more information and to register, see: baalhealthsci.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/2...

We are delighted to announce that the applications for the free Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025 are now open! Join us this summer at @lancasteruni.bsky.social to learn more about corpora and their applications. 16-20 June 2025 More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...

New paper co-authored with @elenasemino.bsky.social in Language and Health: A linguistic analysis of female and male opening posts on an online forum dedicated to pain Open Access and available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

Out now and open access! ‘Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming’ with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1750... @uonenglish.bsky.social

Scott Parrott, Laura Cariola and I are editing a book series for the University of Exeter Press called "Language, Discourse, and Mental Health". We hope to further our understanding of mental health from a pluralistically informed linguistic perspective. Do you want to publish with us? Get in touch!