And so #CADS2026 comes to an end. We had 4 plenaries, 99 papers, 18 posters and 150 delegates. Thank you from all of us to everyone who came and made it so special ❤️🩶

Final plenary at #CADS2026: Brian King takes us on a delightful journey through our history of analysing interaction in online corpora, with a look towards the future (also I learnt a new word: "vicennial")

Our final preparations are underway and we are very excited to welcome everyone to sunny Lancaster for the conference tomorrow! #CADS2026

If you missed the latest webinar 'From Simulation to Clinic: Building Communication Competence Among Health Science Students' by Jennifer Watermeyer, Megan Scott, Nancy Barber and Rhona Nattrass, fear not! You can watch the recording of the webinar on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF2z...

Free symposium: 30 Years of Keyness Talks from: · Mike Scott · @tonymcenery.bsky.social · @michamahlberg.bsky.social & @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · @issyclarke.bsky.social · @markmcglashan.com 📅 22/06/2026, 10:00 (UTC+0) 🌍 @sotauol.bsky.social ➡️ Register: www.ticketsource.com/school-of-th...

For those of you who attended our webinar on May 7th (and anyone else interested!) Our speaker, Dr. Tamsin Parnell, was unfortunately unable to deliver her talk on reporting around AI psychosis. However, she has very kindly made her slides available here 👇 Thank you @tamsinparnell.bsky.social!

We're delighted to share Prof. Watermeyer and colleagues' upcoming webinar, 'From Simulation to Clinic: Building Communication Competence Among Health Science Students' 18 June 2026 13:00 – 14:30 SAST Info: ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/ Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f85aae...

📣 Our 2026 webinar series 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬𝘀 is here! 🗓️ Events will take place on the 7th, 14th and 21st May @ 12:00-13:30 (UK time) 📌 Programme, registration details and book of abstracts: baalhealthsci.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/2...

Out now: 'Dementia, Death and Discourse', chapter with @emma-putland.bsky.social in Handbook of Language and Death, ed. by @dgalasinski.bsky.social & Justyna Ziółkowska. See OA pre-print below, and make sure to look up the rest of the volume! @sosslancaster.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Our team, @emma-putland.bsky.social and @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, have a new chapter out! 'Dementia, Death and Discourse' in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Death, ed. by D. Galasinski and J. Ziólkowska. The chapter pre-print is available #openaccess here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...

Great news they are extending the deadline. I've presented as BAAL Health & Science SIG and each time it's been a very warm and welcoming environment, that encourages the sharing of ideas. Good first conference to present at for #GraduateStudents and it's online!

‼️ Deadline Extension ‼️ The deadline to submit abstracts for our 2026 webinar has now been extended to Monday, March 9th @ 5pm We’d love to hear from you!

Out now: 'Critical Discourse Studies and Health Communication'. Chapter in Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies, ed. by B. Forchtner and F. Zappettini. Honoured to publish in this book alongside many whose work has inspired me. Chapter pre-print #openaccess here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...

Interested in what different members of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) are working on? Today we're putting the spotlight on Professor May O. Lwin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): ic4ch.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/s...

Registration for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse Conference is now... open! Please follow the link below to register, and do so by 5th April to get the early bird price! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/reg... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social

In 2026, our CASS Summer Schools offer two free-to-attend courses in corpus linguistics, focused on Language, Discourse and Society, and Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment. Applications are now open! wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer... #LancsSS26

Out now: 'What is good care, and who is it good for? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK care home websites'. Chapter led by @emma-putland.bsky.social with Kevin Harvey in the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han.... Accepted version in original post below!

Our team, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and @emma-putland.bsky.social, have a new chapter with Kevin Harvey! 'What is good care, and who is it good for? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK care home websites' Interested? You can read the author copy here wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...

Applications for the free-to-attend 2026 CASS Summer Schools are now open! Intensive, expert-led training in corpus linguistics. No course fees (travel and accommodation are self-funded) #LancsSS26 Apply via the CASS website: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...

📣 Reminder! 👇 Just 3 weeks to go until the deadline for our 2026 online webinar. We look forward to seeing your submissions!

👇Exciting opportunity for a postdoc position at Queen Mary, University of London. This project is situated at the intersection of digital linguistics, visual studies, and critical autism studies.

Call for Papers for our 2026 webinar: ‘Key Health and Science Communication Challenges in the 2020s’ We’re delighted to share the cfp for our upcoming event. If you’re considering submitting, we’d love to hear from you. The deadline for submission is 5pm, February 9th 2026. wp.me/pcqSKn-dv

I'm delighted to share that my book is out and available to read online for free! Thank you to the many people who either participated in my research or supported me to do it 😊 Book page: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/navigatin... Free online access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Out now: 'A Critical Discourse Analysis of AI-Generated Character Descriptions of Men and Women With Dementia', with Chris Chikodzore-Paterson and @gavinbrookes.bsky.social: 📑Journal article: utppublishing.com/doi/epdf/10.... 📝Author copy (open access): eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

Out now: 'Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social @emma-putland.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. Features 11 chapters using corpora to explore medical discourse over four centuries! www.routledge.com/Historical-M...

@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...