Glad my presentation on the construction of epistemic/spiritual authority in contemplative religious influencer discourse went well today 😊 Looking forward to the rest of the Symposium #lxgr2026 sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr202...

New paper on the 'gender pain gap' in Australian news coverage (Open Access): doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... #Health #Communication #CorpusLinguistics #CADS #SystemicFunctionalLings #news #Australia #ChronicPain

Nice to finally see this in print. New book chapter! 'Leuk: A little word (in Dutch) with great meaning.' Available from: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Wat een leuke verrassing! Many thanks to the editors 😊 #CorpusLinguistics #NSM #semantics #linguistics

Critically thinking about how to implement a so-called CLIL-approach to teaching critical thinking to international Master's students (from China) and which specific translanguaging strategies could best support them on their learning journeys (in Australia). Big question.

How great is the title of this book? My book chapter: 'Revisiting the Australian literacy wars: Authorial stance in shaping contemporary educational strategies.' Sneak peek ahead of publication. www.google.com.au/books/editio...

Only a few more weeks until SFLIG 2025! My paper, 'Corpus-based appraisal analysis: Merging machine learning and social semiotics to examine students’ emotional and evaluative responses to feedback,' has been accepted for publication in LANGCT 🎉 See: sflinterestgroup.com/announcement...

First presenter at LxGr 2025 today (9:30am BST, 6:30pm AEST for me). In case you'd be interested in the topic, the PPT slides will be made available soon. #CorpusLinguistics #SFL See: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/

Sociology, politics, gender major and more to be axed at Macquarie University. Please consider sharing and signing this petition. #HigherEd www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

#OTD 94 years ago, Ruqaiya Hasan (1931–2015) was born 🎉 In her research, she worked on a wide range of topics, including verbal art, semantic variation, sociolinguistics, and systemic functional grammar. #WomenInLinguitics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

TASA is deeply dismayed by Macquarie Uni’s proposed restructuring that would decimate sociology. The social sciences matter — they help us navigate a complex world. Our full statement & call to action here: www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id... #Sociology #HigherEd #SupportHASS

Preprint (currently under review). www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

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New OA paper: 'Appraising feedback stance in higher education: A corpus-assisted discourse study of student and academic perceptions, perspectives and preferences' Check out the interactive graphs 😊 #CorpusLinguistics #SystemicFunctionalLing #education #wiasn See: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The programme for the LxGr2025 Symposium (Edge Hill University, UK) is now available. Registration is free. #CorpusLinguistics #SFL sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/

SFLIG 2025 Submission due 30 April Submit now and don’t miss out, SFL colleagues! 👉 sflinterestgroup.com/announcement-a…

Mr Mags is turning 7 today! #cats #ragdolls

Calls: 10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar: LxGr2025: Call for Papers The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? Deadline for abstract submission: 4 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and…

Really enjoyed reading this new paper on DDL: #CorpusLinguistics

Highly recommended:

It doesn't do any good to say "let's get disabled people into employment" if at the very same time you're cutting the support that *keeps* disabled people in employment. Here's my letter to the Guardian about Labour's cuts to Access to Work funding: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why is Mr. Mags staring at the wall? One of life's many mysteries. #Caturday #Cats

Read that number again. Ten. THOUSAND.

Four UK universities announce plans to cut over 750 jobs www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u... - it'll probably be way more than 750 jobs once these cuts bite. And spread across the sector. Hard to stress how awful this is.

Please help us to save Modern Languages at Cardiff University: chng.it/Hmtvvdtptg

For anyone wanting to support colleagues at Cardiff University school of music chng.it/TrTsV9H46C

My latest paper explores influencers' and health professionals' stance towards #Menopause treatment on #SocialMedia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CorpusLinguistics #Linguistics #DigitalHumanities #SFL #Discourse #DiscourseAnalysis #DigitalHealth #Influencers #Misinformation #Health

My latest paper explores influencers' and health professionals' stance towards #Menopause treatment on #SocialMedia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CorpusLinguistics #Linguistics #DigitalHumanities #SFL #Discourse #DiscourseAnalysis #DigitalHealth #Influencers #Misinformation #Health

We are delighted to announce SFLIG 2025 and Call for Papers - Due 30 April 2025 Full information can be found at this link sflinterestgroup.com/announcement...