If you're interested in AI and Linguistics, there's still time to register for @niallrcurry.bsky.social's MCRL seminar tomorrow (online and F2F) at 3pm where he will be talking about his @ukri.org metascience Fellowship on GenAI in the disciplines! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/genai-in-t...

As @derekbousfield.bsky.social moves on to be the new Doctoral College Faculty Head, we are delighted to have @niallrcurry.bsky.social joining @khawlabadwan.bsky.social as our research group co-lead.

📃 new open access 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @carlosordonana.bsky.social on Critical AI Literacies for Applied Linguistics & Language Education, in the Journal of China CALL. Find the paper here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... & details in🧵⬇️ @um.es @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

Our closing panel @robdrummond.bsky.social Dawn Archer, @khawlabadwan.bsky.social discussed The Future of Linguistics Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

And rounding out our final session @derekbousfield.bsky.social Pragmatics in contested interpretation: varied audiences, implicatures, inferences "Interpretation is a fickle beast"

Rachel Hatchard Linguistic (usage-based) analyses of language in aphasia ...challenging a rule-based generative approach Linguistic theory informs our understanding of language disorders Studying language disorders can challenge our Linguistic theory

Piotr Jagodzinski kicking off our final session - Autistic unmasking and (im)politeness on and off the TV screen A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules

. @pjagodz kicking off our final session - Autistic unmasking and (im)politeness on and off the TV screen A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules

We now have a session with a selection of our MA students, PhD students, and visiting scholars. Slightly shorter talks but we'll give some spotlights here

Please take your time, language in ruins, a ship that has experienced a catastrophic shipwreck @khawlabadwan.bsky.social

continuing the variation theme, John Bellamy is documenting 'pit talk' across the UK - language as cultural heritage

Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE @caitlin91.bsky.social

. @niallrcurry.bsky.social on Generative AI in research...it's not a question of whether but how, the horse has bolted. Now we can reflect on what we've learned so far and how to go forward

. @k8ebrown.bsky.social asking how we define mainstream Who would you answer with if asked for a mainstream music artist? (not a rhetorical question)

We are go... ...huge thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social (1) and @k8ebrown.bsky.social (2) for setting this all up and @khawlabadwan.bsky.social for keeping us all both in line practically and looking at the big picture of looking after language @caitlin91.bsky.social on skeeting duty today.

Today is the day! We're excited to share what our members have been up to this year.

🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

Enjoying @khawlabadwan.bsky.social's talk on unthinking language and decentering traditional views of 'mastery' in language learning contexts @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

Having a great time at the annual NATESOL conference and honoured to have given the opening plenary. I talked about corpus linguistics and language learners with a focus on developments in AI and critical AI and corpus literacies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

Come join us in Manchester @manmetuni.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social for a day of linguistics research on May 28th! The event is free, lunch is provided, and there are still a few days left to register!

A day full of #Linguistics in #Action. Please join us and explore the exciting breadth and possibilities that linguistics research enables

MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what @manmetuni.bsky.social's #linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linguistic...