We've just advertised a 12-month research fellowship at Northumbria (a corpus-based diachronic project on words for 'yes' and 'no' in European languages) Please share with anybody you know who might be interested work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_... #linguistics #research #postdoc

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2026)! 📚 A year's subscription! 📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book! 📜 Guidelines at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf

I had a great time at English Grammar Day today ⁦https://northumbriaenglish.org/2025/07/07/english-grammar-day-2025/⁩ A great bunch of people and lots of good conversations about language, spelling, variation and change, attitudes, health communication, and grammar in schools

I'm looking forward to our Institute of Humanities research seminar research tomorrow! @joannagavins.bsky.social on the discourse of plastic packaging northumbriaenglish.org/2025/06/03/t...

Just two tickets left for our (me and Tony Williams) pint of science event on the 21st of May! (I'm not mentioning the outof) pintofscience.co.uk/event/scienc...

I'm looking forward to talking at @pintofscience inNewcastle again, this time with my @NorthumbriaUni colleague Tony Williams — only 8 tickets left! (it's a small room B--) pintofscience.co.uk/event/scienc...

I'm looking forward to our research seminar tomorrow! northumbriaenglish.org/2025/02/18/p...

Is language part of our cultural heritage? Join Professor Natalie Braber in our linguistics research seminar series on Wednesday 27 November to explore this and related questions northumbriaenglish.org/2024/11/25/l...

I'm looking forward to our Northumbria open day today — lots of blackbirds were chirping with excitement as I got up B--) I will be bringing back copies of @babelzine.bsky.social with me

What did Shakespeare sound like? I'm very much looking forward to the @Babelzine lecture tomorrow here at @NorthumbriaUni #Shakespeare #English #language #literature #drama www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

clearing has begun — I am at hame and on one end of the 'hotline'

I'm looking forward to the Northumbria and Newcastle postgraduate linguistics conference tomorrow — what a great job our students have done putting this together! northumbriaenglish.org/exploring-li... #linguistics #graduate #research

Come and see @lesley_jeffries talk on Poems, Prose and Politics in person or online at Northumbria tomorrow (28 February, 2pm UK time) northumbriaenglish.org/2024/02/27/p... #linguistics #literature ´poetry #prose #fiction

utterance of the week: ‘the roman empire IS my Roman Empire ’

postgraduate linguists! deadline extended for the newcastle and northumbria postgraduate conference — new deadline 29th February northumbriaenglish.org/exploring-li...

Naturally, I will be compiling a summary of the really useful tips and thoughts folk have shared with me as I've been asking for advice on teaching syntax this semester — it looks like this might become book-length B--)

A definite holiday highlight for me was reading Cole the Magnificent by Tony Williams — clever, playful, and lots to think about for anybody interested in storytelling, poetry, song, dis/narration, and life B--) www.saltpublishing.com/products/col...

I have my first acting job in ages today — it’s a top secret one . . .