On some days, I am reminded that my work matters, like when @ofcom.bsky.social include the @mantrap.bsky.social response into their guidance on how tech companies can and must make online life safer for women and girls 💜 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.

3 year AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards at the University of Liverpool. Home and International students can apply; any arts and humanities discipline is eligible. Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025. Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts is coming up, on 16 November!

FUNDED PhDs! We are advertising for three ESRC-funded PhD scholarships! Any specialism permitted, depending on departmental supervision available. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH631/e...

We are looking for new committee members! If you would like to join the BAAL Corpus SIG as Meetings Secretary or as an Ordinary Member, please get in touch! You can learn more about the SIG at our website:

I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.

🚨 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

Next week, @markmcglashan.com and I will be sharing the findings of our new paper 'Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online' (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) in a live webinar for @senso-cloud.bsky.social. More info and registration below!

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online 🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another Lecturer post now available in the Department of English @livunienglish.bsky.social at The University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social! Please share 🔁 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC313/l...

The Women and Equalities Select Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk has accepted our team's evidence as part of it's public enquiry into 'Misogyny: the manosphere and online content' Read our submission below committees.parliament.uk/work/9089/mi...

Our article with Korina Giaxoglou and Paige Johnson has just been assigned an issue at @critdiscstuds.bsky.social We argue that even humanitarian narratives about migration in the UK are deeply problematic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Come work with us at Liverpool! @liverpooluni.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT935/l...

Great to share our research on corpus linguistic approaches to safeguarding this morning at #CL2025 @markmcglashan.com @senso-cloud.bsky.social

🆕 CADSbib annotated bibliography 👩‍💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse? 📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more. 🔗 nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/ca... #CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH

The online manosphere poses a real threat to society Our response published today in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Important work by the brilliant Craig & Fiona about misogynistic & homophobic banter online. Contradicts Ofcom's consultancy company that said that most men have the appropriate critical thinking to not believe the manosphere. Maybe consult with academic experts?😉 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Only two weeks to go! We're working away to finalise the conference programme, featuring: • 200+ paper presentations • 50+ poster presentations • 7 thematic panels • 5 plenary talks • 5 pre-conference workshops (29th June) See you all soon! #CL2025 www.cl2025.co.uk/home

When your team's work - based on six years of research - gets cited but the core message is ignored, because 38 men say it's no big deal 😡 @mantrap.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a

A forensic meteorologist?! ⛅ @issyclarke.bsky.social shares what they do in our podcast 'Writing Wrongs' (www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...), featuring @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social. You can't miss it!

📢 Conference registration now open! 📢 Registration for #CL2025 is now open, with early bird rates valid until 9th May. Registration info: www.cl2025.co.uk/registration Workshops info: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme/wo... We're very excited to welcome you to Birmingham in just over 3 months!

Interested in studying for a PhD in applied linguistics/ literature/creative writing with @livunienglish.bsky.social and looking for a scholarship? The JIC Davies scholarship is now open for applications. @sotauol.bsky.social Details👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The first output of our impact acceleration project @livunihss.bsky.social In this paper we address how secondary school teachers in Lpool navigate standardised language ideologies @livunienglish.bsky.social #accentbias journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-67...

Are you a recent recipient of a doctorate? Come work with us! This post is designed to provide experience in teaching and teaching-related administration in a world class university environment. The post is tenable for one year only from September 2025. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD111/a...

COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and "the new normal" on social media 🆕 out today w/@issyclarke.bsky.social & the www.traccovid.com team @mybcu.bsky.social 📄 doi.org/10.1515/ling... 🔓 www.researchgate.net/publication/... @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Interested in what a career in social science could look like? Our careers hub has lots of information on the skills you gain by studying social science, as well as examples of where your career could take you. Explore our hub & interviews with social scientists for more ➡️ https://buff.ly/3PVQA89

CL2025 submissions are in and you've been busy! Over the next month, our amazing programme committee will be reviewing a total of 466 submissions, including: 🧑‍🏫 365 papers 🖼️ 85 posters 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 7 panels ⚙️ 9 pre-conference workshops

💖 i am running a two day summer school on linguistic justice for school teachers. it will be held in Manchester on June 12 & July 4. places are free, and travel etc is all fully funded. full details here, including how to express an interest in participating: ahead.mmu.ac.uk/2025/01/16/l... 💖

What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

My monograph 'Male Separatism: Discourse, Ideology, Argumentation' is now available for purchase as an ebook with John Benjamins, though you will need to pre-order for a physical copy. benjamins.com/catalog/daps...

📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 📢 #CL2025 • Birmingham, UK • Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025 Submissions are open for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops: www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap... Submission deadline: 17th January

🔈Job Alert 🔈 I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.

The new Senso.cloud homepage is live, and I'm so proud to see our corpus linguistics work (and me 🤭) featured front and centre! Senso is committed to being the most linguistically accurate safeguarding tool, and @markmcglashan.com and I are v excited to be helping them achieve that goal 🎯

I’ve put together a list of must read recent publications and resources about online misogyny, the manosphere & gender-based violence 🧵

The first title in the Cambridge UP Elements series edited by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and me has been published. The short book - the latest by Teun van Dijk - is available for free for the next four weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Submit your extended abstract for a special issue of @critdiscstuds.bsky.social on the language of the #manosphere by the end of Sunday. My @mantrap.bsky.social colleagues and I are interested in research-based interventions and non-Anglo contexts. t.co/B9AevMR6HE

Just a reminder that you can find loads of UoL Humanities and Social Sciences colleagues on our ever-expanding starter pack (have you heard of those?). And if we've missed you off, let us know go.bsky.app/5NUwui2

✨ NEW & EMBIGGENED ✨ corpus linguistics and discourse studies starter pack Great to see the tribe connecting! #AcademicSky #LinguisticSky #LangSky #Linguistics go.bsky.app/AT6KX6X

Deadline 22 Nov! Do you speak English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Czech or Slovak? ISD is looking for several Consultant Research Analysts to analyse & report on VLOPSEs' compliance with the EU’s DSA across key risks. This is a 1-year fixed contract, averaging 10 days per month 👇

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...

Hello hello! We are also heading over here. We have created an Institute's starter pack with current and past members, DM us if we missed you! go.bsky.app/K2SL5Lj

New edited collection, out now (one for library purchases though) > www.routledge.com/The-Politics...

The @mantrap.bsky.social team are organising a special issue, bringing together linguistics/discourse approaches to the manosphere which focus on A) non-Anglo-American contexts and B) positive interventions. Please see the link below for detail. Deadline 1st Dec. docs.google.com/document/d/1...