The decline in seabird populations has major ramifications for their associated ecosystems. This article summarises researchers’ understanding of the circular seabird economy and outlines goals for future research. @ymalhi.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Join us at @uonenglish.bsky.social on 9th December for a talk by @elenasemino.bsky.social on Metaphors and Narratives in Health Communication! Register here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even...

Huge thanks to the amazing local organisers at SHISU for hosting such a successful training event! 🌟 🎓 Join us for more events or explore our latest research at 👉 cass.lancs.ac.uk

17th International Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC) conference, University of Extremadura, Jarandilla de la Vera, Cáceres, Spain, 15-18 July 2026. Submission deadline is 18th January 2026 #corpuslinguistics #language #languagelearning #languageteaching ℹ️ ℹ️ eventos.unex.es/136933/detai...

A great talk by @paulari.bsky.social at @lancasteruni.bsky.social SHISU training event. @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

The (short) book to go with the talk:

At the beautiful SHISU campus 🇨🇳, getting ready for a corpus linguistics workshop with @tonymcenery.bsky.social and @paulari.bsky.social. Corpus is never lost in translation ✨📚 #CorpusLinguistics #LancsBox #ChinaTour #GlobalLearning @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

4 Nov 1605: In the nighttime #otd Thomas Knyvett searches vaults under the House of Lords which results in arrest of Guido Fawkes (NT/BM)

“Forensic linguistics is an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language” In this episode of The We Society @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social discusses how language analysis can help solve crimes & lead to justice for all: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/grant

Interesting finds: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Date Announced: We’re delighted to announce that Teun A. van Dijk (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona) will now be joining us on Tuesday 11th November, 1–2pm (UK time) for his talk: Title: Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right Location: MS Teams Online link: lnkd.in/eAXSgT6r

New issue of Annual Review of Applied Linguistics out now - its theme is Artificial Intelligence in Applied Linguistics. Well worth a look, plenty of open access content (full disclosure - I have a paper in it 😀): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Newest LLM tell/quirk in coding assignments this semester: instead of generating code based on the CSVs that I provide, LLMs have been inventing datasets with rnorm() and sample() (and an obligatory set.seed(42)) and then making plots with the fake data. I'm so tired.

People are misled by low false positive/negative rates for some AI applications but these can mean large numbers of high-impact cases that are costly to resolve. The rate matters but also the actual size of the denominator - and the impact of error.

The problem with linguists proposing attention to language in the world is that their solution often seems to be just make people linguists. Which isn’t tenable, nor reasonable.

Regarding the feelings of inadequacy engendered by the grant game, the great Jan Blommaert said it well: alternative-democracy-research.org/2015/06/10/r...

TruthScraper and a number of other corpus collection tools are available on my homepage corpustools.prendrelangue.fr Do pay a visit, and please provide feedback! #linguistics #corpus #discourseanalysis

Most studies of language contact focus on speech — how we borrow words to fill gaps or express new ideas. But a new paper shows that language mixing isn’t always about meaning — sometimes it’s about context, identity, and the world that writing inhabits. doi.org/10.25189/267...

A curious approach from people who don't like the concept of immigration

📣 After an initial hiccup 😅 it really IS out! New to #CorpusTools, TruthScraper is a browser extension that lets you build a corpus of posts from Truth Social. More info & download links 👉 fmoncomble.github.io/truthscraper/ Bug reports and feature requests welcome! #linguistics

Are you a learned society looking to deliver EDI interventions but aren’t sure where to start? As part of our EDI Project we have a number of Q&As with social science learned societies sharing their insights & learnings from delivering their own EDI interventions. acss.org.uk/category/edi...

The outcome of organisational reviews captured:“Everything was over-organised and so failed to work properly. The new bureaucracy, which was supposed to impose order, was still enjoying itself writing memos and making out permits, and everything was delayed” (Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday)

The outcome of organisational reviews captured:“Everything was over-organised and so failed to work properly. The new bureaucracy, which was supposed to impose order, was still enjoying itself writing memos and making out permits, and everything was delayed” (Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday)

📢 Registration is open for the Language Testing Forum 2025. Venue: University of Southampton Dates: 21st – 23rd November 2025 Join us in celebrating the 45th anniversary of the LTF and the 10th anniversary of the UKALTA! #LTF2025 👉 More information is here: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...

Roll up, roll up. Get your snake oil and miracle cures here! ✅ Precision medicine ✅ Automated causal inference ✅ Polygenic scores ✅ 1000+ outcome prediction models ✅ In sillico trials ✅ Exposomics ✅ Anything involve 'AI' ✅ Any other trend, shortcut, or bandwagon!

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:

Recently we started the @leverhulme.ac.uk project Memories of China with a visit to the Lady Lever Art Gallery to see William Hesketh Lever’s Chinese porcelain and art collection. Well worth the visit!

My new Open Access article in Discourse and Society with Rickey Lu: Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Recently we started the @leverhulme.ac.uk project Memories of China with a visit to the Lady Lever Art Gallery to see William Hesketh Lever’s Chinese porcelain and art collection. Well worth the visit!

(With apologies to Randall Munroe)

Call for papers! To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike of 1926, @newcastleuni.bsky.social's Labour & Society Research Group is organising a conference next year. Submit proposals to @joeredmayne.bsky.social. More details 👇

Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

"Surveys the fascinating history of the study of language, from its beginnings in ancient Mesopotamia & Egypt to the diversification of the language sciences in the past 50 years." The Cambridge History of Linguistics eds. Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-Burston, & John E. Joseph cup.org/3PO06Kl

A guide to corpus-based approaches to health communication Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare by @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social, Out Now & #OpenAccess #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 https://cup.org/4nXkIiq

Once sealed in archives, the voices of Brazil’s past are being prepared for open, ethical access — paving the way for new studies on how language lives and changes. doi.org/10.25189/267... #langsky #linguistics

RIP Brian Patten As a student in Liverpool I carried round a copy of The Mersey Sound until it was so dog-eared I had to buy another one

"There's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" is a _great_ tagline.

Philosopher John Searle has died.

Lost in translation - How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap

Three great days of papers at the Universite d’Artois in Arras! Thanks to @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org for organising and to my fellow plenaries @jessesword.com and Jonathon Green for great talks.

Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

ICYMI: 📰 The Leverhulme Trust September Newsletter is out! Read it on our website now: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter @mphiljill.bsky.social @ferreira-rr.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

In conversation with @elenasemino.bsky.social on #CorpusMOOC #healthcare #corpuslinguistics #communication 👉Find out more: edx.org/learn/social... @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Congratulations to my colleagues @elenasemino.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @juditkormos.bsky.social @jculpeper.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social Alison Mackey & Jason Rothman for being in the Stanford/Elsevier top 2% of scientists list. I’m in good company!

Congratulations to my colleagues @elenasemino.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @juditkormos.bsky.social @jculpeper.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social Alison Mackey & Jason Rothman for being in the Stanford/Elsevier top 2% of scientists list. I’m in good company!

University of Hawai’i at Mānoa is hiring for a tenure track assistant professor with expertise in second language corpus linguistics. Check out the position and apply on UH’s website: www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...

oops, I did it again 🎶 Call for papers for Corpus Pragmatics special issue "Speech Acts in English: Corpus Insights from Past to Present", ed. by @racheledf.bsky.social, Christine Elsweiler & me. Abstract submissions due: 1 November 2025 link.springer.com/collections/... #Pragmatics #Linguistics