Is the Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) corpus available any other way than the 2005 CD-ROM?

Am hosting a small symposium on multilingualism here in Hong Kong in early May - free to attend, so do pop along if you are interested!

📣 Open Research Group – @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Join us from 22 April (12:00 UK time) for a new series on collocations 📊—how words co-occur and how we can measure these patterns statistically 🧠 + gentle intro to R for beginners 💻 🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka

'Science is driven by an ongoing effort to make sense of the universe based on what we observe.' Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Didier Queloz, @ethz.ch @lclu.bsky.social @cambridgephysics.bsky.social on data, facts and what makes a good scientist. Watch now @expeditions.bsky.social.

OUT NOW: Guest Editor David Wright introduces the Special Issue on Corpus perspectives on #LegalDiscourse Wright draws out the themes explored across the papers in the issue, as indicative of the cutting edge of forensic linguistics – showing what corpus studies can do! doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Doctor Who Treat This Easter Film is Fabulous! has worked closely with the BBC Archives and iPlayer teams to ensure the two missing episodes of ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’, which were found in a private film collection, are available for fans in the U.K. to enjoy this Easter.

What a treat to have watched The Daleks’ Masterplan episode one for the first time - it was originally broadcast on my first birthday! Thanks to all at @filmisfabulous.bsky.social and to the anonymous collector who saved this gem and episode 3. On to episodes 2 and 3 ….

Great morning at #AAAL2026, where we are discussing all things AI and Applied Linguistics! Honoured to be a part of this invited colloquium, organised by Andrea Révész & Shungo Suzuki, speaking about our paper (with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social) here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

I’m hiring an 18-month postdoc to work on physics-informed machine learning for acoustic-articulatory speech inversion at @phoneticslab.bsky.social 🗓️ Deadline: Friday 10 April. 🔗 More info & applications: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... 📣 Please share with anyone who might be a good fit!

Our chapter on corpus-based diachronic discourse analysis in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics is now out.🎉 Co-authored with @tonymcenery.bsky.social. If you are interested, feel free to check it out. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

Prof. Hakosalo talks about the role of historians as crisis communicators. And finally, Dr. Del Fante's plenary focuses on the role of language in understanding crises: is there a common underlying factor in the way language is used to make sense of, understand, and respond to a crisis?

It is the week of the LanCris Conference! We are very excited to hear about new research related to language and crises. #lancris2026 In addition to over 40 paper presentations, we will have four keynote speeches that look at languaging crises from four different perspectives:

Prof. McEnery (@tonymcenery.bsky.social) will discuss Brexit, taking a long-term view on British discourses about Europe. Prof. Koskela discusses Rhetorical Arena Theory that provides a lens for analyzing how crisis situations are actively constructed through discourse.

Still time to apply! 🎓✨ Fully funded PhD Opportunity @corpussocialsci.bsky.social jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL407/f...

💥New | @rschrobuk.bsky.social reflects on the demise of a platform that united the UK research community in one thing: complaining about it. #ResearchFish #AcademicSky #ResearchFunding

greekreporter.com/2026/02/24/e... 40,000-Year-Old Signs Found in Europe Could Be Humanity’s First Language #history #langsky

Thrilled to share that our research, “Gendered representations in swearing”, co-authored with my colleague Robin Vallery and my PhD supervisor @tonymcenery.bsky.social, has officially been published in Discourse Studies! 🤬🥳 Check it out: 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

A nice little article that really sums up well issues with survey data in the modern age. They also call the British Social Attitudes Survey produced by @natcen.bsky.social a gold standard - they are right to do so, imho. A superb resource. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Registration for this year's Corpora and Discourse conference, at Lancaster University, is now live!

English linguists #world Englishes Open rank professorial position at the university of Basel, Switzerland jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Dates in 2026 for the CPD courses 'English Grammar for Teachers' and 'Teaching English Grammar in Context'. You can book here: tinyurl.com/2xj43u9z tinyurl.com/y9c9ufrs

Out now! Special issue of @registerstudies.bsky.social, edited with @shelleystaples.bsky.social on Register and Professional Discourse. Papers address register in a range of contexts, inc. architecture, business, higher education, journalism, legal practice & virtual workspaces. Read more below!

A good illustration of the wide-reaching impact of university campus closures on students, staff, and communities www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New OA paper: Beyond Polishing. Argues GenAI isn’t just editing writing... it’s reshaping drafts before polishing, with consequences for voice and stance. I welcome your thoughts! doi.org/10.1515/dsll...

It was lovely to catch up with other Lancaster linguists in Hong Kong on Saturday. Great company and the food was good too!

🎓✨ Fully Funded PhD Opportunity (UK & International applicants) ✨🌍 A PhD studentship is available @corpussocialsci.bsky.social starting Oct 2026. We’re seeking outstanding candidates in #corpuslinguistics, #languagetesting, or #appliedlinguistics 📊💻 🔗 More info: cass.lancs.ac.uk/fully-funded...

Very happy to see our chapter out in the Oxford Handbook of Expressivity (Eds. Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay)! @niallrcurry.bsky.social, Emily Sharp, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, @tonymcenery.bsky.social, and I discuss corpus approaches to analyzing expressivity.

Ever wanted to find out whether Bielefeld really exist? 🕵‍♀️ this is your chance! Two days left to submit an abstract for #DGKL2026 👇 conferences.uni-bielefeld.de/frontend/ind... 🐦🐦 #BLinguistik #Langsky

📚 Enjoy free access to thousands of Edinburgh University Press ebooks!  Until March 2026, your library can enjoy free access to our collection through Paradigm’s University Press Library. @paradigmpubserv.bsky.social  Find out more:

Interesting article on taking a corpus-based approach to narrative analysis: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to see this out! Happy also to have a chapter in it with colleagues from the UK, Italy, & Korea on the applications of corpus linguistics to language teaching materials & assessment. You can find it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

A free online Symposium on Ecolinguistics with an excellent slate of keynotes and presentations! Register for free to receive program details and updates. #ecolinguistics

We're hiring! www.nottingham.edu.my/Jobs/Joblist...

New year, new book! Out now: 'Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social and @robbielove.org and published by @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. More info in thread ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

CDS received 584 submissions in 2025; 108 of these were rejected for AI generated or revised content.

Today is the final day to send us your abstracts! You have until midnight (UK time)! 😁 Here is the submission link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

I'm delighted to share that my book is out and available to read online for free! Thank you to the many people who either participated in my research or supported me to do it 😊 Book page: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/navigatin... Free online access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Social scientists📣 Do you use census data? ONS has launched its Census 2031 topic consultation and is inviting responses to inform decisions on which topics are included in the next census. ⏰Closes 4 Feb 2026. Find out more ➡️

Tesla’s Robotaxi is crashing roughly once every 40,000 miles so far in Austin, and that's with a human safety supervisor in vehicle. For comparison, the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles. electrek.co/2025/12/15/t...

Are you a membership organisation interested in setting up a mentoring scheme? This month’s recommended EDI membership resource is @resmedia.bsky.social Mentoring & Support sub-committee which uses mentoring to support inclusivity initiatives. Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/esrc-project...

🎅 Why did the corpus linguist bring a ladder? To reach higher frequency items 📊 lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk/cracker #LancsBox #Christmas #joke @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Really interesting article on Italian food history www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Exciting news! You can now view our plenary speakers' abstracts: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/ple.... You have one week remaining to submit your abstracts!

Delphi Hosts Workshop on Language Diachrony

Just back from a nice celebration meal with @paulari.bsky.social at the Restaurant Jules Verne in Paris. Great view and fantastic food!

Drawing on ancient linguistic evidence from Britain and Ireland, @aberuni.bsky.social's Dr Simon Rodway and team through a Leverhulme-funded project, will be working on the first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages.

Out now: 'A Critical Discourse Analysis of AI-Generated Character Descriptions of Men and Women With Dementia', with Chris Chikodzore-Paterson and @gavinbrookes.bsky.social: 📑Journal article: utppublishing.com/doi/epdf/10.... 📝Author copy (open access): eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

Excited for the Global China Dialogues at the iconic British Academy in London! 🇬🇧 🇨🇳✨ Theme: Governance for Global Education 🎓 Which tech future will truly meet our educational & social needs? 🤖📚 #CriticalAI #CorpusLinguistics @tonymcenery.bsky.social