Day 2 at #CADS2026 closes with a blast: @elenasemino.bsky.social amazing as ever on pushing boundaries and corpus methods making a difference

Brilliant second plenary at #CADS2026: lots of methodological food for thought with @matteofuoli.bsky.social problematising CADS' deterministic assumptions + showing the added value of testing discourse effects empirically

Chaired an excellent panel on migration discourses at #CADS2026 this morning. Really inspiring work by Tony Berber Sardinha, @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social , @xinmeisun.bsky.social , @proftaylor.bsky.social

CfP: The Language of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from Critical Discourse Analysis. Symposium organized at University of Warwick, UK. Submission deadline: 27th Feb. linguistlist.org/issues/37/345/

LIP Programme – Term 2, 2025/26 We’re excited to share the programme for this term. 🥰 📌 Abstracts and links to the talks will be shared one week ahead of the event. We welcome all researchers, students, and interested colleagues to join our sessions and engage with our community.

It is day one of #FCTCCOP11, the global meeting of the Parties to the WHO FCTC. Our team is here in Geneva all week to observe the proceedings, speak during side events and to support knowledge exchange and communications. If you are in Geneva, come visit us at our table on the ground floor.

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...

Paper out with brilliant colleagues at the University of Bath 🔥 We examined responses to WHO consultations and analysed how different actors legitimise/contest multistakeholder approaches to public health issues. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The (short) book to go with the talk:

Check out the exciting lineup!

Which newspapers get talked about in UK parliament debates you (didn't) ask? Well, these ones. The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so. Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open

🚨 CfP open! ❓Are you a young researcher in Cognitive Linguistics? ➡️Present your work at the "4th International Conference for Young Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics", hosted by @uco.es online. 📝Deadline: Sept 1, 2025 🎤Four plenary speakers 🗓️Dec 10-12, 2025 eventos.uco.es/132298/detai...

Really enjoyed the performance of Nye at the National Theatre yesterday A story beautifully told ☺️💙

What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...

We‘ve kept the best for last at #cl2025: @nfdykes.bsky.social shows how our research in @rc21project.bsky.social enables analysts to read concordances at scale using FlexiConc and neural sentence embeddings.

Poster session went well despite the horror in my eyes. Come and talk to me about Frame Semantics and automatic annotation if you haven’t the chance 😬👍 #CL2025

This morning I was honoured to give the opening plenary at the #CL2025 conference - thanks to everyone who came along and engaged!

In her bootstrapping talk, @schtepf.bsky.social starts off a very packed room by explaining how to calculate keywords in R. #cl2025

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

Less than a week to go until #CL2025! The conference programme and book of abstracts are now available: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme

Internal screams of joy after getting to talk to one of the creators behind Committee, a musical based on an actual select committee evidence session How cool is that!!

Happy to say this was published yesterday: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

In love with the Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery Flower power ✨🌺🌸🌻🌷✨

Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster: 'The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations.' Open to applicants with a background in Linguistics as well as Psychology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Really looking forward to thought-provoking presentations and stimulating discussions at our upcoming #2025 Workshop series: Inequalities, inclusion and innovation. In person in Lancaster on 21/03/25 and online on 25/03/25. All welcome: register via website - baalhealthsci.wordpress.com

CfP for BAAL in Glasgow this September is now live: baal2025.wordpress.com Deadline 31st March, so that gives all of us (*cough* including me *cough*) time to start actually writing abstracts... Look forward to seeing you there!

Great to see this get attention. My work showed 'illegal' has been the strongest collocate of 'immigrants' in the Times newspaper since the 1970s Prior to that, the words most associated with 'immigrants' were: 60s: Commonwealth 50s: coloured 40s: illegal 30s: Jewish 20s: British 10s: Canada

Save the date! On 11-12 September 2025, we are hosting the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) at Lancaster University. We hope you will join us! For more information, see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

In our new paper on the intimidation of unhealthy commodity industry researchers and advocates we categorised the types of intimidation experienced. Understanding the scale and impact of such intimidation helps those affected to pre-empt and respond. Read: doi.org/10.1093/heap...

Absolutely in love with the National Gallery’s Poets & Lovers exhibition, showcasing ~60 of Van Gogh’s work and their literary references & expressiveness 💛💛 Such a privilege to see things from museums and private collections all over the world in the same place!

The deadline to submit your proposal to ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2025 (Lisbon, Portugal) was extended to December 8, 2025. #DH2025 More information: