Out now: 'Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social @emma-putland.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. Features 11 chapters using corpora to explore medical discourse over four centuries! www.routledge.com/Historical-M...

Many thanks to Professor Ursula Lutzky for inviting me to speak on multimodal social media corpus research @wuvienna.bsky.social yesterday. I felt genuinely excited to be there and really enjoyed the discussion and the great questions☺️

I’m at the Cabinet Office to talk about Polari today.

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...

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

Now @tonymcenery.bsky.social discussing #CorpusLinguistics and #epistemology. Questions about paradigms, reality and science as a process. A two-day workshop at Shisu in Shanghai starting today! @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

“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

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...

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/...

📣 2 yrs postdoc w/in project Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture - investigates a selection of anti-gender networks & feminist LGBTQI+ networks in 5 European regions. Experience w/h ethnography/ digital network analysis & deep knowledge of language & sociopolitical contexts in Southern Europe.

I'm honoured to have been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) new assessor college. Looking forward to continuing to contribute to the council's important work in this new role! @ukri.org @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

It was such a pleasure to take part in the legendary Language and Power podcast! We had a very interesting chat about climate change discourses on the back of a lively panel at the last SFL Congress in Glasgow. Thanks @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social and Tom Bartlett for hosting us!

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

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...

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...

Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Beginning Day#3 with a keynote by the amazing @gavinbrookes.bsky.social #DHSS2025 @dhssfau.bsky.social

“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth” @gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning #DHSS2025

We had two fantastic sessions this morning! – Prof. Michaela Mahlberg gave us a great introduction to digital humanities @michamahlberg.bsky.social – Prof. Anna Foka delivered an inspiring first keynote on AI & heritage Fantastic vibes all around! ✨ #DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities

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'.

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...

I was honoured today to give a keynote speech on working with sociodemographic metadata for online language corpora, at the 12th CMC Conference at the University of Bayreuth 🇩🇪 Grateful to the audience for their engagement and great questions! @unibayreuth.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

🎙️ Elena Semino, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University joins host Dr. Joe Bianco to discuss the subtle and surprising ways that language 🗣️ and humor 😂 shape health experiences 💙.

Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!

📣🎉 Genuinely so happy to share my new article in The Journal of Pragmatics 🎉 My paper is titled "Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames" and can be accessed here (Open Access!) 👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New chapter out now on feminist protest and political change with @mchalu.bsky.social, in this important collection on language and gender in Eastern Europe, edited by @ksenijabogetic.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Out now! @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and I on feminist protest and political change in Poland link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

📣 Keynote Speaker Announcement #DHSS25 We’re pleased to announce our third keynote speaker: @gavinbrookes.bsky.social 🎤 Title: Corpus linguistics for gender and language research: Key concepts and critical reflections 🗓️ 22–26 September 2025 🔗 www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/summer-school #dhss25

So happy to share that I've been promoted to Reader in Languages and Linguistics at @manmetuni.bsky.social. I am so grateful for all the support from colleagues here and afar! 🥳🎊 @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

What a joy! Thank you for the invitation @gavinbrookes.bsky.social Join us in Lancaster! #CADS2026 @fau.de #MovingKnowledge

We are excited to announce that our final speaker is... Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social from Lancaster University! You can read more about Elena and her work here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/... #CAD2026

The next plenary speaker we are excited to announce is... Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)! You can read more about Michaela and her research here: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/prof-... #CADS2026i

What an absolute treat and honor to be invited to give a plenary at my favourite conference! 🤩 Thanks so much @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and all the #CADS2026 organizers for this invite. Can't wait!

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...

Just received the final proofs of this book, based on @corpussocialsci.bsky.social research on health communication. It will be out *open access* later this year. @paulari.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Preparations for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse International Conference at Lancaster University are under way! We will be sharing information on dates for your calendars, plenary speakers, and the upcoming call for papers very soon. Follow here for updates, and please share widely! #CADS2026

I loved sharing a plenary on'What counts?' with the ever-brilliant @journolinguist.bsky.social at #CL2025. Not least because it led to some great conversations including two excellent illustrations that are too good not to share further

Great plenary by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social at #CL2025

Enjoying #CL2025 and had a great time presenting on Monday with @fabrichunter.bsky.social on intersecting discourses of climate and migration, and today as part of @juliakrasselt.bsky.social & @isabellesuremann.bsky.social's panel on contrastive corpus discourse studies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

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

Had a great time running the multimodal social media workshop at #CL2025 this morning — thanks to everyone who came along and contributed to the discussions! 🥰

We can't wait to welcome our keynote speakers Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com, Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social and Jonathon Green @misterslang.bsky.social and all participants for 3 days of in-depth discussion of the manifold uses of ‘fuck’ and its derivatives — in all seriousness, of course:

Great to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.social to the team. And thank you, Natalie!

This was a great event, and I was grateful to be able to contribute to it!

💥An action-packed morning at #LancsSS25 ! With talks from @tinekebrunfaut.bsky.social , @issyclarke.bsky.social , @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social , a practical session on collocations and the launch of #Lancsbox X 5.5.0!

Exciting to be at the CLASS Centre launch symposium right now — Prof Lauren Devine is opening with a thoughtful and clear vision for what the Centre aims to achieve @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @lulawcrim.bsky.social

A great week at the Lancaster University Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. I think this is the 15th year I've taught on it.

We are pleased to announce this year’s Sinclair Lecture by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, titled “Corpus linguistics is all you need: Large language models and the legacy of John Sinclair”, on 7 July. Open to the public and live-streamed. Details and registration below. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...