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!

Funding opportunity: PhD at Sussex - Open to applicants on PhD Linguistics - Scholarships cover tuition fees, a stipend at UK Research Council rates plus some research & training costs - 5 interdisciplinary themes addressing major social sciences challenges www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

How good are LLMs at identifying and tagging metaphors in text? Turns out, pretty good! In our new study, we ask 10 different open- and closed-source LLMs to label all metaphorical expressions in a dataset of film reviews using <Metaphor> and </Metaphor> XML tags. arxiv.org/abs/2509.24866

The call for papers for the 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Conference is now out! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal... Submission deadline is 16 November. Really looking forward to it!

More and more companies have pledged to reach "net zero". But how exactly are these pledges framed in corporate communications, and how credible are they? These are the questions we explore in our new study, just published in Applied Corpus Linguistics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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!

What happens when activists creatively reimagine corporate logos to resist branding narratives? Our new paper explores the powerful multimodal practice of "figurative subversion" and its role in challenging corporate messages. Read it here: bit.ly/3GrXAse

Join us for our #CCRSS25 corpus linguistics summer school! It's going to be super fun! I'll be giving a session on corpus annotation with the UAM tool.

📢 Come work with us 📢 We're recruiting a new Research Assistant to work alongside @drniccimacleod.bsky.social on her project Talking Rape: Operation Soteria and the Police Interview, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship 👇 jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

As we look ahead to the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#CCRSS25, 7–11 July), we’ll be spotlighting our fantastic instructors and the sessions they’ll be leading. There’s still time to register—don’t miss out! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

Can we infer deceptive intent from fact-checker labels? And what if what fact-checkers consider “false” today turns out to be “true” tomorrow? We explore these and other methodological questions in our new paper with Bashayer Baissa & @jwgrieve.bsky.social: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to share my latest research on the language of trust at Hong Kong's Poly. The study’s in press with Cambridge Elements in Forensic Linguistics and we’re releasing a new 400k corpus of Enron trader phone calls. Watch this space! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx7_...

Next Monday I’ll be giving a talk on my latest research on the linguistics of trust and manipulation as part of Hong Kong Poly’s English and Communication seminar series. The talk will be on Zoom and open to all. If you’re interested, you can sign up via the link below!

Our position paper on the sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling is out now in Frontiers in AI! www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... We argue that sociolinguistics holds the key to understanding and improving large language models.

Great to be part of this special issue on corpus approaches to business communication! Thanks for all your work @mathewgillings.bsky.social and @susannekopf.bsky.social and congrats to all the authors.

First post on Bluesky! 🥳 Here's the recording of a talk I presented a few months ago, hosted by the fantastic team at @discore.bsky.social. bit.ly/3B9IBQX Corpus methods have transformed discourse analysis. Here, I argue it's time to take #CADS a step further by combining it with experiments.

Hi Bluesky: the department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham is now on Bluesky! Who else from our department is here? @jeannettel.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social @adamcschembri.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @gregwoodin.bsky.social