Three year postdoc going at @qmulsse.bsky.social working with @karlpike.bsky.social on ‘Politics and mythmaking: disentangling myth from ideology’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Details here:

I suspect the government is going to get another crash course in the law of unintended consequences when pushing through overly restrictive knee-jerk policies without properly considering implications, especially, but not limited to, students with higher support needs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Delighted to share this from my friend and colleague Ayhan Alman at @thrivingautistic.bsky.social ! Follow @monotropism.org for more monotropism-related information and resources!

"We're really interested in anything that's rude, that's a bit naughty, that might be counted as a swear word or a phrase" Can you help build the UK Swear Map? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Handy Guide: ✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course ❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

This is the worst ongoing scandal in the uk imho. It's been proven in a series of places such as Shrewsbury and Leeds, that there's a 'natural birth' ideology that's killing mothers and babies

Received my first royalties statement from my book earlier today. Sourdough looking ever more appealing....

Come and work with me! ICYMI: I'm advertising a fully funded PhD studentship at Aston in cognitive stylistics, starting in October 2026 Details are also now up on the university website --https://www.aston.ac.uk/study/courses/re-reading-wellbeing-phd/october-2026 Any questions, please get in touch

Getting back into making sourdough again in case the academic career doesn't work out

When you drop a bomb on civilians, I think that’s murder. I don’t really care for any justifications. They’re people. The enormity of the loss is devastating and it’s easier for some people to look away. But for other people, that’s their family. Their children. It’s just sickening and so wrong.

Taking a week off is fun until you have to return to your inbox

**CALL FOR PAPERS: Online Discourse of Gender-Based Violence** Dates: Jan 13-15, 2027 Location: University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens The conference will bring together linguists working on the interplay between online discourse & gender-based violence odgbv27.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

New @wordsandactions.bsky.social episode on the language of food out today! Featuring interview guest Marcelyn Oostendorp, sound clips from five researchers and quite a few metaphors. Free extra materials at wordsandactionspodcast.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/e... #DigitalPalates

Call for chapters: Creative Quantitative Research Methods (co-edited with Dr Derek Ong) Exploring creative, inclusive & imaginative approaches to working with numbers across disciplines. Deadline: 15 May 2026 500-word proposals 🔗 helenkara.com/writing/crea... #QuantMethods #CreativeResearch

What has happened to our society that we think it is right to remove children from their friendship groups? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

She's not just a creator who happens to be a bigoted arsehole. She's a really proactive participant in Scottish and UK political debates, who uses her private wealth to muster forces enacting actual real world political change for the worse. She is not just a rich writer, she is an oligarch

I think a key problem with the whole Harry Potter thing is that some people, especially Americans, underestimate severely the degree to which Joanne K Rowling is an actual political actor.

Every now and then we post a round-up of research that's been published mentioning monotropism in recent months. As more and more is published, this becomes a harder and harder task! This one only takes us to last December. monotropism.org/2026/winter-...

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!

The surprising social life of sharks hit the headlines this week, thanks to new research supported by Lancaster researchers. They discovered that bull sharks form relationships with specific “friends”, rather than mixing at random www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/bull-sh...

The cuts. They cuts are never-ending. And they're cutting away what it means to be a university.

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

I had to mention Theroux's documentary in a lecture on the role of the media in the mainstreaming of reactionary politics In particular, it struck me how it goes exactly against the recommendations @k8ebrown.bsky.social and I made in a recent chapter (in link) aurelmondon.com/2026/01/28/t...

Due date for abstracts: 30 April If it's an incentive (and not a deterrent), I'm one of the keynote speakers

**CALL FOR PAPERS: Online Discourse of Gender-Based Violence** Dates: Jan 13-15, 2027 Location: University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens The conference will bring together linguists working on the interplay between online discourse & gender-based violence odgbv27.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

📫 on lance l'AAC pour the ONLINE DISCOURSE OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE qui aura lieu du 13 au 17 janvier 2027 à l'UPJV : odgbv27.sciencesconf.org cc @arianejrobert.bsky.social @jessaiston.bsky.social qui organisent aussi cc @paulineferrari.bsky.social qui fera une conf <3

biggest solidarity to the Department ot Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh): heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/04/d... please sign their petition and send them any support they need, this is part of a UK-wide attack on languages education!

I'm truly sick of how people keep responding to the endless airtime given to the male grievance movement with "We should give them even more of our attention and focus" instead of, say, talking about its impact on WOMEN.

Anyway after an hour and a half of platforming some of the vilest misogynists you can find in Miami, Theroux concludes that the reason so many men are going fash is childhood trauma and alienation; two things that I guess women never experience.

'The surging number of redundancies in UK higher education could undermine entire research fields as networks of collaborators disappear, according to an academic whose project fell through when a colleague’s job at another institution was put at risk.' 1/2

IPRA 2027 is inviting you to Helsinki, Finland, in the summer 2027! Call for papers is open! Deadline fo panel proposals: June 5th 2026 Deadline for presentation and poster proposals: October 15th #IPRA2027 #linguistics #pragmatics

So many himpathy takes on the manosphere. Stop going on about "real strength", "real masculinity" etc, it's just a polite version of "real men" & look where that's got us. It's not real masculinity to have emotions & be a human being rather than a monosyllabic cardboard cutout, it's being a human.

Every time I see a fixed-term academic job with a contract of 6 months or shorter, I imagine a world where universities hired permanent academic staff who were able to flexibly move across research projects or modules whenever needed (& receive training if different skills were required)

We're running out of time to power mental health support for children from Gaza who were detained in occupation prison!!!!! Please don't let this get stuck unfunded. Psychologists on the ground are waiting to deliver this amazing program. Anything helps + print a flyer: chuffed.org/project/hmg

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Paths to action: Fantasy, ideology and incitement in an extreme-right narrative" by @discodiscourse.bsky.social #Narrative #NarrativeActionProcesses #ModalTokens #ExtremeRight #Neo-NaziFantasy doi.org/10.1017/S004...

I very frequently get called Jennifer by mistake (both in writing and aloud). Last time, the person said it's because she was "thinking of Jennifer Aniston." Honestly why did my parents not consider the professional consequences of giving me a similar name to a very famous actress.

After 2 desk rejects, let's hope third time is the charm for this latest journal article 🤞

Just arrived!

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

Growing increasingly frustrated with takes about the manosphere which focus on: - teenage boys (apparently the only group who use it) - social media (will banning it help?) - mental health (which, as we know, only affects men) With a complete refusal to actually name the problem (misogyny)

Today I am speaking at NHS Education for Scotland 'Sexual Offences: Working Together Best Practice Update' conference. An important event bringing together professionals and researchers in the field of gender-based violence to share best practice and updates on new research and policy

Proud to be the Women's History Month invited speaker for Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust today, even if the topic of online misogyny and the manosphere is a less fun part of women's lives today. Thanks to all who attended and asked such insightful questions!

New paper in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social exploring autistic adults embodied experiences of offline and online sociality. The paper is co-authored with @joelkrueger.com, and funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk. #Autism #Neurodiversity #Phenomenology #Embodiment journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Post-doc position at Basle :-) jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

An illustrative piece in that it says the quiet part out loud: When you ask *who* is "wrongly" included in the autism spectrum, the response is almost always "women". In other fields, this phenomenon of women being immediately dismissed, overlooked and underdiagnosed is called medical misogyny.

Weird Pride Day is coming up next week (the 4th of March)! @fergus.oolong.co.uk wrote a post for Edinburgh's radical bookshop, @lighthousebks.bsky.social about how it came to be, and why this year's theme is Weird Pride in a Hostile World. With many book recs! lighthousebookshop.com/posts/weird-...

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Exploring Autistic Women's Experience of Gender If you are an Autistic woman over 18 & would like to discuss your experience of gender & womanhood in a neurodivergent- friendly, non-judgemental space then you are qualified to participate! Contact Alana at [email protected]

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.