Imagine being the most decorated gymnast in history, almost dying, and media referring to you as “NFL Wife” as your greatest achievement.😑 Misogyny is a helluva drug. Smh. Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

It's Pride season! A reminder to all bookstores for your Pride collections, pls consider my book 'Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars' published by Bloomsbury, it's a crossover book, paperback, annoyingly in academic catalogue but it's a general text www.bloomsbury.com/uk/female-ma...

Lovely meeting with the octo-crew (@coocho.bsky.social & @domini.bsky.social) today to plan "Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language" (aka #OctoConf3). Abstract submissions are due July 1! The octopus awaits you 🐙 events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...

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Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"

Like, I'd go one step further and say that you probably can't talk about how patriarchy hurts men if you can't establish first and foremost how that's a result of misogyny, of demanding that men instrumentalize violence to place themselves above women. It's the "taking misogyny seriously" part.

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

(This is why masculinity is always in crisis, because it's in a perennial state of needing to be 'proved' through ritualistic patriarchal violence against the abject and effeminised. What is 'manly' is often synonymous with what is reactionary.)

Since I'm getting accused of not reading the article, let me make it clear: I did, and my issue was with the framing, not the content. Starting with the headline: women are not the 'new' enemy of far-right extremists. Women have always been one of the central targets of the far-right. 1/

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

Honestly, the cloying desperation to find a perfect definition that will exclude trans women from legible, legitimate womanhood has in and of itself demonstrated (almost as well as any materialist feminist can) that sex is social, mutable, and a regime of violent policing.

Great work by @translucent.org.uk www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/tra...

If the consultation only ends tonight, how can they already know what they are going to do? I mean, I know how. But seriously...

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

Last day to complete this UK government consultation related to #children & #online activities. www.gov.uk/government/c... #tech #AI #edusky #socialmedia #parents

Since the concept is being misunderstood and misused, let's talk about what "third-sexing" means as a mechanism of transphobia. I built on an idea first discussed in @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl" that discussed how, interpersonally, cis people refuse to acknowledge our genders.

Ha, ha, ha! This is brilliant. Agree with every word, and not only because it has a righteous pop at Reeves. Also underlines key point, in order for there to be a way to be masculine, some boys & men aren't going to cut it, no matter how many ways/types we add. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/07...

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

We can all see where this could lead… “It’s my belief that black people are lesser than white people, but I’m not a racist” “It’s my belief that women should remain at home and have families, but I’m not a misogynist“ The EHRC and this govt have opened up a Pandora’s box, all to own the trans.

Autistic people are in every profession, and that includes the law. But research is thin. A new study is listening to UK autistic legal professionals. If you can help us with an online interview, get in touch at [email protected] Not you? A share would help us reach others 🙂

Have been asked to share this study flyer - Welsh speakers and learners needed for study into how video calls affect comprehension!

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

We are delighted to announce the first Call for Proposals for the 14th conference of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), to be held at York St John Univeristy (York, United Kingdom) between Wednesday 21st and Friday 23rd July 2027. @igala.bsky.social @lsjysj.bsky.social

A cause for national shame. This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe. Until 2015, the UK was top. We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe. We're now near Albania.

Congratulations to our very own Prof. Lucy Jones! Her new book, Language and LGBTQ+ Youth, Analysing Marginalised Identities Through an Intersectional Lens, has been shortlisted for the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2026.

The scale of UKHE cuts, primarily in arts and humanities, is off the charts. Here’s a petition you can sign to save humanities degrees at Hertfordshire: c.org/dpphqsKQvg

This looks like a really great event that examines how language bias and social attitudes affect women in football. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-pen...

Please sign 👇

The University presents this as 'Future Nottingham' but it absolutely guts the arts and humanities. They want to sack 40% of the Dept of English, for example. Languages will be cut entirely. If that's the future, it's shit (and very far from what a University should be)

As a linguist I know I am supposed to be descriptive when it comes to language change. But on the other hand, if everyone could stop saying "-maxxing" that would be great.

Have been asked to share this study flyer - Welsh speakers and learners needed for study into how video calls affect comprehension!

I just did a YouGov survey, and Zack Polanski was the *only* politician to be named in a question. Specifically in this question. No other party leader or MP was mentioned by name in any other section of the entire survey. I complained in the free text feedback box at the end 🙄

Please can media get their act together reporting the man who deliberately killed a young woman Joanne Shaw in Bristol with an explosive device. Shaw managed to save her child, getting them to safety. The way it's being reported is as if she accidentally dug up an old WWII bomb in the garden.

Please consider donating to this - it helps SO many people with so many pressing needs - medical, food, shelter. Dignity and survival. I donate £6 a week and have been for the past year. Join me! ⬇️

New paper: Transition Out of School for Autistic Young People: An Umbrella Review Recommendation: We need to plan with, not for, autistic young people and ensure that research, practice, and policy are aligned around outcomes that actually matter to them. #AutRes journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

And here's our third episode of the week. It's an interview with Chris Montgomery at University of Sheffield about his new project with @moderntoss.bsky.social on regional swearing. #linguistics #swearing spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/yHSpUK3lW2b

Applications are still open for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. These grants help to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

Feeling the post-INSAR blues? Fear not - ARCH has just the thing for you! 🎉 On May 27th, we'll be hosting Mark Somerville, who will discuss his review on the lived experience of transgender autistic people. Interested? Tickets are available @ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arch-semin... ✉️ #Autism #AutRes

At the end of all these cuts, will Linguistics actually be taught outside of a few 'elite' Universities? (and even at those institutions, the field will be much smaller than it once was) If you aren't seeing this as a Widening Participation issue, then you really don't get what's going on.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

New episode is out: an interview with Dr Rob Topinka about digital rhetoric, the power of persuasion online & why language and politics are so intertwined. It's a good one if you're thinking of language investigations on political language. #linguistics spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/fTKWDtxIU2b

The assumption being that terroristic violence is constrained exclusively to: - a monstrous "other", exogenous threat (young, often ethnisised men) - public sphere (not the private) - random targets (not ex/partners) - spectacular forms of violence (not cyber a/o sexual) Nothing in the law says so.

FYI @jessaiston.bsky.social in France there are only 2 *known* cases of masculinist inspired femicides: a woman killed in 2020 by a man radicalised in the MGTOW radical milieu & two women killed recently by a man radicalised by the "fathers rights" movement. Yet only incels are targeted by P/CVE

This is a huge problem and I've been calling it out for over a year now, to the point of now refusing systematically interviews for articles about "youth and internet". The subject is male supremacism, radicalisation and terroristic violence.

This is a perfect example of internalized ableism. Being so terrified of your own diagnosis that you endanger everyone with it by calling for it to be hidden and squirreled away where no one can find it and make everyone who has it hide in the shadows or be publicly judged.

Can I just say I'm genuinely so tired of this. Ableism being still alive and well, non-autistic people fetishizing autism("get yourself an autistic gf!"), and now people spreading the idea of autism diagnosis as a "social contagion"

The deadline has now been extended to May 10