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.

Super happy to see our paper (w/ @riannawalcott.bsky.social) in Journal of Sociolinguistics: "‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’ 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pleased to see the ebook publication of 'Discourse Approaches to Gendered Violence' with Brill. My chapter (no. 10) explores how users of the manosphere discursively downplay and justify violence against women and girls. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

📅 Save the date: AT-Autism Annual Conference 2026 Our annual conference will take place on Thursday 15 October at Church House Conference Centre, Westminster. More details soon, but for now... save the date! Please note: this replaces the earlier provisional date of 8 October.

Last chance to participate in this important research. Survey closes end March

This is the basis on which Starmer was elected Labour leader.

The Keir Starmer Story

Was great to be part of another Lexis episode, this time talking about the language around neurodiversity. We cover topics like the difference between saying "autistic person" and "person with autism," why we no longer say "high-functioning autism" and why all this matters anyway. Check it out!

Here we go! Episode 81 is now up and it's one where we hand over the interviewing to two A Level English Language students, Freya and Miles. They interview @jessaiston.bsky.social about the language of and around neurodiversity. open.spotify.com/episode/6XCX...

The Pentagon says it’s ‘lethalitymaxxing’. Why has ‘incel’ slang crossed into the mainstream?

We've got a new episode coming very soon and it's a really special one that has been kicked off and then carried out by two A level Eng Lang students. It's all about the language of & about neurodiversity, especially autism, and it features an interview with @jessaiston.bsky.social Coming soon!

This project will deliver numerous mental health activities and interventions for nearly a hundred children who faced the unimaginable in occupation detention!! What we need to make it happen is YOUR support for materials & facilitation. Anything helps: chuffed.org/project/hmg

"women fear turning 30 because that's when they hit the wall and lose all their eggs" actually women fear turning 30 because that's when they lose their eligibility for a railcard and have to pay full price train fares

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.

Ameliorating the disadvantage for autistic job seekers #CRAEresearchSummaries

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Nice to see a review of my book 'Male Separatism' published in Discourse in Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

AHRC: We regret to inform you that your application was unsuccessful on this occasion. For more feedback, sign in to your account. The feedback in question: "You were unsuccessful because we didn't pick it"

* CURRENTLY RECRUITING * Do you have experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? If you can answer yes to both questions, then we would like to hear from you. This study is concerned with understanding the link between everyday music listening, mental health & wellbeing. 1/4

Would you like to apply for the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships at Tampere University with me as your PI and join our masterclass to prepare your app? Get in touch with me (or another prospective supervisor from @pluraltampere.bsky.social) by 27.4. www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

Gaza death toll passes 75,000 as landmark peer-reviewed studies verify huge undercounts in official data. #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

🥁🥁🥁 ....and here is the final conference poster for #OctoConf3 🐙 in Tampere 🇫🇮 later this year (Nov 19-20) ❄️ events.tuni.fi/persuasion2026/ ping @coocho.bsky.social @domini.bsky.social

The IPC reports that most people in Gaza are facing acute malnutrition; don't let families go without during Ramadan. Give, then take action. Six families, one link. Our ask is just your spare change, as long as you click "weekly" or "monthly" on it: chuffed.org/project/hope...

English linguists #world Englishes Open rank professorial position at the university of Basel, Switzerland jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Excited to have two presentations accepted at #CADAAD2026 this year! Both taking a multimodal CDA approach, with the first one looking at 'stay at home girlfriend' TikTok and the second one looking at manosphere influencers on YouTube with @veronikakoller.bsky.social & @alexiconartist.bsky.social

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

New hobby for 2026 is brewing my own kombucha. First batch (flavoured with raspberry, ginger, and a bit of lemon) came out really well. Only problem is I drank it all before I could begin the next batch.

The University of Birmingham are finding out what Autistic and non-Autistic children aged 6 to 14 find comfortable and uncomfortable to look at. The findings will help make places and materials more comfortable Find out more Dr. Tyler [email protected] @cmanning.bsky.social: [email protected]

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

As a woman would you really vote for this, Reform commanding Women what to do with their own bodies.

Really making the subtext text

good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts join us in the fight against these cuts!

Have any linguists written or commented on the proliferation of incel/manosphere words - e.g., mogging, pilled, maxxing, -cels. I even saw posts claiming "foid" was gen-z slang. What is going on.

Hi all, I'm leading a study! We're looking to understand transfem experiences searching for information related to transitioning online, setting transition-related goals, and making decisions based on the information acquired in these searches.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Are you an early career researcher interested in communicating linguistics to broader audiences? Consider applying for a @lingcomm.org grant! Deadline April 30, via @lingthusiasm.com lingcomm.org/grants/

New book by @issyclarke.bsky.social and the Questioning Vaccination Discourse team: 'HPV Vaccination Discourse Online: A Corpus Linguistic Approach'. We show how the HPV vaccine has been talked about on Twitter/X since 2008. Read chapter 4 for the main findings. www.routledge.com/HPV-Vaccinat...

We are hiring next year in semantics- one year positions of course less exciting and good for the field than straight up tenure track postings, but on the other hand hiring in something that isn’t computational feels like a win anymore in linguistics. Come bring some innovative takes on meaning!

The octopus conference is back! 🐙 "Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language", Nov 19-20, 2026, Tampere University, Finland #LanguageAndPersuasion #Linguistics #OctoConf

The Middletown Centre for Autism Podcast goes on just quietly getting the most interesting autistic researchers on, and Cat Hughes is an excellent interviewer. Here's the brilliant Gemma Williams on linguistics, autism and the Double Empathy Problem: www.buzzsprout.com/1184276/epis...

We're hiring! Come join Nelya & I on the Autism in Affinity Spaces project - we're looking for a postdoc with expertise in working with multimodal datasets. Autistic researchers are highly encouraged to apply. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC919/p...

Deadline is coming up: 30th January!

As well as my monograph anniversary, also hit another big academic milestone today - first paper rejection! 😎🥳

Happy publication anniversary 🥳

Desperately sad news about Deborah Cameron today. She was such a brilliant, incisive presence in the world of linguistics and particularly language and gender. Don't know what else to say but I'm sure there will be many tributes paid to her and her work in the days to come.

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.