In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...

Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A fabulous round up of autism research from the past few years collated by @annmemmott.bsky.social annsautism.blogspot.com/2019/01/auti...

👇Exciting opportunity for a postdoc position at Queen Mary, University of London. This project is situated at the intersection of digital linguistics, visual studies, and critical autism studies.

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...

fellow linguistics pals, in case you missed it, this is where we’re at right now at Essex if you are a student or alumni, please please please make your concerns known to the university

What people say = "We should ban under 18s from social media" What I hear = "I want LGBTQ and disabled kids to be even MORE isolated!"

Thanks so much to everyone who attended our workshop. I personally had an excellent two days and have learnt so much - I hope you all did too!

Happy New Year Bluesky peeps! Are you #autistic? Please see our latest call for survey volunteers for a PhD project exploring autistic #inertia. Interested? More information & the survey can be found here: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Thanks to everyone who took part in this research I led for the Neurodivergent Task & Finish Group! We explored neurodivergent perspectives on a strengths & needs-led approach in schools—support that focuses on strengths and support needs, and can be used without waiting for a diagnosis.

This makes clear these are conscious editorial choices, not concerns over being sued etc It's exactly the same logic behind the mainstream media using euphemisms like "populism" or "hard right" rather than far right, racism or fascism These is a top-down legitimation of reactionary politics

Tips for getting your work published by an overworked journal editor academic.oup.com/ccc/article-...

New year, new book! Out now: 'Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social and @robbielove.org and published by @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. More info in thread ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

- Helping a friend with recruitment - If anyone here knows a queer and neurodivergent TikTok user aged 16-25 who would be up for an online interview (including silent scrolling time!), would you let them know about my study? I would be so grateful 🎓🌈 linktr.ee/nqresearch.s...

The CfPs for LavLang32 at Edinburgh is now OPEN! A reminder of our stellar lineup: • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE) • Prof. Erez Levon (Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Dr. Eddie Ungless (UoE) Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

Opening up my email for the first time in nearly 2 weeks. Received a request to review an article on Christmas eve, with a reminder on boxing day 🤦‍♀️okay

Penultimate working day of the year so just for fun, here's my Academia Wrapped 📚 Publications = 2 Publications in press = 2 Publications submitted for review = 5 Conference presentations = 4 Reviews = 40 Plus invited talks, media work, parliament evidence etc. Busy year. Ready for a break now.

Apparently my 2024 paper in Critical Discourse Studies has been viewed nearly 12,500 times, which puts it as the 15th most read article for the journal. Wow! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's only a few weeks now until our interactive workshop, featuring talks by @thewoodbug.bsky.social, @petewharmby.com and more fantastic presenters. It's free to attend and will be in hybrid format. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focused-in...

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

This isn't an NGO, it's six survival funds & a mutual aid project stuck together. We partnered with seven friends who can't campaign for themselves and were getting truly no support. Current needs: emergency healthcare, winter & newborn supplies, food. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Your support is being stretched as much as possible, even as support dwindles. One of the three families who were stranded in a tent managed to get shelter before the devastating storms. This is LIFESAVING. Two families still need to get shelter ASAP: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Thinking about that time I accidentally pressed submit on a review too early, so I was meant to tell the editor confidentially that "I always struggle with major revisions vs reject" but instead they got the message "I always struggle"

how come every journal uses editorial manager for organising reviews, but every time you review for a different journal you need to set up a new username and password. surely this cannot be the most efficient system we have.

In this second part of her work on Critical Discourse Analysis, @jessaiston.bsky.social applies the frameworks that she laid out in part 1 to work she has done on the language of the manosphere.

Update: Registration is now live! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focused-in... You can sign up for just one day or both days. Reminder that Thursday is online and Friday is hybrid. All welcome, hope to see as many of you as possible in January!

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

Update: Registration is now live! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focused-in... You can sign up for just one day or both days. Reminder that Thursday is online and Friday is hybrid. All welcome, hope to see as many of you as possible in January!

For our seven friends in Gaza, it's still survival in still-fire, still-famine, still-displacement—and still-reliance on strangers for help. Urgent medical emergencies, devastating winter rains in tents, infant needs while prices of goods are astronomical: you can help. chuffed.org/project/hope...

In the span of a hour, they stealth edited the article from trans woman to "biological male who identifies as a woman." The BBC isn't fit for purpose.

You can literally say what you want about trans people and the UK courts are fine with it. This was a *child*

🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following: - Full report - Easy Read report - Report summary with conclusions and recommendations - Shorthand

Transcribing some red pill YouTube videos this morning and Basil walks over my keyboard and manages to press the off button. Clearly he is not a fan.

This CFP is now closed so thanks to all who shared & submitted. Trying to put together the schedule and it's looking very exciting.

Translanguaging in action - a powerful illustration. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Love a good North American vowel merger. Transcribed this YouTuber as talking about "fairy boats" and "fairying women around" for several sentences before realising that he probably is talking about ferries instead. But for a moment I lived in a beautiful world.

🍔🍔🍔 Our very own PhD student Elliot bush has published a piece for In Conversation titled: 'Is a Veggie Burger Still a Burger? A linguist Explains' Read it here: theconversation.com/is-a-veggie-...

The likelihood of a trans athlete making the Olympics is already a small fraction of that of their cis counterparts because while cis people are training, trans people are trying to get healthcare. But let's make sure trans people can't even dream of competing.

iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last

Brianna Ghey was not murdered in cold blood by a phone. Or a social media app. She was murdered in cold blood with knives plunged into her 28 times by two 15-year-olds fed a constant stream of hate and dehumanization by UK corporate media and the UK government.

Words & Actions podcast alert: @linguadigitalis.bsky.social, Matt Drury and I have recorded the first episode in a six-part series "The language of...". First up: language of emotion. To follow: the language of food, waste, nature, music and water. wordsandactionspodcast.wordpress.com

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

Reminder about our workshop! If you're interested in contributing, please send me an email so we can discuss it further.

On autism and loneliness: "Many autistic people want to build connections with people, but this can so easily become overstimulating and exhausting. This creates a vicious cycle. Autistic processing may intensify this cycle." From @craeioe.bsky.social: crae.ioe.ac.uk/trapped-in-a... #neurodiversity

A postdoctoral researcher position (languages and conversation analysis) open in Oulu! #EMCA oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism. What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections? My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social! 1/7