Great news they are extending the deadline. I've presented as BAAL Health & Science SIG and each time it's been a very warm and welcoming environment, that encourages the sharing of ideas. Good first conference to present at for #GraduateStudents and it's online!

Direct link here blog.bham.ac.uk/urbterr/2026...

Very happy to share the new course that I contributed to while working with the Centre for Crime, Justice, and Policing at the University of Birmingham. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/short-...

Everyone who is sick and tired of American owned media gaslighting Canadians please sign this petition: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

This needs to be the news headline.

People used up all the clicks on that gift link! 🤣 archive.is/I1lyh

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

Do Good December - Day 13: See how many different people you can smile at today actionforhappiness.org/do-good-dece... #DoGoodDecember

Want to know what a genuine climate emergency plan would actually look like? Check out our inspiring new 12-min video on the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Action. 👇 Full video is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdK...

Geneviève Bergeron, 21 Hélène Colgan, 23 Nathalie Croteau, 23 Barbara Daigneault, 22 Anne-Marie Edward, 21 Maud Haviernick, 29 Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, 31 Maryse Laganière, 25 Maryse Leclair, 23 Anne-Marie Lemay, 22 Sonia Pelletier, 28 Michèle Richard, 21 Annie St-Arneault, 23 Annie Turcotte, 20

Seminar: From Micro Aggression to Micro Inclusion: A Linguistic Approach to Decolonising the Everyday With Dr Zozan Balci @livunienglish.bsky.social 📅Wednesday 3rd December, 2-3:30pm 📍Sherrington Building, SR 4 🎟️or join us on Zoom: tinyurl.com/3z9y3pz6

I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. There’s something magical about letting people be. Letting them shine in the ways that make sense to them. 🧡 #kindness #positivity #belief #compassion

Started a new remote job. The team I’m working with is mostly US and some Canadians. They use the plus emoji (➕) as an “I agree” which I’ve never seen before (usually it’s a thumbs 👍). #Linguistics

Nine-in-ten U.S. adults say they at least sometimes come across news they think is inaccurate, but they are split over how easy it is to distinguish truth from fiction. www.pewresearch.org/...

I finished watching S3 of The Diplomat. Can't stop thinking about the line "Stop admiring the problem and focus on solving it" (or thereabouts, can't recall exact quote).

South Korea has just launched a HUGE universal basic income pilot focused on rural areas. Around 220,000 people will receive 150,000 won a month for two years in 7 counties. A similar pilot in the US would cost $1 billion and provide $180 a month to all of Wyoming outside of Cheyenne and Casper.

For our good night we are sharing this great piece on the history of processed food in America. We agree with the 🧠🪱 on this - the American diet of processed foods is trash. But we don’t blame you, we blame Big Ag and Big Food who are as bad as Big Tobacco. Good night!

Very busy in my local ward for voting today. Good luck for today to the election workers as those paper based ballots are time consuming.

After 12+ years of working at the University of Birmingham in the Linguistics and Communication department, it’s time to say goodbye. I started off as a tutor in 2012 after completing my MA with the same department. Tasks and roles grew over the years and then I began my PhD with them.

Would it even be a holiday weekend if an appliance didn’t break? Here’s to squeezing out the laundry and eating festive! 🇨🇦🙏🍁 🍂

Our next keynote talk at #CMHP25 is from Dr Marc Williams @clinpsy-marc.bsky.social who is going to explore: Climate Distress, Coping, and the Role of Professionals in a Rapidly Warming World. A timely reminder that climate change is a mental health issue as well as an environmental one. THREAD🧵

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

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It’s getting spooky out there. Still need my Halloween name if anyone has suggestions

🧡 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 A day to honour the children who never came home, the survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities. We stand in remembrance, reflection, and commitment to reconciliation. 🔗 Learn more: www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/16311301...

Check it out! We made a series of Calgary election zines. One for each of the city's 14 wards, containing all the councillor candidates for each. Plus a mayoral one—so 15 in all. They'll be going into libraries but let us know if you also want copies to share! www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgary-2025...

“Asking for help isn’t a weakness, it’s a strength.” Brené Brown We don’t earn medals for not asking for help. Resting, pausing, and reaching for support keep us human, healthy, and ready for what matters. 🧡 #kindness #positivity #SelfCare Picture by @joyfulsmolthings

Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

I've been asked a few times now about any reverse culture shock from moving back to Canada. To be honest, I don't really have any this time around. It's more about reminding myself the following: 🐿️ not 🐀 running on the streets and rooftops 👶 not 🐶 in the strollers going for afternoon walks

Today in luxury surveillance.

My granny starter pack just arrived: heated cat bed and grocery push cart! I’m doing my darnedest to recreate our 15-minute neighborhood lifestyle. I’ll check back in during winter to let you know (I mean, is it worse than +42 in the heat? Time and frostbite will tell).

‘Flip a switch’: Calgarians encouraged to turn out the lights for birds www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

#linguistic folks!

Come on Canada, take a stand, pick consistent units of measurement!

Have #publiclibrary card and new reading materials. Calm descends upon the household. Meet you in the kitchen when we’re all hungry. (Satisfied sigh)

Ah, a brief moment of nothingness - yes, please

Nature things we’re learning in Calgary: we’ve seen a lot more rabbits 🐇 than expected but fewer squirrels 🐿️ Magpies here have the attitude of Seoul pigeons but not the filth from dumpster diving or pollution

Passed the first “new to the building neighbor” test AKA their dog really likes me so I must be good people

At that stage of an international move where you start turning off all the old apps and begin searching for the equivalent new local ones. Can’t delete them though as you still want to do product and price comparisons.

After 18+ years in Seoul 🇰🇷 and 20+ years in Asia, it’s time to go ‘home’ 🏡 After living abroad for so long I feel more international than I do Canadian 🇨🇦. I’m looking forward to the next adventure. Learning about Calgary, Alberta again and using my international skills and experience. 1/2

New evidence just out shows definitive link between mechanisms driving cancer in smoking with those caused by pollution. Common mechanisms included mutations in the TP53 and EGFR genes 🧪

This bomb is going to blow over the next decade and will hit Calgary particularly badly due to so many single-family-zoned neighbourhoods that are poorly serviced by transit - not to mention the complete lack of winter maintenance in residential areas lloydalter.substack.com/p/the-demogr... #yyccc

As always, you’ve been a delight #Birmingham, 🇬🇧 until next time

The world's most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors - lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals. u.afp.com/SxDw

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Spot the tourist, Birmingham, UK edition - nervously walking without a crosswalk or without the light but in the crowd … (none of you would make it in Seoul!)