Last week, I visited @citius.gal, the Research Centre on Intelligent Technologies at the @usc.gal, my annual visit as a member of CiTIUS' Scientific Advisory Board. Always great to see how well the Centre is doing. And always such a pleasure to enjoy beautiful Santiago de Compostela!

Congratulations to @sfulinguistics.bsky.social professor, @mtaboada.bsky.social, a finalist for the SSHRC Insight Award! The Insight Award recognizes outstanding achievement arising from SSHRC-funded initiatives which contributed to knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world.

I'm a finalist for the 2025 #SSHRC Insight Impact Award! What an honour to be selected as finalist! Thank you, @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca, for supporting social sciences and humanities research across Canada. sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025...

And we’re also thrilled to announce that the next RaAM Conference will be held in Pamplona, Spain! Save the dates!

Amber Rynearson and I presented today at @raammetaphor.bsky.social, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification. What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!

It has been a pleasure to present our research in #IPrA2025 at The University of Queensland (Australia). Thanks, @cliff-goddard.bsky.social and Helen Bromhead (panel organizers), for your interest on our @uneduniv.bsky.social #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social) . 🤗 #PlainLanguage #NLP

IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki

Nice idea of the organizers of #ipra2025: signs with the first IPrA we attended

In Brisbane for #ipra2025!

📢 19th International Pragmatics Conference 🗓️ June 22–27 🌏 Brisbane 🔗 pragmatics.international/page/Program... M. Bermúdez, I. da Cunha (@uneduniv.bsky.social) & M. Taboada (@sfulinguistics.bsky.social) will present our #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social).

Talk by Barbara Dancygier, one of the most prominent scholars in cognitive linguistics. And this one is about memes!

Another paper a long time in the making: 3️⃣ years 🔟 authors 1️⃣ graduate seminar 9,789 podcast transcripts 1️⃣ paper: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2...

On how a paper took 10 years, 3 authors, and 3 continents www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...

Just out! Paper with @corpusling.bsky.social on sentiment analysis in news articles. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper on who is quoted in the news. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you are at the #LSA2025, come see me do the 5 Minute Linguist thing today, right after #WOTY web.cvent.com/event/40d941...

Hello Everyone! This is the BlueSky Account for the Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group (SFLIG). Looking forward to connecting with SFLIG members soon! Please like and share our BlueSky Account! Thank you! #sflinterest

Distinguished Professor Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social presented research at the Centre for Information Technology (CiTIUS) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...

Discourse Studies has just published a really interesting set of papers on topic modelling and corpus linguistics, by @corpusling.bsky.social @mtaboada.bsky.social, Jaworska, Schweinberger, Murakami, Hunston and Thompson: journals.sagepub.com/home/DIS

Come work at Simon Fraser University! Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics Preference will be given to complete applications received by November 30, 2024 www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a... linguistlist.org/issues/35.27...