The latest example of Trump’s relentless assault on free speech. He's rewriting visa rules to make it harder for foreign reporters to cover his presidency - so he can just kick them out if they write stories he doesn't like.

I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

The moral abomination needs to be the focus of opposition to this. Call them out on the hideousness of the proposal. The legal “impossibility” can be sidestepped by horrific methods (camps, extraction to third countries, etc).

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

New semester starting this week - it’s very exciting to meet our new on-campus and online MSc cohorts as well as some new PhD TESOL (Research) students! #TeamStirling

The autumn semester has started for our MSc TESOL programme and I did the first session! How are we suddenly in autumn 😁🍁 #TeamStirling @stirtesol.bsky.social

Week 1 on #CorpusMOOC: key techniques of data analysis #concordance #frequency 👉 Join us today for free! edx.org/learn/social...

#CorpusMOOC starts today! Learn about #corpuslinguistics, #AI and emerging technologies applied to a range of social issues. Free for anybody to attend. Just click on the 'Audit' button. @corpussocialsci.bsky.social www.edx.org/learn/social...

Our Concordance feature now has a colorful upgrade to make patterns and structures easier to see. Highlights show up automatically when using filters, opening results from Word Sketch, or applying CQL labels. (ske.li/cql_label). #corpuslinguistics #textanalysis

Very exciting to see that my book is now up on the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social website! 'Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Analysing Marginalised Identities through an Intersectional Lens' will be out in November 🥳 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

May be of interest of attendees at the #RC21symposium by @rc21project.bsky.social, where Susan gave a wonderful talk on a very related topic back in spring ☺️

Just discovered that Susan Hunston's new book "Pattern, Construction, System: A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis" is out in OPEN ACCESS! 🤩 www.cambridge.org/core/books/p... #corpuslinguistics #appliedlinguistics #linguistics #patterngrammar

The poster competition at #BAAL2025 includes an entry from LASS member @danielcalvert.bsky.social on Glasgow-based refugee community groups, looking at the role of translanguaging and decolonial struggle in the lives of people seeking refuge in Scotland.

Alongside the ‪@leverhulme.ac.uk, we invite postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. Application deadline is 5 November. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA

🤼 Babel Young Writers' Competition - get printed in Babel! 🏆 Here's inspiration from previous winner @danielstrogen.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4hk9sxpm

Euroculinary help needed! 🇪🇺🍽️ For an event we're organising, our university restaurant offered to cook dishes typical for the cities of our European partner universities. For all students and staff during a whole week - if we provide ideas. Any suggestions for dishes from the following ten places? ⬇️

📚 New paper with Alan Partington "Lexical Priming: Evolution, evaluation, extension" out in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics @ijcl.bsky.social! You can find it here 👇 tinyurl.com/mjwmdvyd I'm very grateful to the editors, reviewers and colleagues for their valuable feedback 🙏

At Glasgow Women’s Library we ask visitors to wear a mask on Fridays to help keep our community safe. We provide masks for anyone who needs one, but we don’t currently have the most effective kinds (like N95s& KN95s). If you have any spare masks to donate, we’d be so grateful. Thankyou.

The silence from this Govt. as masked men try to force entry into people's homes is deafening. Asylum seekers in hotels have no other option, and they're being terrorised. Instead of legitimising hatred, the Govt. must provide safe routes & affordable housing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If you are interested in equitable international research partnerships you might like to join our conference exploring this theme

Only five places remaining on our @edisglasgow.bsky.social #EPA in partnership with @edisglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @rushtondr.bsky.social @markrpriestley.bsky.social @annadbeck.bsky.social @sineadgormally.bsky.social @dennisafrancis.bsky.social @uofgheadship.bsky.social

On the final day of our Refugees Are Welcome series, Scottish Refugee Council CEO Sabir Zazai writes about the 10 things we can do in Scotland to turn the tide on anti-refugee sentiment 👇

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Being led by the wonderful @rushtondr.bsky.social at Uni of Stirling. Link to the survey is here #ScotEduSky : qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

There's been a lot of talk about asylum hotels over the last few weeks, but little in the way of practical suggestions. Our new analysis at @refugeecouncil.bsky.social sets out how the government could end the use of hotels within months, rather than years www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

A practical way to accelerate the exit from using hotels for asylum seekers, to end their use by Spring 2026, not 2029 from @refugeecouncil.bsky.social today www-media.refugeecouncil.org.uk/media/docume...

Our "language and literature across the lifespan" conference (Fri 12 Dec) has expanded to include an interdisciplinary half-day symposium on Thurs 11 Dec, with perspectives from literature and life-writing, (socio)linguistics, and psychology. All details at lifespan.unamur.be!

Interesting side note: “In Germany, where support for climate action remains strong, sales of plant-based food have kept growing. Elsewhere, vegans will regain the momentum if the public regains a sense of possibility”

Looking forward to this event & networking more with colleagues across Scotland. Happy to have joined LASS as the Stirling rep 😊

Save the date for our next big event! "Language and AI", University of Edinburgh Friday 28th November, 3-5pm, followed by a networking reception More info to follow soon ...

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

Missed out on #CL2025? Four of our wonderful plenary talks are now available to watch on demand! YouTube links on conference website and in replies: www.cl2025.co.uk/home

Super proud of my first Cambridge Elements, joint work with my long-term collaborator Francesca Strik-Lievers: "Linguistic Synesthesia: A Meta-Analysis" www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/linguistic-synesthesia/C6B019926C53001D1D698CB0C46F80C6/ Quick summary of the take home message in thread ⬇️

My PhD student Yue Li is looking for L1 speakers of Chinese and Spanish for her online English experiment! Please see below for details!

Delighted to share this corpus with fellow researchers. Enjoy! And many thanks to Anne O’Keeffe and others who have worked on developing it over the years. @calsul.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social

How do you decide whether or not to use AI tools in your research? One approach is to judge the extent to which they align with the values that underpin your research - in this open access paper we look at this question of alignment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NEW on our Substack: Help your HEC reps decide what we should do next for our pay dispute! Please see the linked form, fill it in, & pass to your contacts. The form is open until 5pm Friday 27th Aug in advance of HEC on Monday 1st Sep. Please repost #ucu ucucommons.substack.com/p/help-your-...

Researchers in Brazil — Estamos procurando por você! The CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowships support top researchers from Brazil with a fully funded research stay in Germany. Learn more at our upcoming Info Session: 🗓 26 Aug, 10am – 11:30am (Brasília time) www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/i...

Happy Release Day: Unser Band "TikTok – Memefication und Performance" ist heute erschienen. Aktuelle Forschung zu TikTok aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht. Und Open Access. Check it out unter link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Our new book is live! Edited by @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social and Luisa Conti, it brings together perspectives from sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, & intercultural communication studies to explore digital interculturality. Check it out! #openAccess www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

After an amazing weekend of printmaking at Stirling, we are selling our 2025 poster of Stirling Castle for a min donation of £45 including p&p. 40x60cm and all profits to community printmaking by Printmakers of Scotland. UK only. Contact [email protected] if you would like a poster!

📢📃 New open access 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social in @registerstudies.bsky.social: Exploring public-oriented research communication - A register perspective. You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2... & some details in the 🧵 below⬇️ @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @um.es

What are the communicative functions of out of office emails? Authors Yagmur Demir, Ryan Bartholomew and Tove Larsson answer this question in “I’m on retreat and will respond to messages after 7/6: A register analysis of out-of-office emails" Out now: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Register Studies is on Bluesky! Stay updated on recent developments in register research: benjamins.com/catalog/rs?s...

Find my recently edited book "Language Policy as Practice: Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research" with Palgrave here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Interesting article by Cannon-Jones and Wiegand (2025) To what extent can a comedy drama provide a classroom model for natural conversation? A multi-dimensional register analysis of the British series Cold Feet www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

In this article, Jill Cannon Jones and I provide concrete pedagogical recommendations (including a lesson outline) based on our corpus linguistic analysis of the British TV series “Cold Feet”. Really proud of Jill; the study is an extension of her MSc TESOL coursework at Stirling :) #TeamStirling

The Curran Fellowship covering research and travel expenses for research on British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century may be of interest to #DH and #VictorianStudies folks on here ☺️ rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

A bheil ùidh agaibh ann am foillseachadh Gàidhlig, is sibh fileanta anns a’ chànan? Tha cothrom ann do aon neach sgoilearachd foillseachaidh maoinichte fhaighinn airson a’ chùrsa MLitt ann am Foghlam Foillseachaidh, Oilthigh Shruighlea, 2025-26. www.gaelicbooks.org/cothrom-mlit...