No time to read my new article, but still curious about climate change policy making in local government? Have a listen to this podcast, where I talk about it with Tom Bartlett and @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social. Many more great insights into language and power in their podcast!

Just over one week left to submit an abstract for our upcoming event, "AI and EAP: New Directions" hosted by Coventry University! You can view the call for papers and register to attend on 15 December at the link below:

We are looking for new committee members! If you would like to join the BAAL Corpus SIG as Meetings Secretary or as an Ordinary Member, please get in touch! You can learn more about the SIG at our website:

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for next year’s PALA conference at Uppsala is now out: www.uu.se/en/departmen.... We look forward to receiving your abstract!

According to @getglasgowmoving.org, single bus ticket prices in Glasgow are much higher than those in Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester… The campaign has organised a petition to take public control of the buses again: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Monatliche Leseempfehlung, auch und gerade für Jugendliche. Gibts kostenfrei als Dauerabo bei der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. https://www.bpb.de/

Calls: Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2026

Next week

@highland.gov.uk is looking for instructors to help deliver #BikeabilityScotland cycle training to schoolchildren across the local authority area - particularly encouraging Gaelic speakers and those who may not necessarily yet have instructor qualifications to apply. Find out more 🚴👇

Theme: Queer (dis)belonging CfP: 5 January 2026 Website: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk (to be updated as more info becomes available) PLEASE SHARE WIDELYYYYY 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎉

It’s still #DeafAwarenessMonth, a time for celebrating the d/Deaf community and shining a light on how the world can be more d/Deaf-inclusive! Here are nearly 40 titles with d/Deaf representation for you to check out this September — or any time of year 📚💞

DIVERSITY IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION 1/The annual data report tracking #MinorityEthnic teacher nos 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 has been published for 2025. Numbers remain stubbornly low with <2% of all teachers being #BAME. Still <1% are in any form of management position. Key points in the 🧵👇🏽 www.gov.scot/publications...

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding...?

Please sign this. In my previous job I helped a client access this service. The staff at the referring clinic told me that there's a strong association with access to more timely abortion being blocked by violent and abusive (ex)partners. These are women we should support, not penalise.

Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

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!