I love a bit of literary tourism - visiting places I know from stories in books and films. So what a joy it was to talk to Lee Jackson about #Dickensland! Join us for the start of the new season of #LifeandLanguage @victorianlondon.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0aB3...

We're delighted to announce 15 fully funded scholarships for English teachers from Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka to join our MSc TESOL (Online) in Sept 2026, including a 2-week visit to Stirling! Funded by @britishcouncil.bsky.social. Further details: www.stir.ac.uk/scholarships... #TeamStirling

Today ⬇️ Last chance to get in your language and food fix of the year #BaeFoLa #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

This looks great!

Why languages provision in Scottish schools needs urgent review www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Edinburgh on Friday for lively discussions on the linguistic, economic and social dynamics of AI. Planning will begin for our next event before too long, so please tag or message us with ideas for your preferred topic or location!

An exciting development. Great to see it based in Scotland - maybe of interest to @langsocscot.bsky.social folks? 😊

We're excited to re-launch the journal "Innovations in Linguistics Education", a forum for evidence-based research in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in linguistics! We open for submissions in January 2026. journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/

“15,000 university jobs are up for the chop. This is a national crisis in higher education and it is being allowed to happen.” Jo Grady on BBC politics live today.

❄️Our Holiday Sale is here!❄️ 50% off all books! plutobooks.com

New publication Recent grammatical change in English by Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Transmission, Change and Ideology, 2025, 505-535 www.academia.edu/145369089/Re...

Now available for preorder www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teacher-a...

The Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life at @durham.ac.uk is hiring up to 7 (!) researchers to the role of Assistant Professor (Research) for a period of 36 months to work on: generativity; image and language; synthetic worlds; and being human. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Still tickets left for this free event - next Monday

We are delighted to host an important event at SCRCM - Educators’ Sense-Making of the Evolving Mathematics Curriculum in Scotland. Wed 20 May 2026 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in Stirling Led by Sinem Hizli Alkan, Corinne Angier and Andy Brown Sign up at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

Check out Viola's book on surveillance discourses - it is the latest addition to the Corpus and Discourse series, and I highly recommend it!

Just submitted the final proofs for this book 😱 It's available to pre-order for March delivery if anyone is interested or wants to order it for a library ☺️ (Honestly had mixed feelings about not wanting to "let it go" but am also so ready to be done with it 🫣) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring...

‘Parnell’s Constructing Brexit Britain emerges as a pioneering scholarly endeavor that intricately examines the discursive formations shaping British national identity amid the tumultuous Brexit process.’ New review of my book in Political Studies Review! journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Join us for this free SDG series seminar discussing Carbon Colonialism with Dr Laurie Parsons. We will discuss how rich countries export environmental impact to poorer ones. ✔️ Discussion with Laurie ✔️ Global Citizenship resources and activities to explore the topic with learners buff.ly/xU8CGlh

Calling third level maths and science teachers! Join us for the online launch of these new resources on the maths and science of plant-collecting. Learn more about taking a Global Citizenship approach to learning about speed, distance and time. 📅 Dec 9, 4pm to 4:30pm 🔗 buff.ly/kBXfIvR

Registration is now open! Join us at Lexicom 2026, a 5-day workshop in #lexicography, #corpuslinguistics, #dictionaries, and lexical computing. Be part of this well-established course with a 20-year tradition, held in Palermo 🇮🇹, 14–18 September. 🔗 lexicom.courses/lexicom-2026...

Our Advent 2025 series starts today!🎇 See how often snow appeared in past years with the Timeline tool in our Trends corpora: ske.li/06x More small insights with Sketch Engine coming soon. #corpuslinguistics #languagedata

Take care everyone!

It’s so sad to see what is happening to higher education, especially at this time when so many crises intersect, where the world would really need more rather than less emphasis on education; time and space for learning and dialogue, and expertise. Depressing.

Workshop 5 "Exploring the Nexus of Social Justice, Intercultural Communication, and Sustainability: Perspectives from Lower Saxony and Scotland" highlighted that students "are not the consumer of the knowledge some researcher produced for [them], but are also the researchers [themselves]." 1/2

Workshop Hosts: Prof. Dr. Lizzie Rushton @rushtondr.bsky.social Dr. Viola Wiegand violawiegand.bsky.social Dr. Adnan Yilmaz from @stir.ac.uk and Prof. Dr. Anne Baron Onur Çiçek from @leuphana.bsky.social. 2/2

We really enjoyed today’s workshop, meeting our @leuphana.bsky.social collaborators & discussing diverse perspectives on sustainability with participants at our world cafe stations in the second half! Many thanks to @ecas-academia.org and @royalsoced.bsky.social making bringing us all together

Not a drill - there's a Britain-focused lectureship (FT, permanent) available. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ588/l...

Our @stirtesol.bsky.social & @leuphana.bsky.social workshop on social justice, intercultural communication and sustainability at the @royalsoced.bsky.social & @ecas-academia.org #Jointforum2025 has just kicked off 😊

The procession of university language closures will trip up UK diplomacy www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/proc...

Aren't foreign student fees pretty much the only thing keeping universities solvent?

Really enjoyed listening to this episode of #LostInCitations with Professor Susan Hunston, hosted by @coopersensei.bsky.social Before discussing the paper, they talk about Susan’s career and work in general (including her involvement in the COBUILD project), and briefly her recent open access book😊

We are pleased to launch today a new funding scheme, jointly with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson. Applied History Fellowships bit.ly/4ijiuII offer financial / practical support to develop the wider impact and application of academic work. £12,000 for 6 months. Closing date: 31 Jan 2026 #Skystorians

The next @scrcm.bsky.social webinar features @rushtondr.bsky.social - What kind of Climate Change and Sustainability Education do we need in complex times? Monday 24 Nov, 4-5.30pm. Sign up for this free event at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

Happy to share my new publication, co-authored with Prof @rushtondr.bsky.social 🤗👏🏻 It is open access, feel free to share it www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sign up for our December @scrcm.bsky.social free webinar - Alma Harris, Alan Gorman and Romina Madrid discuss their research on 'System Leadership Across Three Nations: Insights from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales'. Mon 8 Dec 2025 ,4:00-5:30pm More details at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

📅 Joint Forum 2025 – Day 2 🏛️ @royalsoced.bsky.social | 27–28 Nov Workshop 2: Educating for Responsible AI brings cross-cultural insights on AI ethics & literacy from UK, EU & beyond 🌍. #JointForum2025 #AILiteracy #EthicalAI #BuildingNewPartnerships #GeoAIEducation

📅 Joint Forum 2025 – Day 2 🏛️ Royal Society of Edinburgh | 27–28 Nov Workshop 5: Social Justice, Intercultural Communication & Sustainability unites voices from Scotland and Lower Saxony to co-create equitable, global solutions 🌍 Register free 👉 conftool.net/joint-forum-2025 #BuildingNewPartnerships

We are looking forward to running this workshop together with our international partners at @leuphana.bsky.social @rushtondr.bsky.social @adnanyilmaz.bsky.social @violawiegand.bsky.social #TeamStirling

On 28 November in Edinburgh: our collaborative workshop on social justice, intercultural communication and sustainability (in education) as part of the ECAS & @royalsoced.bsky.social Lower Saxony – Scotland Joint Forum 2025. Registration is free www.conftool.net/joint-forum-...

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 🚴👇