English linguists #world Englishes Open rank professorial position at the university of Basel, Switzerland jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Tell me you never read the academic literature on populism without telling me you never read the academic literature on populism (and still write a column on the topic with the self-confidence of someone who is well read in the academic literature on populism).

Part of the reason this is all so tiresome is that what we're calling AI is a political project combining a bunch of preexisting sociotechical processes designed to shift power from the masses to the managerial class. A non-exhaustive list in no particular order:

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

this exists it is called thinking

About ten years ago I interviewed Gavin Newsom about his involvement with marriage equality, and here's what he had to say about Democrats who don't support queer people:

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian in Marsh's Library. This will be a great position for an early-career librarian. Further details at: marshlibrary.ie/assistant-li...

In light of online curiosity about the LSPR interpreters at the Super Bowl, I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify misconceptions of sign languages that I have seen circulating and to discuss why the use of LSPR was such a powerful statement educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/w...

So many groundbreaking linguists, of all persuasions, spent time at Essex at various points in their career: Michael Halliday, Andrew Radford, Peter Trudgill, Viv Cook, Keith Brown, Henry Widdowson, Harald Clahsen, Bob Borsley, Andrew Spencer, Louisa Sadler, Roger Hawkins.... So sad...

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

Jobs: General Linguistics, Phonetics: Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching & Scholarship), Queen Mary University of London

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Pronouns in the news, 1930 ed: antedating and author identified. Richard Tingley, prolific crossword setter, put three common-gender pronoun clues in a puzzle that ran in late 1930; this one appeared in the Rockford (IL) Star, Dec. 28, p. 23. The puzzle ran the next day in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Call for membership to the RIA multidisciplinary committees! The RIA is inviting applications for membership of its multidisciplinary committees (MDCs) for the 2026–2030 term. Learn more about what the MDCs do and how to apply for membership on the RIA website: www.ria.ie/2025/12/16/c...

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

🎓✨ Fully Funded PhD Opportunity (UK & International applicants) ✨🌍 A PhD studentship is available @corpussocialsci.bsky.social starting Oct 2026. We’re seeking outstanding candidates in #corpuslinguistics, #languagetesting, or #appliedlinguistics 📊💻 🔗 More info: cass.lancs.ac.uk/fully-funded...

Language in times of crisis and uprising: This brand-new, two-volume collection edited by Ashraf Abdelhay, Sinfree Makoni and Cristine Severo addresses the #sociolinguistics of #protesting from different geopolitical perspectives: 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/sopro-b/html

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What did the poor apostrophe ever do to deserve such unpopularity? This plucky piece of punctuation has been labelled 'aberrant', 'troublesome' and 'ambivalent' and is regularly embarrassed in public places, explains Deborah Tobin, MIC Limerick www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Available today on Google Books! "Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory" edited by me and @jennycz.bsky.social books.google.co.uk/books?id=T6m...

‪Update: Federal agents murdered ICU nurse Alex Pretti. ‬That’s the name of the legal observer federal agents executed in Minneapolis today. He was a union member.

In these times of trouble, something a bit niche but also a bit soothing - a post where I dug out some old roots of #metaphor theory that we have largely forgotten makingsciencepublic.com/2026/01/23/f... #histling

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X. The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

One more in digital corpus building news: all the web apps on corpustools.prendrelangue.fr can now output XML files ready for import into @sketchengine.eu. #linguistics

Join us for our webinar on early multilingual literacies, part of the Read with MEE project, www.readwithmee.eu

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026 americandialect.org/2025-word-of...

On the show today: @drandrewforde.bsky.social on Ireland's EU presidency; @henrymckean.bsky.social on losing things; @rjpartington.bsky.social on Venezuela's gold; @barbarascully.bsky.social & @declanbuckley.bsky.social think you've learned nothing; @stephenlucek.bsky.social is grand; 'Smart' Lego?

New year, new book! Out now: 'Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social and @robbielove.org and published by @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. More info in thread ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

“each time my university friends jokingly echoed my Leeds-accented “no” with a noise that is perhaps best approximated as “nerhhh”, I found myself undergoing elocution conditioning.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... by @robynvinter.bsky.social

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Paul Cohen has published his Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education: DON'T USE IT FOR ANYTHING EVER

Cloudy ot not, using modern technology to allow us to continue to witness something the people who lived on our island built in connection with the seasons and the universe thousands of years ago is pretty cool, actually

Just a friendly reminder that there were no sociolinguists on Epstein Island. Enjoy the rest of your Thursday.

Great to see Saka doing a ‘Katie McCabe’ there. #Arsenal

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

"there's a new serif in town"

We'll be talking about this iconic moment in the death of a slang term in our next episode. bsky.app/profile/hoov...

The first 3 volumes of the The New Cambridge History of the English Language are out now! Vol 1: Context, Contact and Development: https://cup.org/44J8ouY Vol 2: Documentation, Sources of Data and Modelling: https://cup.org/3Mv2siU Vol 3: Transmission, Change and Ideology: https://cup.org/44gKqaf

Words Unravelled #podcast: Vulgar language and criminal slang

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

I am offering two doctoral positions (65%) in the Junior Research Group “Sustainability in Translation” (buff.ly/HULoKXy) at the University of Würzburg in Germany. 1. buff.ly/6M9fEyk 2. buff.ly/Mq4uuAm (both until 06.01.2026) Please share widely. #TranslationStudies #ClassicalReceptionStudies #DH

The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview