The Italian PM claims that the #GlobalSumudFlotilla is sailing towards Gaza just to make her government uncomfortable (hello pathological narcissism!) #LetGazaLive #freepalestine HALLELUJAH TO MAKING EVERYONE UNCOMFORTABLE www.facebook.com/reel/1286844...

Volume 9 of @jcads.bsky.social is growing into one of my favourite issues. Great new article by @lukeccollins.bsky.social and @elenasemino.bsky.social just out

"Power to the people, with ice cream at midnight! Taste it and see. Not everything in the world is going to hell." 🎞️🎞️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth” @gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning #DHSS2025

Tomorrow I will be joining the general strike against Israel's genocide in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people. If you are in Bologna and wish to raise your voice, see you in Piazza Maggiore at 10:30 #LetGazaLive

We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid. The #CFP will be launched soon. We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information. Follow us there & help us spread the word! #CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies

'She chose September, that most excellent month' open.spotify.com/episode/6FEY... reading and listening to #ArundhatiRoy on my commute

Pattern, Construction, System: A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis. Susan Hunston's latest book. It's Open Access, so the PDF is available online already... www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

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...

'We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people'

Thought that boycotting Google would be impossible, but as of today I am surfing the web Chrome-free using Ecosia and it is great. I am now trying to find an alternative to Gmail (though the transition is going to be slower and trickier). Any suggestions? Currently considering Runbox and Posteo

That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic? @journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics What do we learn when we don't get expected results? doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

thrilled to have my paper "Hypothesis-testing in corpus-assisted discourse studies A methodological exploration" published in @ijcl.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... Thanks to colleagues, reviewers and editors for the precious feedback #corpuslingustics

This is brilliant: www.storiescourse.org/new free online ecolinguistics course "The Search for New Stories to Live By" (Arran Stibbe) discourses that can help build a fairer and more ecological world

This is disgusting. No surprise from the Mail, but still. Utterly disgusting.

interesting read. I have to say the otters really helped. I might consider having a picture of a sea otter every few slides during my lessons

9/9 2025 Online guest lecture by Melissa Kemble on Exploring gendered representations of sexuality and ethnicity in the Australian sports media: A corpus-based analysis of Aussie Rules and Rugby League Details. Details: sydneycorpuslab.com/wp-content/u...

We live in a world where the moral architecture has been destroyed - there is no shelter (Arundhati Roy) open.spotify.com/episode/71kb...

In a new paper, Prof. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus & Dr Craig Evans presents the first comprehensive account of online grooming discourse. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TLDR 👇 #DRAGON #onlinegrooming #onlineharms #onlinesafety #childprotection #childsafeguarding

OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

The Call for Papers for Corpora & Discourse 2026 has now launched! Please send us your abstracts and share the call widely!

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online 🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?" I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely. tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu

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

"What counts?" by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social #CL2025 youtu.be/dcHUftGaSQU?...

Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1490et

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Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop | Nesrine Malik

Which newspapers get talked about? (v2 inc. Guardian)

30 years in the making… my new album, Time Machine, is out now! All 11 songs were written in my 20s, now reimagined and finally properly studio-recorded for the first time.   I hope you get a kick out of it. Listen here: https://TimMinchin.lnk.to/TimeMachine

We are excited to announce that our final speaker is... Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social from Lancaster University! You can read more about Elena and her work here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/... #CAD2026

The next plenary speaker we are excited to announce is... Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)! You can read more about Michaela and her research here: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/prof-... #CADS2026i

The next plenary speaker we can announce is... Brian King from The University of Hong Kong! You can read more about Brian and his research here: english.hku.hk/people/Facul... #CADS2026

This week, we'll be announcing our four plenary speakers for the 2026 Corpora & Discourse International Conference. The first speaker we're excited to announce is Dr Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social (University of Birmingham). You can read more about Matteo here: tinyurl.com/ycke6bya #CADS2026

“… International humanitarian law prohibits such controlled destruction of civilian property during armed conflict”

What are the 2 most important virtues you can think of? I'll start: kindness & disobedience. Hence: I'll kindly disobey!

sprinkled nostalgia in today's news www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j... "nostalgia-coated comfort"

I am dedicating every spare moment of this day to reading and listening in awe and celebratoin of life to the boundless Andrea Gibson www.instagram.com/andreagibson/

This trend in reporting on Gen Z as if they were an alien species…

If you are packing podcasts for your summer travels, make sure this rich interview with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social is one of them

I think that AI is just something to be resisted (however futile the resistance), but this is a very interesting take on intelligenceS, creativity + LLM analogy with stone soup lore www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025... @alisongopnik.bsky.social I

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Preparations for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse International Conference at Lancaster University are under way! We will be sharing information on dates for your calendars, plenary speakers, and the upcoming call for papers very soon. Follow here for updates, and please share widely! #CADS2026

Francesca Albanese on why the EU should cancel its trade agreement with Israel. Sign the petition if you agree! (see post below) And please share ❤️

You simply got to love @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social. Feel the rhythm

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action. Online early from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...