It's #DiabetesWeek and so we want to highlight eating disorders & type 1 diabetes, also known as #T1DE. If you recognise the signs in yourself or someone you know, head to our website to find our Helpline and resources, and take a look at Breakthrough T1D for more information too 🧡

Pleased to be presenting in the Nation and Nationhood panel at CADS on Tuesday 23. I’ll also be chairing Parliamentary Discourses straight after. Looking forward to it.

If anyone is getting to Lancaster on Monday 22nd for CADS and fancies a chat/drink, let me know!

I am pleased to share that from 1 August 2026 to 31 July 2029, I will be Honorary Associate Professor of Linguistics and Health Communication at UoN.

Not me checking If peer review feedback is in yet for a paper I submitted less than two months ago like I haven’t got two lots of review feedback to be working on already

OUT NOW: Exploring eating disorder voice representations in first-person blog posts on a charity website journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CHWT8...

As author of Constructing Brexit Britain, I’m intrigued to see ’an inclusive national identity‘ as a DCMS area of research interest 🧐 www.gov.uk/government/p...

What a great opportunity! If I were eligible I’d build on our work on young people’s views of TikTok algorithms to do a co-produced performance of ‘letters to the algorithm‘ where we address in-built biases and assumptions and what a different kind of algorithmic structure might look like.

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

It appears that my application to be an Honorary Assistant Professor at UoN has been approved. It will give me access to library facilities to continue work alongside Prof. Heike Bartel on eating disorders, social media and AI.

OUT NOW: Exploring eating disorder voice representations in first-person blog posts on a charity website journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CHWT8...

Not my pet but I’ve been trying to find an excuse to share this cow snoot online for weeks. Happy booping.

My knee is so swollen 😭 I’ve been ignoring it for two weeks and now I can’t walk

A family member has someone repeatedly sending them content from Restore Britain via messages. I was reading some of it with them and the combination of really informal language like 'lick of paint' with legalese, statistics and quotations from philosophers in their policy papers is... weird.

As someone with a nine-month-old baby, I have never been more grateful for rain. Heat and humidity make for very grouchy little ones.

Haven't got time to look at this properly but looks extremely interesting. Article on "LLMorphism" - "the issue is not only whether we are attributing too much mind to machines, but also whether we are beginning to attribute too little mind to humans" #AIMetaphorObservatory arxiv.org/pdf/2605.05419

Today I’m presenting online on representations of “AI psychosis” in the magazine Futurism at The Language of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from Critical Discourse Analysis. It’s at 17:00 UK time. ☺️

Highlighting another CRAL project! Emma McClaughlin worked with geographers and vets to improve communication on animal diseases. Feel free to go check out her staff page, as well as the project poster (links in bio). #uon #disease #communication #health #animals #appliedlinguistics #researchcentre

The worst part of the publication process is when the reviews are in but you haven't received a decision yet 🫣

For those of you who attended our webinar on May 7th (and anyone else interested!) Our speaker, Dr. Tamsin Parnell, was unfortunately unable to deliver her talk on reporting around AI psychosis. However, she has very kindly made her slides available here 👇 Thank you @tamsinparnell.bsky.social!

I will also be giving this talk online on Thursday. Let me know if you want to join.

I was very sad to miss the BAAL Health and Science Communication SIG webinar I was due to present at on 7 May. I have made the slides of my talk available on ResearchGate @baal-health-sig.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A prudent call (at the link) to "Stop calling it ''AI psychosis'" by Tamsin Parnell In The Web we Weave (below) I wrote about similar issues with alleged "internet addiction." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Coming soon in Discourse Studies: Exploring eating disorder voice representations in first-person blog posts on a charity website

Congratulations to our very own Prof. Lucy Jones! Her new book, Language and LGBTQ+ Youth, Analysing Marginalised Identities Through an Intersectional Lens, has been shortlisted for the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2026.

Abstract informally accepted for a special issue! Title of proposed paper: Disinformation, discriminatory moral outrage, and British religious culture: the case of ‘Gesture Eggs’ on X 🧐

Thrilled to see our TikTok paper cited in a new narrative review of TikTok and eating disorders in the International Journal of Eating Disorders! You can read the insightful and important narrative review here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Spring In the garden 🌺

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My grandmother, who pretty much raised me when my mum was hospitalised during my childhood, had a large heart attack last night and has fluid in her lungs. Please pray for a gentle passage and for peace for those of us she leaves behind.

OUT NOW: Stop calling it “AI psychosis” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just dropped my baby off for her first night with her dad. Co-parenting is hard.

OUT NOW: Stop calling it “AI psychosis” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Article is currently in press, but here’s the accepted manuscript for my comment piece ‘Stop calling it “AI Psychosis”, to appear in AI & SOCIETY www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Comment piece accepted in AI & Society 😀

Minor revisions for a Curmudgeon Corner piece in AI & Society ☺️

View of the weekend

OUT NOW: Encyclopaedia entry on Corpus Linguistics and Political Discourse, currently in the Reference Module for Social Sciences but to be published in the third edition of the International Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

Number of job rejections without interview in the past five weeks: 15. Grateful for the one organisation that took a chance and offered me two interviews. Fingers crossed.

On a more positive note, I’ve had two abstracts for conferences accepted lately. I’ll be presenting on representations of ”AI psychosis“ in an online digital magazine at a CDA conference on AI in Warwick and at a BAAL Health and Science SIG online webinar ☺️

My little girl has been poorly and it’s so sad. :(

So, so pleased to have progressed to a second stage interview for a non-academic job I really want! Please cross fingers for me 😀

Excited to see that our TikTok paper has its first proper citation (i.e. one that isn't self-cited) in this systematic review in JMIR Mental Health on problematic smartphone use and screen time in non-clinical samples with ED psychopathology: mental.jmir.org/2026/1/e88572/

I think I’ve reached the end of the road with academia. Sad to say and hard to accept but my reality is I can’t be as mobile as I need to be and I’m just not a good fit for the many jobs I’ve applied for coming out of maternity leave. Time to move on.

Really fascinating linguistic post on peptides and the wellness industry that makes reference to our paper on TikTok and ED content in relation to a metaphor I'm fascinated by at the moment: 'down the rabbit hole'. makingsciencepublic.com/2026/03/06/p...

Very comprehensive and insightful new entry on Language in Brexit Discourses by @veronikakoller.bsky.social which makes reference to findings from my book Constructing Brexit Britain! www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

Welcome to CRAL! We research how language is used, taught, and learnt in a whole range of authentic contexts in the world around us. 🌏 Stay tuned to find out more about exciting projects and events! #uoncral #languagelearning #researchcentre #appliedlinguistics #nottinghamuniversity #linguistics

Confs: Discourses of Crisis: Language, Communication and Culture in Times of Polycrisis

Daughter has started trying to crawl. Where did my baby go?! 🥹

Even *if* machines could do these jobs better than humans, why would we want them to? If we outsource intellectual curiosity and critical thinking to machines, what is left of the human? As one of my students frequently tells me, “unbridled convenience rots the soul”