Got bloody Covid AGAIN.

Feeling very determined this year, which is just as well because I finish maternity leave and have to find a job 😫

Happy New Year to all x

My daughter’s first bookshelf is coming together! Her favourites at the moment are Here We Are (short and lots of colours) and That’s Not My Penguin (soft to touch). She doesn’t like fairytales very much.

Just reflecting on how much my life has changed in the past nearly 10 years. There were lots of fun opportunities to play dress up as a nearly-20-year-old but you can tell I’m much happier now as I approach 30. Grateful ❤️

ICYMI: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Our reflexive thematic analysis of young people’s views on eating disorder content and TikTok algorithms. The paper uncovers three main themes: ‘View One, See More’, ‘Morbid Curiosity’, and ‘From Helpful to Unhelpful’.

Looking forward to our Social Media & Eating Disorders workshop in February. Keep your eyes peeled! 👀 www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/get-informat...

NEW: Delighted to share our new paper in Journal of Eating Disorders, which examines how young people with experience of EDs talk about TikTok algorithms and ED content. It’s open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

First Christmassy outing in town as a family 🫶

Some of my favourite photos of Italy I’ve edited this year

Weirdly emotional today as my daughter has started using her teething toys for the first time. Time travels so fast 😭

NEW: Delighted to share our new paper in Journal of Eating Disorders, which examines how young people with experience of EDs talk about TikTok algorithms and ED content. It’s open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy Holidays from me and my little ray of sunshine! May we all have restful and content breaks 🤍

And with that, signing off for a a magical first Christmas with my daughter 🥰

Looking forward to our Social Media & Eating Disorders workshop in February. Keep your eyes peeled! 👀 www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/get-informat...

OUT NOW: Qualitative Research Methods in #Argumentation Studies Download my co-authored chapter "Political discourse and argumentation" for free: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

The nurse said my daughter looks like me. It’s the first time someone has ever said that to me 😭

We have reached the four month sleep regression 😭 send caffeine or tips please!

A thread of political discourse work I’ve produced that I think is still relevant and timely to today’s politics: 1. The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit: A corpus-assisted analysis www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

This Substack post now has 230 views, which is pretty cool. In case you’re looking for some light reading before the holidays: open.substack.com/pub/drtamsin...

Spending the evening wrapping Christmas presents (exciting as it’s my daughter’s first Christmas). I’ve learnt two things: I’m a horrible wrapper, and I’m no longer young enough to sit cross-legged on the floor 😭

Thought I'd do a 'Publications Wrapped' thread 🧵 for 2025! I had my beautiful daughter this year so the latter stages have been pretty quiet, but I'm proud of the work I've produced in collaboration with other researchers 😀

Thought I'd do a 'Publications Wrapped' thread 🧵 for 2025! I had my beautiful daughter this year so the latter stages have been pretty quiet, but I'm proud of the work I've produced in collaboration with other researchers 😀

Together, these handbook chapters provide a foundational overview of topics of extremely high relevance to the work of the DDC. We hope they will prove equally useful to the wider field of #PolComm #PoliticalCommunication!

📚DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📚 The Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication
www.elgaronline.com/display/book... by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social, & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social Feat. DDC's @claesdevreese.bsky.social, @curdknupfer.bsky.social, @lenafrescamente.bsky.social 🧵⤵️

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

Delighted to be part of volume 3! Huge congratulations to the editors 👏🏼

@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @docmediacentre.bsky.social

New publication: an entry on ‘Polycrisis’ in Elgar Encyclopaedia of Political Communication! 📚🧐 www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Paper accepted! Look out for our collaborative paper in Journal of Eating Disorders. Title: ‘Falling down the rabbit hole’: a thematic analysis of young people’s views on TikTok algorithms and eating disorder content

Anyone know of anyone working on/interested in language and/or media representations of psychosis? I have a side project I want to work on but don't have time to do it alone...

Great to listen to @elenasemino.bsky.social talk on metaphor and narrative yesterday. Really interesting question in the panel about metaphors for longer-term health risks too!

‘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...

New Substack post from me: Personifying algorithms in The Guardian's content about AI chatbots "The language we use to describe algorithms and chatbots requires careful consideration." open.substack.com/pub/drtamsin...

Just got asked what degree I’m doing while waiting for the bus to University Park. Was too embarrassed to say I finished my undergraduate degree 8 years ago 😬

On January 14, 2026, Prof. Jeannette Littlemore and Dr Rosa Ritunnano are organising a seminar on Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health. Participation is possible both in person and online. ➡️Here is a bit of info about the event: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...

New Substack post from me: Personifying algorithms in The Guardian's content about AI chatbots "The language we use to describe algorithms and chatbots requires careful consideration." open.substack.com/pub/drtamsin...

NEW Framing water for future action: Corporate communications by Smith, Bowerman, Elliot & @proftaylor.bsky.social jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10.... Offers new insights for research in ecolinguistics + methodological reflection essential to corpus & discourse studies at large

Working on #CriticalDiscourseStudies? ⌛The deadline for abstract submission to #CADAAD2026 is fast approaching! 🔽 www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai... @cadaad.bsky.social @cadaad-journal.bsky.social

‘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...

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

‘Get someone from Linguistics down here!’ Happy World Linguistics Day!

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

It truly never gets old to get a new citation, especially in a chapter that took forever to write and you thought nobody had read 🥹 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

According to my Instagram stories archive, I submitted my PhD thesis 3 years ago on Tuesday. Where on earth does the time go?! It feels like yesterday that I got the idea while sitting in the library procrastinating from my MA coursework.

Never thought I had much of a regional accent until I started recording the “conversations” between me and my daughter and 😱

Feeling pretty tired now (it’s surprising how quickly this happens after having a baby) but had a lovely, therapeutic afternoon on Castle Meadow campus trying to stitch!

Left home 45 minutes ago and I’ve already video called my baby to tell her I miss her 😫

New *pre-print* for a chapter on Corpus Linguistics. www.researchgate.net/publication/...