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:

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

AIFL Thursday Seminars are Back! Join us fortnightly 4-5pm for our new seminar series! TOMMOROW! Constructing Idiolect: Using Construction Grammar for cross-genre authorship Speakers: Dr. Lucia Busso & Dr. Daniela Schneevogt More info below 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructi...

I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.

New book published today: "Researching Stylistics: A Student Guide", along with Furzeen Ahmed, Marcello Giovanelli, Caroline Godfrey, Chloe Harrison, Megan Mansworth, Stephen Pihlaja, and Ella Wydrzynska www.routledge.com/Researching-...

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!

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

After a brilliant week in Glasgow @baal2025.bsky.social, we’re already looking forward to next year’s conference at Aston University! #BAAL2025 ➡️ #BAAL2026 @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

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...

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

"Corpus linguistics and AI in the reconfiguration of language learning ecologies" by @perez-paredes.bsky.social #CL2025 youtu.be/9w4cJ_LQaZU?...

"Sampling American English conversation: An exploration of corpus representativeness" by @hankslizzy.bsky.social #CL2025 youtu.be/UNlM6zadLAk?...

"Stochastic parrots meet corpus linguists: Understanding language in the age of AI" by @lanthony.bsky.social #CL2025 youtu.be/ojnntlvzMj4?...

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

Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!

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

Can't believe one week has already passed since the end of the @cl2025.co.uk conference. This year, I had the great honor of serving as one of the plenary speakers, giving my talk on AI and corpus linguistics in a really lovely venue. Big thanks to @robbielove.org and all the organisers. #CL2025

@cl2025.co.uk Home after an excellent CL2025 conference where I got to share current research, represent the SCL book series, and reconnect with dear colleagues/friends I’ve known for 20+ years! Huge thanks to the whole organizing team, esp @robbielove.org, and hope to see everyone again soon!!

I loved sharing a plenary on'What counts?' with the ever-brilliant @journolinguist.bsky.social at #CL2025. Not least because it led to some great conversations including two excellent illustrations that are too good not to share further

Excited to have delivered a plenary at @cl2025.co.uk @astonuniversity.bsky.social Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025. In this plenary I discussed how #corpuslinguistics & #AI may collaborate in the reconfiguration of #languagelearning ecologies. My references perezparedes.es/corpus-lingu...

Still buzzing after an amazing #CL2025 conference. Great research, great people, great chats. Thanks @robbielove.org and all the organisers for making it happen!

Home now after a brilliant @cl2025.co.uk conference and reflecting on meeting up with old friends and lots of interesting research talks. Many many thanks to @robbielove.org and all the organisers! #CL2025

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Well done @robbielove.org for a brilliantly organised #CL2025 conference. Thanks also to @markmcglashan.com , Andrew Kehoe & many others, including the spring-heeled (IYKYK) @feixie.bsky.social

So long Birmingham, how wonderful #CL2025 has been! A huge thank you to @robbielove.org and all the organisers. I am sorry I didn't get to say a proper goodbye to every single one of the colleagues I chatted and shared ideas with this week. You've really made it special!

Really enjoyed #CL2025. All the plenary talks were very inspiring, and there were so many excellent presentations. Huge thanks to @robbielove.org and the organising committee for such a great conference! @cl2025.co.uk

What a fabulous #cl2025. So many brilliant people and ideas (& good lunches). Thank you @robbielove.org & organisers And I'm so grateful that we are having AI discussions - and disagreement - in these open spaces. To me, speaking in silos has v. limited value for developing ideas and responses.

This morning I was honoured to give the opening plenary at the #CL2025 conference - thanks to everyone who came along and engaged!

@robbielove.org kicking off a huge #CL2025 a lot of history and a beautiful room of new faces and old friends

And we're off! @robbielove.org opens #CL2025 on what is looking to be a sweltering day in Birmingham

Wishing everyone travelling to Birmingham for #CL2025 a safe journey! Please note: due to a heatwave, the weather is expected to be unusually hot (by UK standards…) over the next few days, with temperatures reaching 31°C on Monday. We’ll do our best to keep everyone cool and hydrated! ☀️

A new study shows that using ChatGPT could mean “a likely decrease” in learning skills and could internalise “shallow or biased perspectives”.

Last week I had the privilege of playing Javert in one of only eleven full-scale amateur premiere productions of Les Misérables, specially licensed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this incredible musical. Over 8,000 people came to see it and it was one of the best experiences of my life.

Only two weeks to go! We're working away to finalise the conference programme, featuring: • 200+ paper presentations • 50+ poster presentations • 7 thematic panels • 5 plenary talks • 5 pre-conference workshops (29th June) See you all soon! #CL2025 www.cl2025.co.uk/home

The webinar on 6th June will feature Simon Horobin, Christine Wallis & @robbielove.org providing the bigger picture view of how English has changed, examples of texts that illustrate these changes & plenty of ideas for teaching the analysis of older texts. www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/d99b...

📢 Conference registration now open! 📢 Registration for #CL2025 is now open, with early bird rates valid until 9th May. Registration info: www.cl2025.co.uk/registration Workshops info: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme/wo... We're very excited to welcome you to Birmingham in just over 3 months!

Fully funded PhD studentship at Aston University, starting October 2025: "Linguistic representations of medical weight loss treatments in the news" Application deadline: 24th April www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

This is not about students using ChatGPT. It is about how entire institutions such as universities, publishers, and policymakers are beginning to rely on AI-generated syntheses that blur the line between human understanding & statistical plausibility jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-synthe...

📢 Review outcomes for #CL2025 have just been sent via email 📢 Congratulations to the authors of all accepted submissions, and many thanks to our programme committee for providing over 1,000 reviews! Registration will open at the end of March - more info: www.cl2025.co.uk

The latest issue of BAAL News - my first as editor - has just been published: www.baal.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Hello folks! We are pleased to announce that the BAAL 2025 website is now live. We will be updating the site in the next week with more information on the call for papers as well as how to purchase tickets. baal2025.wordpress.com

Imagine missing out on 🕸️ networking 💭 feedback 👀 visibility for your concordance research 🤯 just because you didn’t submit your #RC21 abstract in time. 🚨 Don’t let that happen – deadline Friday! 🔗 go.fau.de/1bdgb #DH #DigitalHumanities #CorpusLinguistics #uniFAU

CL2025 submissions are in and you've been busy! Over the next month, our amazing programme committee will be reviewing a total of 466 submissions, including: 🧑‍🏫 365 papers 🖼️ 85 posters 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 7 panels ⚙️ 9 pre-conference workshops

What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

Still thinking of submitting an abstract for #CL2025? Good news - you have an extra week! Extended (and final) deadline for paper, poster, panel and workshop submissions: Friday 24th January 2025 (23:59 GMT) www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...