Hello from Rennes! Great to be here for the international ecolinguistics conference!

We recorded another @wordsandactions.bsky.social episode today, featuring three interviews with language activists. Who are they and what is language #activism, you ask? New episode will be out soon! @linguadigitalis.bsky.social

Can you hear forest recovery? In Costa Rica, scientists analyzed 16,000 hours of audio to measure the success of payments for ecosystem services. The data shows that naturally regenerated forests now sound more like protected primary forests than pastures, signaling a true return of biodiversity.

Check out the "Framing climate change across disciplines" summer school from the organization Dis-4Change hosted by the University of Salerno

On Friday I'm giving a virtual lecture at the Mindanao State University in the Philippines, and before Easter I had a wonderful meeting with one of the many new research teams in Indonesia engaging in #ecolinguistics.

In a bookstore near you this August! #CADS #ecolinguistics

See call for papers for a wonderful special issue on “Discourses of Sustainability: Critical Approaches in Contemporary Contexts”. Deadline for submissions is May 20 [not March 30]. www.ledonline.it/index.php/LC...

The updated version of the Ecolinguistics bibliography now has approximately 750 entries! Check it out at www.zotero.org/groups/44699...

I hoped for 100-150 attendees, but there are now 671 registered participants for this week's Symposium on Ecolinguistics. That is unbelievable! It's going to be a great event! #ecolinguistics

In 2026, our CASS Summer Schools offer two free-to-attend courses in corpus linguistics, focused on Language, Discourse and Society, and Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment. Applications are now open! wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer... #LancsSS26

Next week, I will give a keynote on "Language, Ecology, and the corporeal in-betweens" at The University of Alabama's "Language and Ecology in the Anthropocene: A Symposium on Ecolinguistics" - a fantastic virtual event organised by @repoole.bsky.social. I look very much forward to it!

I'm thrilled to be returning to #CADS2026 in Lancaster to present research from my forthcoming book "Environment through Time: Diachronic Studies in Ecolinguistics". First presented at Lancaster at Corpus Linguistics 2015 just after completing my doctoral studies. Excited to be back!

The page for the forthcoming The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ecolinguistics has just gone live! Pre-order your copy (or request your library do so) today! #ecolinguistics #IECA #envcomm www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...

A free online Symposium on Ecolinguistics with an excellent slate of keynotes and presentations! Register for free to receive program details and updates. #ecolinguistics

I am excited to announce "Language and Ecology in the Anthropoce: A Symposium on Ecolinguistics" on February 5-6, 2026. The event (3 keynotes & 20 presentations) is free and online. Register using the QR code below to receive updates on the schedule and links for attending.

Funding opportunity: PhD at Sussex - Open to applicants on PhD Linguistics - Scholarships cover tuition fees, a stipend at UK Research Council rates plus some research & training costs - 5 interdisciplinary themes addressing major social sciences challenges www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Only a few more days to submit to the International Conference on Ecolinguistics in Rennes, France in July 2026! ice-8.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

Just deleted my Academia account, as it didn't seem useful anymore. And their data rights and new AI policy....I'm out.

"Since 1800, there’s been a sharp decline in nature-related words in English language books. It closely matches a simulation of nature–human interactions." A new piece in @grist.org by Kate Yoder, with some #ecolinguistics input from @repoole.bsky.social grist.org/language/nat...

I haven’t posted recently, but this publication from my former student deserves sharing. This started as an MA thesis project and is now published in a leading journal! It’s excellent ! #CADS #SLW authors.elsevier.com/a/1liFa3n6UY...

What happens when activists creatively reimagine corporate logos to resist branding narratives? Our new paper explores the powerful multimodal practice of "figurative subversion" and its role in challenging corporate messages. Read it here: bit.ly/3GrXAse

At the closing of #ICAME46 next year’s ICAME is revealed. #ICAME47 will be in Koblenz, by the Rhine in Germany from May 26 to May 30, 2026

Call for proposals for the International Conference on Ecolinguistics in Rennes, France July 9-11, 2026. ice-8.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

And the China tour concludes with two talks at Beijing Normal University! Excited by the partnerships and collaboration that will hopefully come to be!

A great time discussing contemporary ecolinguistics and diachronic corpus-assisted discourse studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University!

I love college campuses. This is Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Stunning scene in Chongqing on my last night! What a great few days here!

Wonderful conference at Chongqing University on Digital Studies in Language and Literature. Honored to give a keynote!

3 universities, 6 talks, 9 days! Just finished talk 1 this morning —rest and repeat! #corpuslinguistics #CADS #ecolinguistics

Corpus linguistics meets natural resource management in an excellent, just-published study from Fitzsimmons-Doolan and Beseres Pollack! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A transdisciplinary conference on ecopoetics and environmental artivism labrc.co.uk/2025/02/23/e...

Language can be a weapon, BUT it can also be used to resist. #Metaphors of resistance in the discourse of 🇪🇦🇬🇧🇳🇱 cycling activists in this paper co-authored with @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/... @modacitylife.com @brenttoderian.bsky.social @repoole.bsky.social

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Dr. Ali Fuad Selvi for earning tenure and promotion at UA! Such an amazing record of research, teaching, and service. #TESOL #AppliedLinguistics #UA

Oooh, they are more than a year away, but I'm already excited about the possibility of attending both the International Conference on Ecolinguistics in France and Corpora and Discourse Studies in Lancaster next summer! What a trip that would be! Let's make it happen!

Just published special issue on Ecolinguistics from the Russian Journal of Ecolinguistics. Honored to write the introduction and have the opportunity to read this superb collection of articles. journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/...

Just finished another chapter and have a clear vision for the next two with the data ready to go! Much work remains but momentum is building! Is that a finish line I see in the distance?

Two rather short, recently published Encyclopedia entries concerning ecolinguistics. Reach out to [email protected] if you are unable to access and would like a pdf 1. Ecolinguistics: doi.org/10.1016/B978... 2. Corpus linguistics and Ecolinguistics: doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Final speaker series event of the semester this Friday (March 28) at 1:30 pm in English 301. Two great speakers! #UA #TESOL #RollTide

📢 Is nostalgia what it used to be?​ A corpus approach to diachronic change in emotion talk​ 🗓️ 02 April @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social I'm so looking forward to sharing & discussing the work that @journolinguist.bsky.social have been doing on this www.kcl.ac.uk/events/is-no...

2 year Postdoc opportunity in Environmental Humanities (focus on Multispecies Politics) at William & Mary. "We seek an individual with expertise in Multispecies Politics or Animate Ecologies...the postdoc will have substantial amounts of time to focus on their own research agenda."

I typically only post professional content, but I'm shaking with excitement and compelled to shout this into the universe. After years of applying to the lottery, I finally was awarded a pass for the John Muir Trail!! 220 miles Yosemite to Mt. Whitney!

📢 new 🔓open access paper in Language Teaching @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social with @tonymcenery.bsky.social, "Corpus linguistics for language teaching and learning: A research agenda". You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... and a short thread below ⬇️ on what it addresses

Such a surreal experience to recieve contributions from scholars whose work I've long admired to the volume which I'm co-editing with several great colleagues. And they're asking me for comments and feedback! Me! This guy!

Woohoo! I was just this week notified that my funding proposal to host an online symposium on ecolinguistics in the spring of 2026 was accepted! #ecolinguistics

New Cambridge Elements from Tony Berber Sardinha and Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan free to download for two weeks. Clear interests to those in #CADS and corpus linguistics, but one case study on climate change discourse for those interested in #ecolinguistics. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Oh, if you happen to be in Uzbekistan, go see my brilliant colleague Ali Fuad Selvi speak at #FLTAL

Another event this week for the University of Alabama MA TESOL program! #TESOL #UA #RollTide

It's a big week for MA TESOL students with the University of Alabama Languages Conference this Friday and Saturday! More information here: ualc.as.ua.edu #UALC #TESOL #UA

The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity is now available open access. #IECA #environmentalcommunication #ecolinguistics #IECAhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781351068840

My recent inaugural lecture on corpus research into academic language is now available on YouTube... youtu.be/hlonWrFVgQo?...