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?...

The Ecolinguistics Bibliography now has 682 entries! Check it out (and follow): www.zotero.org/groups/44699... And learn more about the International Ecolinguistics Association here: www.ecolinguistics-association.org Think your work should be added to the bibliography? Send it to me!

I've just finished a chapter for a volume and the final word count is exactly 8,000--the stated limit by the editors. Ah, why does it give me such pleasure to hit the limit spot on? Made my day!

CfP for "Engaging Communities in Environmental and Climate In/Action: Narratives, Discursive Practices, and Transdisciplinary Approaches" hosted by Dis-4Change: Studies on Climate Change and Environmental Discourse Interuniversity Research Centre. dis4change-researchcentre.eu/events/confe...

Read a few early 1990s pieces from M. Stubbs the last few days, one of which lead me a J. Sinclair article from 1965. Such a pleasure going back and reading early work in corpus linguistics. Maybe one day I can teach a course called "Let's read the old stuff"--will work on the name.

Vale William Labov. Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is: “I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.” Thank you for everything, Bill.

Absolutely my most successful fall garden, but I’m most proud of making kimchi with radish, cabbage, and mustard greens with home-grown greens. First food picture post and perhaps last but I had to share!

Waiting on an email that never appears. Is it here yet? No. Is it here yet? No. Oh well, back to end-of-semester grading...

New discussion paper "Topic modelling in corpus-based discourse analysis: Uses and critiques" now out in Discourse Studies: https://buff.ly/3Z4h0sw

NEW STUDY analyzes how different degrees of warming, relative to the pre-industrial-era average, affect the portion of species globally that are at risk of going extinct. The numbers reported in the study are alarming. @benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

New on our blog: Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social explores how expanding concordance lines helps resolve different types of uninterpretable concordances, based on his presentation at our ICAME45 workshop. Read the post here: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2024/12/05/r... #RC21 #CorpusLinguistics

In my latest research note, I assess the impact of an internet increasingly populated by AI-generated texts on linguistics and corpora. corpling.hypotheses.org/4690

Call for papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 #CL2025 Birmingham, UK First week of July 2025 Submissions welcome for papers, posters, thematic panels and pre-conference workshops! www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...

I need to do some tagging of recent additions, but the Ecolinguistics bibliography on Zotero now includes 676 entries with 91 from 2024 alone! Access here: www.zotero.org/groups/44699...

My first Bluesky post—campus on a beautiful fall day.