Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

lectureship in applied linguistics in my department. lovely city, lovely department, lovely colleagues 🌸 manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

Seminar: From Micro Aggression to Micro Inclusion: A Linguistic Approach to Decolonising the Everyday With Dr Zozan Balci @livunienglish.bsky.social 📅Wednesday 3rd December, 2-3:30pm 📍Sherrington Building, SR 4 🎟️or join us on Zoom: tinyurl.com/3z9y3pz6

More PhD funding: AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards - deadline for Expression of Interest 12th December. Get in touch to discuss potential projects (bilingualism/multilingualism, food and identity, LGBTQIA+ issues (corpus-based/CDA/CADS))! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunihss.bsky.social

Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop" The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

PhD funding - deadline approaching! I'd be keen to supervise projects on bilingualism/multilingualism, food and identity, LGBTQIA+ issues (corpus-based/CDA/CADS). @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College - EOI due by 1st Dec. www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

🗣️📢 CADAAD 2026 2nd CfP 🗣️📢 We are extending the deadline for abstracts and panel proposals! New deadline for abstracts: December 15th, 2025 New deadline for panel proposals: December 1st, 2025 Check our website for details 🙂 See you in Valladolid!

November is nearly over so it's time for our next #BæFoLa session! 🍩 This Friday, Nov 28 (12:30-13:30 CET), Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza will talk on Zoom about "VeggieWords: Lexical Innovation in Vegan and Vegetarian Product Naming". All welcome! #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #VeggieWords 🥕🥬🥦

Offener Brief gegen die zunehmende unkritische Nutzung von KI an deutschen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - bitte teilen! openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...

Introducing four new Liverpool scholarships for 2026 🎓🎉✨ 📚 Liverpool Excellence Scholarship 🎓 Liverpool Advancement Scholarship 💫 Liverpool Attainment Scholarship for India 🌏 Liverpool Achievement Scholarship for India @livunihss.bsky.social Find out more 👇 www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Fun with auto-generated captions: (Sue) Savage-Rumbaugh = 'sandwich vendor', and (Herbert) Terrace = 'terrorist' 🤣🤔

Call for Papers 💥DEADLINE EXTENSION!💥 Our Call for Papers will now close on 19th December 2025! We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you all next June! Submit your abstract here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...

I started a Substack to write about some of my research thoughts in a more accessible way. Here's my first post, on the topic of timeliness in critical discourse studies research that addresses ongoing political situations: drtamsinparnell.substack.com/p/the-need-t...

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts is coming up, on 16 November!

New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access: My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture

Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My wonderful wife has written a wonderful book - definitely not only for children, but for everyone who enjoys a heartwarming story and beautiful pictures 😍📖 #BookSky

My wonderful wife has written a wonderful book - definitely not only for children, but for everyone who enjoys a heartwarming story and beautiful pictures 😍📖 #BookSky

#BæFoLa is back 🍩🍩🍩 We're about to hit off Season 9 of the Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language Talks this Friday (Oct 31), 12:30-13:30 CET, with Jonatan Leer's presentation on "Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age". 👅🥞📱 Join us via Zoom if you're interested, DM for link. #CulinaryLinguistics

Large Language Models (LLMs) can mirror expert judgment but often rely on word patterns rather than reasoning. A new study introduces epistemia, the illusion of knowledge that occurs when surface plausibility replaces verification. PNAS: ow.ly/sobq50Xcv9f www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thanks to @hundtmariann.bsky.social I know that today is World Bread Day, so here's a pic of my latest effort: pumpkin sourdough (with pumpkin puree inside), and seeded bread rolls. #worldbreadday #foodsky

The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group, co-organised by Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. We start on 22nd October with Dan Thorpe from CCCU (see abstract contact details to join below)

Today is #ComingOutDay—and we have two queer linguistic literature tips to go with it! First off, Tyler Kibbey’s (2021) essay “Linguistics Out of the Closet” (#OpenAccess in @cadlin.bsky.social) calls for a “queering” of the discipline of linguistics altogether. doi.org/10.25189/267... ...

We're celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth with a fresh reading list, including free to read articles, new LUP books, and more. Browse it all online: bit.ly/LUP-BHM 📖

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

📖 Professor Deryn Rees-Jones (@notjustdancing.bsky.social) is giving the Matt Simpson Memorial lecture and reading at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool on October 30th, 6-8pm @serenbooks.bsky.social Find out more here: Https://www.creativetourist.com/event/deryn-rees-jones/

As apparently hosting websites for more than a couple of days is too much to ask, here's a new link to the #BæFoLa program: sites.google.com/view/sofia-r... #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

In a new @unibe.ch mini podcast series (video & audio), students interview linguistics lecturers about what fascinates them in language. Trailer below 🙂 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #linguistics #sociolinguistics #scicom @germanistikunibe.bsky.social

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

We're hosting Lavender Languages from 2-4 September 2026. Save the date! Plenaries and a formal announcement to be follow shortly...

#BæFoLa is back! We're ready for Season 9 featuring delicious talks on: 🍆 food porn (Jonatan Leer) 🥕 veggie words (Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza) 🧁 baking videos (Carolin Schneider-Ward) 🍳 cooking videos (Stefan Hauser) More info at tinyurl.com/baefola #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

Mostly just reposting stuff these days, because my reaction to almost everything that's going on is rarely more articulate than 'WTF?!'

Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO

I love this.

101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics In honor of their 100th episodiversary earlier this year, the Lingthusiasm podcast put together an excellent list of 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics: lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...

Since today is the #EuropeanDayOfLanguages, let's not forget that you are not required to keep your languages separate, pure, intact or in any way feel inadequate about your way of using your own language/s. And don't let anyone take away your co-ownership of the languages you have.

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

The deadline to apply to present at the Queer Food Conference has been extended to October 15!!! www.queerfoodconference.com/p/cfp-2026.h...

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

They've lost the 9yos

Hi! Welcome to the Bluesky account of #cadaad2026! Here you will find all the updates about the conference 🙂 For more information, check our official page: shorturl.at/EVIhO

It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.

The first of the three corpora of German-English bilingual children's early speech that we've been working on for the last few years is finally publicly available! 🥳 🎉 talkbank.org/childes/acce...

I’ve been putting together overviews for Humanities PhD students and graduates about fellowships available in the UK and Europe that students with UK PhDs are eligible for. It’s work in progress but drop me a line with your email address and I’ll send them over next week.

New episode alert! 🚨 Host Natalie spoke to the English Department's 'Decolonising the Curriculum' group about what it means to decolonise a curriculum and the process of decolonising some of the department modules. @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2ZLU...