Congratulations to my colleagues @elenasemino.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @juditkormos.bsky.social @jculpeper.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social Alison Mackey & Jason Rothman for being in the Stanford/Elsevier top 2% of scientists list. I’m in good company!

In conversation with @elenasemino.bsky.social on #CorpusMOOC #healthcare #corpuslinguistics #communication 👉Find out more: edx.org/learn/social... @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

In conversation with @tonymcenery.bsky.social on #CorpusMOOC #corpuslinguistics #technology #society #life 👉Find out more: edx.org/learn/social... @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

Week 1 on #CorpusMOOC: key techniques of data analysis #concordance #frequency 👉 Join us today for free! edx.org/learn/social...

#CorpusMOOC starts today! Learn about #corpuslinguistics, #AI and emerging technologies applied to a range of social issues. Free for anybody to attend. Just click on the 'Audit' button. @corpussocialsci.bsky.social www.edx.org/learn/social...

Exciting discussions on the vision for the classrooms of the future! 🚀 Great workshop with educators from Shanghai International Studies. #DDL #LancsBox #AI #FutureOfEducation

Missed the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics? 🎓 Catch up with free lecture recordings from #LancsSS25 here 👉 cass.lancs.ac.uk/free-lancast... #CorpusLinguistics #FreeLectures @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

📊 Statistics in Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide—now available in Mandarin Chinese 🇨🇳 and Korean 🇰🇷! It could be a great summer read to explore at your own pace. #CorpusLinguistics #Statistics @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

#today at the Open Research Group: #LancsBox and Corpus linguistics tools in the age of AI ⌛️ 12.00-12.50pm UK time teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

🕰️Prof. @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social introduces two interesting objects relevant to our lectures today on corpus building and statistics! #LancsSS25 🎦Join the livestreams to find out more!

@vaclavbrezina.bsky.social ‘s main messages from his talk this afternoon on the key statistical concepts in corpus analyses. #LancsSS25

🌤️Welcome to Day 3 of #LancsSS25 ! Coming up today: sessions from Dr Raffaella Bottini, @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social , @danagablas.bsky.social and Dr Andrew Hardie, as well as our Lancaster Walk!

@vaclavbrezina.bsky.social shows us another fascinating object related to today’s talk on data visualization in corpus linguistics!💡#LancsSS25 🔗Join via the link to find out more: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

📊MORNING RECAP: Some standout moments from @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social ‘s talk on the visualization of corpus data and practical session using the Lancaster Stats Tool online! #LancsSS25

🔴STARTING NOW: Drawing on insights from corpus linguistics, @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social demonstrates how collocations can be effectively identified, analysed, and visualised using corpus tools and techniques. #LancsSS25

🧬 @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social demonstrates the corpus linguistic phenomenon of collocation using a molecular structure. #LancsSS25

Live streamed lectures available from 16 June... cass.lancs.ac.uk/free-online-...

A great meeting with the amazing #LancsSS25 volunteers today — full of enthusiasm and positive energy! Lancaster, hurrah! 🙌🎓✨

Lancaster Summer Schools kick off next week — we are all excited! 🎉 Watch this space for links to public lectures throughout the week. A true highlight of the year for corpus linguistics! #LancsSS25 #CorpusLinguistics

Today at the @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Open Research Group: Corpus Linguistics & AI – which professions will survive and which will be replaced? We compared Hamlet's "To be or not to be..." performed by an AI bot vs. a great Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh. 🎭 Can you tell the difference?

Some excellent news! Come and join us and study Corpus linguistics @lancasteruni.bsky.social We offer flexible (Online) programmes and we are recruiting right now! www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/...

We are very excited that Samuel Schmück has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a great project on speech analytics and under-represented language varieties in speech technology. Many congratulations Sam! @samschmueck.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

🚨 Join us for our next webinar in the @LancasterUni series on online MA & PG Cert programmes in Corpus Linguistics! 📢 Corpus Linguistics and AI: Challenges and Opportunities 📅 11 June | 🕙 10–11am (UK time) 👉 Register: forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF #AI #CorpusLinguistics #Future

📢 Read our latest blog post about a recent visit from the Consul General of the Czech Republic to @corpussocialsci.bsky.social ! From @lancasteruni.bsky.social 's early contributions to corpus linguistics to cutting-edge analysis of policy documents. t.co/Fowug85S42

📢 Read our latest blog post about a recent visit from the Consul General of the Czech Republic to @corpussocialsci.bsky.social ! From @lancasteruni.bsky.social 's early contributions to corpus linguistics to cutting-edge analysis of policy documents. t.co/Fowug85S42

Join us today 12pm UK time for our first session in the Summer Term to discuss #CorpusLinguistics and #AI Free registration: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

[email protected] is offering a series of informal meetings to explore key issues in corpus linguistics. 🤖 How Not to Be Replaced by #AI: Corpus Linguistics Reflections 🗓️ Starts: 14 May, 12pm (UK time) 🔗 Register now: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka

🚀 Curious about the future of Corpus Linguistics and #AI? Check out this position paper: Corpus Linguistics and AI: #LancsBox X in the Context of Emerging Technologies (2025) published in International Journal of Language Studies. 📖 drive.google.com/file/d/1nBbP...

🚨 A blogpost by Adrian Hemler: how an MA in Corpus Linguistics from @lancasteruni.bsky.social helped shape a cutting-edge legal research career. 📚⚖️ From semantic precision to real-world legal applications—ideal for high-flyers in law, language & data. 👉 cass.lancs.ac.uk/corpus-lingu...

📚 Flicking through Johnson’s Dictionary on its 270th anniversary while finalising a Frequency Dictionary of Multi-Word Expressions It took Johnson 9 years to complete his — hopefully the frequency volume emerges a bit faster @lancasteruni.bsky.social @corpussocialsci.bsky.social #270YearsOfJohnson

📢 Join us for another webinar in our series on MA & PG Cert programmes in Corpus Linguistics @lancasteruni.bsky.social We'll explore explore #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities🔍📊 2 April 2-3pm UK time. Register: forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF

I have written a piece for @theconversationuk.bsky.social about our study on a new form of vaccine scepticism: people questioning the status of some vaccines as vaccines, starting during the pandemic theconversation.com/its-not-a-va... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

Today 12pm UK time: A discussion about #repetition and #replication in #corpus #linguistics. @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Open research group (online and in person): cass.lancs.ac.uk/open-advance... Everybody is welcome.

✨ Ad fontes! The Prague School 🎓 played a key role in linguistic functionalism ✒️. Their 1929 theses 📜 laid the groundwork for analysing language as a structured system 🔄 with meaningful functions 🎯. #Linguistics #Functionalism #PragueSchool

From a functionalist perspective, language isn't just words—it’s purpose-driven, shaping meaning through social use. 🗣️💡📖 #meaningfulness #social cass.lancs.ac.uk/open-advance...

Today 12pm UK time a discussion about #forms and #functions in language. @CorpusSocialSci Open research group (online and in person): cass.lancs.ac.uk/open-advance... Everybody is welcome.

Institutions and Traditions of #Languages #Corpora can facilitate the study of these. 🤔Find out how. cass.lancs.ac.uk

Between #naturalism and #conventionalism: 1. How does language differ from a stone? 2. How does what a linguist does differ from what a geologist does? @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Open research group meeting. 🕛Today 12pm Everybody is welcome forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka

Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster: 'The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations.' Open to applicants with a background in Linguistics as well as Psychology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

It seems like as good a day as any to repost links to the five metaphor-based animations we created - based on this paper journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... - about the importance of #vaccines. @sflusberg.bsky.social First one: A castle metaphor for how vaccines work youtu.be/DOD854panQg?...

Great audience today @ Xi'an Jiaotong University #CorpusLinguistics Masterclass ❓Does frequency matter? ❓How to interpret #corpus data? ❓What is the future of data-driven learning? @tonymcenery.bsky.social

Let's be honest about #Science. "We do not know we can only guess" (Popper) yet there is no other way. #falsification #corroboration Open research group meeting. 🕛Today 12pm Everybody is welcome t.co/ekkH9uFJF8

I suppose one way to start here is to share a new publication. Here it goes: '‘I am still unsure’ - Spontaneous expressions of vaccine indecision on Mumsnet' with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @elenasemino.bsky.social @williamdance.bsky.social @drclaireh.bsky.social et al. #healthcomm #vaccinations

Throwing language data at an AI model and hoping for interpretation? Thoughtful design and transparency matter. 🎯📊 #Science #Induction cass.lancs.ac.uk/open-advance...

Join us for the first in a series of webinars on @LancasterUni's offer of courses in #corpuslinguistics 🔵online MA 🟣online Postgraduate Certificate 🟢online Short courses for credit forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF

We make a number of (tacit) assumptions when doing research. What are these? What is #Science? @CorpusSocialSci Open research group (online/in person). cass.lancs.ac.uk/open-advance... 🕛Today at 12pm UK time Everybody is welcome.

We are delighted to announce that the applications for the free Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025 are now open! Join us this summer at @lancasteruni.bsky.social to learn more about corpora and their applications. 16-20 June 2025 More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...

Starting today 12pm UK time: "Research and common sense" as part of CASS's Open Advanced Methods Research Group cass.lancs.ac.uk/open-advance... Everybody is welcome.

We are back in the new year: Open Advanced methods in corpus linguistics research group 🌐 online/in person Everybody is welcome. Free registration: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka Reading: McEnery & Brezina (2022). Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics. CUP. @tonymcenery.bsky.social