More information here! @clrnance.bsky.social

Would you like to attend a free workshop to produce a collective film about the future of Morecambe? This exciting new project by Dr @clrnance.bsky.social and Dr Dalila Missero aims to develop a new film drawing upon historical films and oral history recordings. www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/a-futur...

Very happy to have been awarded an APEX grant for a project on “Interpretable acoustic-articulatory relations in speech production” w/ co-investigators Anton Ragni & Aneta Stefanovska. The plan is to do some interesting speech research at the intersection of linguistics, physics & computer science!

Day one of the Factor forensic linguistics summer school done and I’m really enjoying it so far. I did my MA at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social before they did much in this area. I enjoyed sociophonetics so seeing some of the more applied aspects with forensic speech science was a great start!

I'm excited to be giving a keynote at the @dhssfau.bsky.social summer school on Data, Gender and Society, where I'll be talking about corpus linguistics and language & gender research. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

New chapter out now on feminist protest and political change with @mchalu.bsky.social, in this important collection on language and gender in Eastern Europe, edited by @ksenijabogetic.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

The Culture and Communication (CULCOM) network held its 3rd annual conference on ‘Business Communication within and across Culture', which took place at Lancaster University. www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/...

The Women and Equalities Select Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk has accepted our team's evidence as part of it's public enquiry into 'Misogyny: the manosphere and online content' Read our submission below committees.parliament.uk/work/9089/mi...

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

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

Exciting to be at the CLASS Centre launch symposium right now — Prof Lauren Devine is opening with a thoughtful and clear vision for what the Centre aims to achieve @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @lulawcrim.bsky.social

📢 Free Webinar Corpus Linguistics: Skills for the Future Join @elenasemino.bsky.social & @danagablas.bsky.social as they explore how corpus methods shape healthcare communication & GenAI in language learning. 📆 22 July 2025 | 2–3pm UK time 🔗 Register free: forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF

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

Once a year we take our @lancslinguistics.bsky.social MA students for a trip to the Lakes that involves a little hiking, a little climbing, a little caving and a little ice cream. Once again we were incredibly lucky with the weather and everyone had a great day out and a day off from dissertations.

I'm honoured to have been appointed to the editorial board of Communication & Medicine! This is a leading journal for research on health communication, and I'm excited to support its important work: utppublishing.com/journals/com... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Linguistics at Lancaster ranked 2nd in the UK and joint 1st for graduate prospects in the 2026 Complete University Guide. www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table...

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

The 19th @lancslinguistics.bsky.social postgraduate conference takes place on 19 & 20 June, with four keynotes, 15 papers and 23 (!) posters. It's an international event, with presenters from across the UK as well as Switzerland, Portugal, China and Pakistan. wp.lancs.ac.uk/laelpgconfer...

It was an honour to be involved in updating this entry on 'Grammar and Corpora' for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, with @tonymcenery.bsky.social and originally authored by the late Richard Xiao: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Enjoyed giving a plenary talk at the CIRLAM conference today, and sharing work on generative AI, discourse and ideology with @emma-putland.bsky.social & Chris Chikodzore-Paterson. Great questions and discussion afterwards, too! @pubdiscdementia.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

And also a paper accepted at CogSci 2025! ✨ ➡️ Phonetic accommodation and inhibition in a dynamic neural field model arxiv.org/abs/2502.01210

We have two papers accepted at #Interspeech2025! ✨ ➡️ Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance arxiv.org/abs/2505.23339 ➡️ Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination arxiv.org/abs/2505.20995 + I'll also be giving a survey talk! See you in Rotterdam! 🇳🇱

As part of the #ViTraLiP transnational course, our virtual guest was @samkirkham.bsky.social from Lancaster University. During our exchange in #Paris, we were able to attend his talk at the #SRPP colloquium. Thanks to @lppparis.bsky.social for inviting us! Read more here: tinyurl.com/vitralip.

Professor Julia Gillen has been busy discussing her work on Toddlers, Tech and Talk, including submitting evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Media Select Committee inquiry in Media Literacy. www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/...

Professor Jason Rothman has been inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Congratulations Jason! www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/...

I had the pleasure and privilege to be external examiner for williamdance.bsky.social PhD on Disinformation discourses seen through corpora. Thanks William for an engaging read and a brilliant discussion today. And congratulations Dr Dance! drclaireh.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

We've got 2 papers accepted to #Interspeech2025 (although you'll only see my collaborators and not me at Rotterdam 🥲): 1. Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination - with Pat Strycharczuk & Sam Kirkham @phoneticslab.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

We had a super day yesterday at the @lancslinguistics.bsky.social Research Colloquium with colleagues sharing a diverse range of research conducted in connection with Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster.

Tomorrow, I will give an internal presentation at Lancaster. Speaking for the Voices of Supporters team, I'll talk about the discourse of supporters and opponents of #populist parties across Europe. Curious what colleagues work on, given how large and diverse @lancslinguistics.bsky.social is.

✨Discovering dynamical laws for speech gestures ✨ ➡️ I’m delighted to announce my new article out today in Cognitive Science, where I discover simple mathematical laws that govern articulatory control in speech. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Just out in the BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/389/... - a (supportive) response to Samantha Vanderslott's piece 'Confronting the shortcomings of covid-19 vaccination will help us in future pandemics', based on our earlier paper on a new form of vaccine scepticism: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We had a great time at Campus in the City last week, where hundreds of people engaged with our activities on beatboxing ultrasound, language escape rooms, gender representation in animated films, Lancashire accent quiz, nasal visualisation, and more!

'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a

🙌Open Access & Out Now🙌 Excited to share this new article with my fantastic PI @bethmalory.bsky.social in Linguistics Vanguard!🥳 🔗https://shorturl.at/TjlGW #Multimodality #CorpusLinguistics #SocialMediaResearch @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce the 19th LAEL Postgraduate Conference, which will take place 19-20 June 2025. More info at: wp.lancs.ac.uk/laelpgconfer...

🌟New article out!🌟 So pleased to share this with my wonderful PhD supervisor @gavinbrookes.bsky.social: 🔗https://shorturl.at/GPtPZ @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

New paper out now in Communication & Medicine, with @shayuze.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

We had a brilliant time at Lancaster University's public engagement festival, Campus in the City, yesterday! We engaged with 260 people in Morecambe with ultrasound, nasalance, accent quizzes, gender and language, and a grammar escape room! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social

I wrote some software that visualises real-time nasalance for our @phoneticslab.bsky.social public engagement event this week! We use two microphones to capture oral and nasal signals, separated by a baffle, and map each signal's amplitude to a visual representation of the face!

I am deeply grateful to Aalborg University for a doctorate honoris causa and wonderful hospitality this week. Looking forward to collaborations with the Communication, Language and Discourse Research Group.

We are excited to be at Campus in the City this week! ❗️Come and see a wide range of activities, from a language escape game to ultrasound imaging of the tongue during beatboxing! ➡️ Fri 11 April at More Music in Morecambe #sparkyourcuriosity #CITC2025

🎟️ Tickets: £30 each (includes sessions, materials, refreshments, and a packed lunch). Note: spaces are limited, and demand for our summer schools is always high 👉 Read more and book your tickets here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/... Let's better prepare us all for the future of fraud.

Language, Speech, and AI: FACTOR Summer School 2025 📅 28-30 July 2025 📍 Lancaster University, UK 💼 Theme: Fraud & the (Mis)use of AI Countless frauds and scams are being perpetrated all around us right now, and AI has made it easier than ever. And we'd like to fight back...

Our new paper on "Dimensionality Reduction in Lingual Articulation of Vowels" is now out in Language & Speech! How should we quantify tongue shape in vowel production? We evaluate various measures and identify multi-dimensional measures for vowel analysis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Leading the way in #CorpusLinguistics! CASS at @LancasterUni is tackling real-world challenges with big data and language analysis - now with new co-directors at the helm. Dive into our latest blog to see what’s next: cass.lancs.ac.uk/cass-enters-... #Linguistics #AI #SocialScience #CASS

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.

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

‘It’s not a vaccine, it’s a shot’: uncovering a new trend in vaccine scepticism ➡️ @elenasemino.bsky.social writes in @theconversation.com about new research into vaccine hesitancy 🔗 Article: theconversation.com/its-not-a-va... 🔗 Press release: www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/its-a-s...

UKLVC15 deadline extended! Submit your abstracts by 28th March. Join us in Lancaster 2nd-4th September 2025 for sociolinguistic research on any language. Hosted by @lancslinguistics.bsky.social and University of Central Lancashire. More information and keynote presenters: wp.lancs.ac.uk/uklvc15/

We are delighted to have been ranked 3rd in the world for Linguistics by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025! 🔗 www.topuniversities.com/university-s... 🔗 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...