I'm very excited for a few days of genre/register fun at AG 9 of #DGfS2026 in Trier. Today, it's time to absorb and process theoretical and applied approaches and studies looking at examples from a lovely set of languages (🇸🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷) and text types (such as transcribed life stories).

A great start to the #CMC-Corpora conference in beautiful Bayreuth. Lovely warm-up dinner last night and really strong start this morning with presentations on Emotion and Hope Speech and a corpus study on Albanian computer mediated communication (which I knew far too little about thus far!)

The Call for Papers and Call for Workshops for ICAME47, May 26-30 2026 in Koblenz, Germany, now out Submission deadlines 31 October 2025. Calls and conference dates here: wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/ Conference email address: [email protected]

Element alert! I've had the pleasure of working with @paulari.bsky.social and Yufang Qian on evaluating automatic image tagging for multimodal corpora. It was a pleasure to collaborate and identify the associated challenges, e.g. What is an accurate newspaper image tag? What is a relevant one? [1/4]

I did a thing!

✨ NEW & EMBIGGENED ✨ corpus linguistics and discourse studies starter pack Great to see the tribe connecting! #AcademicSky #LinguisticSky #LangSky #Linguistics go.bsky.app/AT6KX6X

Great opening keynote from Prof Lorna M. Hughes on Community Generated Digital Content & lessons learnt from the #TaNC Our Heritage Our Stories project ohos.ac.uk #CGDC #OHOS

The theme is new beginnings: A new platform & followers, a new job as Research Associate at Glasgow, and a great start to the day at the TaNC conference in MCR. It's been wonderful working on the Our Heritage, Our Stories project so far - and some of my visualisation work even made it on the slides.