New article out: Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025). Available open access for 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Such a pleasure to be in Córdoba, for this event. Happy to have been able to share some critical perspectives on the use of GenAI in applied linguistics research and some of the challenges with alignment - you can find out more here too: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Very proud to share that yesterday evening, I was presented with the Future Leader Award at the 2025 KTP Awards! 🏆✨ It was wonderful to celebrate 50 years of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. Congratulations to all the award winners and thank you to Innovate UK 🎉 #KTP50

Pleased to be awarded a @britishacademy.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant with @livunienglish.bsky.social colleague David Oakey for research using corpus linguistics to analyse phraseology/imagery/effectiveness of type 2 diabetes public health messaging. 👉 share.google/cByi9qS690yG...

The way Government funding bodies use AI will be investigated in a two-year study led by linguistics researcher Dr Niall Curry. The project will explore how AI is changing social sciences research and its ethical and socioeconomic implications. 🔗 https://bit.ly/46YDsbT

📢 Registration is open for the Language Testing Forum 2025. Venue: University of Southampton Dates: 21st – 23rd November 2025 Join us in celebrating the 45th anniversary of the LTF and the 10th anniversary of the UKALTA! #LTF2025 👉 More information is here: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...

I'm honoured to have been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) new assessor college. Looking forward to continuing to contribute to the council's important work in this new role! @ukri.org @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

New OA 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @paguado.bsky.social in Computer Assisted Language Learning @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Read, 'Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: A mixed-methods study' here: doi.org/10.1080/0958... & see 🧵 below for some details ⬇️

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... For people interested in the links between AL and AI.

Happy to share that the Academic Spoken Word List (Dang, Coxhead & Webb, 2017) is now on Lextutor for lexical profiling! 🎉 Check % of academic spoken words in texts here: www.lextutor.ca/vp/comp/. Huge thanks to Tom Cob! Please explore & share!

Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...

new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫 Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept doi.org/10.1002/rrq.... i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.

Had a nice opportunity today to reflect on all the brilliant linguistic research taking place at @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social over the last year or so! So many exciting things ahead and in store! @manmetuni.bsky.social

A systematic approach to identifying communication-related challenges that should be addressed by policymakers of the host country to reduce the vulnerability of refugees

Like many other ECRs out there I'm currently looking for a job. If anyone is looking for an RA in linguistics, archival research, palaeography, textual editing etc, please let me know!

***RESEARCH PAPER OUT NOW*** “I agree with this”: A multi-modal register analysis of lexical bundles in the ICNALE by Trevor Sitler (Kansai University) and Martin Spivey (Akita University) icr.or.kr/apjcr_2025_6... #learnercorpus #corpuslinguistics #JapanEFL #ICNALE

Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A pleasure to present at Xi'an Jiaotong University today on AI and Applied Linguistics! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social Thanks @tonymcenery.bsky.social for the invitation!

thrilled to have my paper "Hypothesis-testing in corpus-assisted discourse studies A methodological exploration" published in @ijcl.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... Thanks to colleagues, reviewers and editors for the precious feedback #corpuslingustics

The first session of our "Transforming Research into Practice" workshop series is underway with Masatoshi Sato. Great engagement from researchers & language teachers across the world 🌎 @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @eurosla.bsky.social Keep an eye out for our future workshops over the next year! ⬇️

I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'. The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

A keynote to language the heartbreak and failure, the work of living with genocide #BERA2025 We are humbled by your response, tears, plans for action & your standing ovation. History is being made #GazaMatters gla.ac.uk/research/az/un…

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online 🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After lunch, now an exploration of Romanian citizen identity construction in the @fomatplay.bsky.social corpus with @perez-paredes.bsky.social @paguado.bsky.social @patriciosantiago.bsky.social & Pablo Muñiz Cegarra!

I was honoured today to give a keynote speech on working with sociodemographic metadata for online language corpora, at the 12th CMC Conference at the University of Bayreuth 🇩🇪 Grateful to the audience for their engagement and great questions! @unibayreuth.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

At @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social, we are hosting "The Transforming Research into Practice (TRiP)". Supported by the EuroSLA, the programme is dedicated to developing pathways for collaboratively transforming research findings into practical teaching resources and practices.

Delighted to share the details of my forthcoming book: www.routledge.com/Autism-in-In...

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

Having a whale of a time with the @fomatplay.bsky.social team at the University of Granada promoting EU values. @sepiegob.bsky.social

OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Now @katherineeruss1.bsky.social sharing her & her team's work on the theoretical & methodological challenges faced when analysing the social construction of bordering, debordering, and rebordering practices in interviews with EU migrants. @fomatplay.bsky.social @fomatplay-it.bsky.social

Great talk from @ehidalgotenorio.bsky.social, Borja Manzano Vásquez, and Sergio Castro Cortacero on migration, fake news, and media literacy among Spanish secondary school students! Nice example of how we can bridge education, discourse studies, and SFL! @fomatplay.bsky.social

What an honour and incredible fun to introduce and share my thoughts in migration discourse with two amazing scholars and friends Ruth Wodak and @niallrcurry.bsky.social thank you @fom@play for making this possible!

Listening to Dr @niallrcurry.bsky.social and Professor Ruth Wodak talking about migration at @fomatplay.bsky.social in Granada.

Enjoying Ruth Wodak and @niallrcurry.bsky.social conversation about CDA perspectives on migration. So much food for thought at @fomatplay.bsky.social

A privilege to speak with Ruth Wodak and Chair @katherineeruss1.bsky.social today at @fomatplay.bsky.social Conference in Granada about CDA, corpus linguistics, migration, and discourse studies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

It's a pleasure to be in Granada at the FOM@Play Conference organised by Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio! Looks to be an exciting week ahead! We're opening now with a few words from @perez-paredes.bsky.social !

Do you work in #education? This post is for you. It centres #Gaza at the heart of everything we do and say in education. Living with Wounds in Education www.repair-ed.uk/reparative-p... Read it. Share it. Act on it #GazaMatters

Great (and vital) paper tracing the history of machine learning/AI, corpora, and now "generative" AI

Reposting this as it is now actually open access 🔓✨ (promise!). You can find the it here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. See the post below ⬇️ for some more detail!

Qualitative Research Methods in #Argumentation Studies --coming soon, including a chapter on political discourse and argumentation co-authored by yours truly www.routledge.com/Qualitative-...

We've just advertised a 12-month research fellowship at Northumbria (a corpus-based diachronic project on words for 'yes' and 'no' in European languages) Please share with anybody you know who might be interested work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_... #linguistics #research #postdoc

📢📃 New open access 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social in @registerstudies.bsky.social: Exploring public-oriented research communication - A register perspective. You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2... & some details in the 🧵 below⬇️ @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @um.es

Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!

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

For followers from China - Tsinghua University Press is publishing an edition of my CUP book, Corpus Linguistics (written with Andrew Hardie) next year. The book includes explanatory notes in Chinese and quite a bit of text from the original version which was lost due to space constraints.