Today is the final day to send us your abstracts! You have until midnight (UK time)! 😁 Here is the submission link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

If you have never applied for a British Academy fellowship before, let me just say that you will need a lot of onboarding and the institution will have internal deadlines, so you should get in touch with your proposed partner institution/faculty mentor no later than end of January.

Would this be Frontiers previously-classed-as-predatory journals?

Worth a read. My take is that universities are undervaluing the importance of the external which makes the system vulnerable. EEs receive less time & information than previously and the work done by EEs is +/- ignored by the 'sending' institution www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/extern...

Please find below all information to nominate wonderful researchers in language, gender and sexuality.

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

This sounds great! Wish I could attend! It's a @unesco.org webinar on 17 Dec 2025, 14:00-15:30 (Paris time) Title: Protecting and promoting #cultural and #linguistic diversity in the #digital environment #langsky 🗣💬 #edusky www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

Very proud of this paper which is based on work by three brilliant MA students here at Sussex. They were an exceptional team to lead and they all learnt so much about how to do research by doing research

🗣️📢LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🗣️📢 The final deadline for abstracts for CADAAD 2026 (Universidad de Valladolid) is DECEMBER 15th, 2025. There are still twelve days left for you to send your poster and presentation proposals. And remember: you'll be sad if you miss CADAAD 😉

So happy to have been able to contribute a chapter on refugees as identity fraudsters in Spanish, Polish, and British media reporting on the “refugee crisis”. Congratulations to all of the authors!

We've got an A Level Eng Lang course on child language in Jan, a repeat of our New Directions course in Feb and a webinar on social and occupational language in March. Get signed up!

See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.

To balance out the 'delighted to announce's, I am displeased to discover that with less than a week to the deadline, I still don't know what to offer Corpus & Discourse 2026 So, this may be the first I miss (unless we count the Camerino one which we probably shouldn't) Ideas on postcards welcome 🆘

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

Our latest polling shows concerns about immigration are manufactured www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

Going to post a few readings relating to social psychological analyses of discourses of 'effortfulness', 'earned citizenship' and migration as it seems like they might be relevant right now. First, here's Andreouli & Dashtipour (2014) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Reminder about our CFP for the Mobility and Migration Seminar in collaboration with @ihr.bsky.social! Please see below for more information on the CFP, abstracts are due on 15th November! Please share widely!

This is why we should all be angry about the use of asylum hotels. Private firms raking in millions while people forced to live in these hotels endure appalling conditions. People seeking safety and UK taxpayers are losing out and the only winners are millionaire companies.

Theme: Queer (dis)belonging CfP: 5 January 2026 Website: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk (to be updated as more info becomes available) PLEASE SHARE WIDELYYYYY 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎉

This little experiment proves nicely how ai just tries to get you an answer asap, one that fits the most likely or commonly accepted "truth", does a "quick google" and then lies about having done research. Which is... rather human. Oh btw:

Funding opportunity: PhD at Sussex - Open to applicants on PhD Linguistics - Scholarships cover tuition fees, a stipend at UK Research Council rates plus some research & training costs - 5 interdisciplinary themes addressing major social sciences challenges www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Cannot believe we have to entertain the ridiculous and wrong idea that taking paracetamol "causes autism." But even if it did: - Women should be allowed to take pain relief during pregnancy - More autistic people is not a bad thing Misogyny and ableism all around.

Have now listened and it's great! So much to look at for A Level English Language students around representation of gender, language change and technology.

🗣️📢 The call for abstracts of #cadaad2026 is out! 🗣️📢

UK meritocracy and social mobility update from The Guardian

Today's @britishfuture.bsky.social report presents new evidence about public attitudes to asylum - which are not irredeemably hostile. It shows a growing public frustration at failure on boats + a strong public interest in more control, which can unlock broad public support for more compassion too

I haven't logged in for several years but this was the nudge i needed, maybe you do too? Academia dot edu was both such a good idea initially ("facebook for academics"), later a place where people who found specific repositories too confusing went, then eventually a dated + dead place

Join us for our Autumn #IdentitiesEvents Series! Register online: www.eventbrite.com/c...#IdentitiesEvents @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social

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!

Ah, the self-awareness of people who move to another country because they dislike immigration / immigrants

And we’re also thrilled to announce that the next RaAM Conference will be held in Pamplona, Spain! Save the dates!

Accurately recognising how refugees actually feel is linked to reduced fear and greater willingness to help.

Missed out on #CL2025? Four of our wonderful plenary talks are now available to watch on demand! YouTube links on conference website and in replies: www.cl2025.co.uk/home

"What counts?" by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social #CL2025 youtu.be/dcHUftGaSQU?...

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

'there are more pupils studying A levels in PE than in French, German and classical languages combined' at the same time on Duolingo 'the UK ranks second globally for the proportion of learners studying more than one language – led by those under 22' www.timeshighereducation.com/news/vicious...

*So* much research starts with difference-based questions and researchers' categories/assumptions - helping to feed or legitimise communication myths and stereotypes. But the evidence about what people say/do in actual non-lab non-post-hoc accounts of interaction shows something else entirely #EMCA

'The Department for Education has also made the possibility of a higher education institution “exiting the market” one of the “top tier risks” facing the education sector [...] the risk rating had been “escalated” to “critical – very likely” in 2024-25' www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ofs-fea...

✨Diversifying the History of Linguistics✨ We are compiling a bibliography to highlight contributions by underrepresented groups to the study of linguistic ideas. Let us know which important publications we missed by filling out a form on our website!

This morning The Guardian has thrown its weight behind the campaign for oracy education. This is an important moment for the oracy movement. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Which newspapers get talked about in UK parliament debates you (didn't) ask? Well, these ones. The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so. Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open

I've been tracking my peer review activity over the years (like @alessandronai.bsky.social @turnbulldugarte.com) ad wanted to share some of that for transparency, manage expectations, and reflect on what it suggests for early-career researchers' development, esp. in #polisky #commsky #policom 1/n

Don’t forget to send in your application before the summer hols! Deadline August 18 tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_... Open rank professorship in Tampere, English linguistics. We will be working side by side

That #r4today interview. It's been a while since I heard anything that overtly hostile. If it weren't for the tragic content, would be prime material for anyone teaching implicational vs on-record impoliteness in political discourse

I hope there are linguists in court (not in the dock, obvs) but as expert witnesses.

Probably about 35%+ of all university Humanities posts will be closed. Those subjects will be taught in far fewer universities. There will be a lot less modular choice within those degrees that remain. A large-scale but unannounced policy change from central govt, with far-reaching implications.

Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy - on.ft.com/3Isnddj via @FT 'Black called for the abolition of the Office for Students, set up by the previous Conservative government, which “just sees universities as a marketplace and students as consumers”.'