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.

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”.'

The latest Antisocial is all about linguistic impoliteness (& forensic linguistics) Clause 20 of the Employment Rights Bill makes employers responsible for protecting staff from harassment by third parties (eg clients) But what counts as harassment? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #LanguageInTheNews

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

Every now and again I am reminded I live in a very odd country. The radio just interrupted the normal broadcast to play the national anthem for the queen because it's her birthday today 🤷

The latest Antisocial is all about linguistic impoliteness (& forensic linguistics) Clause 20 of the Employment Rights Bill makes employers responsible for protecting staff from harassment by third parties (eg clients) But what counts as harassment? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #LanguageInTheNews

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]

🗞️ LANGUAGE IN THE NEWS: THE WRONG SOLUTION TO A NON-EXISTENT PROBLEM ✍️ In the latest Babel, read all ab out Trump and English becoming the official language of the USA

📢 2nd Call for Papers International Conference 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Conference theme: 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐷𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 📅 3–5 December 2025 📍 University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy ➡ CfP: www.unich.it/progetti-ric... ♦ 𝐀𝐁𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 ➡ 𝟑𝟎 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓

if you want STEM without federal funding, remember that it's the cheap humanities that subsidize funding at the internal level. cutting humanities will kill STEM. enjoy!

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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

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

Serving up the literal and metaphorical #NostalgiaInTheWild

Final calls for books, conferences, projects to be included in the next CADAAD circular! Send to [email protected] by Thurs 10 July.

✈️ Have you considered applying for our travel Bursary for the #DHSS25 Summer School? ☀️ Don't miss the opportunity to receive up to €500 to cover your travel costs to Erlangen! 👉 go.fau.de/1c-ac #DataGenderSociety #FAU

I loved sharing a plenary on'What counts?' with the ever-brilliant @journolinguist.bsky.social at #CL2025. Not least because it led to some great conversations including two excellent illustrations that are too good not to share further

What a fabulous #cl2025. So many brilliant people and ideas (& good lunches). Thank you @robbielove.org & organisers And I'm so grateful that we are having AI discussions - and disagreement - in these open spaces. To me, speaking in silos has v. limited value for developing ideas and responses.

Late train means I get a 10 o'clock sunset on my way to #cl2025

📣 My department at Uppsala University is now looking for a PhD student in Information Studies, AI and Digital Humanities research: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

There's still time to book tickets for English Grammar Day 2025! Join us at the British Library, 7 July, for talks from a 'gramm-azing' line up of speakers. Teachers: bring along your students! Info & booking here: events.bl.uk/events/engli... #EnglishGrammarDay #Grammar #EnglishLanguage

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

Campus looking as campus does when there aren't many people around to appreciate it

PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! 🥳🎉

I stumbled on to a nineteenth century handwritten dictionary created by a sailor (c1835) that has the translation for common words for two languages & can’t figure out which languages they are. I figured a linguistic might A) be able to identify them or B) find them useful in their research.

really excited to announce that a new special issue of JCaDs has just been published: a rich interdisciplinary collection on "Keywords in sociopolitical debates" guest edited by @barbaradecock.bsky.social ‬, P. Hambye, C. Rondiat, N. Shchinova jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/10/volume/8/...