#ICC trial for ex-Philippine President Rodrigo #Duterte to start on 30th November. 👏👏👏

Linguistic "expat" allergy sufferer. English irregular verb: I am an expat. You are an immigrant. S/he is a foreigner.

The laws of God, the laws of man He may keep that will and can Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me And if my ways are not as theirs Let them mind their own affairs Their deeds I judge and much condemn Yet when did I make laws for them? A. E. Housman

Two 17th-century paintings missing for nearly 100 years recovered after they were loaned in 1929 for display at the Ibero-American Exposition in Seville. However, when the event ended in 1930, they were never returned.

Coffee - a lifesaver any time, any place, anywhere. 🌞🌞🌞 Happy Sunday, my friends! #CaffeinatedHamster

The Israeli army on Saturday continued to pound the Gaza Strip and Lebanon despite ceasefires in effect, Anadolu reports. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260523-isr...

Cartoon by @chrisbritt.bsky.social

For #RomanRoadsFriday a section of the 'Via delle Gallie' in Donnas, Val d’Aosta, Italy. The wheel ruts are still visible. The arch was carved into the rock. The road that was built under Augustus. It began at Mediolanum, present-day Milan, and passed through...🧵1/2 📷 🏺#archaeology

A broad pattern of abuse, dehumanisation, call for genocide, acting with impunity. "The abuse of the flotilla activists is therefore not an aberration. It is the predictable behaviour of a system that has learned it can kill, rape, humiliate and starve people without consequence." #Israel

Never mind Poirot, but who will play Miss Lemon? Pauline Moran was perfect!

Book launch tomorrow at AIFL Aston University for my Cambridge Element in deception analysis... except the book isn't ready. ☹️ But here's the front cover 😁 #ForensicLinguistics #Deception

Words have consequences. #Language

'“We sought to understand what was driving this change and found a strong relationship between short arms and large, powerfully built heads,” said Charlie Roger Scherer, author of the study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences..' 1/2

"authorities would be “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED” from “prosecuting or pursuing” tax claims against Trump, members of his family, and his businesses...currently pending or that could be pending”, including any related to tax returns filed by Trump before Monday’s settlement." #TrumpMafia

Wild Edges: A 2-day Travel Writing Retreat @The Blonde Hedgehog ​Sunday 20th – Monday 21st September 2026.The retreat combines guided workshops, island walks, quiet writing time, shared meals and optional evening experiences: an itinerary that is both creatively stimulating and gently restorative.

The UK is a diverse and mainly non-religious society, and our politics must reflect that. Overwhelming evidence shows the decline of Christianity, and the UK is no longer a Christian country. Yet Christian institutions are given preferential treatment in our politics, education, ceremonies.

Our dig and discovery has made the BBC news. My foto is better. #Alderney #StandingStone #Archaeology

The Israel killings of Palestinians continue despite the press silence Confirmed killed: at least 70,373 people, including at least 20,179 children; Killed since the ceasefire: 383 people; At least 463 killed due to starvation, including 157 children. #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

Good morning 👋☕🥐 from here 👇 Back in a big city for a week. It's always a shock (noise and people) after a few months on my tiny island.

"what the Agents of Chaos paper says is that [AI] cannot yet be trusted in the way they are currently being sold. The bottleneck is not intelligence. It is accountability. And until that is solved, no serious organisation can hand over responsibility to them." Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.20021

A doctor caught while trying to flee the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, carrying the tools of his profession. The finding is the latest extraordinary discovery at the Archaeological Park of #Pompeii, made more than sixty years after the excavation of the Orto dei Fuggiaschi. #Archaeology

"Putin always wanted to go down in history. And this tribunal will help him achieve this. He will go down in history. As a criminal".

A stunning #Roman amber flask, found in Aquileia, dating 1st/2nd c. AD. Aquileia's position at the end of a main amber trade route resulted in its becoming a centre for the carving and distribution of Baltic amber across the Roman Empire. 📷 Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Aquileia 🏺

IMHO it's about money. Moroccan Oil is the official #Eurovision sponsor; has been for 6 years. It's an Israeli company with HQs in the USA. Go figure.

NBI chief: Robin Padilla a ‘person of interest’ in Bato dela Rosa’s Senate escape www.rappler.com/philippines/...

“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

"The rule of law applies to everyone equally. Political standing does not exempt anyone from arrest...This is precisely the reason why we cannot trust our institutions to try President Duterte, Senator Bato, & others that will soon be charged. This is why we need them brought to justice in the ICC."

Massive dinosaur fossil unearthed beneath pond in Thailand  www.courthousenews.com/massive-dino...

Submissions welcomed for the 2nd Symposium on German Authorship Analysis (“Textuelle Identität: Autorschaft und Schreibstil in der aktuellen Forschung”). The symposium will be held at the University of Graz on 20. and 21. November. The deadline for submissions is June 15. 1/2 #ForensicLinguistics

The Philippines Senate President, a #Duterte puppet, helped the fe la Rosa (Duterte's Chief of Police) evade the #ICC warrant for crimes against humanity. Congratulations Philippines you really know how to pick them.

The Gazafication of southern Lebanon. 🧵

"The​ word is not the thing. In spoken language a word is a distinctive sound or series of sounds. It does not have a ‘natural’ relationship to the thing it stands for." #Language

Linguistic Entrainment/Accomodation/Synchrony/Coordination/Alignment mention alert! 🧠💬 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Hybrid conference 16-17 September 2026 Exploring research in #language & #communication across the policing and criminal justice system.

That's my bit of digging over for this year and I leave you with some of the most distinctive discoveries in our finds tray. Hopefully, next year, we'll expand the dig area to expose more of the context of our standing stone (see my earlier post). #Alderney #Archaeology So, back to my linguistics ☺️

We found a menhir! It stands a metre tall with an unknown length beneath the sand/water table. It appears to have a carved face and some sort of hair/headdress. It sits in the sandy prehistoric layer but its head would have been visible in the fark Roman layer. #Alderney #Archaeology #StandingStone

At least you will have the opportunity to defend yourself in court, which is what you denied the thousands you ordered gunned down. May you rot in prison for the rest of your miserable life. #ICC #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Duterte #BatoDeLaRosa

ICC Deputy Prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang... noted that Kaufman had been warned twice by the chamber about his obligations under the ICC Code of Professional Conduct. His remarks, she wrote, were “offensive and categorically false” and reflected “a pattern of deplorable conduct.” #Duterte #ICC

Here's how having some knowledge of linguistics can help you learn languages. aboutlinguistics.com/explore/how-... #languagelearning #languages #polyglot #linguistics

The div-ling talk series is now the div-ling talk day! 🚨 It brings together linguists from all subfields and backgrounds. Submissions welcome from all career stages and theoretical perspectives. Deadline: 4 June 2026 More at div-ling.org/dltd #linguistics

Lovely pottery from Roman levels and a firestone from the prehistoric. #Alderney #Archaeology #Longis

Taking our 2 metres square test pit down one occupation level at a time: (L-R) late Roman, early Roman, probably top of the prehistoric. Two small standing stones on the prehistoric layer. #Alderney #Archaeology #Longis

"There is a limit to what words can say. At a certain point, the instinct to describe, to explain and to make sense of what has unfolded begins to break down under the sheer scale of devastation and pain." #GazaGenocide

It's turning into one of those Sundays. #CaffeinatedHamster does #Archaeology

Two muddy days in this trench. But loads of lovely roman pottery, largely pot handles. I wonder what the Romans did with the rest of the pot? #RomanArchaeology

"In legal, medical and welfare contexts, transcription can determine someone’s liberty, diagnosis, or entitlements. Here, systematic misrepresentation of non-standardised language is a justice issue." (Thanks to @perkinskeighley.bsky.social for highlighting this article on LinkedIn). #Linguistics

"Although the ceremony did take place, there was no International Society of Philology. The American university to which it was supposedly affiliated existed only online and its address was given as a business services company in Lewes, Delaware. "

“The occupation intentionally adopts a policy of total secrecy to deepen the suffering and pain of Gaza’s families,”... “It is an easy procedure to issue lists of detainees or allow the ICRC access, but they choose concealment as a form of psychological torture and collective punishment.”

'People are more willing to listen to an influencer’ "When it comes to these wellness claims, they often take something that's a kernel of truth, and then they run with it, and they take it a little bit further than perhaps what the evidence suggests".