You should read @alicefraser.bsky.social's lovely and sorrowful and human piece on Bondi Beach & then reflect that it's the sort of communication that's only possible when you don't view everything as an online argument that you have to win at all costs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

CDS received 584 submissions in 2025; 108 of these were rejected for AI generated or revised content.

❌ Let's stop dividing migrants into 'good' vs. 'bad' Racism and ableism dictate who is seen to fulfil the criteria of the “good migrant” versus the “bad migrant”, and by extension dictate who is deemed “deserving” of rights and respect, and who is deemed “unworthy”. Read more: buff.ly/hWgshcZ

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Come and join us in Valladolid in July for the CADAAD conference Deadline is Monday 15th Dec.

Agreed, and this is why I think the super rich are very useful for lots of people as a reference point (or guilt release valve?) who can point to them and say: 'I'm not rich, THEY'RE rich'.

Equal parts Rowley Birkin QC and Admiral Benson. IYKYK. Links for the younger generations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cwy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cDo...

Seriously, fuck Starmer and his hideous, ghoulish cabinet. From this grim decision to Streeting's anti-trans shit, they're just full of spite for vulnerable people. I truly hope they get wiped out at the next election and that the UK gets a proper progressive party in power(sharing?).

i wasn't gonna post about it but seeing that a LOT of people have declared UA's run with steph curry to be a failure and I think the total opposite I guess I should. look everybody, signature basketball shoes are a vestigial remnant of when hoop shoes—current hoop shoes—were the top of the market

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

Maybe we shouldn't trust the nation state....

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Communication is key to any good relationship. For example, if you're going to start cleaning the kettle with citric acid, tell your husband first, before he makes a cup of tea...

I'll say it again. Our horror at the Gaza genocide and at the atrocity in Manchester comes in both cases from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity in the face of both these evils as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

I don't really like promoting my own work much on social media, feels strange. But if anyone's interested in Labour's approach to integration (which has not changed in a generation), I would suggest my first book. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/construct...

#TCMParty #Gaslight #filmsky

Similar vibes www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZ...

Sure, if you turn the page upside down.

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Already looking forward to it, and to seeing lots of amazing friends and colleagues.

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New research finds that narratives around irregular migration differ significantly across Europe, leading to inconsistent policies and a fragmented approach to governance. ✍️ Bastian Vollmer & Markus Rheindorf @iclaimeu.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEW Xiaowen Zhao reviewed Yanning Huang’s @routledgebooks.bsky.social ‘The Class and Gender Politics of Chinese Online Discourse: Ambivalence, Sociopolitical Tensions and Co-option’ 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25095.zha 👉 Book: bit.ly/46hbeqW

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEW Xinyi Wu and Tingting Hu review Robert Harvey’s @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social ‘The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions’ 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25193.wu 👉 Book: bit.ly/3VHQljN

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Paige Johnson reviews Charlotte Taylor, Simon Goodman and Stuart Dunmore’s @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social ‘The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities’ 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25164.joh 👉 Book: bit.ly/460B0kC

Affirming and amplifying disingenuous white grievance politics at a time of insurgent fascism is a form of collaboration. Irrespective of conscious intent. And irrespective of whether its the centre or left doing it.

Just gonna leave this little nugget here for my all my corpus linguistics friends.

Read this👇

Just f**k off

Calafiori is a stunningly handsome agent of chaos. A goal, a yellow card, and a rick per game is the absolute baseline for him. #munars #epl

I don’t need graphs about what jolly good citizens migrants are to justify why they shouldn’t be attacked. They shouldn’t be attacked because racism is bad and racists are cunts

Last Monday I had open heart surgery to replace my aortic valve. I was discharged yesterday. The story of me and my heart is a long, complicated one but 21 July 2025 is an inflection point.

Now THAT was a test match @discodiscourse.bsky.social

Our article with Korina Giaxoglou and Paige Johnson has just been assigned an issue at @critdiscstuds.bsky.social We argue that even humanitarian narratives about migration in the UK are deeply problematic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking for help with #esrc #ukri #grants Has anyone had experience with dual-role costs (when someone is a project partner and sub-contractor)?

Me: I'd like like to enjoy a glass of wine on my birthday and just forget about the troubles of the world. My wineglass: Never change Poznan.

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

Very happy to share that I've been accepted for funding for a Polish Science Foundation grant entitled "The discursive construction of Zionism and anti-Zionism in Jewish newspapers 1919-1930"

1972.

I see the BBC had found the active voice suddenly. Let's rectify that and see how absurd it is.

Hence me oversleeping by 20mins this morning. Working a full time job AND playing in the Stanley Cup is tiring.

Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”. They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour. They were gunned down and murdered instead. What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Following @mh-christiansen.bsky.social's wonderful idea of asking students to produce meme's about their studies, I asked my intro critical discourse analysis class to meme the course....a selection.