On the passing of James Watson Intellect & morality are distinct; abundance in one doesn’t guarantee the other His book 'The Double Helix' is engrossing & troubling portrayal of scientific research Dr Rosalind Franklin died in 1958, 10 years before this misogynistic portrayal

¡holis! ¿me podríais hacer un favorcín? si habláis español y tenéis media horita libre, ¿os importaría hacerme este experimento? rlj2vzfkev.cognition.run ¡nos ayudaríais mucho a mi tesis y a mí!

Gli sconti alla violenza di genere... quelli non mancano mai.

How do you manage PhD requests? I have to say that I am always a bit behind with this.

A postdoctoral researcher position (languages and conversation analysis) open in Oulu! #EMCA oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

While I love all topics I deliver for the module on language, gender and sexuality, the week on identities outside the western binaries is my favourite! Students get to see how gender/sexuality is much bigger than what we see and how much identity work people did in history and nowadays!

🚨New Cambridge Element!🚨 "Language, Gender and Pregnancy Loss" by @bethmalory.bsky.social is out now & #OpenAccess https://cup.org/3WiIbyT #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 #LawSky #GenderStudies

It might not be a coincidence that this question appears in every sample test of the life in the uk test. Or is it?

I am going to teach "the" gender war/s next week in my Language, Gender and Sexuality class and this morning I found this great paper - www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... (here in case someone might want to add it too). I am also very butlerian in using a ghost picture in my VLE for that week 👻

In TV interview Italian Foreign Minister Tajani says those protesting for Palestinian rights are "antisemitic daddy's boys attacking the police who are paid a pittance", to which the interviewer replies, "you are the ones who pay them a pittance." Rare moment for Italian TV. Tajani taken aback.

Language Revitalization Boosts Indigenous Health

small victories: the claim i made for the conference expenses has not been returned to me for further info. First time EVER. maybe i learned, maybe i was just lucky.

UK politics completely avoids dealing with the UK HE crisis then stating, in an official statement, "world-beating higher education university sector" in announcing universities will open campuses in India. And let's not even mention colonising put before decolonising.

Somebody asked for my book, but that the part "corpus-assisted research" in the title became "consistent research" and now I am wondering if that was/is a more effective title.

HI. It's me. WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23. Keynote Speakers • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business) • Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

I've heard great news! LavLang is going to happen (the current climate meant there had to be some adjustments) and in a wonderful place: Edinburgh! Fabulous keynotes too! See you in Scotland in September 2026! lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

who is going to return all the time that we spend with some empty admin tasks that are not useful to anything or anyone? (rhetorical question)

In my language, gender and sexuality class I have an activity where we talk about our experiences (obviously they are free to share what they want to the extent they want) and one student started: "for example, this morning".

A new study has revealed that more than one in four Canadian teens (28%) have experienced at least one form of technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) — from sextortion & sexual harassment to unwanted sexual images & deepfake abuse. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3z25z83t TLDR 👇 #DRAGON #onlinesafety

Let's talk about monolingual culture! The expense system my university uses wants me to add the names of the restaurants I had dinner at while in Thessalonki... but all the receipts have the names in GREEK. I am currently using "name in Greek".

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

@giuliaevolvi.bsky.social and myself presented our paper on populism and social media in G.Meloni's election campaign at the symposium on populism here in Thessaloniki. We are happy to share this work with a different and welcoming audience.

From gender to immigration to the flotilla showing up on the day of atonement, Prof Judith Butler gifted us with in-depth reflections of our current times.

Day 1 about to start

In Thessaloniki for the symposium on populism starting tomorrow. We are being supported and supervised by no one else than Aristotle!

A very narrow view of the English language! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Applications are now open for the 7th Forensic #Linguistics Short Course #FLsc! Join us in Düsseldorf from 17 to 20 March 2026 for an international spring school on forensic linguistics, with a focus on digital methods and hands-on casework. Apply by 13 December 2025! div-ling.org/flsc

Today is the European Day of Languages. And this year, we mark 25 years of celebrating multilingualism in our Union. 🥳 Languages open doors. They help us connect, explore cultures, make lifelong friends, and journey further. We remain stronger, united in our diversity. europa.eu/!6FkntW

I am in Italy and coincidentally i was able to attend the general strike to support people in Gaza. Mine is a small town but at least 1000 people gathered, lots of kids. It was emotional to sing Bella Ciao.

One week to go!

British Academy looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study #arts, #humanities or social science subjects close to home. Call for an urgent review of HE funding and monitoring of at risk subjects. --- Hetan Shah www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

Studying for the "life in the UK test" when teaching what I teach is a whole new experience (of utopia/dystopia). I am now going to read the section "media and the government". My worry is that, during the test, I'll go with what I perceive the 6 to be rather than what's in this book.

Great 1st day of the CAPPE conference. "Looking forward" to tomorrow for more anti-gender, far-right & all things attached.Giulia & I were "happy" to present our paper on a CADS+FCDA analysis of comments on Meloni's IG posts. it's difficult to have positive language when one works on these topics

ONLINE CONFERENCE TODAY AND TOMORROW 11-12 September 2025 Global ‘Anti-Gender’ Politics: Nationalist, Populist and Feminist Convergences Join us: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2025/0...

I just heard the Minister for migration and citizenship compare the deal with France to a car dealer business and comparing refugees to cars (1 in 15 might be dodgy). I am not sure why they do not understand that this language MIGHT look simpler to understand but it is very detrimental.

Wonderful 2 day conference organised by some brilliant colleagues at the Uni of Brighton! I look forward to presenting our work on Giorgia Meloni with @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social and we cannot wait to listen to all the other contributors! Join us!

If you are at #BAAL2025, that's unmissable!

I've always thought buying a place in Brighton (and Hove) could only mean trouble. I was right 🤣 I invite British politicians to ask me about properties in this area. #rayner

Join us!!

I am now preparing the lesson plan for my module Language, Gender and Sexuality. If you have new research on this wide topic, feel free to share! I want to add as much as I can. At the moment, I am checking the Lang and Sexuality and Gender and Lang journals but there is so much I might be missing!

Brighton and Hove city council have removed the flags that were put on lampposts yesterday all over the city centre but for what I read the statement is very blant - e.g. they were unauthorised items and like all unauthorised items have been removed.

We are back in the Brexit "take back control" era, but 2.0 with more violence. Some people didn't learn ANYTHING from what happened in 2016 and beyond.

A new module idea: title "it's not immigrants/immigration" where every week we go through an aspect of social/political life here in the UK (e.g. NHS, energy bills, benefits) explaining why things are this bad and why it's not asylum seekers' fault. I'll do a bit of this in my CDA module this year!

Looks like my mum wants to have a word with whoever is establishing criteria for applying for British citizenship😂. She believes the Life in the UK test is a bit harsh as a requirement and she is mostly shocked by all the money involved (in Italy it's around 270 euros).

It was great to share the keynote experience with these wonderful scholars and humans! And yes, I agree Frazer's style is unbeatable! 💜 Academia can be stressful but if you have your tribe you'll be fine!

On the train back South after 3 wonderful days at #Lavling31. It takes a village to organise a conference and, this year, Frazer @nounfraze.bsky.social was the village! We are all very grateful to him for organising a space for all of us to discuss key topics in gender, language and sexuality.

Bill Leap is closing #lavlang31 and we are agreeing, in this safe space, to fight back what's happening outside this space. TOGETHER, as a community of humans and scholars.

Day 3 of #Lavlang31 and in November, @lucyjones.bsky.social is gifting us with her brilliant work on language and lgbtq+ group, through an intersectional lens! We are lucky to be in this room and to hear the key theoretical points about it! 🦩💜

I'm attending an interesting panel that spans from attitudes to pronouns in trans/non binary people in Germany, to grammatical & social gender in Hindi and other indian languages, and tone/identity work in Sajiao in China.Very important to learn about contexts/languages other than English #lavlang31

@nounfraze.bsky.social is welcoming us to #Lavlang31! And we got lavender fans!