New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

happy publication day to me 👯‍♀️ my paper on COVID metaphor clustering is FINALLY OUT!! took so long that in the meantime my co-author and best friend has changed career in the meantime, but better late than ever ✨✨ benjamins.com/catalog/milc...

I challenged my colleagues yesterday to come up with a seven-word definition of Stylistics. This is as close as I could get: Stylistics is the study of how language choice affects meaning.

Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... For people interested in the links between AL and AI.

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Fei Gao and Xin Li review Denise Merkle and Brian James Baer's @routledgebooks.bsky.social 'The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship' 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25190.gao 👉 Book: bit.ly/46KiTOP

Participants needed for my new study on parasocial attachments and the material afterlives of music keepsakes. See further details below ⬇️ #rorygallagher #blues #fender #strat #bonhams #auction #fandom

Grateful that DeGruyter have kindly made our paper open access for three months!🥳🥳 If you’re interested in how Generative AI is transforming publishing in Applied Linguistics, you can freely download and read it here 👇 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

My book "Researching Language and Digital Communication" is hereeee. It may just be the most camp discussion of DMC so far. Including analyses of: - Dolly Parton memes - TikTok videos of Jungle and Billie Eilish - anonymous Grindr profiles

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at BAAL 2025 this year! Your talks, posters and discussions made the conference a great success. Looking forward to BAAL 2026!

Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.

So happy to share that I've been promoted to Reader in Languages and Linguistics at @manmetuni.bsky.social. I am so grateful for all the support from colleagues here and afar! 🥳🎊 @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

Out now! #openaccess paper in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, exploring the issue of alignment between AI and Applied Linguistics, with @niallrcurry.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social

The Call for Papers for Corpora & Discourse 2026 has now launched! Please send us your abstracts and share the call widely!

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online 🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reposting this as it is now actually open access 🔓✨ (promise!). You can find the it here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. See the post below ⬇️ for some more detail!

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

The chick is like hold my grain… 🐥 🥰

A huge thank you to all who attended, presented, plenaried, chaired, entertained, fed & watered us at a brilliant @PALA2025 & esp to the fantastic team @EnglishAston. Here's to PALA Uppsala 2026!! 🎉💃🕺💃🕺🥳

Book highlights at #PALA2025 include: 📖 the new edition of Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics by Marcello Giovanelli & @chloeharrison.bsky.social 📖 Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language, ed. J Culpeper 📖 new books in @michamahlberg.bsky.social Corpus and Discourse series + more at 35% off!

Last week I enjoyed sharing my research at Poetics and Linguistics Association - PALA #PALA2025 at Aston University where I saw fascinating talks on poetry, ecostylistics, and more. Thank you for a fantastic opportunity and experience Aston University!

Back at my desk after #PALA2025 with a full notebook and so many new ideas. Thank you to the Aston team for hosting us, and to everyone for your inspiration and support - can't wait for ‪@pala2026.bsky.social‬

Not really tweeting or blueskying much but an absolute fire plenary by @helenringrow.bsky.social for #pala2025 on digital stylistics methods and futures.

See you soon(ish) for the @palapoeticsling.bsky.social conference!!

On my way to a quick visit at #CL2025 to talk about a corpus linguistic approach to surveillant landscapes (in the final slot on Thursday at 2.00pm) … on a rather fittingly surveilled train 😁

Thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social, @rachellevessey.bsky.social, @schtepf.bsky.social, Philipp Heinrich and Michael Bender for your very interesting and relevant presentations! (2/2)

Excited to have delivered a plenary at @cl2025.co.uk @astonuniversity.bsky.social Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025. In this plenary I discussed how #corpuslinguistics & #AI may collaborate in the reconfiguration of #languagelearning ecologies. My references perezparedes.es/corpus-lingu...

PALA2025 is edging ever closer!! Looking forward to seeing you at Aston University, Birmingham, soon!!

@gavinbrookes.bsky.social utterly satisfying and scarily good keynote #CL2025 so much food for thought it will keep me energized for the whole conference and beyond

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

Hot tip for corpus linguists attending #CL2025 . Write your name on your free conference notebook and keep it in your conference bag. That way, if anyone picks up the wrong bag, among the many identical ones, at lunch etc, it can quickly be returned to the rightful owner. Speaking for a friend

This morning I was honoured to give the opening plenary at the #CL2025 conference - thanks to everyone who came along and engaged!

CL and context. Great kick-off talk by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social #cl2025

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

Absolute pleasure to speak to the one and only @grammargirl.bsky.social recently about accents and identity, and my book - You’re All Talk! Watch it here or download the podcast youtu.be/puEjb98nDpI?...

How English at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ is helping the NHS #EnglishCreates

So lovely to have a chat!

I finally have access to a streaming platform which has Succession on it and I cannot look away.

BREAKING: Taylor Swift has bought back the masters to all of her albums. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good article on the ‘detachment paradox’ in organisations, where leaders recognise the benefits of colleagues disconnecting from work in the evening and weekends yet punish those who actually practice disconnection. The ‘visibility bias’ of colleagues who email back quickly no matter the time; 1/

'The Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU), a group of serving and former senior academics, has published a draft code of ethical university governance, which sets out standards for the bodies in charge of universities.' You can feed into it until 31 July via this link. 2/2

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

For those in the US, “Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century” is available to pre-order on the University of Chicago Press website ⭐️ It tells the stories of over a dozen radical women who deserve to be much more widely known! #earlymodern @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Word of Mouth 3.30 BBC Radio 4 Welsh language with Huw Stephens www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

That’s right! Come thru at post45.org/contemporaries to see this magnificent cluster, edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social !

Goodbye, Tilburg, and thank you to the organizers for a fantastic #ADDA5! Look at those happy panel organizers 😊 @coocho.bsky.social, @nounfraze.bsky.social & Dawn Archer

🤩 New week, new CADAAD Journal Special Issue! 🤩 “Power relations in digitally-mediated communication: Exploring inequalities, discrimination, and new forms of injustice”, edited by Marina Niceforo, Francesco Nacchia and Sole Alba Zollo. ➡️ Open Access: ugp.rug.nl/cadaad/issue...