we have to go back. to warn them.

‘Get someone from Linguistics down here!’ Happy World Linguistics Day!

#whatever #nevermind

There is so much fun & interesting language-related research coming out recently. A fascinating new study from the University of Exeter shows that herring gulls don’t just react to what we say — they react to how we say it. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mta7ba9f 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #language

FYI details of a massive data breach are now public (though it happened in April). It includes 2 billion email addresses and passwords, so you might want to check haveibeenpwned.com to see if you're in the leak, plus you can check on your password too. Full info: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Synth...

Have a vague inkling I’m gonna throw out there. I’m toying with trying to put together a comic anthology of ghost stories, for release around Christmas 2027. Sort of a comic book version of the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas, by different writers and artists.

Just got the best out-of-office message I've ever seen from a fellow academic: "I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"

sometimes I just stare at Systemic Functional Linguistics models for a little bit (in Altayari et. al 2025) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

At this year's @lingcomm.bsky.social conference, we learned that the UK has been celebrating National Linguistics Day on November 26th, and everyone immediately went, hey, can't we make that World Linguistics Day? Well, now it's only 20 days away, so time to get your celebration plans in order!

Gair y dydd: tachwedd geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Mae'n fis Tachwedd, y mis du, ond a wyddoch am ystyron eraill y gair, megis 'lladdfa', 'diweddglo', 'drewdod', &c? Cymerwch olwg yn y Geiriadur.

A film you've seen more than seven times as a gif.

newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/31099 Beth yw rhai o draddodiadau Noson Calan Gaeaf Cymru? HWCH!!!! 🐗

I wonder if this is related - pun unintended - to the Welsh word 'sibrwd' (whisper) 🤔

Nope. Nope nope nope. Nuh uh. No thank you please.

After three days spent with AI researchers from around the world, one thing is very clear to me: we need the humanities and social sciences more than ever. We need philosophers to ask about ethics and responsibility. We need sociologists to understand how technology reshapes relationships, 1/

It's not just Plaid beating the far right in Caerphilly - it is a small party beating a party with big money fossil fuel and tech backers . It's beating the conspiracy nonsense that is so prevalent.

Some Olympic-level task management there from my past self. #PhDlife #AcademicSky

Here's one factor English commentators will miss: on the left is a map of Welsh speakers, on the right is voting intention

In the UK, Johnny Cash is known as Condom Allowance.

I’m not It isn’t. It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.

Coming very soon. Please sign up! We can only do this together. We're starting small but we have big ambitions. Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media. www.thenerve.news

"I think you mean 'Cat-egories', human"😼 #SFL #PhDlife #Linguistics

Sioe gynnar yn Treorci fory (Sadwrn) / early show tomorrow at the legendary Park and Dare theatre Treorchy. Something like : Elijah Lewis Thomas 7pm Gruff Rhys 8pm

your yearly reminder that #Mabon is a Welsh word plucked out of Y Mabinogi by an American Wiccan in the 1970s for some bullshit reason (maybe bc Welsh sounds all Elvish to non-speakers), it has fuck-all to do with the autumn equinox, & the Welsh witches I know refuse to use it #witchsky

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Oes rhywun yn gwybod am lyfr neu adnodd am ysgrifennu llythyrau/e-byst yn y Gymraeg? #cymraeg

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

A play in two parts. #Aberystwyth

XFiles S1:E6: Scully pops open Praat and Mulder talks about the formants

What an absolute fucking baller, 100% legend

delightful!

Why does the UK have a digital skills gap in manufacturing? How to ensure graduates move into manufacturing as well as fintech/cybersec? Our lecturer David Jones ( @dj13730.bsky.social ) was interviewed on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (skip to 48:41) @aberuni.bsky.social

Dr Dave just got interviewed about the digital skills gap in manufacturing on BBC Radio Wales (07:49) 😀🏭🎓 @dj13730.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social @abercompsci.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Working from the National Library today which is ✨beaut✨ but the true highlight has been seeing how many older women spend their day here writing or researching. Nothing has ever motivated me to sort my shit out like the idea of Future Lowri getting to read an old book on a special pillow all day.

live action catbus looking pretty sweet

One of Dave's uni friends is here for the weekend and we're having fun exploring old haunts. I don't want to suggest we're getting old, but we had to leave The Angel early because the music was too loud and we had to stop in Little Tesco on the way home to buy a bottle of Ribena for hot squash...

‘On the nature of linguistics and its transdisciplinary potential’. Our new volume of transdisciplinary research in linguistics will be out in the autumn. If this is of interest to you, the pre-print of the introduction is available here : bit.ly/4eZDlih

20+ years of surgeries, scans, specialists and treatment plans. Every new-to-me GP I have to interact with: maybe you're just depressed? 😑😑😑 (Taken myself out for a Posh Coffee and a Rage Pastry. It was v. good) #WomensHealth #NHS #Endometriosis

"Morfran" (sea raven) in Welsh, too. Although GPC also gives "bilidowcar" which I now need to know everything about immediately. 🐦🐦

Nach robh cothrom agaibh èisteachd ri òraidean Rhind a ghabh Simon Taylor am mìos seo chaidh? Tha iad uile rin cluainntinn air-loidhne a-nis! ~ Did you miss Simon Taylor's Rhind lectures last month? They are all available to listen to online now! buff.ly/lBOcD7M #AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Placenames

Annual* overlocker servicing day *Not even close to annual #Sewing

100 days until Halloween. And with that, a cold breeze filled the air... 🎃🍂

Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP

Shiny!

I saw a headline which noted: “Feeling Hoarse? You Might Have the New ‘Stratus’ Covid Variant,” and I will admit that as of late I have been feeling hoarse not from the virus but because I keep shouting that the pandemic isn’t over.

Eek. Real fail here by @britannica.com! They claim: "For those asking: Wales is a principality *within* England, whereas Scotland and England are kingdoms." But there are subtleties to this, so let's lay them out.

I've now signed off on the paperback edits of The Game Changers & it's going to press with a tweaked covered. Hits the shops in August. I know I keep banging on about this stuff but I love, love, love writing about tabletop games & talking about them & I'm going to keep looking for places to do that