Before we start teaching next week, I’m going to treat myself tonight to my first take away (I.e., order-in) since New Year’s Eve. Nice little treat before the inevitably intense 11 weeks. Now just to decide what to treat myself to…

Satire but great to show people why FL is important!

@katebarber.bsky.social has studied legitimization through hyperlinks in blog posts. 🟦Data is taken from 5 blogs dealing with s€xuAl violence. 🔷Links are classified as different types of anchor text. 🔵Technological affordances are evidential resources 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢Join us on the IGALA Executive Committee! 📢 Nominations are open NOW for President-Elect, Secretary, Comms Officer or Treasurer. Apply before the end of Sep to help inform the shape and direction of the International Gender and Language Association. Just let me know if you have any questions!

Having been secretary for… too many years… I’m also happy to answer any questions applicants might have!

A reminder that Frazer's talk starts in half an hour! Here is the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/talkddi (please use a recognisable username) @ylvabiri.bsky.social @lulind.bsky.social #DDIAFinLa #OSSO 🐦🐦🐦

I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.

Excited to give a talk as part of the Online Selves - Self Online series tomorrow. Thank you for the invitation @coocho.bsky.social! My talk is titled "Caveman Theories, Modern Misogyny: Evolutionary Psychology in Incel Fora" - and addresses how pseudoscience normalises misogyny. Abstract below ⏬

Had a lovely time catching up with a friend and colleague in Liverpool today. Treated myself to my favourite food after 😍😍😍

Having a chat with someone today about this paper, so thought I would re(tweet? Skeet? Idk what the verb is)

9/9 2025 Online guest lecture by Melissa Kemble on Exploring gendered representations of sexuality and ethnicity in the Australian sports media: A corpus-based analysis of Aussie Rules and Rugby League Details. Details: sydneycorpuslab.com/wp-content/u...

Being the secretary for @lgas-baal.bsky.social was a wonderful experience. If you’re interested in applying and have questions, please do feel free to DM!

Delighted to share the details of my forthcoming book: www.routledge.com/Autism-in-In...

Went into Manchester Museum yesterday to see the fantastic George House Trust HIV exhibition. Right next to it was another passion of mine - linguistics! Featuring the brilliant @manchestervoices.bsky.social project

Manchester City Council should not be allowing private security to block access to public rights of way www.reddit.com/r/manchester...

I am very excited to announce the release of my first article! In this I explore the interaction of gender identity, sexuality, and participation in women's football. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

FYI linguistlist.org/issues/36/24...

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! 🦩💜

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.

Getting ready for #LavLang31 in Manchester later this week! Very much looking forward to catching up with @lavlang.bsky.social folks, and to seeing two @uonenglish.bsky.social PhD students @xylong.bsky.social and @maxreuvers.bsky.social present their work 🤩

Lavlang is tomorrow! Ahhhhh!

I fear I may have found a new niche way to get amazing pumps and gains… but at what cost?

I was literally writing about this yesterday. I love how, 27 years later, we now have PrEP, U = U, and 5 patients who have been able to come off of treatment with an undetectable viral load. The progress of 27 years is incredible.

Folks fear they may be going to the gym for a second 2hr session while on leave….. folks are right, I will. 😈😈😈

Not only did this MOOC (well, its much earlier iteration) teach me A LOT about corpus linguistics, it also influenced how I think corpus linguistics should be taught. I highly recommend joining!

As a reminder, today is the last day to sign up!!

youtube.com/shorts/Cn3UP... a very interesting commentary on the colonial roots of so much of our language

Devastated to hear that Robin Lakoff passed away on Tuesday. Lakoff's work really was inspirational - and the first paper I ever read on Language and Gender. She inspired a generation of language and gender scholars -- as well as others in multiple other linguistic disciplines. She was a real icon.

The Rare Ltd 40th Anniversary Box Set Vinyl from @iam8bit.com is now available! Two-and-a-half hours of our 'bangers' with added fuzzy vinyl warmth and sleeve art you could lose an entire afternoon to inspecting: www.iam8bit.com/products/rar...

Happy birthday, Rare!! 🥰❤️❤️

Resharing this, because I’m still very happy 🥰

📣🎉 Genuinely so happy to share my new article in The Journal of Pragmatics 🎉 My paper is titled "Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames" and can be accessed here (Open Access!) 👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

GMTK Game Jam 2025 just surpassed the 2024 jam for participants, making it the biggest GMTK Game Jam ever, and the biggest game jam in itch․io's history! itch.io/jam/gmtk-2025

Make sure to sign up for lavlang! :-)

Gerry is so ugly. I love him

The next plenary speaker we are excited to announce is... Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)! You can read more about Michaela and her research here: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/prof-... #CADS2026i

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Tomorrow! :D

On Tuesday 22nd, I’ll be giving a talk at Università di Genova’s Seminario di Linguistica permanente GiNeStRe - Generi, Narrazioni e Strategie di Resistenza. I’ll be talking about my recently accepted paper on how trans identities are indexed in video games! Info below👇

Today is a good day: Journal accepted a paper (watch this space!), about to give a talk to some wonderful students at the University of Bamberg, AND will be attending my own student's graduation this afternoon :-)

I swear some universities specifically design forms to make it as hard as possible to reimburse you :) (not naming names here -- just getting frustrated with always seeming to have to complete 20 pages of admin for reimbursement).

A little gym update. Thursday was tiddy Thursday and I got this pic of me feeling beefy 🥰

As a reminder, if you’ve not signed up for this year’s Lavlang conference, early bird ticket prices ends on 7th: lavlang2025.wordpress.com

New book review just out: Oli Delgaram-Nejad on James Balfour's "Representing Schizophrenia in the Media" jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10....

I was really privileged to be part of an ASMA panel talking about masculinity, gaming, and even incels- hosted by Steven Dashiell, but also talking with Mikko Merliläinen and Gerald Voorhees - watch for free below! www.masculinities.online?wix-vod-vide...

"[MGTOW] been described as misogynistic, but Ofcom’s interviewees insisted it was not because it was about choosing to live without women, not hating them." Fun fact: there is rather a lot of woman hating source: I literally wrote a book about this group

Genuinely been having the best time teaching at the Lavender Linguistics Institute this week. The students are amazing and it’s been one of the nicest teaching experiences

I get academic rejection is part of the job, but there are a couple that just really really sting, ya’know? Not looking for sympathy, just venting to the void

Out now: my chapter "The importance of context in analysing the incitement of violence: a case study of an online community" in the book Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language, edited by the brilliant @sofiaruediger.bsky.social and @coocho.bsky.social.

Out of curiosity does anyone have a pdf of this?: benjamins.com/catalog/jls.... I read it during my PhD but my current institution doesn’t have access to it :(