"…when things were going well for you during your student experience, what was it that made it good? After the third or fourth training session I got pretty good at predicting what they would say and 90 per cent of the time the answer was “friends.”" But "Each cut makes forming friendships harder"

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

Millions of followers ≠ engagement. @theguardian.com has 1.4m followers on Threads with almost no engagement. On Bluesky, links can get 3–4x more clicks than likes. The real question isn’t “how many followers do you have?” but “what kind of engagement do you get?”

I'm performing at Edinburgh Fringe! 🥳 Come along and watch if you happen to be around this week! :)

The thing about "new normals" is that until the whole global economy gets off of fossil fuels, new normals will soon become old normals. These are snapshots on an upward climbs not a stable new resting place at the top of a hill and... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thanks to everyone who listened to one of my talks. Glad they're are both done now! It's been so nice to meet new people and learn about their research. Having a great time and looking forward to the final panel! #CL2025

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

Please stop with lazy/disrespectful headlines about Archaeologists stumbling, being puzzled etc. They did not stumble, it was discovered as part of a road scheme. Most archaeology is recovered as part of planning & development process which includes monitoring for archaeology🏺 #archaeology

I put together a short document for those wary of the AI mania in schools. Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools and introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed--with thoughts and rebuttals and links to sources. Hope it's helpful. drive.google.com/file/d/1urCM...

Short news reports like, "President announces ceasefire" with a screenshot of a Truth Social post and little else only serve to amplify his platform, encourage bypassing of critical questioning and allow the shaping of the message to be entirely dictated by a political leader. Citizens gain nothing.

An elected official is publicly mocking a student for wearing a kufiyeh, having purple hair, and using they/them pronouns. Not because it affects governance, not because it harms anyone. But because, in the age of culture war politics, symbolic identity is the battleground.

We now have a Bluesky account for the Public Discourses of Dementia project! Check out what we're doing, and what we've been up to, below! 👇 #dementia #appliedlinguistics #discourse #corpuslinguistics

Great piece just out from @bylinetimes.bsky.social featuring the #StopFundingHate petition for M&S to drop their ads with GB News - now approaching 11,000 signatures! 👏👏👏 bylinetimes.com/2025/02/24/m...

To spare you all from Twitter, here’s @shashj.bsky.social’s great rebuttal.

Great Visualisation in this graph of how the fact clarification does not get the views, and the impact of a viral post.

We are delighted to confirm our #2025 Workshop series: Inequalities, inclusion and innovation. In person @lancslinguistics.bsky.social on 21/03/25 and online on 25/03/25. Plenaries @elenasemino.bsky.social & @fmfederici.bsky.social All welcome: register via website - baalhealthsci.wordpress.com

Now GB News has started pushing a toxic suggestion that the NHS has a "diversity obsession" which is "killing patients". This is what Sky, Trailfinders and Trivago are enabling by supporting GB News It will only add to concerns about efforts by GB News to bring Trump's playbook to the UK.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

Reform UK is a far-right party, but that doesn’t mean their voters are. Reform are bringing together a coalition united by two things: a distrust of mainstream politics and pessimism about the state of the country.

Linking LGBTQ+ inclusion to paedophilia is a toxic and dangerous trope. Please take action to urge Sky to pull their ads from GB News: actionstorm.org/petitions/cu...

That time when I wrote this seven and one half years ago

Meta's policy is that group-based harassment is generally bad and forbidden *except for this one particular group*

“A line has been crossed”: PM Keir Starmer has responded after days of attacks from Elon Musk on himself and Jess Phillips. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Starmer speak in this way before - such so that it’s worth posting his comments in full. 🧵with the PM’s response to Sky’s @bethrigby.bsky.social.

If you want an authentic & joyful presentation of #SocialCare then check out our Channel4, BAFTA nominated short #Biscuitland m.youtube.com/watch?v=hLsW... like my life social care’s at the centre. A lot less holding hands than in traditional depictions. Also check out @socialcarefuture.bsky.social