New episode of Writing Wrongs out today! I talk to @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social about the rhetorical moves and identities of a child sex offender who assumed multiple online personae to target and engage victims. www.linkedin.com/posts/emily-...

NEW AIFL BLOG ALERT! aifl-blog.com/aifl-intervi... For the latest in our AIFL Interview Series we spoke to Jessica Woodhams Professor of Psychology at University of Birmingham about crime linkage, combining linguistics and psychology, and supporting people working emotionally demanding material

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

New chapter with @lucia-busso.bsky.social on Corpus Linguistics and Digital Influence and Manipulation is out now in the Elsevier Reference Module in Social Sciences (catchy, eh?). Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

Better Streets for Birmingham podcast ep 8. - Clean air in Birmingham Happy Monday! We've got another podcast out. A conversation with Kirsten de Vos and Florence Cadge about clean air in the city. betterstreetsforbirmingham.org/ep-8-clean-a...

Fantastic new AIFL Blog post from Lucia Busso on cognitive linguistic / construction grammar approaches to cross-genre authorship analysis aifl-blog.com/constructing... #linguistics #idiolect, #cognitivelinguistics #constructiongrammar #genre #authorship

aifl-blog.com/announcing-t... New blog post with information about the upcoming (20th!) International Summer School in Forensic Linguistics Analysis.

NEW AIFL BLOG ALERT! In an excellent new post out today, Lily Calloway shares her tips for surviving a PhD in Forensic Linguistics aifl-blog.com/surviving-a-...

Latest crochet project finally finished 😊🐦

Very happy to be able to share a piece I wrote for The Conversation on how linguistics is helping to combat dark web crime theconversation.com/forensic-lin...

⭐ Publication day! ⭐ New paper exploring what corpus linguistics can offer in terms of combating online fraud groups and activities. In a special issue of Applied Corpus Linguistics - Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Tackling Online Crime. doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

New paper out! 🎉 Knowledge-exchange practices in a dark web money laundering forum: bit.ly/3ULTYon

And we're off! Today with Nicci MacLeod at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics we've released the first three episodes of our brand new podcast Writing Wrongs 🎙️Follow Writing Wrongs here 👉 podfollow.com/1797795962 #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #truecrime #podcasts #academicsky

Managed to save this guy/gal from my cat but now it won’t leave my shoe 🫤

Very excited to announce what @DrNicciMacLeod.bsky.social and I have been working on for the past few months (with a brilliant production team behind us). You can subscribe now and listen to our trailer wherever you get your podcasts. #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #truecrime #academicsky

Join us in April for our next CPD event for legal professionals!

Fantastic and not a moment too soon!

For our final Thursday seminar of 2024, we have what is sure to be a fascinating talk with William Costello regarding the prediction of harmful attitudes and beliefs in incel communities. Join us this week (4pm GMT)! Book your free online/in-person tickets here: tinyurl.com/2r8fhfsj #academicsky

We are looking for a full-time, temporary teaching-focused Lecturer in Discourse Analysis/Stylistics/Register analysis/forensic linguistics. Details of the job are available here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... Deadline 12th Dec. Please retweet/share!

Our next CPD offering (and the first of 2025) will be on enhanced communication skills for investigative interviewing! Join us on Friday 24th January 2025 for a one-day course demonstrating how linguistic understanding can support investigative interview practice.

Continuing our CPD Training Programme series, here's Forensic Linguistics for A-level English teachers! Join us on Friday, 29th of November for a one-day course where we will explore how topics in forensic linguistics can be used to support teaching. You can get your ticket here 👉 shorturl.at/wRNxK

Places still available on this one!

It’s nice here. I hope it stays nice.