Losing Semantic Control: Anodal Stimulation of the Left-Inferior Frontal Gyrus Reduces Metaphor Comprehensibility: https://osf.io/f6vbm

The 9th RaAM Specialised Seminar Metaphor in vitro: from texts to brains, hosted by IUSS Pavia, is pleased to announce its Invited Speakers:

Mangiaterra, Al-Azary, di San Pietro, Canal, Bambini: Can GPT replace human raters? Validity and reliability of machine-generated norms for metaphors https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12444 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.12444 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.12444

Confs: 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language

Books: Linguistic Synesthesia: Winter and Strik-Lievers (2025)

We got to play our new climate metaphor card game at this year's Researching and Applying Metaphor conference! Thank you @raammetaphor.bsky.social for yet another awesome conference, and all you awesome participants for joining the fun ☺️ Free print & play version coming soon!

Immensely enriched and grateful after the RaAM 17 conference @raammetaphor.bsky.social. A really high quality programme and impeccable organisation. Delighted to present our work in individual papers and a theme session with Rafael Alejo, @mmartingilete.bsky.social and Laura Fielden.

Our lab at #RaAM2025: Laura Baiocco talked about emotional dimensions of metaphors, Lindsay Krebs talked about student-produced metaphors and science concept learning, Cagatay Cora presented the neural correlates of visual metaphors. Thank the organizers Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social for a great time!

That’s a wrap! It’s been a blast! What a wild ride! I’ll end my metaphors there. Eloise, your postgraduate liaison, over and out! 👋 #RaAM17 #RaAM2025

At #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social, I was pleased to present, on behalf of our team, one study from the 4D Picture project, on “Metaphors, identities, and gender in online interactions about cancer”. It was my first in-person RaAM, and I loved every bit of it.

Amber Rynearson and I presented today at @raammetaphor.bsky.social, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification. What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!

Welcome to day 2 of #RaAM17 🙌 There are so many exciting things happening today, including 3 parallel sessions of talks, a poster session at 1:30pm and a wonderful plenary by @bodowinter.bsky.social #RaAM2025 #RaAM17

Ready. Set. Go! Great start to #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social in Southfield Detroit! @al-azary.bsky.social officially opening the conference and Vicky Lai kicking off with the first keynote 🚀

📣 John Benjamins will be present at the 17th Researching & Applying Metaphor Conference (RaAM17), hosted by Lawrence Technological University, 7-10 August! 📚 Check out our promo material and order form here: 👉 benjamins.com/conferences/... 📚 Or come and browse our books at the exhibit! #raam17

Just arrived in Detroit for the #RaAM17 conference! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, meeting new people, exchanging ideas, and delivering my keynote entitled "Hype, Help, Hindrance? Identifying, analyzing and translating #metaphors with #AI" 🤩 Stay tuned for updates 😎

Special Issue of the Mental Lexicon, "Words in the World" - co edited by Laura Teddiman, Lori Buchanan and myself. This features great psycholinguistics papers produced by trainees around the world! 🌍

I'm very happy to join the metaphor community 👥 at the RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social, in Lawrence, MI (US) @al-azary.bsky.social I will present 🗣️ an @abstractionerc.bsky.social research by @mariannabolog.bsky.social and me about the importance of different levels of abstraction▪️◾◼️ in metaphors!

📢 Exciting news for metaphor researchers! RaAM 17 is happening in Lawrence, MI (USA), on 7–10 August 2025, and registration is officially OPEN! Register now in the members' area of RaAM Association website! 🔗 www.raam.org.uk