People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?” It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents: Sleep when the baby sleeps Cry when the baby cries Publish when the baby publishes
Beth Malory
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Lecturer in English Linguistics at UCL. Researcher of reproductive health communication @uclenglishusage.bsky.social.
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Delighted to share that the programme for the BAAL Language Gender & Sexuality group annual event is now live: baalgensex.wordpress.com Register here: mmu.estore.flywire.com/.../baal-sig.... looking forward to welcoming everyone on May 2nd!
BAAL Language, Gender and Sexuality SIG
The British Association of Applied Linguistics’ Special Interest Group for Language, Gender and Sexuality
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Celebrating joining the Xodus with my first post; this week Louise Nuttall and I published a new report on attitudes to diagnostic language for pregnancy loss, which was picked up by the @theguardian.com Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag... Article here: amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Thought provoking blog on clinical language choice by Beth Malory. Important work on a sensitive topic, pregnancy loss: medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...
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