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English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers. One of the Lexis podcast team https://tinyurl.com/yckh3vy5 EngLangBlog: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/ English & Media Centre: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/ He/him

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Christian Ilbury@christianilbury.bsky.social · 3h ago

Always love doing a session for the EMC and this time I get to talk about social media and language change, and why we need to stop uncritically embracing labels like 'TikTok Language' 👌

EngLangBlog@englangblog.bsky.social · 3h ago

There's still a bit of time to book your place on this course which will feature @christianilbury.bsky.social & me. We'll be looking at how & why language changes, technology & change, as well as media discourses around change. It will be a packed and fun day. No cap, as no one my age should say.

EngLangBlog@englangblog.bsky.social · 3h ago

There's still a bit of time to book your place on this course which will feature @christianilbury.bsky.social & me. We'll be looking at how & why language changes, technology & change, as well as media discourses around change. It will be a packed and fun day. No cap, as no one my age should say.

English and Media Centre@engmediacentre.bsky.social · 3h ago

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Language Change and Discourses "The course was incredibly helpful and inspiring to further push my knowledge of the A Level. It was really lovely being in a room full of language discussions." - Alex Dudley, Holy Trinity Crawley Book by: 8am on 15th October buff.ly/uJLInF2

Dr Jessica Aiston@jessaiston.bsky.social · 4h ago

Social media is far from perfect, but it provides important community spaces for autistic young people. Rather than restricting young people's access, we argue that it's the platforms themselves that need to change. Read our new piece in the Conversation:

Social media provides valued community spaces for autistic young people

For some autistic young people online interactions provide a form of social contact that is more manageable than many physical settings.

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English and Media Centre@engmediacentre.bsky.social · 5h ago

Yesterday we announced that our emagazine AL English Literature conference was fully booked. Today we need to tell you that the emagazine AL English LANGUAGE conference is fully booked. That's nearly 2000 students + their teachers to welcome at these two events next month!

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Brigitte Nerlich@bnerlich.bsky.social · 6d ago

In this post I study 'going rogue' as a dominant/hegemonic metaphor and some counter- or polemic metaphors - contains blenders, Glocks, robot dogs and some serious metaphor debunking #AI #linguistics #metaphor makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/02/r...

Resisting rogue metaphors

Readers of this blog will know that from antiquity onwards, philosophers, rhetoricians and cognitive scientists have examined the use and abuse of metaphors. More recently, they have also begun to …

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Alison Gopnik@alisongopnik.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)

If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.

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Susie Dent@susiedentwords.bsky.social · 2w ago

For those interested in how dictionaries are made, as well as the secret lives of the apparently ordinary words we use, may I recommend this podcast? It’s made by two colleagues at the Oxford English Dictionary who really know their stuff. rss.com/podcasts/lex...

The OED’s September update enters the twerpy mountweazel timeline | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

Why do we love the mountweazel (and what is it)? Who was the original twerp? How did timeline constitute a two-for-one bargain? Join editors Fiona McPherson and Craig Leyland as they dive into some of...

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Isabel Picornell Garcia@picornell.eurosky.social · 3w ago

A report by Claire Hardaker on how her funding application to study the risk of misplaced confidence in fluent-sounding AI systems was rejected by AI-based review. #ForensicLinguistics #AI

I've had some pretty special rejections over the years, but this one, received at 16:51 on a Friday (today) has shot to the top of my all time Hall of Fame. For context, Georgina Brown and I put a...

I've had some pretty special rejections over the years, but this one, received at 16:51 on a Friday (today) has shot to the top of my all time Hall of Fame. For context, Georgina Brown and I put a pro...

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Brigitte Nerlich@bnerlich.bsky.social · 3w ago

For weekend readers, a dissection of race (Trump), pause and pace (Amodei) metaphors in AI discourse, with pace being a hybrid metaphor that wavers between walking-pace and race-pace makingsciencepublic.com/2026/09/18/f... #AI #metaphor #linguistics #scicomm

From pause to pace: How metaphors frame calls for an AI slowdown

At the beginning of the week (14 September 2026), I woke up to a collision of two AI discourses, one where President Donald Trump wants to win the AI race and another where Dario Amodei, the head o…

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EngLangBlog@englangblog.bsky.social · 3w ago

The emagazine English Language conference is booked for Tues 24th Nov in London and tickets go on sale on Oct 7th. If you want to have a look at the plan for the day and who we've got speaking, have a look here: www.englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...

emagazine Conference for A Level Language, 2026, London (London, Autumn 2026)

In-person <em>emagazine</em> Conference for advanced level students.&nbsp;<strong>ON SALE 10AM WEDNESDAY 7TH OCTOBER. SEE BOOKING DETAILS FOR HOW TO BOOK.</strong>

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