New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

happy publication day to me 👯‍♀️ my paper on COVID metaphor clustering is FINALLY OUT!! took so long that in the meantime my co-author and best friend has changed career in the meantime, but better late than ever ✨✨ benjamins.com/catalog/milc...

I challenged my colleagues yesterday to come up with a seven-word definition of Stylistics. This is as close as I could get: Stylistics is the study of how language choice affects meaning.

Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... For people interested in the links between AL and AI.

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

University English Funding

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📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Fei Gao and Xin Li review Denise Merkle and Brian James Baer's @routledgebooks.bsky.social 'The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship' 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25190.gao 👉 Book: bit.ly/46KiTOP

Participants needed for my new study on parasocial attachments and the material afterlives of music keepsakes. See further details below ⬇️ #rorygallagher #blues #fender #strat #bonhams #auction #fandom

Grateful that DeGruyter have kindly made our paper open access for three months!🥳🥳 If you’re interested in how Generative AI is transforming publishing in Applied Linguistics, you can freely download and read it here 👇 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Generative AI and the future of writing for publication: insights from applied linguistics journal editors

The emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping academic writing and publishing practices. As knowledge curators, applied linguistics journal editors need to respond to GenAI ...

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My book "Researching Language and Digital Communication" is hereeee. It may just be the most camp discussion of DMC so far. Including analyses of: - Dolly Parton memes - TikTok videos of Jungle and Billie Eilish - anonymous Grindr profiles

Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.

Migration Museum@migrationmuseum.org · last yr.

Join the Migration Museum team for a walking tour exploring the incredible stories of the generations of migrants who’ve lived, worked, and shaped the City of London. 🗓️ Sat 13 Sept 2025 🕜 1.30–3pm 📍 Starts behind the Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL 🔗 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...

So happy to share that I've been promoted to Reader in Languages and Linguistics at @manmetuni.bsky.social. I am so grateful for all the support from colleagues here and afar! 🥳🎊 @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

Out now! #openaccess paper in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, exploring the issue of alignment between AI and Applied Linguistics, with @niallrcurry.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social

Niall Curry@niallrcurry.bsky.social · last yr.

Reposting this as it is now actually open access 🔓✨ (promise!). You can find the it here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. See the post below ⬇️ for some more detail!

The Call for Papers for Corpora & Discourse 2026 has now launched! Please send us your abstracts and share the call widely!

Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026@corporadiscourse.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online 🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online

Safeguarding children in schools broadly refers to the actions taken to protect children from abuse, prevent damage to health and development, and pro…

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Reposting this as it is now actually open access 🔓✨ (promise!). You can find the it here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. See the post below ⬇️ for some more detail!

Niall Curry@niallrcurry.bsky.social · last yr.

📝 📣New OA paper with @tonymcenery.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" You can find it in ARAL here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... & more details in the posts below ⬇️ @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds

A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

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The chick is like hold my grain… 🐥 🥰

A huge thank you to all who attended, presented, plenaried, chaired, entertained, fed & watered us at a brilliant @PALA2025 & esp to the fantastic team @EnglishAston. Here's to PALA Uppsala 2026!! 🎉💃🕺💃🕺🥳

Book highlights at #PALA2025 include: 📖 the new edition of Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics by Marcello Giovanelli & @chloeharrison.bsky.social 📖 Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language, ed. J Culpeper 📖 new books in @michamahlberg.bsky.social Corpus and Discourse series + more at 35% off!

Back at my desk after #PALA2025 with a full notebook and so many new ideas. Thank you to the Aston team for hosting us, and to everyone for your inspiration and support - can't wait for ‪@pala2026.bsky.social‬

Not really tweeting or blueskying much but an absolute fire plenary by @helenringrow.bsky.social for #pala2025 on digital stylistics methods and futures.

See you soon(ish) for the @palapoeticsling.bsky.social conference!!

On my way to a quick visit at #CL2025 to talk about a corpus linguistic approach to surveillant landscapes (in the final slot on Thursday at 2.00pm) … on a rather fittingly surveilled train 😁

Excited to have delivered a plenary at @cl2025.co.uk @astonuniversity.bsky.social Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025. In this plenary I discussed how #corpuslinguistics & #AI may collaborate in the reconfiguration of #languagelearning ecologies. My references perezparedes.es/corpus-lingu...

Corpus Linguistics 2025 Plenary - Pérez-Paredes

Corpus Linguistics and AI in the reconfiguration of language learning ecologies Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Universidad de Murcia Aston University, July 3, 2025 Some references Curry, N., & McEnery, T. (20...

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PALA2025 is edging ever closer!! Looking forward to seeing you at Aston University, Birmingham, soon!!

@gavinbrookes.bsky.social utterly satisfying and scarily good keynote #CL2025 so much food for thought it will keep me energized for the whole conference and beyond