An absolute pleasure to work on ‘Forensic Linguistics in the United Kingdom’ with @ralphmortonlang.bsky.social and Malcolm Couthard. Out now and free to download for two weeks!

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Delighted to say that 'Forensic Linguistics in the United Kingdom' the Cambridge Element I've been working on for the past couple of years with @emchiang.bsky.social and Malcolm Coulthard is out now, and it's free to download for the first two weeks www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Today I wrote to Birmingham's Cabinet Member for Transport as well as the WMCA urging them to use their new powers to take action on pavement parking. Groups like @livingstreets.bsky.social and @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org have been campaigning for this for years. The time to act is now.

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 episode of Writing Wrongs out today! I talk to Tim Grant and Dr Nicci MacLeod about the rhetorical moves and identities of a child sex offender who assumed multiple online personae to target and…...

New episode of Writing Wrongs out today! I talk to Tim Grant and Dr Nicci MacLeod about the rhetorical moves and identities of a child sex offender who assumed multiple online personae to target and ...

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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

AIFL Interview Series: Jessica Woodhams

by Julija Danu

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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...

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants

To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

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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...

Corpus Linguistics and Digital Influence and Manipulation

The influence and manipulation of others in online space is a growing area of interest among linguists. Corpus linguistics and corpus-assisted discour…

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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...

Ep.8 – Clean air in Birmingham with Kirsten de Vos and Florence Cadge – Better Streets for Birmingham

Kevin Carmody is in conversation with Kisten de Vos of Mums for Lungs and Florence Cadge of Birmingham Healthy Air Coalition.

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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

Constructing Idiolect: Cognitive Linguistics and the challenges of cross-genre authorship

By Lucia Busso

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

Announcing the 20th International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis (ISSFLA 2026)

By Madison Hunter

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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-...

Surviving a PhD in Forensic Linguistics

By Lily Calloway

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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...

Forensic linguistics: how dark web criminals give themselves away with their language

Unmasking dark web criminals isn’t easy, but researchers are figuring out how to use their own language against them.

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⭐ 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

Linguistic mechanisms of knowledge-exchange in a dark-web money laundering forum

Money laundering facilitates serious crime, enables the expansion of criminal operations, and destabilises economies. Extant scholarship is largely concerned with anti-money laundering approaches, wit...

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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!

Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics@aifl.bsky.social · last yr.

We'd like to share our next CPD training course! We'll talk about the types of linguistic evidence admitted to Court in the English and Welsh Legal System Where? Online When? Friday, April 11 (12-2pm UK time) For booking and more information: www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

Fantastic and not a moment too soon!

Tim Grant@timgrant123.bsky.social · 2y ago

Delighted to announce the pre-publication of this paper; it's one I've wanted to write for a while and was really pleased when Madi Hunter decided to give this the impetus and the heavy lifting that it required. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #academicsky #linguistics #forensicliguistics

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!

Lecturer in Discourse Analysis and Stylistics (Teaching-Focused):Oxford Road

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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!

Isabel Picornell Garcia@picornell.eurosky.social · 2y ago

Another upcoming course in #Forensiclinguistics from Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics. This time, for A Level English Teachers.

It’s nice here. I hope it stays nice.