The University of Manchester (@manchester.ac.uk) is hiring: Research Associate (Syriac) #postdoc #syriacstudies #humanities

Also, for anyone visiting Daejeon for #DH2026, the big digital humanities conference, I heartily recommend visiting some local cafes in Daejeon and anywhere else in Korea for some great coffee and often a really interesting atmosphere! Cafe Teri in Daejeon has been on my to-visit list for ages!

"Fictional people and the climate crisis" That looks like an amazing PhD topic!

Prof Michaela Mahlberg@michamahlberg.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...

And this is broadcast by public service radio, that rarely or never speak an ill word about any politician …

Martin D.B. Brown@martindbbrown.bsky.social · last mo.

Czech president considers criminal charges against foreign minister english.radio.cz/czech-presid...

A Brucie Bonus (Scotty Supplement?) for those travelling home from @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Here's the full live stream of '30 Years of Keyness – in honour of Mike Scott' held at @livunienglish.bsky.social earlier this week ▶️ drive.google.com/file/d/1PivK... Please enjoy & share! #CADS2026

and #CADS2028 is going to 🥁 Vienna July 5-7

A fascinating presentation by @instantlinguist.bsky.social looking at how Chinese food was represented by the UK press in the post-COVID period. #CADS2026

Stefania M. Maci concluded the Food Discourses panel with a great presentation on “gastronationalism” in Italy. #CADS2026

I've talked a lot about Mastodon these last few days. Interested in supporting an even more decentralised social media than BS? Here are some links. General information: fedi.tips Servers: mastodon.world hcommons.social lingo.lol polyglot.city scicomm.xyz fediscience.org fedihum.org mastodon.nu

Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

fedi.tips

Loved #CADS2026 Find all your fellow CADSers here! Get at me in replies/DMs if you're not in this starter pack and should be go.bsky.app/AT6KX6X

For all travelling south from #CADS2026 that do not need to speak with anyone, I can recommend the quiet coach at 10 on the platform (look at the ground, yellow circles with numbers tell you where the coaches' doors are). Aircon and everything, at least on the train I took.

In our final plenary speech @bwking1971.bsky.social reflected on the challenges and developments of using corpora to explore online discourse over the last 20 years! #CADS2026

Soon time for my talk at #CADS2026 on how a gender-neutral pronoun has been translated (hint: nine different strategies!). The slides are available here: osf.io/z5k9j/files/...

Happy to hear that my keynote at the 5th Summer School of the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy - organized by @andreapirro.it & @pietrocastellig.bsky.social - will be open to the public. On July 6, 15.00, I will be "Rethinking the Far Right" at SPS in Bologna 🇮🇹. All welcome!

Rethink the Far Right

Discorso di apertura della 5ª Scuola estiva ECPR su estremismo e democrazia: intervento di Cas Mudde (Università della Georgia)

dsps.unibo.it

Yeyyyy that's us! And in open access, too! We show that gender-inclusive forms (think the point median in French or the gender star / asterisk in German) index speakers’ presumed age, gender identity, and political orientation.

Journal of Sociolinguistics@jslx.bsky.social · last mo.

Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social, Naomi Truan @berlinguistin.bsky.social, Jo Lychnara and Gráinne Deasy explore the association of gender-inclusive language with left-wing, progressive politics in French and German. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Extract: The postdoctoral researcher will work on projects related to human mobility, forced displacement, and vector-borne diseases, managing fieldwork and data analysis, and publishing scientific articles.

Really interesting presentation by Benedict J.L. Rowlett on the analysis of readers’ letters on gender and sexuality in the South China Morning Post. Good to know some diverse past voices from citizens on LGBT+ topics. #CADS2026

In the fiction track at #CADS2026 - here is @nfdykes.bsky.social presenting our work with @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social on #janeausten and #fanfiction - the transition to the talk by @mixosaurus.bsky.social couldn’t have been better if we’d planned it

A strike, in Czechia, and by public service workers? Noooo … Yes! english.radio.cz/czech-public...

Czech public broadcasters hold warning strike over funding reform

Czech Television and Czech Radio employees held a warning strike on Monday over government plans to replace license fees with state budget funding.

english.radio.cz

In this morning's plenary speech, @matteofuoli.bsky.social argued for the synergy of CADS and experimental methods. An excellent way to kick off day 2! #CADS2026

@avantgardening.pl I'm at the Corpora & discourse conference, and this was just on display. Hope you can read the title.

#CADS2026 fascinating historical visuals and even more fascinating data (questionnaires filled out by members of the Canadian military) which @rachellevessey.bsky.social uses to tell us about sexual violence in the military

@tamsinparnell.bsky.social has deconstructed Starmer's discourse of a broken public service system, and reveals in numbers one reason why the PM left yesterday. There are rarely any means to move forward in the discourse during Starmer's time. Her study should be reused for other nations! #CADS2026

I'll be posting my #CADS2026 stuff over at Mastodon, contributing to the more open part of thr Fediverse. If you're there, please follow @elmerot@polyglot.city (not-bridged server, unfortunately).

Agree, this is the tag to follow for corpus-assisted discourse news this week! I will hold a presentation on how the Swedish gender-neutral pronoun “hen” has caused headaches for translayors, and what their chosen strategies mean for discourse.

Veronika Koller@veronikakoller.bsky.social · last mo.

Hashtag to follow this week is #CADS2026, for the Corpora and Discourse conference in Lancaster. @mantrap.bsky.social have a paper, on mainstreaming 'misandry', but sadly I still cannot be in two places at once 🤷🏼‍♀️ Have a great time, everyone!

Excited that my paper with Nicola Williams, Elena Semino and Stephen Wilkinson titled 'Artificial wombs, reproductive autonomy and abortion: a bioethical and corpus linguistics exploration' has now been published in JME Practical Bioethics! You can find the paper here: jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

Sun and heat in Lancaster today! If you're hungry or need a coffee on arrival or departure, I can empirically prove Tuck on Meeting House Lane (close by the railway station) to be an excellent choice. They close at 16:00, though. #CADS2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social

#linguistics @chirila.bsky.social?

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey have any expert ANE linguist folks commented on the possible Linear A discovery yet?

Packing for conference going in Lancaster! Rain coat and sunscreen –  you never know. Also: CAMRA venues noted on map. If anyone else is there on Monday, let me know if you want to have a pint and chat! #CADS2026 #CorporaAndDiscourse @corporadiscourse.bsky.social