Getting ready for #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid this week, where I have two presentations - one as part of @mantrap.bsky.social with @veronikakoller.bsky.social and @alexiconartist.bsky.social (there in spirit) on Wednesday at 6, and another on Friday at 1:30. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Always good to start the year with a publucation! This one includes a chapter by the @mantrap.bsky.social team about using corpus linguistics to address the effects of online misogyny.

Gavin Brookes@gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New year, new book! Out now: 'Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social and @robbielove.org and published by @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. More info in thread ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

On some days, I am reminded that my work matters, like when @ofcom.bsky.social include the @mantrap.bsky.social response into their guidance on how tech companies can and must make online life safer for women and girls 💜 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

Statement and Guidance: A safer life online for women and girls

Today we are publishing practical guidance for tech companies on creating a safer life online for women and girls.

ofcom.org.uk

Featuring @jessaiston.bsky.social from the @mantrap.bsky.social team

Jonathan Kasstan@jrkasstan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New Word of Mouth podcast with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and @jessaiston.bsky.social on language and the ‘manosphere’ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #linguistics

The Women and Equalities Select Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk has accepted our team's evidence as part of it's public enquiry into 'Misogyny: the manosphere and online content' Read our submission below committees.parliament.uk/work/9089/mi...

Misogyny: the manosphere and online content - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament

Written evidence submission publications for Misogyny: the manosphere and online content.

committees.parliament.uk

The online manosphere poses a real threat to society Our response published today in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The online ‘manosphere’ poses a real threat to society | Letter

Letter: An article about Ofcom research into anti-feminist and misogynistic websites underestimated their influence, write Prof Veronika Koller, Dr Jessica Aiston, Dr Alexandra Krendel and Dr Mark McG...

theguardian.com

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say

"[MGTOW] been described as misogynistic, but Ofcom’s interviewees insisted it was not because it was about choosing to live without women, not hating them." Fun fact: there is rather a lot of woman hating source: I literally wrote a book about this group

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say

When your team's work - based on six years of research - gets cited but the core message is ignored, because 38 men say it's no big deal 😡 @mantrap.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say

Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggests

theguardian.com

And now it's my turn, to provide an overview of the @mantrap.bsky.social project - happy to share slides on request!

Dimitris Serafis@dimitrisrf.bsky.social · last yr.

We are excited to welcome @veronikakoller.bsky.social & @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social for the keynote event of our lecture series "TaalX: #Discourses of #Discrimination" - register to attend online/in-person 👉 sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx2 @rug.nl

www.linkedin.com/posts/sensoc...

Today, the @mantrap.bsky.social team presented our research on the language of the manosphere to senso.cloud/en-GB, a company developing safeguarding software. We talked about manosphere-specific words, ordinary words in specific co-texts and discourse features beyond words (syntax, grammar etc.).

Senso.cloud | Cloud-based device monitoring, management and online safety tools

Device monitoring and management software in an all-in-one cloud-based solution for network, classroom, asset management and online safety.

senso.cloud

Two presentations with my and others'names on them were given today while I could have a domestic day: @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social on the discourse of supporters and opponents of Irish populust parties, and @alexiconartist.bsky.social on the latest @mantrap.bsky.social research - thank you both!

There should be no place for violent misogyny and sex trafficking rapists on Spotify. Two of Tate's "courses" have been removed, but one still remains. You can join this email campaign to demand Spotify remove it: www.collectiveshout.org/contact-spot...

Sean | Drowned in Sound@drownedinsound.bsky.social · last yr.

Can you believe Spotify are hosting this “course”? Would hosting this be a breach of the UK’s Online Safety act? Shockingly there’s no way to report this on the Spotify app?!? Source : www.linkedin.com/posts/eloisa...

My monograph 'Male Separatism: Discourse, Ideology, Argumentation' is now available for purchase as an ebook with John Benjamins, though you will need to pre-order for a physical copy. benjamins.com/catalog/daps...

I’ve put together a list of must read recent publications and resources about online misogyny, the manosphere & gender-based violence 🧵

Submit your extended abstract for a special issue of @critdiscstuds.bsky.social on the language of the #manosphere by the end of Sunday. My @mantrap.bsky.social colleagues and I are interested in research-based interventions and non-Anglo contexts. t.co/B9AevMR6HE

CfP deadline fast approaching for our special issue in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social Details ⬇️

Jessica Aiston@jessaiston.bsky.social · 2y ago

The @mantrap.bsky.social team are organising a special issue, bringing together linguistics/discourse approaches to the manosphere which focus on A) non-Anglo-American contexts and B) positive interventions. Please see the link below for detail. Deadline 1st Dec. docs.google.com/document/d/1...