Happy to be co-running a workshop for the @engmediacentre.bsky.social today on Language Change and Discourses. More info here: www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/2eb0...

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Language Change and Discourses

Exploring contemporary language change: new words, new meanings &amp; new methods. <em>NB: This is a repeat course.&nbsp;</em>

englishandmedia.co.uk

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 · last mo.

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.

Lavender Languages and Linguistics 33: We are beyond excited to announce that we will host #LavLang33 from September 8-10, 2027, in beautiful Hamburg (Germany). Stay tuned for keynote speakers and call for papers! @lavlang.bsky.social

I was always under the (I think wrong) impression that all academic jobs in the UK had to be posted on jobs.ac.uk. Does anyone know if there is any grounding to this? Or is it simply where a lot of jobs happens to be posted, but not required?

Happy birthday to Mary Shelley, born on this day in 1797 📕 At 18, she began writing Frankenstein, helping to invent a whole genre and giving us one of literature’s most iconic monsters. Not a bad legacy.

We're excited to announce the programme for LavLang32, 2-4 September at the University of Edinburgh. It's (potentially?!) the biggest LavLang yet! - 5 Keynotes - 140 attendees - 95 papers The programme showcases the breadth and diversity of queer linguistics research: shorturl.at/6nKn7

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

democracyforsale.substack.com

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

Happy to announce the publication of our latest paper in Gender and Language (utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...). Hopefully interesting for anyone interested in language and gender and/or language and sport.

Gender Penalty? Linguistic Discrimination and Perceptions of Female Football Commentators | Gender and Language

Abstract This experimental sociolinguistic study investigates implicit attitudes relating to female football commentators. Several high-profile sports-media figures have claimed that women's voices are “too high-pitched” for commentary on men's football, a domain in which traditional, heteronormative gender relations remain especially dominant. With this critique in mind, we conducted a social perception experiment using voices artificially manipulated for pitch to investigate the interaction of pitch and gender stereotypes in this context. Contrary to the male-centred meta-discourse surrounding female commentators, our results show that listeners actually judge female commentators with lower-pitched voices less favourably compared with higher-pitched female voices. Male listeners, in particular, prefer gender-typical voices and male voices generally. These results support previous claims about the influence of stored stereotypes on the social evaluation of speech, how evaluations are dependent upon the specific gendered dynamics of a given domain, and the pervasiveness of a “double-bind” that female commentators are faced with.

utppublishing.com

🎤 IGALA 14 keynote speaker announcement! Dr Jaspal Singh (Open University, UK) — sociolinguist exploring how Indian hip hop artists perform and contest gender and sexuality through embodied practices and performance. 📍 York St John | 21–23 July 2027 #IGALA14

Registration is open until tomorrow if you fancy a trip to Southampton on Friday!

The York English Language Toolkit returns on 10 July 2026. This free hybrid CPD workshop for A-level English Language teachers features talks from Prof Devyani Sharma, Prof Paul Kerswill, Prof Sam Hellmuth and Dr Kobin Kendrick. Save the date. englishlanguagetoolk...

Join us in Southampton! store.southampton.ac.uk/conferences-...

I'm going to try and read a new article or chapter every (work) day. Hopefully this will help keep research at the forefront of my mind. I'm mostly putting it here for accountability, but if anyone has suggestions/things I should add, let me know!

We are delighted to announce this year's winner of the Judith Baxter Award. Congratulations, @peterbrowning.bsky.social. Join us in Southampton (on 10 April) to hear more about Peter's research. See info to register.

How does the meaning of the word 'just' change the way we say it? A new study by Dr Ben Gibb-Reid explores the link between pragmatic function and phonetic reduction in British English. Read his findings in English Language and Linguistics. doi.org/10.1017/S136...

📣 Save the date: Friday 10th July 2026! This year's FREE and fully hybrid York English Language Toolkit CPD workshop for teachers of English Language A level is on Friday 10th July 2026 10.30am-4.30pm, with talks on Multicultural London English and more. Registration from April. Pass the word!

Public talk on accent bias in HE, led by Christian Ilbury from the University of Edinburgh, at the University of Birmingham, UK, at 6pm on 29th April. I have long been aware that our students (and staff) who speak with local accents experience discrimination. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/tackl...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

The only time they even mention women’s sports is in their efforts to try to legislate trans women out of public life. Once they are successful at that they will then begin efforts to legislate cis women out of public life with them.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In a historic year for women at the Olympics, Trump specifically awarded male athletes with the presidential medal of freedom at the SOTU. They never cared about women’s sports. They never cared about women, period.

Prof Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) will deliver the 2026 Robert Le Page Lecture on 12 March 4-5 PM UK time (GMT). He will speak on "Universal Multilingualism: From Creolistics to Theoretical Linguistics". Register to attend online or in person. www.eventbrite.co.uk...

With more than 80 participants already registered, there is still a bit of time to sign up to join us on Wed for an event on publishing in language, gender and sexuality. @lucyjones.bsky.social and @lexiwebster.bsky.social will help us navigate the publishing process. There'll be time for questions

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We’re hosting the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in Edinburgh this year! If you work on queer linguistics topics, please submit an abstract, we’d love to see you there! Conference dates: 2nd-4th September Submission deadline: 28th March CfP: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

Christian Ilbury@christianilbury.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The CfPs for LavLang32 at Edinburgh is now OPEN! A reminder of our stellar lineup: • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE) • Prof. Erez Levon (Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Dr. Eddie Ungless (UoE) Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

Hey, I'm in this!

Barbara Bleiman@barbarableiman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

February's emag is now online. Here are the Contents - an amazing collection of articles for A Level Lit, Language, Lang/Lit students and IB English students. Just take a look at the Contents pages! www.englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazines/

Call for LavLang32 now on Linguist List. Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

Linguist List@linguistlist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Calls: Lavender Languages and Linguistics 32

It is amazing that the party who insist removing confederate monuments is erasing history also insist on removing monuments commemorating the enslaved people those confederate leaders were fighting to keep in bondage

Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · 10mo ago

We are excited to announce our FREE seminar on academic publishing, on Wed 18th Feb at 2pm. We’ll be joined by @lucyjones.bsky.social (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics) and Dr Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language). Register here: forms.gle/CKzA9HywyQUk...

Publishing in Language, Gender and Sexuality

We’re pleased to announce our next online seminar will take place on Wednesday 18th February at 2-3pm. This event will focus on publishing journal articles and books in language, gender and sexuality ...

forms.gle

Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Publishing in Language, Gender and Sexuality

We’re pleased to announce our next online seminar will take place on Wednesday 18th February at 2-3pm. This event will focus on publishing journal articles and books in language, gender and sexuality ...

docs.google.com