The latest hardcopies of @ijcl.bsky.social have arrived. I have some to #giveaway If you’d like one, let me know - and give the journal account a follow 😀

Some big news to share! From September 1st, I will be joining the University of Birmingham as a 125th Anniversary Fellow and Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/un...

⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July

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📣 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...

I like a lot of things about this paper, but one of its special features is that it’s from the future: published in December 2026 apparently 🙃 Great stuff from Paul Baker, as usual www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please share this call for book chapters with anyone teaching a research methods class. Sal Consoli and I are editing a volume in the Applied Linguistics Press series. If you are teaching a research methods course and want to submit, feel free to contact me. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Call for proposals_public

Call for chapters for Syllabi in Applied Linguistics Research Methods Courses Editors: Sal Consoli (University of Edinburgh) and Charlene Polio (Michigan State University) Series editors: Benjamin Kr...

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On a vanishingly small chance you haven’t heard about it from me during CADS (sorry not sorry), we’re @sofiaruediger.bsky.social @domini.bsky.social doing a conf about persuasive language in Tampere this November and the CFP ends on July 1 and you should all come! events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...

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

Don’t just share this on here. Stick this on your family WhatsApp group. Send it to your Brexit uncle. Print it out and give it to that neighbour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

📢 Join us for the launch of the EMI Corpus — a unique new resource for researchers and practitioners interested in English as a Medium of Instruction 🌍🎓 📅 17 June 2026 💻 Online Register here: tinyurl.com/3bntvhya @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @danagablas.bsky.social @britishcouncil.bsky.social

Social scientists📣UKRI has funding available to support interdisciplinary research into the relationship between gambling & video games to generate actionable insights that can inform treatment, prevention & guide policy & best practice. ⏰ Closes 23 July. ➡️

Video games and gambling-related harms

Apply for funding to improve understanding of the relationship between gambling and video games and produce insights to inform policy and regulation, support interventions, and promote safe and…

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Thanks to Bernard Cassie for this nice open-access review of 'The Big Beasts of English Grammar...', which I co-authored with @grahburton.bsky.social @candlinmynard.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

Review: Jones and Burton. 2024. The Big Beasts of English Grammar: An Exploration of Form and Function in Conversations. Hong Kong: Candlin and Mynard | Corpora

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This is a great read with a conclusion that rings like a fire alarm “an object lesson for other universities from the UK … Overseas markets may not yield the fruits expected … troubles in the home campuses … can damage perceptions and stakeholder approvals” open.substack.com/pub/drgeoffr...

THE DESTRUCTION OF LEGACY HIGHER EDUCATION IN BRITAIN – NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY CASE STUDY

Geoffrey Williams and Murray Hunter: Nottingham University is an object lesson for other universities from the UK and elsewhere who may be considering or even undergoing international expansion.

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Free symposium: 30 Years of Keyness Talks from: · Mike Scott · @tonymcenery.bsky.social · @michamahlberg.bsky.social & @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · @issyclarke.bsky.social · @markmcglashan.com 📅 22/06/2026, 10:00 (UTC+0) 🌍 @sotauol.bsky.social ➡️ Register: www.ticketsource.com/school-of-th...

Just out: Kim, Larsson, Kaatari, Wang, & Sundqvist (2026). Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes Available OA: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes

Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture ....

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Who broke Nottingham University, Vol 3? Vice Chancellor Shearer West presided over property expansion & vanity projects that have caused near-bankruptcy And the landing spot? Vice Chancellorship of Leeds Uni It's important to know when to skip out www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

University's disastrous new campus could be sold for just £14m

It was previously decided to sell the short-lived campus

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Financial crisis at Nottingham University stems from poor decisions under Vice Chancellor Shearer West Shearer's moved on & upward, leaving staff facing consequences of her reckless management There are cuts in Arts & Humanities as well as Sciences nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/...

Support Our Initiative Film is Fabulous! is a charitable trust. Its primary aim is to ensure that vulnerable film collections held privately in the U.K. are preserved when film collectors, and former industry professionals, pass away. filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-...

It's official: after 22 (!) years at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social, I will start as Professor of Organisational Communication at @sdu.dk's Department of Language and Culture on 1 September this year. 1/2 www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/in...

Department of Culture and Language

Research within the department covers the areas of American Studies, Business Language, Classical Studies, Communication, Comparative Literature, Culture, Danish, English, German, History, Middle East...

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Open Research Group meets tomorrow (Wed)! We’ll be focusing on association measures and continuing our exploration of R. Brezina, V. (2018) Statistics in Corpus Linguistics, Ch. 3: www.google.co.uk/books/editio... Evert, S. (2008) “Corpora and collocations”: stephanie-evert.de/PUB/Evert200...

Is the Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) corpus available any other way than the 2005 CD-ROM?

Am hosting a small symposium on multilingualism here in Hong Kong in early May - free to attend, so do pop along if you are interested!

📣 Open Research Group – @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Join us from 22 April (12:00 UK time) for a new series on collocations 📊—how words co-occur and how we can measure these patterns statistically 🧠 + gentle intro to R for beginners 💻 🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka

'Science is driven by an ongoing effort to make sense of the universe based on what we observe.' Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Didier Queloz, @ethz.ch @lclu.bsky.social @cambridgephysics.bsky.social on data, facts and what makes a good scientist. Watch now @expeditions.bsky.social.

The discovery of a new planet

Science is always grounded in data. Theories evolve, but data remain. In this EXPeditions video, Professor Didier Queloz, Nobel Laureate in Physics, highlights that science is driven by an ongoing eff...

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OUT NOW: Guest Editor David Wright introduces the Special Issue on Corpus perspectives on #LegalDiscourse Wright draws out the themes explored across the papers in the issue, as indicative of the cutting edge of forensic linguistics – showing what corpus studies can do! doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Doctor Who Treat This Easter Film is Fabulous! has worked closely with the BBC Archives and iPlayer teams to ensure the two missing episodes of ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’, which were found in a private film collection, are available for fans in the U.K. to enjoy this Easter.

What a treat to have watched The Daleks’ Masterplan episode one for the first time - it was originally broadcast on my first birthday! Thanks to all at @filmisfabulous.bsky.social and to the anonymous collector who saved this gem and episode 3. On to episodes 2 and 3 ….

Great morning at #AAAL2026, where we are discussing all things AI and Applied Linguistics! Honoured to be a part of this invited colloquium, organised by Andrea Révész & Shungo Suzuki, speaking about our paper (with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social) here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Our chapter on corpus-based diachronic discourse analysis in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics is now out.🎉 Co-authored with @tonymcenery.bsky.social. If you are interested, feel free to check it out. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

Corpus-Based Diachronic Discourse Analysis

This article provides a comprehensive overview of corpus linguistic approaches to tracking language change over time. Specifically, this article explo…

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Prof. Hakosalo talks about the role of historians as crisis communicators. And finally, Dr. Del Fante's plenary focuses on the role of language in understanding crises: is there a common underlying factor in the way language is used to make sense of, understand, and respond to a crisis?