The University of Nottingham’s plans to close its languages courses would leave the East Midlands a “cold spot” for provision, politicians fear #EduSky #highered

‘Cold spot’ fears over Nottingham language cuts

Plans to close courses would have national impact, politicians write in letter urging university to reconsider

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“Unwelcoming attitude to overseas students costing economy £3bn says new report” www.heraldscotland.com/news/2625840...

Unwelcoming attitude to overseas students costing economy £3bn says new report

For the 2024-25 academic year there were 36,300 international first-year students living in Scotland

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We hope this will be useful for corpus compilers

IJCL@ijcl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

OUT NOW: @corpusling.bsky.social and Kelvin K. H. Lee introduce the Document Similarity tool, which gives corpus compilers more control over the deduplication process. Reported case studies demonstrate how consequential deduplication is to corpus-based discourse research. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

New Cambridge Element, The Climate Turn in Language Teaching by Francisca Aguiló Mora and Almudena Marín Cobos, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at https://cup.org/4arJqTW

11th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2026). 2-3 July 2026. Online. Registration (free) closes on 30 June: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr. Invited speakers: Stefan Th. Gries, Martin Hilpert, Serge Sharoff. Contact: lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk #corpuslinguistics #lexicogrammar #lexis #grammar

Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr)

The Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr) explores the interaction of lexis and grammar via corpus techniques.

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10 years since the EU referendum. Here is a list of works I’ve written on Brexit. 1. Constructing Brexit Britain A CADS book-length study on how the pro-Brexit press, Conservative government and citizens constructed national identity in times of Brexit. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/construct...

Constructing Brexit Britain

Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the lan…

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#linguistics #jobs 14(!) Ph.D. positions are available in the international research and training network "MultiLAwa – Multilingual Language Awareness in the European Digital Society". More information on the open #PhD positions here: www.multilawa.eu/open-phd-pos...

Today I had the great pleasure to present at #CADS2026 about #waterscapes in #fiction. This research is part of my PhD @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social of @michamahlberg.bsky.social

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

At #CADS2026 @andreaswagnr.bsky.social explains the concept of the waterscape and how to study socionatural relations in a corpus of fiction

At #CADS2026 @andreaswagnr.bsky.social explains the concept of the waterscape and how to study socionatural relations in a corpus of fiction

Entirely engrossing plenary by the wonderful @michamahlberg.bsky.social on trandisciplinarity, wicked problems, narrative and so much more #CADS2026

At #CADS2026, Michaela Mahlberg describes corpora as “evidence of human experience”. That’s a wonderful way of looking at corpora.

The students asked for this meet-up and had prepared videos to look back on the 30 month part-time programme ☺️ a heart-warming experience! #TeamStirling

TESOL Programmes at the University of Stirling@stirtesol.bsky.social · last mo.

Congratulations to the awardees of the British Council Scholarship for English language teachers India who are graduating from our MSc TESOL (Online) this week! It was wonderful to meet the cohort online for this milestone. 1/2 #TeamStirling

Zehntausende von Zugewanderten können nicht an Integrationskursen teilnehmen, weil Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt die kostenfreie Teilnahme für sie unterbunden hat.Die Bundesregierung teilte nun auf eine parlamentarische Anfrage der Linken mit,dass rund 45.000 Menschen von der Kürzung betroffen waren.

45.000 Zugewanderte von Integrationskursen ausgeschlossen

Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt hat die kostenfreie Teilnahme an Integrationskursen gestoppt. Innerhalb von nur sechs Monaten wurden 45.000 Anträge abgelehnt.

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Why not come to Liverpool/our department (English) for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship? Please share widely - and let me know if you have any questions/are looking for a potential mentor 🙂 www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Pleased to share that “ASL Signbank” through Cambridge Elements (Sign Language Series) is out! It’s free for the next two weeks. You can find it here doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to Erin Wilkinson and David Quinto-Pozos, editors of Sign Language Series, for their support! #ASLSignbank

Our new book on sign language linguistics (adapted from the 2007 Auslan linguistics book) isn't out until next month, but over 500 clips of BSL and ASL sign examples from the book can be downloaded now! Take a look at the resources section on the book's webpage. www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

Sign Language Linguistics | Cambridge Aspire website

Discover Sign Language Linguistics, 1st Edition, Adam Schembri, HB ISBN: 9781107077140 on Cambridge Aspire website

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A mere 5% of Scots believe that Brexit has so far been more of a success, alongside just 11-12% of those in England and Wales Scotland Failure: 77% Neither: 13% Success: 5% Wales Failure: 65% Neither: 17% Success: 11% England Failure: 59% Neither: 20% Success: 12% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

10 years since the EU referendum, majorities in England, Scotland and Wales believe Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU Scotland Wrong: 75% Right: 16% Wales Wrong: 61% Right: 29% England Wrong: 56% Right: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Enjoying virtually attending the "Third Disciplinary Literacy Symposium" organised by the @bawess.bsky.social team. A wonderful programme on SFL, practitioner, and corpus perspectives on literacy! www.bath.ac.uk/events/third...

Hey #ica26, I recently wrote a little something that I believe might be interesting to many. Over years I tried to find a way to properly keep up to date with new journal publications across those journals that are most important to me... (1/n)

New article out now on how to improve risk and emergency communication, increase disaster #preparedness, and save lives www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

Join us at the 30 Years of Keyness event in Liverpool! @michamahlberg.bsky.social and I will talk about „Water keywords and digital environmental humanities“ connecting #DigitalHumanities, #Environment and #CorpusLinguistics, one of the themes of Prof. Mahlberg‘s @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social

Mark McGlashan@markmcglashan.com · 3mo ago

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...

🏆 First prize announced! 🌿 The Birmingham Botanical Gardens have generously offered an annual family pass for the first-place winner of our international writing competition, Our Future, Our Water, Our Stories.

Andreas Wagner (@andreaswagnr.bsky.social) explains here to young writers how to participate in our international writing competition, Our Future, Our Water, Our Stories. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF1o...

How to Participate in the 2026 Writing Competition – LimeSurvey Tutorial

YouTube video by Digital Humanities and Social Studies - FAU

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Please help my friend spread the word about this competition--a project that's part of his PhD in #DigitalHumanities.

Text and Language Lab@textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Andreas Wagner (@andreaswagnr.bsky.social) explains here to young writers how to participate in our international writing competition, Our Future, Our Water, Our Stories. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF1o...

Since I use the @zotero.org beta versions, I receive the new features as they come out, and was really excited to discover today that there is now a read-aloud feature! Cool! It's true that the premium voices sound more "fluent" than the standard ones tho www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-9/ #academia

Another solar generation record set today in Britain. 14,426 megawatts were being generated at 11.30 today, delivering 37% of GB’s electricity and contributing to a record low reliance on fossil fuels. Gas accounted for just 2% of electricity generation at that time.

Limited tickets remaining! Join us on the 1st May at the University of Glasgow for our annual Spring Ceilidh! This will be a brilliant night filled with comedy, good food, and as always, fantastic music and dancing 🎟️ Tickets are close to selling out, so book now https://ow.ly/3Xxj50YNUzN

The deadline for this fully funded MSc TESOL (Online) scholarship is 30 April, but applicants will need to hold an offer for the course first, so should apply for the MSc course now. Fantastic opportunity for English language teachers form Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka! #BritishCouncilScholarsELT

TESOL Programmes at the University of Stirling@stirtesol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

English language teachers in Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka: apply for the British Council English and School Education Scholarships Scheme by 30 April. You need an offer for the MSc TESOL (Online), so apply for the course now! www.stir.ac.uk/scholarships... #BritishCouncilScholarsELT #TeamStirling