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Three year postdoc going at @qmulsse.bsky.social working with @karlpike.bsky.social on ‘Politics and mythmaking: disentangling myth from ideology’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Details here:

Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create

I suspect the government is going to get another crash course in the law of unintended consequences when pushing through overly restrictive knee-jerk policies without properly considering implications, especially, but not limited to, students with higher support needs.
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Delighted to share this from my friend and colleague Ayhan Alman at @thrivingautistic.bsky.social !

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Linguists collecting regional swear words to map UK dialects Dr Chris Montgomery says the team is

"We're really interested in anything that's rude, that's a bit naughty, that might be counted as a swear word or a phrase"

Can you help build the UK Swear Map?

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Handy Guide:

✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course

❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

This is the worst ongoing scandal in the uk imho. It's been proven in a series of places such as Shrewsbury and Leeds, that there's a 'natural birth' ideology that's killing mothers and babies

Just because I always feel I have to clarify lol, this was a joke I'm not actually bothered. Not in academia for the money and not like I genuinely thought a book analysing the language of some niche group on Reddit would be a worldwide bestseller 😅

I tried a few months ago and they said I wasn't eligible 🤷‍♀️

Also from Benjamins? I had a good chuckle at receiving a whole invoice for the grand total of £0.00 😂

Only 148 copies to go and then I can start raking it in 💰

I also use a Dutch oven, so it's a case of putting one at the same time as I add the dough

Received my first royalties statement from my book earlier today. Sourdough looking ever more appealing....

Come and work with me! ICYMI: I'm advertising a fully funded PhD studentship at Aston in cognitive stylistics, starting in October 2026

Details are also now up on the university website --www.aston.ac.uk/study/courses/re-reading...

Any questions, please get in touch

Looks delicious! I've tried doing crumpets with the discard but they did not turn out well 😅

That's so kind to say, thank you!

It's luck honestly, sometimes it makes an ear sometimes it doesn't even if I swear I'm doing the same thing. I try for a deep score, at about a 45 degree angle following the curvature of the loaf. I also have better luck if I pop an ice cube or two in there to create more steam in the oven.

My grey and white tuxedo cat giving a boule of sourdough a sniff

Damn, did not expect this to get more than 3 likes. And I didn't even include my cat giving it the seal of approval!

A freshly baked loaf of sourdough bread. it is lightly dusted with flour and has an 'ear' at the top.

Getting back into making sourdough again in case the academic career doesn't work out

When you drop a bomb on civilians, I think that’s murder. I don’t really care for any justifications. They’re people. The enormity of the loss is devastating and it’s easier for some people to look away. But for other people, that’s their family. Their children. It’s just sickening and so wrong.

Taking a week off is fun until you have to return to your inbox

**CALL FOR PAPERS: Online Discourse of Gender-Based Violence**

Dates: Jan 13-15, 2027
Location: University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens

The conference will bring together linguists working on the interplay between online discourse & gender-based violence

odgbv27.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

Episode 32: Language of food Let’s tuck into the language of food! We discuss advertisements for plant-based food and for meat and dairy, look at cookbooks with our interview guests, and find out how different descriptions of …

New @wordsandactions.bsky.social episode on the language of food out today! Featuring interview guest Marcelyn Oostendorp, sound clips from five researchers and quite a few metaphors.

Free extra materials at wordsandactionspodcast.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/e...

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Creative Quantitative Research Methods About the Book This edited collection explores the emerging and exciting field of Creative Quantitative Research Methods, offering a platform for researchers, educators, and practitioners to share …

Call for chapters: Creative Quantitative Research Methods (co-edited with Dr Derek Ong)

Exploring creative, inclusive & imaginative approaches to working with numbers across disciplines.

Deadline: 15 May 2026
500-word proposals

🔗 helenkara.com/writing/crea...

#QuantMethods #CreativeResearch

Transgender girls told to leave Girlguiding groups by September It follows an announcement in December that transgender members would be banned from joining.

What has happened to our society that we think it is right to remove children from their friendship groups?

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She's not just a creator who happens to be a bigoted arsehole. She's a really proactive participant in Scottish and UK political debates, who uses her private wealth to muster forces enacting actual real world political change for the worse. She is not just a rich writer, she is an oligarch

I think a key problem with the whole Harry Potter thing is that some people, especially Americans, underestimate severely the degree to which Joanne K Rowling is an actual political actor.

Winter Research Round-Up 2025 A round-up of research and academic books related to monotropism, collated by Helen Edgar with Fergus Murray. This is just a snapshot of some things that have crossed our path between June and Dece…

Every now and then we post a round-up of research that's been published mentioning monotropism in recent months. As more and more is published, this becomes a harder and harder task! This one only takes us to last December.

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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning for Speech Processing Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning for Speech ProcessingDepartment: Phonetics Laboratory / Linguistics and English LanguageLocation: Bailrigg, Lancaster, UKSalary: £39,906 (pro-rata if part...

I’m hiring an 18-month postdoc to work on physics-informed machine learning for acoustic-articulatory speech inversion at
@phoneticslab.bsky.social

🗓️ Deadline: Friday 10 April.

🔗 More info & applications: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

📣 Please share with anyone who might be a good fit!

Bull sharks have ‘friends’ - Lancaster University Bull sharks form social relationships with specific “friends”, new research reveals.

The surprising social life of sharks hit the headlines this week, thanks to new research supported by Lancaster researchers. They discovered that bull sharks form relationships with specific “friends”, rather than mixing at random
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flyer about What's going on in module cuts at queen mary showing that they would plan to cut 295 modules across to the school of the arts. What students can do: talk with tutors, lecturers, and professors. Demand a stop to the violnet actions and join upcoming school-wide meetings with staff and students

The cuts. They cuts are never-ending. And they're cutting away what it means to be a university.