A great pity D. Your show was brilliant and like nothing else on the box ❤️

We had such a lovely, festive time at the Burgh Island Hotel. We'll be back for sure! 💃🏻🏝️

Congratulations Rakan, great to see this!

Congratulations Lily!

I’m at the Cabinet Office to talk about Polari today.

Distorted realities: Gender bias in Chinese news representations of wives and husbands in domestic violence articles - Sijia (Scarlett) Li, Paul Baker, 2025 Domestic violence affects one in three women in the world. How the public perceive and address this issue is much shaped by media reports. However, few studies ...

Just published - Distorted realities: Gender bias in Chinese news representations of wives and husbands in domestic violence articles - new article in Discourse & Communication co-authored with @scarlett0815.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Lancaster arts, humanities and social science colleagues in top 2% of scientists in the world - Lancaster University Lancaster University’s Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences is home to some of most influential researchers in the world. The latest Stanford/Elsevier list of the top 2% of scientists in th...

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My new Open Access article in Discourse and Society with Rickey Lu: Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congratulations Issy 🥳

How do you decide whether or not to use AI tools in your research? One approach is to judge the extent to which they align with the values that underpin your research - in this open access paper we look at this question of alignment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare Cambridge Core - Medicine: General Interest - Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

Just received the final proofs of this book, based on @corpussocialsci.bsky.social research on health communication. It will be out *open access* later this year. @paulari.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social

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Thanks Rakan, it was great to catch up with you too

Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics

What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Charlotte Taylor and Anna Marchi giving a plenary talk.

Plenary slide about counting.

Great plenary by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social at #CL2025

A great week at the Lancaster University Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. I think this is the 15th year I've taught on it.

I’ve studied the history of death. I know how we can better face up to our grief – and our own mortality | Molly Conisbee How we deal with bereavement has changed hugely over the years, I’ve learned. But not all the old traditions should be forgotten, says historian and author Molly Conisbee

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@mollyconisbee.bsky.social congrats on your Guardian article today!

UK’s oldest Indian restaurant faces closure in dispute with crown estate Owner of Michelin-starred Veeraswamy, London, heads to high court to object to ‘heartless’ plans to upgrade building

One of my favourite places might not last much longer 😟www.theguardian.com/food/2025/apr/14/uks-old...

Lancaster subjects are among best in the world and Linguistics takes third place   - Lancaster University Linguistics at Lancaster University has been ranked third in the world with eight other subjects making it into the world top 100, according to new rankings released today.

Very proud that my department (Linguistics and English Language) is placed 3rd in the world for a second year www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...

My recent Darwin College lecture at the University of Cambridge on Polari is now available on YouTube eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Great to represent @lancslinguistics.bsky.social and give a Darwin College lecture at the University of Cambridge this evening on Polari. Among others, the series has hosted Mary Beard, Desmond Tutu, David Crystal, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking and Sandy Toksvig. It was a bona nochy.

Line chart showing that pollution levels have recently fallen in all areas of London after the introduction of ULEZ

Congratulations Sally, looking forward to getting a copy!

Linguistic Representations of Gender in Children's Literature This book examines how aspects of gender and identity are represented in a cross-section of bestselling children's book series of the last 60 years.

Happy to say this was published yesterday: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Happy to share my review of 'Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching', just out in ELT Journal.

#artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt

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Great to chat with @ollyalexander.bsky.social about his fantabulosa new album Polari on The Today Show this morning 👏❤️🌈

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Congratulations Hanna, that’s great news!