An excellent thread, and tangentially reminds me how the indexing and referencing of names with de, van, der, Mc, Mac, ap etc can tell you whether the proofing has been done by an intelligent human or a dumb machine.

I got a £10,000 maintenance loan for my degree. Now they want it back Students and graduates have described their shock at being told they were not eligible for the loans they received.

This is appalling behaviour by the Student Loans Company; their new Chair is Gary Page - “Gary has […] a particular interest on positions which facilitate greater social inclusion.” (SLC website)

Time to step up, Gary

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Filey Brigg

The astronaut who just named a moon crater after his late wife: lovely, obviously, but a terrible mistake. Imagine he meets someone new. Where can he go from here? That’s a pretty high bar. He’s going to need a mountain on Mars next time round.

Venus, top right

Can You Say That? The aim of this project is to investigate the (im)possibilities of sentence structure in English and Danish, and the differences between the two languages. By contributing, you help further our unders...

Hey if you need something to do over this long weekend, have a go at my PhD student Anna-Merete’s survey. It’s sentences to rate, you just need to have any English variety as your first language, and it’ll take you 10–15 minutes. #linguistics

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Far side of the Moon

Bet365
William Hill
Coral
BetFred
Ladbrokes

How much do you think EasyJet paid for the branding?
#SpeedyBoarding

Spy Wednesday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
*Holy* (not Easter) Saturday
Easter Sunday

I will be taking no questions- thank you

Today! The StylisticsMobile is on its way to pick me up - and away!

Well that’s an hour of my life I won’t get back

Open Day candid pic
(Not one of our best exhibits)

Yes! Headline should be: Snooker pays for new theatre

My research office is running a ‘writeshop’ for grant applications. Nope.

You idiot. You forgot to register for the on-campus version of this, and now you’ve missed the deadline. Fear not, you can still register online, and no one will ever know!

Join us on 30th March

tinyurl.com/teachlanglit

Were you thinking of coming to this? Deadline for on-campus registration is today. Go!

Immersion Immersion

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-immersi...

Just got an email from ‘Trent’ (a stolen identity) of the ‘Brisbane Geek Social Club’ (a real book club but stolen by this guy), offering to promote our Immersion book through interviews and spotlights. It’s a scam. You can get the unscammed book below (‘Trent’: you can stick it up your AI arse)

You can scrape £25 together for a day of deliciousness. Food, drink, ideas, discussion about Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom (also online)

30 March, Uni of Nottingham

Register before Friday!

The Ladies Football Club | Sheffield Theatres 'We felt the love from the very first kick.' With World War I forcing men onto the front line to fight, the women of Sheffield take their place in the fact

Well, this - at The Crucible tonight - was great! Catch it before it moves on. No doubt it will be an independent British film in a couple of years time.

www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/the-l...

Look, you’re cutting it fine now. Registration deadline is 20 March for on-campus attendance.

‘Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom’, University of Nottingham or online.

tinyurl.com/teachlanglit

Final programme is up here:

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: A Level English Language and Literature – Stylistics in the Lang Lit Classroom (Guisborough) A day of CPD on A Level English Language & Literature from a stylistics perspective

Teaching A-level Lang/Lit and can’t get down to one of our London workshops? Well, EMC goes north for this one!

www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/c84c...

The Saga of the Earls of Orkney | Birlinn Ltd - Independent Scottish Publisher - buy books online This fascinating history of the Earldom of Orkney, which was established in the Viking Age, records the adventures, feuds and battles of powerful Norsemen during its first three centuries. The medieva...

Here for some ancient and modern poetry at the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social tonight!

birlinn.co.uk/product/the-...

www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017137...

EMC Termly Webinar Package Summer 2026 EMC Webinar Package Summer 2026 – live and on-demand access for the whole department to all our Summer 2026 term webinars for just £195. On sale until 5pm Thursday 30th April 2026.

Great numbers on EMC CPD this term. 60 today at @barbarableiman.bsky.social 's 'What is Good Writing for A Level', combo of one-off attendees + EMC webinar package holders. Come join the fun at future courses with a Summer Webinar Package for your team! www.englishandmedia.co.uk/workshops/21...

Courses English & Media Centre - The English and Media Centre is an independent educational charity with a national and international reputation as a Centre of Excellence. It is a development centre, serving ...

Our summer course programme is available online, with a phenomenal 28 courses to choose from. Such is the infinite variety of our subject! Book early to secure your place (and help us with our planning!) www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/

Curious about where CRAL is? You can find our researchers in Trent Building on University Park Campus!

#uoncral #languagelearning #researchcentre #appliedlinguistics #nottinghamuniversity #linguistics

This survey of the year’s work in stylistics is brilliant, useful and also really annoying as I now have to go and read all the stuff I missed

Linguistic Horizons: Sociolinguistics & underrepresented areas

In the current Babel - @joshtpm.bsky.social on his sociolinguistic research

"When I started to become interested in the academic side of linguistics, I realised there were many interesting quirks in the ways that people in Salisbury/Wiltshire speak, but that nobody was writing papers about this"