So sorry to hear this - sending lots of love your way!

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

Leverhulme Trust-funded PhD studentship in Language, Discourse and Communication | King's College London PhD Title: Communicative framings of insects in children’s educational materials and their effects on children’s perceptions of and engagement with insects.

This looks great: Leverhulme-funded PhD scholarship to work with Olivia Knapton on how insects are framed in educational and learning contexts, aiming to better understand the widespread aversion to bugs in the UK! 🐛Please share with prospective PhD students: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...

I've recently started (re)watching classic US movies - (the shift in) Kim Novak's accent in Hitchcock's Vertigo made me dig a little deeper, and this short video is a really good summary of the Mid-atlantic accent.

Happy Birthday! 🥳

Saul Leslie discusses A Working Title I Want To Change | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Saul Leslie discusses A Working Title I Want To Change today.

Liverpool people! I’ll be in conversation with Saul Leslie next Tuesday 21st April about his fantastic debut novel at Waterstones Liverpool. Tickets on sale now at the link. All welcome!

www.waterstones.com/events/saul-...

Interested in the history of British Chinese food? In May, Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social from @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social is giving a tallk as part of @pintofscience.uk based on her research into British Chinese food coverage in newspapers. Details ⬇️

A Feast for the Mind Feeling hungry? Tonight, we’re going to discuss how the act of eating impacts the world! From cancer cells to deep-sea critters and even a good old Chinese…

Join me for 'A Feast for the Mind' at Lime Street Central on Wednesday, 20th May, from 7pm, as part of @pintofscience.uk. I'll be exploring the history of British Chinese food through newspaper coverage!

#pint26 @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

pintofscience.co.uk/event/a-feas...

Habe 'The Lodger' vor Ewigkeiten bei den Bonner Stummfilmtagen gesehen - tatsaechlich ein Erlebnis (so wie die Stummfilmtage insgesamt, auch wenn ich sie in den letzten Jahren leider verpasst habe).

The "being anti-Ai is ableist" thing is not only a condescending weenie take, but also untrue. Crappy AI substitutes for access don't work, but become a quick go-to excuse to take away real accommodations that do.

Looks amazing - welcome (back) to the club!

Same here - and definitely not good for my blood pressure, either...

a woman is sitting on a couch and says in what blanche dog years ? Alt: Dorothy from the Golden Girls is sitting on a couch and says "In what Blanche, dog years?"

Same here!

Sometimes I genuinely feel like I'm losing my mind over all this AI-nonsense - do these people ever actually listen to themselves?!

Sounds awful - hope you feel better soon!

BaeFoLa Flyer Program (Summer 2026) - Season 10 April 24, 12:30-13:30 CEST: Justyna Robinson (University of Sussex) Neology in Food and Drink Terminology: Recent Perspectives and Developments in Research by the European Network of Lexical Innovation May 22, 12:30-13:30 CEST: Luisa Marino (University of Naples "Federico II") "Good for You. Good for the Planet": Trust-Building and Corporate Legitimacy in Barilla's Sustainability Reports June 19, 15:00-16:00 CEST: Irene Cenni (Ghent University) & Camilla Vásquez (University of South Florida) Self-Branding of Italian Food Granfluencers July 17, 12:30-13:30 CEST: Revathi Suresh (St Joseph's University, Bengaluru) Chattichoru as Spectacle: Constructing Malayali Identity and Food Narratives in Online Spaces

The summer term is right around the corner & so is Season 10 of #BæFoLa (Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language lecture series)! 🍩🍩🍩🍩
Join us for all things #LanguageAndFood, this season as international as ever with speakers from the UK, Italy, Belgium, the US, and India 🤩
#Linguistics

I love #WooltonPictureHouse - went to see 'Rear Window' there on Tuesday, and have already booked tickets for 'Vertigo' next week :-) Such a gem!

I love #WooltonPictureHouse - went to see 'Rear Window' there on Tuesday, and have already booked tickets for 'Vertigo' next week :-) Such a gem!

Home - Not in our name Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

Transphobes do not represent the overwhelming majority of women. The @nionwomen.bsky.social petition is to show this. They now need only just over 4,000 more signatures to make it to 100,000.

If you don’t want to be used as an excuse to take away trans people’s human rights, please sign & share

Halloren-Kugeln 😍

It's me! (Which doesn't mean others shouldn't join/upgrade - go on, treat yourself!)

NO LGB WITHOUT THE T

NO LGB WITHOUT THE T 🏳️‍⚧️

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

The extra materials for this podcast very kindly mention my (German) book chapter on queer cookbooks - let me know if you'd like me to send you the pdf (also always happy to talk about US/UK/German queer cookbooks, online/offline/over coffee :-))

Check out this podcast episode on the language of food - featuring a short clip by yours truly, and lots of other brilliant researchers. Bon appétit :-)

Hope everything goes smoothly - also hope some people will be skeeting, I've got major FOMO with this one!

WTF?!

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, New Generation Thinkers: At Home with Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas Sophie Oliver guides us inside the remarkable home of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas.

👁️‍🗨️ Take a tour of avant-garde art collector Gertrude Stein's home with Dr Sophie Oliver, Senior Lecturer in @livunienglish.bsky.social and BBC/UKRI New Generation Thinker. Listen below 📻

Wow! 😍

Late to the party but: Prima Facie is hands down one of the best plays I've ever seen and Jodie Comer deserves all the awards for her incredible performance. This one is gonna stay with me for a long time.