I worry that the focus on the mistakes or hallucinations of AI will end up backfiring as this technology inevitably gets more accurate. The issue for me is less one of accuracy and more of not wanting to cede human decision making to a disembodied algorithm with no moral compass.
Great to see our English department in the top 100 QS subject rankings for English Language and Literature, one of 12 subject areas in the university@livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social Details ⬇️
We're proud to be marching in the @togetheralliance.bsky.social this Saturday, because:
✊ We won’t let those who stoke fear divide us.
✊ We will stand against hate.
✊ We will march together in love and unity.
📍 Join us! Central London, Saturday, 28 March. #Together.
Well done Liverpool!!
Migrants get blamed to distract us. Don’t fall for it.
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#LUSHxMRN #ResistDivision #WordsMatter #RacismIsTheThreat
But she'll be better very soon and you'll be surprised by how quickly they bounce back whereas you feel exhausted :)
Great paper! Very depressing data though..
What the machine learning analysis doesn't show, however, is context and the hidden agendas behind seemingly 'positive' narratives even by Labour. And that there can be positive/negative narratives too.
In this chapter we draw on 410 personal experience narratives to pin down the structural and discursive characteristics of the 'positive migrant storytelling canon' that dominates UK migrant advocacy. The book is free to download!
British dual citizens are not a homogeneous group, and their different constituent parts are affected differently by the new UK passport rules — changes whose wider consequences the government does not appear to have fully appreciated, @nandosigona.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com
Newly published Gold Open Access book-Representing Migration: discursive&methodological perspectives. A result of great teamwork as part of the RECRI project @Jaume I University. Very happy to have contributed a chapter with P.Johnson on migrant advocacy narratives www.peterlang.com/document/147...
Yes :)
With @samtbennett.bsky.social and @francozappettini.bsky.social we are co-organising a panel on 'unravelling the dichotomies between top-down and bottom-up approaches to migration discourses' at @cadaad2026.bsky.social
One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles.
www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
There's your impact :)
Absolutely! 100% You're very welcome as honorary at UoL - happy to pursue this, if you're interested.
Happy to have a chapter in this newly published book on gender-inclusive language. With a great team of Greek colleagues, we review the belated awakening of nonsexist language policy in Greek and its lack of uptake in public discourse.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Introducing the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies
By @bforchtner.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
📣 Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities superdiversity.net/2026/01/23/%...
Desperately sad news about Deborah Cameron today. She was such a brilliant, incisive presence in the world of linguistics and particularly language and gender. Don't know what else to say but I'm sure there will be many tributes paid to her and her work in the days to come.
The Guardian reports far- right groups harassing people seeking safety in northern France, destroying water supplies and invading sleeping spaces. This is where the politics of division leads. We need leaders who choose hope and unity. Read the article here: https://bit.ly/4sRPMn2
January just got tastier. Bring friends, colleagues, or your community together to host a Potluck for refugees. Share a meal, show solidarity, and support people seeking safety. It is easy to organise and powerful to take part.
Sign up today: https://bit.ly/4a1k1jU
When & where I grew up education was a right and financial barriers had to be removed to ensure equality of access. HE was at service of the public good. In many countries in Europe this is still the case. You read this article in FT and you realise you are on a different planet.
FLyer for the vigil at the US embassy on Monday 18.30
On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org
Very important work! Congratulations Scott and Francesca!
Migration story for early years.
Out Feb 26th
Happy New Year to all researchers who continue to believe that reading and thinking (and that writing is itself a process of thinking things through) are vital to critical analysis!
🤣 Τώρα έπρεπε να το φέρουμε με τη σημαία στην πλατεία. Το 2028 παίζει να έχουμε κ δεξιό δήμαρχο!
Ούτε κι εγώ αλλά με εξέπληξε θετικά! Ίσως η Πάτρα είναι καλή για Cadaad conference after all!
