Includes a chapter by the @mantrap.bsky.social team on using #corpus linguistics to address the effects of manosphere language

Hiya Taylor. You're in! 🤝

Registration for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse Conference is now... open! Please follow the link below to register, and do so by 5th April to get the early bird price! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/reg... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social

Great to see our (@markmcglashan.com) encyclopedia entry on Corpus Linguistics and Safeguarding in the "Reference Collection in Social Sciences", ahead of its publication in the "International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition" in June.

Get in touch for access!

Solid editorial work from @bforchtner.bsky.social and @francozappettini.bsky.social

🔓 You can read the pre-print of my chapter 'Anything goes? Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Critical Discourse Studies' here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Applications of Corpus Linguistics Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Applications of Corpus Linguistics

New year, new book! Out now: 'Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social and @robbielove.org and published by @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. More info in thread ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Statement and Guidance: A safer life online for women and girls Today we are publishing practical guidance for tech companies on creating a safer life online for women and girls.

On some days, I am reminded that my work matters, like when @ofcom.bsky.social include the @mantrap.bsky.social response into their guidance on how tech companies can and must make online life safer for women and girls 💜

www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.

3 year AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards at the University of Liverpool. Home and International students can apply; any arts and humanities discipline is eligible.
Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025.
Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts is coming up, on 16 November!

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FUNDED PhDs! We are advertising for three ESRC-funded PhD scholarships! Any specialism permitted, depending on departmental supervision available. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH631/e...

BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG

We are looking for new committee members! If you would like to join the BAAL Corpus SIG as Meetings Secretary or as an Ordinary Member, please get in touch! You can learn more about the SIG at our website:

UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.

I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

Next week, @markmcglashan.com and I will be sharing the findings of our new paper 'Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online' (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) in a live webinar for @senso-cloud.bsky.social.

More info and registration below!

Check out the full special issue! We're in excellent company @mathewgillings.bsky.social @katebarber.bsky.social @danaroemling.bsky.social @timgrant123.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online Safeguarding children in schools broadly refers to the actions taken to protect children from abuse, prevent damage to health and development, and pro…

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online

🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social

@livunienglish.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lecturer in English Literature (Part Time) - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool An academic position as a Lecturer in English Literature (Part Time) - Grade 7 is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Another Lecturer post now available in the Department of English @livunienglish.bsky.social at The University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social!

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Misogyny: the manosphere and online content - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament Written evidence submission publications for Misogyny: the manosphere and online content.

The Women and Equalities Select Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk has accepted our team's evidence as part of it's public enquiry into 'Misogyny: the manosphere and online content'

Read our submission below

committees.parliament.uk/work/9089/mi...

‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories This study explores positive migrant storytelling in non-governmental organizations’ advocacy campaigns. We focus on the practices and implications of leveraging storytelling towards charity organi...

Our article with Korina Giaxoglou and Paige Johnson has just been assigned an issue at @critdiscstuds.bsky.social We argue that even humanitarian narratives about migration in the UK are deeply problematic.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics (Teaching and Scholarship) - Grade 7 (0.8 FTE) at University of Liverpool Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics (Teaching and Scholarship) - Grade 7 (0.8 FTE). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore mor...

Come work with us at Liverpool!

@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@sotauol.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social

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Great to share our research on corpus linguistic approaches to safeguarding this morning at #CL2025 @markmcglashan.com @senso-cloud.bsky.social

🆕 CADSbib annotated bibliography

👩‍💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse?

📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more.

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#CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH

The online manosphere poses a real threat to society

Our response published today in @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Important work by the brilliant Craig & Fiona about misogynistic & homophobic banter online. Contradicts Ofcom's consultancy company that said that most men have the appropriate critical thinking to not believe the manosphere. Maybe consult with academic experts?😉
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

CL2025 Welcome to the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2025), co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham. CL2025 will take place fr...

Only two weeks to go!

We're working away to finalise the conference programme, featuring:
• 200+ paper presentations
• 50+ poster presentations
• 7 thematic panels
• 5 plenary talks
• 5 pre-conference workshops (29th June)

See you all soon! #CL2025

www.cl2025.co.uk/home

Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggests

When your team's work - based on six years of research - gets cited but the core message is ignored, because 38 men say it's no big deal 😡 @mantrap.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a

A forensic meteorologist?! ⛅

@issyclarke.bsky.social shares what they do in our podcast 'Writing Wrongs' (www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...), featuring @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social. You can't miss it!