Jess Aiston

Flyer titled “Call for Participants!” for a study called “Exploring Autistic Women’s Experience of Gender,” with a rainbow infinity symbol. It invites autistic women over 18 to take part in a neurodivergent-friendly, non-judgmental study about gender and womanhood. The study involves a confidential 25–30 minute online interview on gender identity and perception, conducted as part of a Higher Diploma in psychology. Contact: Alana at 20048476@mydbs.ie for more information.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Exploring Autistic Women's Experience of Gender

If you are an Autistic woman over 18 & would like to discuss your experience of gender & womanhood in a neurodivergent- friendly, non-judgemental space then you are qualified to participate!

Contact Alana at 20048476@mydbs.ie

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

This sounds exactly how I write papers 😅

Congrats! Looking forward to reading

Super happy to see our paper (w/ @riannawalcott.bsky.social) in Journal of Sociolinguistics: "‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’ 🧵

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Contents List of figures VII List of tables XI Laura Mercé and Sergio Maruenda-Bataller Introduction: What is gender-based violence and why is it a discursive issue? 1 Law, politics, and the symbolic order José Santaemilia Chapter 1 The discursive association of women with violence: From physical to symbolic violence 21 Susan Ehrlich Chapter 2 “This conversation ... doesn’t use really strong words”: Language ideologies and interpretations of consent in the legal system 43 Lucía Bellés-Calvera and Begoña Bellés-Fortuño Chapter 3 A multimodal discourse analysis of gender-based hate speech in political memes 63 Daniel N. Silva, Gleiton M. Bonfante and Graziela Hahn Chapter 4 The online-offline nexus of gendered violence in the new far-right in Brazil 93 Media and digital worlds Miguel Fuster-Márquez Chapter 5 The media presence of the Spanish far-right in speeches about gender-based violence: An approach from corpus linguistics 115

Helen Caple and Monika Bednarek Chapter 6 Exploring corpora through seed term visualization and metadata analysis: A case study of a newspaper corpus covering violence against women 135 Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Ruth Mullineux-Morgan Chapter 7 “He started harassing me when i wouldn’t talk to him on facetime”: Girls’ discourse about power, violence and oppression in online grooming 161 Silvia Molina Plaza Chapter 8 Videos against gender violence in Spanish and English: A multimodal approach 191 Embodiment and empowerment Stefania Maci Chapter 9 Revenge porn as a form of gender-based violence discourse: A case study 219 Jessica Aiston Chapter 10 Don’t #BelieveWomen?: The delegitimisation of women’s claims of rape and domestic violence within the manosphere 245 Ann Weatherall Chapter 11 Promoting resistance through self-defence classes 267 Index 291

And thrilled to be among such great company! Thank you to Laura Mercé and Sergio Maruender-Bataller for bringing this collection together.

Chapter 10 Don’t #BelieveWomen?: The delegitimisation of women’s claims of rape and domestic violence within the manosphere Chapter 10 Don’t #BelieveWomen?: The delegitimisation of women’s claims of rape and domestic violence within the manosphere was published in Discourse Approaches to Gender-Based Violence on page 245.

Pleased to see the ebook publication of 'Discourse Approaches to Gendered Violence' with Brill. My chapter (no. 10) explores how users of the manosphere discursively downplay and justify violence against women and girls.

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

📅 Save the date: AT-Autism Annual Conference 2026

Our annual conference will take place on Thursday 15 October at Church House Conference Centre, Westminster.

More details soon, but for now... save the date!

Please note: this replaces the earlier provisional date of 8 October.

Last chance to participate in this important research. Survey closes end March

This is the basis on which Starmer was elected Labour leader.

The Keir Starmer Story

Was great to be part of another Lexis episode, this time talking about the language around neurodiversity. We cover topics like the difference between saying "autistic person" and "person with autism," why we no longer say "high-functioning autism" and why all this matters anyway. Check it out!

Here we go! Episode 81 is now up and it's one where we hand over the interviewing to two A Level English Language students, Freya and Miles. They interview @jessaiston.bsky.social about the language of and around neurodiversity. open.spotify.com/episode/6XCX...

The Pentagon says it’s ‘lethalitymaxxing’. Why has ‘incel’ slang crossed into the mainstream? With the rise of influencer Clavicular and ‘looksmaxxers’, sexist language from niche memes has infiltrated official government accounts and NYT headlines

The Pentagon says it’s ‘lethalitymaxxing’. Why has ‘incel’ slang crossed into the mainstream?

We've got a new episode coming very soon and it's a really special one that has been kicked off and then carried out by two A level Eng Lang students. It's all about the language of & about neurodiversity, especially autism, and it features an interview with @jessaiston.bsky.social
Coming soon!

Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza…

This project will deliver numerous mental health activities and interventions for nearly a hundred children who faced the unimaginable in occupation detention!! What we need to make it happen is YOUR support for materials & facilitation.

Anything helps: chuffed.org/project/hmg

"women fear turning 30 because that's when they hit the wall and lose all their eggs" actually women fear turning 30 because that's when they lose their eligibility for a railcard and have to pay full price train fares

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.

Ameliorating the disadvantage for autistic job seekers Traditional interviews tend to use open ended questions, such as ‘what qualities would you bring to the job’ or ‘where do you see yourself in 5 years’, which require interpreting social cues and im…

Ameliorating the disadvantage for autistic job seekers
#CRAEresearchSummaries

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

I understand that when applications are competitive, there's not usually time to give everyone detailed feedback (or at least they're not willing to pay people enough to do that). But don't promise it and not give it 😂

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Nice to see a review of my book 'Male Separatism' published in Discourse in Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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The feedback in question: "You were unsuccessful because we didn't pick it"

The image is of a recruitment poster for a research study: (images) University of Salford and Leverhulme Trust logos (text) Hearing loss, wellbeing and music Do you have first hand experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? Are you interested in taking part in a research study? You are eligible to take part if you: are 18 years or older, have experience of hearing loss, listen to music in your day-to-day life. The study will involve: taking part in an online survey (about 20 minutes), answering questions about your hearing, how you engage with music, and questions about mental health and wellbeing. For more information: Please email Addie Beckwith, PhD student at the University of Salford - a.m.beckwith@edu.salford.ac.uk. Supervisors: Dr Duncan Williams and Dr Robert Bendall (images) A large ear, a mute symbol, musical notes and a treble clef, an MP3 player and wired earbuds.

A QR code that leads to the survey link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/hearing-loss-wellbeing-and-music

* CURRENTLY RECRUITING *

Do you have experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? If you can answer yes to both questions, then we would like to hear from you.

This study is concerned with understanding the link between everyday music listening, mental health & wellbeing.

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships at Tampere University | Tampere universities Tampere University welcomes applicants to jointly prepare successful applications for the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship program. The program is targeted for researchers ...

Would you like to apply for the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships at Tampere University with me as your PI and join our masterclass to prepare your app? Get in touch with me (or another prospective supervisor from @pluraltampere.bsky.social) by 27.4.

www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

Gaza death toll passes 75,000 as landmark peer-reviewed studies verify huge undercounts in official data.
#GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

very red conference poster with black and white retro style octopus tentacles: Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language, 19-20 November 2026, Tampere

🥁🥁🥁 ....and here is the final conference poster for #OctoConf3 🐙 in Tampere 🇫🇮 later this year (Nov 19-20) ❄️

events.tuni.fi/persuasion2026/

ping @coocho.bsky.social @domini.bsky.social

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

The IPC reports that most people in Gaza are facing acute malnutrition; don't let families go without during Ramadan. Give, then take action.

Six families, one link. Our ask is just your spare change, as long as you click "weekly" or "monthly" on it: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Universität Basel: Professor in English linguistics (open-rank) A position as Professor in English linguistics with a focus on English as a lingua franca in the digital age is to be filled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Basel...

English linguists
#world Englishes
Open rank professorial position at the university of Basel, Switzerland
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...