Charlotte Taylor

Water in a Changing Environment: Too much, too little, too hot

Professor David M. Hannah (UNESCO Chair in Water Sciences) speaks at DHSS about how water quantity and quality respond to climate and other drivers of change.

📅 14 Jan 2026| ⏰ 12:30–14:00
📍 Nürnberger Straße 74, Room 00.013

#fau #DHSS

That's so shocking. What a waste of the author's time.

Today is the final day to send us your abstracts! You have until midnight (UK time)! 😁 Here is the submission link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

If you have never applied for a British Academy fellowship before, let me just say that you will need a lot of onboarding and the institution will have internal deadlines, so you should get in touch with your proposed partner institution/faculty mentor no later than end of January.

Would this be Frontiers previously-classed-as-predatory journals?

External examining is failing to uphold UK standards. Discuss The UK government’s recent skills White Paper announced a review of ‘the merits of the sector continuing to use the external examining system for ensuring rigorous standards in assessments’. Four acad...

Worth a read. My take is that universities are undervaluing the importance of the external which makes the system vulnerable. EEs receive less time & information than previously and the work done by EEs is +/- ignored by the 'sending' institution
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/extern...

In this and the following pictures, we share information about the judith baxter award!

Please find below all information to nominate wonderful researchers in language, gender and sexuality.

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

Protecting and promoting cultural and linguistic diversity in the Futures Dialogues webinars

This sounds great! Wish I could attend!

It's a @unesco.org webinar on 17 Dec 2025, 14:00-15:30 (Paris time)

Title: Protecting and promoting #cultural and #linguistic diversity in the #digital environment

#langsky 🗣💬 #edusky

www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

Very proud of this paper which is based on work by three brilliant MA students here at Sussex. They were an exceptional team to lead and they all learnt so much about how to do research by doing research

🗣️📢LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🗣️📢

The final deadline for abstracts for CADAAD 2026 (Universidad de Valladolid) is DECEMBER 15th, 2025.

There are still twelve days left for you to send your poster and presentation proposals.

And remember: you'll be sad if you miss CADAAD 😉

So happy to have been able to contribute a chapter on refugees as identity fraudsters in Spanish, Polish, and British media reporting on the “refugee crisis”. Congratulations to all of the authors!

We've got an A Level Eng Lang course on child language in Jan, a repeat of our New Directions course in Feb and a webinar on social and occupational language in March. Get signed up!

The least stressful conference participation ever - I love it 😄

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

To balance out the 'delighted to announce's, I am displeased to discover that with less than a week to the deadline, I still don't know what to offer Corpus & Discourse 2026

So, this may be the first I miss (unless we count the Camerino one which we probably shouldn't)

Ideas on postcards welcome 🆘

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

Polling shows immigration concern ‘manufactured’, say campaigners A YouGov poll found only 26% of people said immigration and asylum was one of the three most important issues facing their community.

Our latest polling shows concerns about immigration are manufactured

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

Going to post a few readings relating to social psychological analyses of discourses of 'effortfulness', 'earned citizenship' and migration as it seems like they might be relevant right now.

First, here's Andreouli & Dashtipour (2014)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Reminder about our CFP for the Mobility and Migration Seminar in collaboration with @ihr.bsky.social!

Please see below for more information on the CFP, abstracts are due on 15th November! Please share widely!

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.

This is why we should all be angry about the use of asylum hotels. Private firms raking in millions while people forced to live in these hotels endure appalling conditions.

People seeking safety and UK taxpayers are losing out and the only winners are millionaire companies.

Theme: Queer (dis)belonging
CfP: 5 January 2026
Website: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk (to be updated as more info becomes available)

PLEASE SHARE WIDELYYYYY 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎉

This little experiment proves nicely how ai just tries to get you an answer asap, one that fits the most likely or commonly accepted "truth", does a "quick google" and then lies about having done research.
Which is... rather human.

Oh btw:

Funding opportunity: PhD at Sussex
- Open to applicants on PhD Linguistics
- Scholarships cover tuition fees, a stipend at UK Research Council rates plus some research & training costs
- 5 interdisciplinary themes addressing major social sciences challenges
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Cannot believe we have to entertain the ridiculous and wrong idea that taking paracetamol "causes autism."

But even if it did:
- Women should be allowed to take pain relief during pregnancy
- More autistic people is not a bad thing

Misogyny and ableism all around.

Have now listened and it's great! So much to look at for A Level English Language students around representation of gender, language change and technology.

🗣️📢 The call for abstracts of #cadaad2026 is out! 🗣️📢