People always ask me : βCristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?β
Itβs easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:
Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes
04.07.2025 17:04 β
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Next week!
events.bl.uk/events/engli...
#EnglishGrammarDay #Grammar #EnglishLanguage
@bethmalory.bsky.social
@hwimbushenglish.bsky.social
@debsadelight.bsky.social
@robdrummond.bsky.social
@billylinguist.bsky.social
@artshumsucl.bsky.social
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
@engfac.bsky.social
30.06.2025 10:43 β
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Book now for the English Grammar Day!
Teachers: do bring your GCSE and A-level students!
www.ucl.ac.uk/english/engl...
#EnglishGrammarDay #grammar
@blevents.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social @engfacoutreach.bsky.social @bethmalory.bsky.social @hwimbushenglish.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social
03.05.2025 12:36 β
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It is truly an educational watch!
29.01.2025 12:36 β
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A teaching slide showing a discussion topic on speech acts in The Traitors, with an embedded video from the show
Gotta love teaching pragmatics in January π
#thetraitors
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BAAL Language, Gender and Sexuality SIG
The British Association of Applied Linguisticsβ Special Interest Group for Language, Gender and Sexuality
Delighted to share that the programme for the BAAL Language Gender & Sexuality group annual event is now live: baalgensex.wordpress.com
Register here: mmu.estore.flywire.com/.../baal-sig....
looking forward to welcoming everyone on May 2nd!
28.01.2025 09:52 β
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Thanks Poppy!
01.12.2024 10:49 β
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Iβm so sorry to hear this, thatβs just awful.
24.11.2024 12:03 β
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@uclenglishusage.bsky.social is now also on here π¦
23.11.2024 13:27 β
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Thank you! Trying to find my way around π
23.11.2024 12:13 β
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Nikita Hand is a very strong inspiring woman.
22.11.2024 16:49 β
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Celebrating joining the Xodus with my first post; this week Louise Nuttall and I published a new report on attitudes to diagnostic language for pregnancy loss, which was picked up by the @theguardian.com
Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag...
Article here: amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
23.11.2024 12:05 β
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Me please π
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Thanks, Tony! Just set up an account on here so this is a lovely welcome!
23.11.2024 11:54 β
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Thought provoking blog on clinical language choice by Beth Malory. Important work on a sensitive topic, pregnancy loss: medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...
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