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This really annoyed me in today’s UK press, a day before A-level results day

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Missed out on #CL2025? Four of our wonderful plenary talks are now available to watch on demand!

YouTube links on conference website and in replies:

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Observing nature in your backyard is not dull but radically significant | Psyche Ideas Instead of ‘helicopter science’, we need Gilbert White’s intimate study of nature to understand global environmental change

Just rediscovered this article I wrote in 2021 in Gilbert White and the radical significance of closely observing local nature...
psyche.co/ideas/observ...

@naturerecovery.bsky.social

On day 3 of our Reading Concordances course at #ESSLLI2025, @michamahlberg.bsky.social is ready to go hands-on with FlexiConc in CLiC. Teaching materials available soon at github.com/reading-conc... CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’ Pattern of ‘hostile language’ in media and debates likely to describe people of colour with less sympathy, report says A pattern of “hostile language” in news reports and UK parliamentary debates is more likely to describe people of colour as immigrants, or with less sympathy, researchers have found. The race equality thinktank the Runnymede Trust analysed more than 63m words from 52,990 news articles and 317 House of Commons debates on immigration between 2019 and the general election in July 2024. Continue reading...

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’

A hostile environment: language, race, politics and the media The first of two reports analysing parliamentary and media debates from 2010-2024, showing how large sections of these debates encouraged widespread hostility to migrants and ethnically minoritised pe...

Interesting corpus assisted discourse analysis from The Runnymede Trust looking at language, race, politics and the media. Worth a read: www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’ Pattern of ‘hostile language’ in media and debates likely to describe people of colour with less sympathy, report says

Excellent report by colleagues at @runnymedetrust.bsky.social on how racism underpins political and media language representations of immigration in the UK and how these, in turn, normalise hostile policies.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!

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🎥 A glimpse from our Digital Humanities Training Day, where our upcoming Summer School keynote speaker @gavinbrookes.bsky.social delivered a thought-provoking talk on "Corpus Linguistics, Generative AI, and Discourses of Dementia."
Join us this summer for more inspiring sessions like this!
#DHSS25

YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery Reimagining Bretton Woods: placing nature at the heart of global finance and governance

One of our most-watched seminars of the year: 'Reimagining Bretton Woods' @nicolaranger.bsky.social explored how the global financial system can address the interconnected challenges of biodiversity loss & climate change.

@ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @smithschool.ox.ac.uk

#ICAME47 🤩

If you are packing podcasts for your summer travels, make sure this rich interview with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social is one of them

Climate adaptation in public-oriented research communication The notion of adaptation has become central to the development of responses to climate-related risks. However, what climate adaptation means in earnest appears highly variable. Given that academics...

📢 new 🔓 open access paper in Critical Discourse Studies @critdiscstuds.bsky.social with Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social
You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1740...
Some key points below ⬇️

Critical AI literacy for applied linguistics and language education students Following the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) boom of the early 2020s, research in applied linguistics has become preoccupied with identifying how artificial intelligence (AI) and GenAI can...

📃 new open access 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @carlosordonana.bsky.social on Critical AI Literacies for Applied Linguistics & Language Education, in the Journal of China CALL. Find the paper here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... & details in🧵⬇️ @um.es @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

This year's Sinclair Lecture is now available to watch on YouTube. #ccrss25 #SinclairLecture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXAk...

Here is a quick recap of the book reviews we have seen published recently in IJCL, available #onlinefirst.

Starting with:
Ding Huang’s review of Meyer (2023), ‘English corpus linguistics: An introduction’ (Cambridge University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Wenwen Guan reviews Stoltz & Taylor’s (2024) ‘Mapping texts: Computational text analysis for the social sciences’ (Oxford University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

And William Platt offers a critical summary of Gries (2024) ‘Frequency, dispersion, association, and keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures’ (John Benjamins) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

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Applications are now open for the Mid-Career Fellowships. This programme supports individual research projects that foster public engagement and deepen understanding of the humanities and social sciences. Learn more: buff.ly/VOWVPuC

The slides and abstract of our talk "A corpus analysis of idiolectal n-grams" at #CL2025 are now available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15806985

What happens when activists creatively reimagine corporate logos to resist branding narratives?

Our new paper explores the powerful multimodal practice of "figurative subversion" and its role in challenging corporate messages.

Read it here: bit.ly/3GrXAse

Corpus Linguistics 2025 Presentation slides and reproduction materials for CL 2025 presentation “Finding structure in multivariate data” Hosted on the Open Science Framework

In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y

I loved sharing a plenary on'What counts?' with the ever-brilliant @journolinguist.bsky.social at #CL2025. Not least because it led to some great conversations including two excellent illustrations that are too good not to share further

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Missed the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics? 🎓

Catch up with free lecture recordings from #LancsSS25 here 👉 cass.lancs.ac.uk/free-lancast...

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The role of environmental ethics and sustainability in research ethics for linguistics: what is currently available in terms of guidance and how might that be improved? Ecological sustainability has become a central concern in academic and political discourse and should be considered in research ethics guidelines. However, despite growing environmental awareness, cur...

Come join us on Friday July 4th for a discussion of Eisenbeiss et al. (2025) "The role of environmental ethics and sustainability in research ethics for linguistics" (doi.org/10.1515/ling... ) at @reproducibilitea.org Bielefeld online or via Zoom! Link here: burst.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/burst

'Helpless in the force of nature': SA government says it can't stop toxic algal bloom The South Australian government says it is “helpless in the force of nature” as it grapples with a bloom responsible for countless marine deaths, warning that the toxic algae is unlikely to dissipate ...

The terrible marine heatwave destroying marine life in South Australia #auspol is essentially caused by global warming and is not, as the South Australian government says, an act of nature that we can do nothing about. Well, we can and we must.
🧵 #climate
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...