Tony McEnery

Well deserved!

Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

The Cambridge History of Linguistics Cambridge Core - English Language and Linguistics: General Interest - The Cambridge History of Linguistics

"Surveys the fascinating history of the study of language, from its beginnings in ancient Mesopotamia & Egypt to the diversification of the language sciences in the past 50 years."

The Cambridge History of Linguistics eds. Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-Burston, & John E. Joseph

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A guide to corpus-based approaches to health communication

Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare by @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social, Out Now & #OpenAccess

#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

https://cup.org/4nXkIiq

Minimalist graphic with a lilac background and dark gray text. The top line reads “READ IN CADERNOS DE LINGUÍSTICA.” Below, in large capital letters, it says “SECURE ACCESS TO VOICES FROM THE PAST OPENS THE WAY FOR NEW RESEARCH.” A small stylized fan-like logo appears in the lower-left corner.

Once sealed in archives, the voices of Brazil’s past are being prepared for open, ethical access — paving the way for new studies on how language lives and changes.
doi.org/10.25189/267... #langsky #linguistics

RIP Brian Patten

As a student in Liverpool I carried round a copy of The Mersey Sound until it was so dog-eared I had to buy another one

"There's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" is a _great_ tagline.

John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...

Philosopher John Searle has died.

AI in Africa: Experts aim to close the language gap A new dataset with African languages should improve access to AI for millions on the continent.

Lost in translation - How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap

Three great days of papers at the Universite d’Artois in Arras! Thanks to @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org for organising and to my fellow plenaries @jessesword.com and Jonathon Green for great talks.

A lovely summing up of five years of research effort by members of the ESRC CASS centre under the great leadership of @elenasemino.bsky.social 🎉

Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

ICYMI: 📰 The Leverhulme Trust September Newsletter is out!

Read it on our website now: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter

@mphiljill.bsky.social @ferreira-rr.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

In conversation with @elenasemino.bsky.social on #CorpusMOOC

#healthcare #corpuslinguistics #communication

👉Find out more: edx.org/learn/social...

@corpussocialsci.bsky.social

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Congratulations to my colleagues @elenasemino.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @juditkormos.bsky.social
@jculpeper.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social Alison Mackey & Jason Rothman for being in the Stanford/Elsevier top 2% of scientists list. I’m in good company!

Congratulations to my colleagues @elenasemino.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @juditkormos.bsky.social
@jculpeper.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social Alison Mackey & Jason Rothman for being in the Stanford/Elsevier top 2% of scientists list. I’m in good company!

Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai'i | University of Hawai'i

University of Hawai’i at Mānoa is hiring for a tenure track assistant professor with expertise in second language corpus linguistics. Check out the position and apply on UH’s website:

www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...

Hope so!

oops, I did it again 🎶
Call for papers for Corpus Pragmatics special issue "Speech Acts in English: Corpus Insights from Past to Present", ed. by @racheledf.bsky.social, Christine Elsweiler & me.
Abstract submissions due: 1 November 2025
link.springer.com/collections/...
#Pragmatics #Linguistics

(PDF) Discourse of fear in strategic narratives: The case of Russia's Zapad war games PDF | Modern military training exercises often include an information warfare component. Combat manoeuvres and weapon tests may be combined with... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

Discourse of fear in strategic narratives: The case of Russia’s Zapad war games

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Week 1 on #CorpusMOOC: key techniques of data analysis #concordance #frequency

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Richly deserved!

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'.

Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great talk! Thanks for an excellent presentation and Q&A Niall.

I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

It happened at last, the anonymous reviewer suggests that my manuscript would benefit from engaging with the works by Heyd

Pattern, Construction, System A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis

And also Susan Hunston’s latest, available as an open access PDF