Stephen Lucek

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

"there's a new serif in town"

Pokémon Go! to the podcast service of your choice.

We'll be talking about this iconic moment in the death of a slang term in our next episode.
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The first 3 volumes of the The New Cambridge History of the English Language are out now!

Vol 1: Context, Contact and Development: https://cup.org/44J8ouY
Vol 2: Documentation, Sources of Data and Modelling: https://cup.org/3Mv2siU
Vol 3: Transmission, Change and Ideology: https://cup.org/44gKqaf

Vulgar language and criminal slang This episode of Words Unravelled is not for the easily offended, as Rob and Jess explore dictionaries dedicated to underground slang.

Words Unravelled #podcast: Vulgar language and criminal slang

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

I am offering two doctoral positions (65%) in the Junior Research Group “Sustainability in Translation” (buff.ly/HULoKXy) at the University of Würzburg in Germany.
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(both until 06.01.2026)
Please share widely.
#TranslationStudies #ClassicalReceptionStudies #DH

The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview

Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.

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Green background with three white globes showing different aspects of earth (top to bottom Asia/Oceania, North and South America, and Africa and Europe). Around each globe are the words 'Happy World Linguistics Day! November 26th'.

Happy World Linguistics Day! Celebratory days take off when groups of people decide to make them happen so... let's see how many different locations we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!

The people have spoken.

Important!

Episode 77 - Lynne Murphy and the 'Americanisation' of young people's English Show notes for Episode 77 Welcome to episode 77 of Lexis in which Raj & Dan talk to Lynne Murphy, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex about a flurry of recent news stories about chil...

We talk to @lynneguist.bsky.social about the supposed 'Americanisation' of young British people's vocabulary, media scares and why we should approach news stories like these with some criticality. Show notes and links are here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you are feeling down and like a bit of a failure, remember that the guy who failed children with scoliosis and mishandled the children’s hospital to the tune of €bn’s is now the min for finance. You got this!

Accent discrimination is discrimination and it doesn’t matter who it’s aimed at. I’m always saddened at how people who would never say “I hate people from X country” are very happy to say “those people don’t speak good English”. It’s part of the same picture, but wow, no one wants to hear it.

'10 Things to Know About' returns tonight on @rte.ie One
at 8.30pm!📺

Dr Maria Kirrane presents A Brush with Climate -empowering hairdressers to spark climate action through small talk.

Prof Niamh Moore-Cherry explores sustainable mobility in Irish towns via the @conundrumsfi.bsky.social project

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.

And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.

What does OpenAI offer the world?

Like Bond themes or April Fools’ hoaxes, the John Lewis Christmas ad is one of those recurring objects that may once have made sense as a fun little regular thing, but has now collapsed under its own cultural weight, amid a sense that everyone involved in writing, directing, sharing and watching them is performing jury duty. And yet. Perhaps nothing about this ad fascinates me more than the fact that, for all my cynicism and urbane wit, that single shot of a toddler running into his father’s arms got me. Like a marionette, conscious of his strings but powerless to command them, I watched, if only for a second, as that unearned schmaltz dart hit my quivering eyelid and wobbly lip, dead on. This is what John Lewis ads are: objects that now function – that are built to function – less like coherent short films and more like bunker-buster munitions: deceptive hardware designed to penetrate our battlements and provoke an almost pneumatic sentimental response. Where once their psychological weaponry was charmingly ornate, disguised by craft and care, they now sail toward us in full view, fuselage stripped to the wiring, their inner workings laid bare. We can, and should, lament this reduction to crass formula, this derogation of the maker’s art. But it’s nearly Christmas. And there are gifts to buy. And you have a son. And he is always on his phone.

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No better man than yourself, Ian. Congratulations!

🚨PhD opportunity!

Examining inclusive bereavement support in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland using conversation analysis
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With @marcopino.bsky.social @lizpeel.bsky.social and @darg-sessions.bsky.social

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
Start date: April 2026

Postdoctoral position in Sociolinguistics at TRANSITION – Center for Changing Urban and Rural Lives (Center of Excellence), University of Copenhagen

Postdoc in #sociolinguistics jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

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Nov 7, 2025 | 6–7:30 PM ET

Learn about the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—its mission, vision, & role in advancing Black language & culture scholarship. Hear from the team & discover how your work can engage with this new community.

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Irish language: Street sign rhetoric 'emboldens' vandals An Irish language campaigner condemns the use of an angle grinder to damage a bilingual street sign.

In Belfast, a bilingual street sign was recently attacked with an angle grinder — the Irish-language portion deliberately cut away. It’s just one of more than 300 incidents of vandalism against bilingual signage in Northern Ireland over the past five years.

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TLDR 👇

❓ Petite enquête : les enseignant·es et les accents
Nous recherchons des anecdotes, témoignages d’enseignant·es autour des accents. Avez-vous été confronté·e à des problèmes/remarques en enseignant “avec un accent” ? Comment gérez-vous votre accent ? Quels échanges avec vos élèves ?
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Why actors are ditching Queen’s English for their old regional accents After shows such as Peaky Blinders and Adolescence, people are turning to voice coaches for help relearning their hometown dialects — but that’s no easy task

Why actors are ditching Queen’s English for their old regional accents; After shows such as Peaky Blinders and Adolescence, people are turning to voice coaches for help relearning their hometown dialects — but that’s no easy task

Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

New research job alert! Come and join the amazing @braiduk.bsky.social team, working with me and @shannonvallor.bsky.social. The post is exploring the social return of AI investments. Feel free to reach out, and apply here - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...

Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.

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We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI.

www.responsiblenlp.org

Thank you so much for all of your interest in the Journal of Black Language and Culture. Please join us for our introductory webinar on Friday, November 7, 2025 | 6-7:30 p.m. ET. A link to register is here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

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WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.

Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)