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Happy World Linguistics Day from Vienna, Austria

Yep, high praise. Take it.

George Osborne in a suit stands with a union flag behind him, with his legs weirdly wide apart

I have no research-informed insight, just another right-wing politician looking as if he might have shat himself in an example of body language gone rogue

So beautiful

Your enemies are my enemies

Congrats! And I love your tank top

What next? Farage for Pope?

If you are eating pre-prepared lasagne that you bought in a supermarket, you're already beyond help. Go to Italy, eat proper nice pasta and then your standards will be forever higher

Is it trans people?

call for how to guides: inclusive research methodologies

I’m commissioning content for a new educational collection being published via Sage Research Methods. The collection is titled Inclusive Research Methodologies. It will include case studies, text guides, video cases and tutorials, and practice datasets, and is designed to support university-level students and postgraduate researchers. It will be published in 2026.

Topics: I am specifically commissioning pieces on the following topics: • Tips on conducting research with LGBTQ+ communities • Considerations for survey designers when working with marginalised groups • Approaches to graphic social sciences

Details: Word count:2,000-4,000 words Deadline:1st November 2025 Honorarium: £200 Audience: University students and postgraduate researchers

I’m commissioning content for a new educational collection being published via Sage Research Methods.

The collection is titled Inclusive Research Methodologies. Details are in the images and thread below. Please share with anyone who might be keen.

I want crab now, and I live in a landlocked country

So sorry to hear about your mum. Hang in there x

You can also use white vinegar (but I suppose it might have the same risk as salt of affecting surrounding plants or contaminating the soil for a while - don't know).

My morning meeting was vastly improved by the attendance of the Vice Rector for Cuteness and Joy: a little brown mongrel

NYC people--early voting is on! May I suggest you include Zohran Mamdani in your choice of five candidates. And it's especially important that you not rank Cuomo at all. Unlike Cuomo, Mamdani LIKES New York City and its residents.

The shitshow that is higher education these days?

I would say beyond has a kind of 'past something else' element, like past a barrier or past a point where others have gone. Deeper to me just means in greater depth, but it could be the same hole.

As a linguist, I approve this message

This is a perfect depiction of Luka

I'm sorry to inform you that America is already pathetic. I do take your point though

I tend to agree. It will simply save universities some money on salaries

I got 100% on this quiz and have never felt prouder😂

Seems like that has flown by. Congratulations Dr Dance!

This finally arrived, with chapters by me and several other excellent people www.routledge.com/Language-and...

'British shops for British people' will be next. So disappointing from a labour government

The UK prime minister is standing at a podium with ‘securing Britain’s future’ printed on it, explaining that the government plans to reduce legal (not illegal) immigration. The only future this will secure for the UK is its future as an impoverished, xenophobic, ill-educated backwater

Have just experienced, for the first time, authors telling me that their article was already clear* and their references already correct** in response to my comments asking for revisions.
*It was not
**They were misspelled and wrongly formatted

I recommend anything by Ali Smith. How to be both is particularly good but probably more than 10 years old now

Something to look up to: how Michelangelo’s love and humility could influence the Sistine Chapel conclave The artist’s frescoes hold many lessons for the cardinals who have to decide upon the next pope

A lovely article on sexuality, the papacy, and Michelangelo's frescos in the Sistine chapel
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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