Lucy Jones

Graphic with the following text: "1. International students who do not generate provider income should be exempt - including Erasmus+ participants following the UK’s association."

"2. Students studying SHAPE subjects must be eligible for levyfunded maintenance grants. Restricting subject eligibility harms UK economic growth and signals that disadvantaged students ‘deserve’ fewer choices."

"We urge the government to reconsider the levy, engage with the sector, and pursue a sustainable funding model to safeguard higher education and research."

We are continuing to call for the government to withdraw the International Student Levy. This levy will add more financial pressure to a system under strain, threatening the UK’s research excellence, global reputation, and economic competitiveness.

Chapter 10 Don’t #BelieveWomen?: The delegitimisation of women’s claims of rape and domestic violence within the manosphere Chapter 10 Don’t #BelieveWomen?: The delegitimisation of women’s claims of rape and domestic violence within the manosphere was published in Discourse Approaches to Gender-Based Violence on page 245.

Pleased to see the ebook publication of 'Discourse Approaches to Gendered Violence' with Brill. My chapter (no. 10) explores how users of the manosphere discursively downplay and justify violence against women and girls.

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Positionality statements are relevant for all research Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for reflexivity and positionality statements as important in all kinds of research Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for reflexivity...

Last week on Wonkhe: Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for reflexivity and positionality statements as important in all kinds of research

💧💩Fountain of Filth: Today we joined other water campaigners to attend the opening of a fountain depicting river users getting sick from dirty water

Our waterways shouldn’t be making us sick. Sewage pollution MUST end✊️

Tune in: Dirty Business (9pm on Channel 4) spotlights Britain's sewage scandal

Dirty Business: new TV show reveals the truth behind Britain’s sewage scandal A major new factual drama from Channel 4 investigates one of the biggest corporate and public health scandals in British history – we hear from its stars and the real people who inspired it

This programme is incredibly well done and everyone should watch it. I had to pause it several times because of how angry it made me. www.theguardian.com/dirty-busine...

Animation: Eating Disorders, Ethnicity and Culture | EDIFY Eating disorders can affect anybody, from any age, sex, gender, and background. Yet limiting stereotypes still exist about who can be affected by eati

Delighted to have been an academic project lead on this animation addressing eating disorders from the perspective of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds

edifyresearch.co.uk/resources/56...

Glad to see there is at least one politician seriously engaging with the absolute catastrophe currently taking place in UK Universities. Inflation linked fee increases will do nothing to abate a crisis that has taken thousands of jobs already. The horse has already bolted, where is the government?

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

The thread below totally debunked this 'story' over the weekend. This is the Mail today.

You can read below that they were there for days without incident or trouble, but look at the images the Mail opted to use...

Ah right. That's also interesting, thanks!

Thanks for this thread - really interesting. Are the LLM-critical academics more likely to be from humanities/arts/social sciences disciplines, and the LLM-adopters more likely to be in STEM disciplines, I wonder?

These grants are available to linguists outside of the USA, too, and look like a great opportunity! 💰 🎤

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

QueerAF have shared a MP email template you can use to raise concerns over libraries platforming harmful books. Please if you can send an email to your MP, and share this template:

onedrive.live.com/:w:/g/person...

Wow.

With more than 80 participants already registered, there is still a bit of time to sign up to join us on Wed for an event on publishing in language, gender and sexuality. @lucyjones.bsky.social and @lexiwebster.bsky.social will help us navigate the publishing process. There'll be time for questions

Flyer for a beer called Doctor Morton's Accent Compensation. White and yellow text on a green background reads: have you had a bad accent at work or in the street that wasn't your fault or tripped over an aitch and damaged your credibility or ruined your prospects? If your parents are from the north or south and especially Liverpool or Tyneside or anywhere foreign you may be illegible for a grant...Yorkshire folk need not apply at this time! Abv4.1% Abbeydale Brewery Sheffield

Abbeydale Brewery's accent compensation scheme: "Yorkshire folk need not apply" @abbeydalebeers.bsky.social

Once again #r4today is discussing trans rights (which are clearly being curtailed here) without including trans people, or even someone sympathetic to trans people
#balance
#r4today

'Vast majority' of parents should be involved if children question gender, schools told School leaders welcome the

If you were trying to come up with more harmful guidance towards trans and non-binary young people you would be hard pressed to find it. The fact it is backed by Cass shows how wrong it is.
We are already seeing an increase in suicide rates among trans young people.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Out now: 'Critical Discourse Studies and Health Communication'. Chapter in Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies, ed. by B. Forchtner and F. Zappettini. Honoured to publish in this book alongside many whose work has inspired me. Chapter pre-print #openaccess here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...

Aha! I reckon since I got away with it in both those apps, you should be fine for this one... @jaimackenzie.bsky.social did you put references in your BA postdoc app?

Good luck Johnny, sounds great!

Just citations, no references! In apps for both Small Grant and Mid-Career Fellowship. Which scheme are you going for?

Farage's claims here are straightforward lies (and it's about time the media/press said so)

The correct figures are 160K (0.3%) and 900K (1.5%)

www.gbnews.com/news/video-n...

If you care about proposed government changes to UK immigration policy I urge you to fill in the consultation response before the deadline tomorrow.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We’re hosting the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in Edinburgh this year!

If you work on queer linguistics topics, please submit an abstract, we’d love to see you there!

Conference dates: 2nd-4th September

Submission deadline: 28th March

CfP: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

Oooh yes, definitely!

Grants 2026 LingComm Grants – Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences We want to see more linguistics in the world!  The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 (USD) to support lin…

Are you an early career researcher interested in communicating linguistics to broader audiences?

Consider applying for a @lingcomm.org grant!
Deadline April 30, via @lingthusiasm.com

lingcomm.org/grants/

The Home Office tweet here - referring to asylum seekers legally here and legally supported by the government as “illegal migrants” - is a deliberate attempt to stir up resentment and racial hatred.

I can’t see how else you describe it.