John E. Richardson
@discodiscourse.bsky.social
University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls.
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
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PhD funding - deadline approaching!
I'd be keen to supervise projects on bilingualism/multilingualism, food and identity, LGBTQIA+ issues (corpus-based/CDA/CADS).
@livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College - EOI due by 1st Dec.
www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
I'd be keen to supervise projects on bilingualism/multilingualism, food and identity, LGBTQIA+ issues (corpus-based/CDA/CADS).
@livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College - EOI due by 1st Dec.
www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
Project Areas 2026 | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
PhD funding - deadline approaching!
I'd be keen to supervise projects on bilingualism/multilingualism, food and identity, LGBTQIA+ issues (corpus-based/CDA/CADS).
@livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College - EOI due by 1st Dec.
www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
I'd be keen to supervise projects on bilingualism/multilingualism, food and identity, LGBTQIA+ issues (corpus-based/CDA/CADS).
@livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College - EOI due by 1st Dec.
www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
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Are you someone who likes cricket but doesn't play? We'd love to know what challenges or obstacles prevent you from playing...
We've found our way back to cricket after years away and by sharing your views, you can help more people do the same #Cricket #BacktoCricket
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We've found our way back to cricket after years away and by sharing your views, you can help more people do the same #Cricket #BacktoCricket
idontplaycricket.carrd.co
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Are you someone who likes cricket but doesn't play? We'd love to know what challenges or obstacles prevent you from playing...
We've found our way back to cricket after years away and by sharing your views, you can help more people do the same #Cricket #BacktoCricket
idontplaycricket.carrd.co
We've found our way back to cricket after years away and by sharing your views, you can help more people do the same #Cricket #BacktoCricket
idontplaycricket.carrd.co
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This is the thing to hang onto - I’m glad people are appalled by Farage’s Nazi sympathies now, but the fact is, he was able to present TV programmes and constantly appear as a sofa guest for decades, booked by people who knew it all. We must reckon with that.
Evidence of Farage’s unabashed youthful racism has been in the public domain since at least 2013, yet somehow he has been allowed to remain part of the British political conversation. The fact he wasn’t driven back under a rock years ago has emboldened racists across the country to spread hatred.
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is the thing to hang onto - I’m glad people are appalled by Farage’s Nazi sympathies now, but the fact is, he was able to present TV programmes and constantly appear as a sofa guest for decades, booked by people who knew it all. We must reckon with that.
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It's National Linguistics Day, and what better way to celebrate the role of linguistics in your life than with a bargain book or two?
Enjoy 30% off recent highlights like these in our ongoing festive sale!
See more linguistics books on offer: bit.ly/49CuhiZ
@philipseargeant.bsky.social
Enjoy 30% off recent highlights like these in our ongoing festive sale!
See more linguistics books on offer: bit.ly/49CuhiZ
@philipseargeant.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
It's National Linguistics Day, and what better way to celebrate the role of linguistics in your life than with a bargain book or two?
Enjoy 30% off recent highlights like these in our ongoing festive sale!
See more linguistics books on offer: bit.ly/49CuhiZ
@philipseargeant.bsky.social
Enjoy 30% off recent highlights like these in our ongoing festive sale!
See more linguistics books on offer: bit.ly/49CuhiZ
@philipseargeant.bsky.social
These threatened closures are only ever contextualised by the numbers of students. Each university employs 1000s of academics, support staff, librarians, cooks, cleaners etc. They're also economically part of cities & regions. A failed university would be an economic disaster for tens of 1000s.
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
These threatened closures are only ever contextualised by the numbers of students. Each university employs 1000s of academics, support staff, librarians, cooks, cleaners etc. They're also economically part of cities & regions. A failed university would be an economic disaster for tens of 1000s.
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Event this Friday organized by faculty member Gary Needham! COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza. Limited seating, please reserve a spot using the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paris-is-b...
Paris is Burning at 35 with Dinah Bons, House of Xtravaganza NYC
COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Event this Friday organized by faculty member Gary Needham! COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza. Limited seating, please reserve a spot using the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paris-is-b...
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This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.
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Under the current University funding model international students are one of the few aspects of HE that actually makes money (most home tuition and research is loss making- yes it's more complicated than that). It's simply false to pretend international students take places from home students. 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Under the current University funding model international students are one of the few aspects of HE that actually makes money (most home tuition and research is loss making- yes it's more complicated than that). It's simply false to pretend international students take places from home students. 1/2
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On November 17th, 2025, the Home Secretary published a policy proposal under the title: "Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy”.
Today, more than 500 experts respond urging the government to scrap these proposals
ilpa.org.uk/statement-of...
Today, more than 500 experts respond urging the government to scrap these proposals
ilpa.org.uk/statement-of...
Statement of Consensus, November 2025 - ILPA
We, the undersigned, as practitioners and researchers working in UK migration and asylum law, collectively observe the following issues with the UK Government’s asylum policy announcements which were ...
ilpa.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On November 17th, 2025, the Home Secretary published a policy proposal under the title: "Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy”.
Today, more than 500 experts respond urging the government to scrap these proposals
ilpa.org.uk/statement-of...
Today, more than 500 experts respond urging the government to scrap these proposals
ilpa.org.uk/statement-of...
Who is Sherrie and why should it matter that she doesn't like a rocking casbah?
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Who is Sherrie and why should it matter that she doesn't like a rocking casbah?
...and rather ironically, the BBC (the Board?..) have deleted a line in this first lecture, where he describes Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
A Time of Monsters | Rutger Bregman's first Reith Lecture in his Moral Revolution series.
He explores the moral decay and un-seriousness of today's elites, drawing historical parallels to past eras of corruption that preceded transformative movements.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
He explores the moral decay and un-seriousness of today's elites, drawing historical parallels to past eras of corruption that preceded transformative movements.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
...and rather ironically, the BBC (the Board?..) have deleted a line in this first lecture, where he describes Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Israel has killed at least 339 Palestinians across nearly 500 ceasefire violations since the Trump–Netanyahu ceasefire took effect.
Israel has not ended its genocide—it must be stopped from continuing to kill Palestinians with impunity.
Israel has not ended its genocide—it must be stopped from continuing to kill Palestinians with impunity.
Israel kills over 300 Palestinians in nearly 500 violations of Gaza ceasefire
Palestinian authorities in Gaza say violations have been ‘systematic’ and threaten ‘prospects for stability’
www.middleeasteye.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Israel has killed at least 339 Palestinians across nearly 500 ceasefire violations since the Trump–Netanyahu ceasefire took effect.
Israel has not ended its genocide—it must be stopped from continuing to kill Palestinians with impunity.
Israel has not ended its genocide—it must be stopped from continuing to kill Palestinians with impunity.
Watching Eva Longoria's Searching for Spain, and getting a bit emotional about food history, migration & culture. It would be lovely if migration in the present day could be presented so positively (and it doesn't take hundreds of years to acknowledge our national cultures are also mongrel)
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Watching Eva Longoria's Searching for Spain, and getting a bit emotional about food history, migration & culture. It would be lovely if migration in the present day could be presented so positively (and it doesn't take hundreds of years to acknowledge our national cultures are also mongrel)
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Friends! I’m so pleased to share the Call for our Antifascist Teaching Network event next year in London ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist.
Join us & bash the Fash?
with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist.
Join us & bash the Fash?
CfP. Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Friends! I’m so pleased to share the Call for our Antifascist Teaching Network event next year in London ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist.
Join us & bash the Fash?
with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist.
Join us & bash the Fash?
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🖌️ From Amherst CP, "Painting History" offers a powerful visual and historical journey through Northern Ireland’s murals. With striking images and sharp insight, Tony Crowley traces how this art form evolved from domination to resistance over a century. @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
bit.ly/4757vgx
bit.ly/4757vgx
Painting History
Painting History: The Murals of Northern Ireland, 1908–2024 is the first book-length study of the oldest and most enduring tradition of political wall art.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🖌️ From Amherst CP, "Painting History" offers a powerful visual and historical journey through Northern Ireland’s murals. With striking images and sharp insight, Tony Crowley traces how this art form evolved from domination to resistance over a century. @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
bit.ly/4757vgx
bit.ly/4757vgx
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It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.
time.com/7336204/meta...
time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.
time.com/7336204/meta...
time.com/7336204/meta...
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Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Same outfit. #transvisibility
Tis a day for a Clapton CFC trans solidarity goalkeeper shirt
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Same outfit. #transvisibility
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For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Because googling and reading about something entails sifting through hits, reading and assessing them - in other words, actually doing a bit of thinking!
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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November 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Because googling and reading about something entails sifting through hits, reading and assessing them - in other words, actually doing a bit of thinking!
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Help save Modern Languages at UoN!
Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
savenottinghamlanguages
The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Help save Modern Languages at UoN!
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November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🎓 Methods School course on Critical Discourse Analysis #ecprms 👇
Learn to apply Critical Discourse Analysis & the Discourse-Historical Approach to contemporary political research
📆 16–20 Feb, Online
👨🏫 Michal Krzyzanowski
🐦 Early bird until 5 Jan buff.ly/iSeI5v6
#MethodSky #PoliSky #qualitative
Learn to apply Critical Discourse Analysis & the Discourse-Historical Approach to contemporary political research
📆 16–20 Feb, Online
👨🏫 Michal Krzyzanowski
🐦 Early bird until 5 Jan buff.ly/iSeI5v6
#MethodSky #PoliSky #qualitative