People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”

It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:

Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes

Next week!

events.bl.uk/events/engli...

#EnglishGrammarDay #Grammar #EnglishLanguage

@bethmalory.bsky.social
@hwimbushenglish.bsky.social
@debsadelight.bsky.social
@robdrummond.bsky.social
@billylinguist.bsky.social
@artshumsucl.bsky.social
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
@engfac.bsky.social

Book now for the English Grammar Day!

Teachers: do bring your GCSE and A-level students!

www.ucl.ac.uk/english/engl...

#EnglishGrammarDay #grammar

@blevents.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social @engfacoutreach.bsky.social @bethmalory.bsky.social @hwimbushenglish.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social

It is truly an educational watch!

Gotta love teaching pragmatics in January 😅 #thetraitors

Delighted to share that the programme for the BAAL Language Gender & Sexuality group annual event is now live: baalgensex.wordpress.com
Register here: mmu.estore.flywire.com/.../baal-sig....
looking forward to welcoming everyone on May 2nd!

Thanks Poppy!

I’m so sorry to hear this, that’s just awful.

@uclenglishusage.bsky.social is now also on here 🦋

Thank you! Trying to find my way around 😅

Nikita Hand is a very strong inspiring woman.

Celebrating joining the Xodus with my first post; this week Louise Nuttall and I published a new report on attitudes to diagnostic language for pregnancy loss, which was picked up by the @theguardian.com

Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag...

Article here: amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Me please 🙂

Thanks, Tony! Just set up an account on here so this is a lovely welcome!

Thought provoking blog on clinical language choice by Beth Malory. Important work on a sensitive topic, pregnancy loss: medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...