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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · 23d

I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.

UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships

Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.

www.ukri.org

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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social · Aug 1

‼️ Out now ‼️
🎙️ Writing Wrongs 🎙️ our Season One Series finale:
⁉️ The Questions and Answers Episode ⁉️

You can listen on Spotify 👉 t.co/fES8uEi14m Apple Podcasts or any podcast platform or direct from our webpages by going to 👉https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics/writing-wrongs

Writing Wrongs

www.aston.ac.uk

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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · Jun 19

💥An action-packed morning at #LancsSS25 ! With talks from @tinekebrunfaut.bsky.social , @issyclarke.bsky.social , @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social , a practical session on collocations and the launch of #Lancsbox X 5.5.0!

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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · Apr 15

I'll take that...

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Apr 14

'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a

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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social · Mar 31

A forensic meteorologist?! ⛅

@issyclarke.bsky.social shares what they do in our podcast 'Writing Wrongs' (www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...), featuring @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social. You can't miss it!

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Rachelle Vessey 🇨🇦 @rachellevessey.bsky.social · Apr 7

Last chance to register for the Zoom link! Join us tomorrow for Professor Chris Hart's lecture "Using the NewsScape Corpus to Explore Multimodal Meaning-Making in TV News Communication About Immigration". Hosted by our department of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies at Carleton University.

Rachelle Vessey 🇨🇦 @rachellevessey.bsky.social · Mar 17

Join us for the 2024/5 Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies guest speaker, @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social ! Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST. The event is taking place online. Register here: carleton.ca/slals/cu-eve...

Speaker Series Featuring Chris Hart | Using the NewsScape Corpus to Explore Multimodal Meaning-Making in TV News Communication About Immigration - School of Linguistics and Language Studies

Please join the School of Linguistics and Language Studies for a Speaker Series event featuring Dr. Chris Hart (Lancaster University). Using the NewsScape Corpus to Explore Multimodal Meaning-Making i...

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Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social · Mar 14

In this episode of the Writing Wrongs #podcast from @aifl.bsky.social, @timgrant123.bsky.social & @issyclarke.bsky.social discuss their experience of doing an authorship analysis to help the police identify the builder of a crude bomb.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6nay...

Imposters Tending To The Wild with Dr Isobelle Clarke

Writing Wrongs · Episode

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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · Mar 10

COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and "the new normal" on social media

🆕 out today w/@issyclarke.bsky.social & the www.traccovid.com team @mybcu.bsky.social

📄 doi.org/10.1515/ling...

🔓 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

@sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

First page of journal article entitled "COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media" in the journal Linguistics Vanguard

Abstract

Public distrust in government, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professions, and medical science and technology has been consistently linked with vaccine rejection. Policymakers, therefore, want to better understand links between distrust of institutions and vaccine refusal. This paper reports on a case study of posts (tweets) to the social media platform Twitter (now X) collected as part of the TRAC:COVID (Trust and Communication: A Coronavirus Online Visual Dashboard) project. The TRAC:COVID dashboard combines methods from corpus linguistics with various visualization techniques to enable users to explore approximately 84 million posts containing reference to COVID-19 published between 1 January 2020 and 30 April 2021 (encompassing the dates of UK coronavirus lockdowns). The dashboard and all sampling considerations (including an overview of the detailed search query used) are available at https://www.traccovid.com. Specifically, the paper analyses a subsample of posts that make reference to vaccines and contain at least one hashtag relating to various categories of dis/misinformation. By employing keyword co-occurrence analysis – a method for examining statistically significant keywords using multiple correspondence analysis – we find that these posts draw on various “discourses of liberty” to protest against perceived infringements on “health freedoms” through the imposition of new norms of behaviour (e.g., mask-wearing).

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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social · Mar 7

Episode 3 discusses a contemporary Scottish terrorism case, and the linguistic work by Tim and
@issyclarke.bsky.social that contributed to the investigation. Tim and Isobelle talk about how they assisted to help resolve the case.

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · Feb 13

Looking forward to welcoming both in person and online attendees to Lancaster for our 2025 health and science communication workshop series this March! We've got great speakers and fascinating topics lined up...

For more information and to register, see: baalhealthsci.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/2...

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Yuze Sha @shayuze.bsky.social · Feb 13

✨ Out now in Linguistics Vanguard ✨
Thrilled to share "Using ATLAS.ti to interpret keyword co-occurrence analysis: a case study on the representation of vaccin* across pseudoscience and conspiracy websites", co-authored with my amazing PI @issyclarke.bsky.social !
➡️ www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · Jan 23

We’re the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University.

Follow along for updates, insights, and a closer look at the power of language.

#LanguageMatters #CorpusLinguistics

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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · Jan 23

What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction

Cambridge Core - Discourse Analysis - Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction

www.cambridge.org

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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · Nov 22

On top of this publication today, I'd just like to say that editing this series is the best fun I've had as an academic for many years.

Tammy Gales and I started it in the dark days of 2020 and with 13 published and 12 in the pipeline we've been busy.

#academicsky

Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · Nov 21

Delighted to announce the publication of the Cambridge Element

"Decoding Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Lone-Actor Case"

by Julia Kupper, Marie Bosjen-Moller, Tanya Karoli Christensen, @dakwing.bsky.social , Marcus Papadopulos and Sharon Smith

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Decoding Terrorism

Cambridge Core - Law: General Interest - Decoding Terrorism

www.cambridge.org

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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · Nov 21

Count me in!

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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · Nov 19

Sign me up

Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · Nov 19

I need a Starter Pack with everyone who writes stuff on their to-do list *after* they've done it so they can cross sth. off because these are my people! 📝✔️🙃

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · Nov 19

I need a Starter Pack with everyone who writes stuff on their to-do list *after* they've done it so they can cross sth. off because these are my people! 📝✔️🙃

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Luke C Collins @lukeccollins.bsky.social · Nov 19

New paper co-authored with @elenasemino.bsky.social
in Language and Health: A linguistic analysis of female and male opening posts on an online forum dedicated to pain

Open Access and available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

Front page of an article in Language and Health

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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social · Nov 19

Trust us, you don't want to miss this week's Thursday seminar: '"You need to work her down to the bone": how seduction experts project an image of trustworthiness' with Annina Van Riper from the University of Birmingham.
It's hybrid! You can now get your tickets here: tinyurl.com/584eraxz

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · Nov 16

Issy Clarke is maintaining the starter pack of forensic linguists. If you'd like to be included, let her know.

Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello fellow forensic linguists, I thought I'd create a little space for us all. I'm new here so let me know if I've not seen you and need adding ❤️

go.bsky.app/Jtyb67V

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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · Nov 16

Would love to be added, please?

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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · Nov 16

Oh brilliant! Sorry I didn't see yours before I started. I've consolidated them now and happy to maintain it ☺️ sending you big hugs and hopefully see you soon!

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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello fellow forensic linguists, I thought I'd create a little space for us all. I'm new here so let me know if I've not seen you and need adding ❤️

go.bsky.app/Jtyb67V

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