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Eric Robert Reguly @ereguly.bsky.social · 4d

Huge pro-Palestine protest - said to be 1 million strong -- right in front of my house in #Rome earlier today. The marching went on for hours.

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 13d

Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 4d

The numbers of yesterday's strike for Gaza (since the @theguardian.com got the size - among other things - quite wrong): protests in more than 100 cities all over Italy, 2 million people marching, in some sectors 90% of workers on strike #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive #StopGenocide

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 5d

#Bologna today, general strike: 150,000 people marching for #Palestine and demanding #StopGenocide. Israel blocked the #GSF humanitarian mission, we block everything!

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow I'll be joining the general strike to protest the Israeli genocide in Palestine and the illegal assault of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Come raise your voice to break the government's silence!

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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 8d

Writing lecturers will not reach students by simply talking down AI, but we might reach them by embracing our expertise and engaging in the politics of resistance
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/educati...

The craft and politics of academic writing in the AI universe

Writing lecturers will not reach students by simply talking down AI, but we might reach them by embracing our expertise and engaging in the politics of resistance

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 9d

The Italian PM claims that the #GlobalSumudFlotilla is sailing towards Gaza just to make her government uncomfortable (hello pathological narcissism!)
#LetGazaLive #freepalestine
HALLELUJAH TO MAKING EVERYONE UNCOMFORTABLE
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63K views · 2.9K reactions | "I stopped calling myself a pacifist when I heard Ghandi tell women not to fight off their rapists." - Andrea Gibson performing at the mobile Button Poetry Studio, from Lo...

"I stopped calling myself a pacifist when I heard Ghandi tell women not to fight off their rapists." - Andrea Gibson performing at the mobile Button Poetry Studio, from Longmont, Colorado..

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 10d

Volume 9 of @jcads.bsky.social is growing into one of my favourite issues. Great new article by @lukeccollins.bsky.social and @elenasemino.bsky.social just out

JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social · 10d

New article by @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @elenasemino.bsky.social exploring patterns
in reports of disability experience jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10....

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 15d

"Power to the people, with ice cream at midnight! Taste it and see. Not everything in the world is going to hell." 🎞️🎞️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.

www.newyorker.com

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

www.oxfordbibliographies.com

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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 13d

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about.

cambridgeblog.org

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 14d

“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth”
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 17d

Tomorrow I will be joining the general strike against Israel's genocide in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people. If you are in Bologna and wish to raise your voice, see you in Piazza Maggiore at 10:30 #LetGazaLive

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Laura Filardo-Llamas @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social · 22d

We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid.
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 21d

'She chose September, that most excellent month' open.spotify.com/episode/6FEY... reading and listening to #ArundhatiRoy on my commute

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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 25d

Pattern, Construction, System: A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis. Susan Hunston's latest book. It's Open Access, so the PDF is available online already...

www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Pattern, Construction, System

Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Pattern, Construction, System

www.cambridge.org

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 26d

Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 28d

After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · Aug 11

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX

In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...

www.edx.org

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 28d

'We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people'

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 29d

The latest on the Mystery AI Hype 3000 newsletter: Back to School is Better Without AI

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w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

Back to School is Better Without "AI"

It’s that time of year again, when fall is in the air and “AI” is back and worse than ever, creepy-crawling into every corner of our education system.

buttondown.com

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 28d

Thought that boycotting Google would be impossible, but as of today I am surfing the web Chrome-free using Ecosia and it is great. I am now trying to find an alternative to Gmail (though the transition is going to be slower and trickier). Any suggestions? Currently considering Runbox and Posteo

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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 28d

That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic?

@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics

What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 28d

thrilled to have my paper "Hypothesis-testing in corpus-assisted discourse studies
A methodological exploration" published in @ijcl.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Thanks to colleagues, reviewers and editors for the precious feedback #corpuslingustics

www.jbe-platform.com

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 29d

This is brilliant: www.storiescourse.org/new
free online ecolinguistics course "The Search for New Stories to Live By" (Arran Stibbe) discourses that can help build a fairer and more ecological world

The Search for New Stories to Live By

www.storiescourse.org

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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is disgusting. No surprise from the Mail, but still. Utterly disgusting.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 6

Daily Mail today

How long until a group of small boat migrants are moved into a house in your street?
It’s the next immigration flashpoint, known as Operation Scatter. As billions are spent buying up flats and houses around the country for asylum seekers, with locals moved out...
Daily Mail 6 Sep 2025 By Sue Reid

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