The #ISLE Online Forums are about to resume on October 24, 10am (CEST) with Celeste Rodríguez Louro on "Outreach with Impact: Linguistics in the Public Sphere". More info and Zoom link at: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... #Linguistics #Outreach

One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...

And so our course @uoregon.bsky.social has come to an end. Thanks to all our wonderful students @lsa2025uo.bsky.social It's been fun to teach #HistoricalSociolinguistics with Mark Lauersdorf #NARNiHS, and we've been lucky to have such brilliant audience. Don't forget to Use All the Data!

It’s not easy to stay energized after four weeks of the Institute - but classes are still going strong! 💪📚

📚 Historical Sociolinguistics – @linguistonbike.bsky.social & Mark Richard Lauersdorf
🧠 Neurolinguistic Methods – @rachelawiselure.bsky.social
👅 Tongue Movements and Phonology – Jeff Mielke

I had a great time chatting with @lukeanthonyoneill.bsky.social this morning about teenage slang.

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There is still some time to register for the EFACIS Summer Writing Retreat. Deadline is 31 July!

First term of the Summer Institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social has come to an end 🎓. We look forward to the second term now! Great to be co-teaching #HistoricalSociolinguistics with Mark Lauersdorf, on behalf of #NARNiHS. It's been really good fun!

Great set-up for Laura Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social this evening at the LSA Summer Institute Forum Lecture @lsa2025uo.bsky.social 😍👏

Really enjoying teaching at the LSA Summer Institute in Eugene OR! ‪@lsa2025uo.bsky.social‬
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
Wonderful students! 🙌💯

What a fantastic and stimulating few days of productive, collaborative work at The Future of Irish Studies Symposium, wonderfully organised by @ndirishstudies.bsky.social and co-hosted by our colleagues @lcis-leuven.bsky.social. Thank you to all involved!

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SO happy to be working on the proofs for this now! 🥳 It's been a real joy to collaborate with Joan O'Sullivan and Anne Barron on this project! 🙏 They've been the dream team!💚🔥

We had a great St. Patrick's Day celebration today! Thank you to all the participants. ¡Gracias y hasta el año que viene! 💚

The new issue on Historical Sociolinguistics is out! 🗞️ It expands the field beyond its usual languages and highlights research on lesser-studied histories. Guest editors: @joesalmons.bsky.social, @davidnatvig.bsky.social & Josh Brown. First paper: doi.org/10.25189/267... — more to come! Stay tuned!

We are delighted to announce that the Center of Irish Studies in Cáceres will be organizing the first Jornada de Difusión de la Cultura Irlandesa de la UEx for St. Patrick’s Day! You can learn more about the event here: ciscaceres.weebly.com/st-patricks-...

On Monday 24 March 17.30 @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social will be talking about her new book at the #historyofliturgy seminar in London @ihr.bsky.social (in person & online): 'Making the familiar strange again: the unconventional text and script of the Book of Kells' www.history.ac.uk/events/makin...

2-year fixed term post in #linguistics at Northumbria - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH232/l...

Publication and issue: EJES (European Journal of English Studies Volume), 30 (2026): “Cabinets of Curiosities: Collecting, Displaying, Consuming”. Deadline for proposal submissions: 7 April 2025. #essecfp.
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-volumes-...

So thrilled to be representing NARNiHS at the LSA Summer Institute 2025! 👩‍🏫Come and join us @lsa2025uo.bsky.social at the University of Oregon this summer! 🙌😍 Looking forward to it!
#Historicalsociolinguistics is great fun!!!🎉🥳🎊🔥
#LSA2025 @helontheweb.bsky.social
Registration: bit.ly/3CSbbHC

A bit of Irish English on BBC Radio Ulster Your Place and Mine - 2.58 minutes into the program: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Congrats to Prof. Karen Corrigan and the team behind the Speak for Yersel project: www.speakforyersel.ac.uk/roi/ They need participants, so spread the word👇

The final #ISLE Forum of the year focuses on English #Linguistics in Japan and Australia. Join Martin Schweinberger (moderator), Laurence Anthony, and Peter Crosthwaite on December 19 (10am CET). Zoom link available at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... As always, open to non-ISLE members

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