“by Ursula von der Leyen” 🙃

Worth a read... reacpol.net/starmer-far-...

Another massacre.

This morning Israel bombed a 3 storey residential home that was being used as a shelter by displaced people. At least 20 people have been killed, with over 50 injured.

Looking for a new challenge, e.g., teaching & researching English in a multilingual society & workplace? With a digital twist?

Then come & work with us at the Department of Humanities in Luxembourg! We’re looking for a new colleague in English linguistics (Assoc or Full Prof)!

#jobs #linguistics

hey, who do I know who works on Irish in linguistics or who has a lot of Irish-speaking friends or email listservs or subreddits or whatever? I'm helping a student who wants to distribute a linguistics survey on/about Irish #linguistics! feel free to dm/email me!

🍉 UCU Glasgow support for Palestine

In light of today’s protests on campus, we are sharing our support (slide 1; sent to SMG last month) for peaceful protests in solidarity with Palestine at the University of Glasgow.

@glasgowstopwar.bsky.social

My book "Researching Language and Digital Communication" is hereeee.

It may just be the most camp discussion of DMC so far. Including analyses of:

- Dolly Parton memes
- TikTok videos of Jungle and Billie Eilish
- anonymous Grindr profiles

Not to put too fine a point on it, but a week ago, the CSU closed 6 departments (among them, philosophy, women's and gender studies, and economics) and fired 46 tenure-line faculty at Sonoma State. One of those faculty studies AI ethics.

They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.

CfP for BAAL in Glasgow this September is now live: baal2025.wordpress.com

Deadline 31st March, so that gives all of us (*cough* including me *cough*) time to start actually writing abstracts...

Look forward to seeing you there!

Hello folks! We are pleased to announce that the BAAL 2025 website is now live. We will be updating the site in the next week with more information on the call for papers as well as how to purchase tickets.

baal2025.wordpress.com

Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners #WordsMatter

Join us for the last #Westminster #linguistics seminar of term (11th Dec, 4PM): @katespowage.bsky.social will be presenting her work on 'Global #English, #decolonisation, and the critique of capitalism'. Free to attend and open to all yee interested followers: us02web.zoom.us/j/89653330152

Hello all! Just a quick post to say hi and let you know that we will be adding more information soon on the 58th BAAL conference 2025, set to take place at the University of Glasgow on 4th-6th September. Please share the page amongst colleagues.
Will keep you all updated!

The weekend's almost here... What are ye doing for the weekend? Or should we be asking... What are youse doing tonight?

Do you use 'ye' or 'youse'? As the maps keep filling up, we're starting to see where people use one rather than the other!