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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · 22d

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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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026

wp.lancs.ac.uk

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Charlotte-Rose Kennedy @crkennedy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Next week, @markmcglashan.com and I will be sharing the findings of our new paper 'Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online' (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) in a live webinar for @senso-cloud.bsky.social.

More info and registration below!

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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · Sep 2

Check out the full special issue! We're in excellent company @mathewgillings.bsky.social @katebarber.bsky.social @danaroemling.bsky.social @timgrant123.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Applied Corpus Linguistics | Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Language plays a key role in online offending and adversarial interpersonal behaviours. Corpus linguistics is a distinctive and valuable part of the researcher and practitioner toolkit for better unde...

www.sciencedirect.com

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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · Sep 2

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online

🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social

@livunienglish.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online

Safeguarding children in schools broadly refers to the actions taken to protect children from abuse, prevent damage to health and development, and pro…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · Jul 30

Another Lecturer post now available in the Department of English @livunienglish.bsky.social at The University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social!

Please share 🔁

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC313/l...

Lecturer in English Literature (Part Time) - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

An academic position as a Lecturer in English Literature (Part Time) - Grade 7 is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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MANTRaP: Misogyny ANd The Red Pill @mantrap.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Women and Equalities Select Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk has accepted our team's evidence as part of it's public enquiry into 'Misogyny: the manosphere and online content'

Read our submission below

committees.parliament.uk/work/9089/mi...

Misogyny: the manosphere and online content - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament

Written evidence submission publications for Misogyny: the manosphere and online content.

committees.parliament.uk

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Jul 5

Our article with Korina Giaxoglou and Paige Johnson has just been assigned an issue at @critdiscstuds.bsky.social We argue that even humanitarian narratives about migration in the UK are deeply problematic.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories

This study explores positive migrant storytelling in non-governmental organizations’ advocacy campaigns. We focus on the practices and implications of leveraging storytelling towards charity organi...

www.tandfonline.com

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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · Jul 7

Come work with us at Liverpool!

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

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT935/l...

Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics (Teaching and Scholarship) - Grade 7 (0.8 FTE) at University of Liverpool

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics (Teaching and Scholarship) - Grade 7 (0.8 FTE). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore mor...

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Charlotte-Rose Kennedy @crkennedy.bsky.social · Jun 30

Great to share our research on corpus linguistic approaches to safeguarding this morning at #CL2025 @markmcglashan.com @senso-cloud.bsky.social

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Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social · Jun 8

🆕 CADSbib annotated bibliography

👩‍💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse?

📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more.

🔗 nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/ca...

#CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH

CADSbib. An annotated bibliography for corpus and discourse research | Nathan Dykes

nfdykes.github.io

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MANTRaP: Misogyny ANd The Red Pill @mantrap.bsky.social · Jun 25

The online manosphere poses a real threat to society

Our response published today in @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · Jun 18

Important work by the brilliant Craig & Fiona about misogynistic & homophobic banter online. Contradicts Ofcom's consultancy company that said that most men have the appropriate critical thinking to not believe the manosphere. Maybe consult with academic experts?😉
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk · Jun 16

Only two weeks to go!

We're working away to finalise the conference programme, featuring:
• 200+ paper presentations
• 50+ poster presentations
• 7 thematic panels
• 5 plenary talks
• 5 pre-conference workshops (29th June)

See you all soon! #CL2025

www.cl2025.co.uk/home

CL2025

Welcome to the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2025), co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham. CL2025 will take place fr...

www.cl2025.co.uk

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David Wright @wrightdw.bsky.social · May 29

Out now: my chapter "The importance of context in analysing the incitement of violence: a case study of an online community" in the book Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language, edited by the brilliant @sofiaruediger.bsky.social and @coocho.bsky.social.

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Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social · Jun 13

When your team's work - based on six years of research - gets cited but the core message is ignored, because 38 men say it's no big deal 😡 @mantrap.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say

Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggests

www.theguardian.com

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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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Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk · Mar 28

📢 Conference registration now open! 📢

Registration for #CL2025 is now open, with early bird rates valid until 9th May.

Registration info: www.cl2025.co.uk/registration

Workshops info: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme/wo...

We're very excited to welcome you to Birmingham in just over 3 months!

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Department of English at the University of Liverpool @livunienglish.bsky.social · Mar 14

Interested in studying for a PhD in applied linguistics/ literature/creative writing with @livunienglish.bsky.social and looking for a scholarship? The JIC Davies scholarship is now open for applications. @sotauol.bsky.social Details👇

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

JIC Davies Doctoral Studentship in English at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - JIC Davies Doctoral Studentship in English at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Mar 14

The first output of our impact acceleration project @livunihss.bsky.social In this paper we address how secondary school teachers in Lpool navigate standardised language ideologies @livunienglish.bsky.social #accentbias
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-67...

The paradoxes of oracy education in secondary schools: a case study of Liverpool English - Lawrence Wishart

In this article we present initial results of a research project that focuses pedagogical attention on oracy and, specifically,

journals.lwbooks.co.uk

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Department of English at the University of Liverpool @livunienglish.bsky.social · Mar 4

Are you a recent recipient of a doctorate? Come work with us! This post is designed to provide experience in teaching and teaching-related administration in a world class university environment. The post is tenable for one year only from September 2025.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD111/a...

Alan Frederick Price Memorial - Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in English Literature - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

Apply now for the Alan Frederick Price Memorial - Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in English Literature - Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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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/...

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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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David Wright @wrightdw.bsky.social · Feb 20

Out now: my monograph 'Corpus Approaches to Discourse in Forensic and Legal Contexts' available for purchase as hardback and ebook.

www.routledge.com/Corpus-Appro...

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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · Feb 20

Uni is 'pausing' use of corporate X accounts and migrating to bluesky

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