Anyone up for a game? Academic response bingo! ✅❎✅ #academia #unsustainable #WeAllNeedABreak

Circling back to Voyager's cosmic journey, we can see our 'home' as a tiny "mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam" (Carl Sagan). We are all passengers on this Tiny Blue Dot. Why can't we work together, in harmony, to make the journey as much fun as possible for all? 6/6 #equity

Erika Darics gave such a wonderful talk yesterday about how the language we use creates our reality. Her reflections on the leaky pipeline for women in academia were especially timely, when all around me women are talking about whether we will stay or go.

Last week, we had the first podcast planning session in a while. We are still busy revising our textbook (Language in Business, Language at Work), but we will come out of hibernation soon to record a special episode on... business communication #textbooks!

Working on my textbook chapter & lecture on 'marketing through a critical lens' turns into an eye-opening journey of adverts across times. Joy of the day: discovering the quirky genius of Old Spice adverts. youtube.com/watch?v=owGykV… Words&Actions #criticaldiscourseanalysis

Me and Rik van Noord are looking for a PhD researcher (fully paid role!) for a project that combines critical discourse analysis and computational linguistics. Do you know anyone interested in authenticity, CSR and large language models? --> rug.nl/about-ug/work-…

Work from home vibe - winter edition.

What a fabulous & inspiring event today Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen - Practical Connections:meeting with speechwriters, comms people & consultants. Thanks @abelekamminga @speechandprose Anna M Trester, Young Logeion Damian Peek and Luisa Sanchez Diez @GreenOfficeRUG for sharing your life journeys!

HOT OFF THE PRESS!!! Words and Actions team does some soul searching about business/ corporate communication and how to write (a good) textbook. Enjoy!

Available where you get your podcasts or at wordsandactions.blog - enjoy!

Footie mum announcement ⚽️⚽️⚽️

Protest in The Hague against higher education budget cuts; Mayors ask PM to reconsider nltimes.nl/2024/11/25/pro…

This is a cordial invitation to our two-day event *Speaking for Change, Speaking about Change* 24-25 February 2025, Groningen, NL. responsus.org/clades/congr... #languageawareness #IDG #criticalthinking #transformativeeducation

📢Hello! {...hellloooo.... hellloooo.... hellloooo} Anyone here? {... here... here...hereeee...} 👻Gosh this place echoes (coos...coos..) I heard that you have all gone over to, you know 🦋 Please come and find me too! Let's reconnect! @linguadigitalis.bsky.social

🫵Join us for the "Speaking for Change. Speaking about Change" conference! 🌍✨ Workshops, presentations, & networking on critical language awareness, democratic engagement, & sustainability. 📍Feb 24-25, 2025 in Groningen, NL. ✅Register here: 🔗bit.ly/4jWcyG3