So it’s not enough to have the REF, TEF, NSS, annual reviews etc, we now have to impress cricket commentators as well. Academia is toxic!

aaaaaand there goes an entire strand of my research 😢 the end of an era!

Oh the joys of working with ultrasound data 🙃

First day back teaching after research leave, TransPennine Express truly outdoing themselves here 👏

You know you’re a sociolinguist when the first punchline you think of is “Santa from an H-dropping region”. Merry Christmas all 🎄

Sociolinguists: come join us at Language & Linguistics @ UoY! We’re a friendly bunch ☺️

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Proud to set a new personal best for the number of emojis on a single slide 😎

Last week we hosted George Bailey Natalie Braber Dr Claire Hardaker Dr Amanda Cole for an online event introducing AL Language to Y10/11. Talks about accent, dialect, online language + forensic linguistics all here englishandmedia.co.uk/video-clips/lo…

Featuring a short presentation from yours truly on ‘online language style’ - it was nice to talk about the cool Twitter stuff again after so many weeks of Twitter dumpster fire discourse (🖕Elon)

We have some excellent speakers - Dr Amanda Cole Natalie Braber Dr Claire Hardaker and George Bailey and will be providing activities and ideas for students on the day and to follow up afterwards.

Join us in the #NWAV50 sociophonetics session to hear about our project launch! If nothing else, you’ll get to see a fancy ‘envelope of variation’ animation I spent an hour making 🙈

While watching #RingsOfPower last night I realised how much more enthusiastic I’d be about departmental meetings if they were called councils instead. Imagine being told “The Council of Examiners will reconvene at first light” 😍🧙‍♂️

Living my best Hobbit life tonight 🧙🏼‍♂️🌳🏔

Fabulous articles for AL Language students in the latest emagazine, including pieces by Danica Salazar Stewart McNicol George Bailey Willem B. Hollmann

I’m in the latest issue of emagazine! Read ow abaaht it ⬇️🗞

Do you say ‘ice lolly’ or ‘lolly ice’ where you live? An international group of researchers, including George Bailey from Language & Linguistics @ UoY, has found southern dialects are spreading across the UK - but the North is pushing back.
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