Registration for PALA 2025 hosted at Aston University by the Aston Stylistics Research Group, is now open! Register for the summer school (7th-8th July) and for all main conference options (9th-12th July). PALA pala2025.com/registration/

‘Researching Stylistics’, written by members of the Aston Stylistics Research Group is now available for pre-order with a publication date of September 2025! routledge.com/Researching-St…

🚨SCOTTISH PARTICIPANTS WANTED to take part in an eye-tracking experiment at the University of Glasgow. 🚨 Please share! Take a look at the poster below for more info. Click on the link to take part: uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aX…

📣#PALA2025📣 Poetics and Linguistics Association 2025 conference, 7th - 12th July A reminder that the early bird (/goose?) registration closes 2 weeks from today, on the 16th May! You can register here --pala2025.com/registration/

📢🥳Just a reminder that the PALA early-bird registration deadline is 16 May 2025. Registration can be completed here: pala2025.com/registration/

My graduate student, Madeleine Vohs, is conducting a study on mental imagery and is looking for participants. If you're interested, she would greatly appreciate your involvement. Please feel free to share this message with others who might be interested as well. Can you picture

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025! 🧑‍🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters 🗓️ UniKentLive, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm 🎟️ Book your free seat at kent.ac.uk/whats-on/babel…

📢PALA 2025: single-day tickets now available, but please note that registration closes on *9th June 2025*! pala2025.com/registration/

It's undoubtedly exciting when someone cites your work, but how should you feel when then claim it's used for is not actually made in your article? 🤔

I'm currently recruiting a postdoc research associate for an 18-month focused on eating disorder research. Interested or know someone who might be? Please share this post to help us reach the right candidate! jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK860/pos… #Postdoc #Eatingdisorderresearch

Well, that's that! PhD submitted 🥳 A full circle moment to do so with Dr Kim Pager-McClymont present - I got to be there when she submitted hers, and now she was there for me! 🥰

Proud supervisor! Submitting a thesis is a big achievement at the best of times, but this one was completed despite dire circumstances at Linguistics at Huddersfield, huge well done Fransina! 💪👏

Are you a Polish native speaker with a laptop now? Help us with a quick 3-min pilot study! 📖 Read Polish sentences 🧠 Group them + do a Go/No-Go task Super easy — thank you! 🙏 research.sc/participant/lo…

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2026)! 📚 A year's subscription! 📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book! 📜 Guidelines at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

We've just advertised a 12-month research fellowship at Northumbria (a corpus-based diachronic project on words for 'yes' and 'no' in European languages) Please share with anybody you know who might be interested work4.northumbria.ac.uk/#en/sites/CX_1… #linguistics #research #postdoc

My chapter with Dr Chloe Harrison on Cognitive Grammar in literary analysis has now been published in this wonderful collection edited by Jan Alber and Ralf Schneider. An honour to be part of such a stellar line-up of authors. routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

Happily posing as a new Dr after my PhD viva yesterday & an elated call with a proud supervisor a minute later 🎉 Thanks to Marian Martínez & Prof_Shona_Bettany for a pleasant discussion, Dr Louise Nuttall for 7 years of superb supervision, and Liz Towns-Andrews OBE for being the best academic mum!

New article alert! 📢 In the first translation of our latest issue, Naomi Adam explores the flourishing, female-led Creole rap scene in the Caribbean. Read now at: tiny.cc/ltsjournal

Going to be a little busy the coming time trying to work out what this thing called parenting means, so anything academic is on hold for now 👋

This week we have launched a free CPD accredited Futurelearn course for healthcare professionals! It explores how language can best be used to support and care for those who experience pregnancy loss. #BabyLossAwareness #FLPregnancyLoss Survey of English Usage UCL futurelearn.com/courses/effect…