Following the PhD defence of @jenni_raikkonen, who zooms in on "we" and "us", convincingly arguing what an important role these little pronouns have played in British political discourse. 🎓🇬🇧

This spring I have been teaching English at Tampere University Language Centre. The highlight is happening now that final self reflections are rolling in and students are describing their increased confidence in using English for discussions and presentations.😊

All of the #dhh24 hackathon groups working intensively. This is a good year!

Excited to be taking part in team "civility in online discourse" team, my first hackathon! 💪

Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH24 — public presentations of the projects on Friday, 24 May 2024! helsinki.fi/en/digital-hum…

My #DHH24 takeaways: 1⃣ Interdisciplinary research groups are a a boon for triangulating methods. 2⃣ Text analysis of social media gets linguistics far, but there's a lot of untapped metadata available. 3⃣ It's amazing what results you can get in just 7 days of intensive work.

New Cambridge Element Programming for Corpus Linguistics with Python and Dataframes by Daniel Keller is now free to read for 2 weeks! cup.org/4bT9Agx #cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

Just 7 more sleeps until #cads2024 (and 9 to my Friday presentation). Looking forward to the exciting programme with brilliant people and presentations. But also excited about the city and the Alps, I mean just look at that picture. 🏔️🇦🇹

Just created a Bluesky account (same handle as here). I tried finding people there, but it's a process to locate everyone. If you want to be mutuals over there, too, feel free to follow!

I'm very excited to share the pre-print for our new position paper! The Sociolinguistics Foundations of Language Modeling doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… A quick 🧵summing up our main claims...

We are happy to inform you that parts of the #CADS2024 conference in #Innsbruck will be streamed🤩 Here is the link: tinyurl.com/5ye7ac5z

Fascinating #cads2024 keynote Rachelle Vessey . Existing #CADS methods can be used to explore intersectionality, a lens that could help linguists communicate research to other fields, too.

Catherine Wong and @SuMFitz analyse and visualize historical religious/secular discourses with Linguistic DNA , comparing church, heaven and earth in Early Modern English books. #cads2024

Starting soon, #cads2024 panel on digital/new media!

First day of teaching!🧑‍🎓There is a lot of new stuff to learn both for me and the students. Until end of 2026, I'll be working as a lecturer in English at University of Helsinki Faculty of Arts. So there's still time to learn!

Can social media discussions be civil? 🤔 Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and I are organizing a panel called "Keeping it civil online: in pursuit of civility in social media interaction" @ #IPrA2025 in Brisbane. Call for papers open until 1 Nov 2024 #pragmatics linguistlist.org/issues/35/2314/