Dr Nicci MacLeod made a second appearance on BBC’s Expert Witness this week. This episode reports on her involvement with a case in which a man was convicted for sending abusive and harassing messages to his former partner. You can view the episode here:

📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 📢 Submissions are now open for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops: https://t.co/i62jGsZuxV Deadline: 17th January 2025 Join us in Birmingham in July! #CL2025

From today, we have a new department name. Welcome to the Department of Linguistics and Communication at @unibirmingham!

Uni of Leeds new research project, 'Young people, criticality and figurative language' ( https://t.co/bLVVNh6vFj), is recruiting a full-time fixed-term research fellow, based in Leeds, UK. See https://t.co/poNvc64i6y.

I'm very excited to share the pre-print for our new position paper! The Sociolinguistics Foundations of Language Modeling https://t.co/rkXE4h64Ur A quick 🧵summing up our main claims...

‘Everything is a journey now’ - Several linguists, including myself, contributed to this New York Times article on the rise of ‘journey’ as a metaphor.

Please share the details of new posts advertised at the University of Birmingham! Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications (specialising in VR/Video Game) (Research and Education) at University of Birmingham

I'm looking for a corpus linguistic Research Associate to collaborate on a project about Kazuo Ishiguro's style... full advert here... please RT and share!

📢Don't forget to join us for Professor Adam Schembri's (@AdamCSchembri) Inaugural lecture 'How is sign language?' Adam will sign in BSL with interpretation into English provided. 🗓️Thursday 14 March 18:00-19:00 📍Arts main lecture theatre & online 🔗 https://t.co/xHsv7c5dkU

Last month we mentioned some of the qualities, skills, and qualifications you need to become a forensic linguist and/or a forensic speech scientist. But if you did our MSc in Forensic Linguistics and Speech Science, what might you actually learn about in class? Guess what...

The special issue of @JCaDS_journal in honour of Alan Partington is in preparation and it will host a "tabula glatulatoria" introduced by @deliaclear. If you wish to celebrate Alan and his contribution to the field with us, you are welcome to join https://t.co/2KdQEYNEoB

Are you working on any of the following? ⬇️If so, please have a look at this CfP and submit your abstract by 1 February https://t.co/dvfS9yYCyf

We are happy to welcome to @jcads team our new copyeditors @SLGlaas @diegoli_eugenia

‼️The deadline for abstract submission for the 7th Corpora & Discourse International Conference (#CADS2024) has been extended to 31 January 2024. https://t.co/KZUfvRklNS Share this information with the colleagues who might be interested in submitting their abstracts.

Job for a Principal Computational Linguist, deadline 21 January https://t.co/agXjJ3r40r (applicants must be British citizens)

Out now: experimental study on blaming in political protest discourse with @Sten_Hansson and @ruthtweetpage. We develop and test a model of how the linguistic framing of political protest posts influences the spread of blame on social media.

January: the month of blahs and mehs 😑🌧 But here's something to cheer us up: the BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium! We'll be exploring "Corpus Perspectives on Crisis Discourse". Best part? It's FREE! No need to break the bank, just the winter doldrums 😄

Lectureship in Forensic Linguistics: We are looking for a part-time (0.75) lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at the University of Manchester (fixed term for 7 months). Please re-tweet! If you have any questions about the position you can contact me.

Can social media be a force for good? The Curiosity Vault, our podcast series promoting women in research, continues this week, with @DrSophieKH and @ruthtweetpage scrolling through the issues. https://t.co/HuUoQip3AH