At #CL2023 Rachele looking at how people use language to deal with problems in professional settings. Very ingenious design comparing the phraseology of problem solving phrases in business advice literature with authentic emails.

Dream team!

US people: Do you identify as male and/or are you older than 30? Please consider recording a conversation and submitting it to our database of American English to contribute to linguistics research. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

FAO Dunlaith Bird

Miss 5 just sent her fav teddy "on a work trip, like when you go to conferences, Mom." So glad to see this being normalized through play, if teddy can do it, so can she someday. AcademicDads Academic Mom, PhD

One thing I discovered in my #EdD research is how much positive OU-related discussion happens around #Alevelresultsday. See the amazing responses to this tweet about how the OU offers alternative but equally valid and life-affirming degree pathway options 😀👇

A very warm welcome to our new cohort of #LB170 students (October start) 🙏🏽🙏🏽 We wish you all the best for your study!

How and why are social workers portrayed negatively in the media? New article in community care OUWISP @OU_LAL communitycare.co.uk/?p=201645

Parcel delivery firm DPD have replaced their customer service chat with an AI robot thing. It’s utterly useless at answering any queries, and when asked, it happily produced a poem about how terrible they are as a company. It also swore at me. 😂

Today’s increase to the NHS surcharge will push more people into poverty and insecurity in a cost-of-living crisis. Read Praxis 🧡’ thread on the impact of this hostile policy. x.com/praxis_project…

Check out Stephen Levinson's cosmic vision of the field of pragmatics - what we know about what we don't know. Open access in CUP's Elements in Pragmatics series. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

“Hey team , help me out - any thoughts on how we can push down recruitment of nurses and teachers a bit more.. just spitballing…”

📢Call for papers 📚 3-day online conference this Nov, *Literature Matters*, encourages participants to interrogate the importance (or not) of #literature and #writing in the 21st century. How to submit / conference info 👉💻fass.open.ac.uk/events/literat… Open University English & Creative Writing Dr Shafquat Towheed

I am loving this workshop - thanks AnTeangaEile and Christine for organising, it's so fun when all the talks are so well-connected! And thank you for accommodating me on Zoom. See you tomorrow, #ICAME45!

There's also some #ICAME45 conference posting happening on Bsky by the way. Feel free to join us there as well! 🙃

Nele Poldvere presenting her work at #ICAME45 🔥 a partnership with computer scientists and fact checking organisations 📰

It's my last talk at #ICAME45 and wow am I going out on a high with the amazing demo from Gerold Schneider of chatbot for language learning for children. Gerold is really getting into the spirit of the inquisitive 11 year old 👏👏