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@danagablas.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University. Passionate about use of corpora for L2 learning, teaching & testing. Creator of CorpusForSchools.

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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#today at the Open Research Group: #LancsBox and Corpus linguistics tools in the age of AI ⌛️ 12.00-12.50pm UK time teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
📊 Statistics in Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide—now available in Mandarin Chinese 🇨🇳 and Korean 🇰🇷! It could be a great summer read to explore at your own pace. #CorpusLinguistics #Statistics @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Missed the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics? 🎓 Catch up with free lecture recordings from #LancsSS25 here 👉 cass.lancs.ac.uk/free-lancast... #CorpusLinguistics #FreeLectures @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
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Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Great to represent @lancslinguistics.bsky.social and give a Darwin College lecture at the University of Cambridge this evening on Polari. Among others, the series has hosted Mary Beard, Desmond Tutu, David Crystal, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking and Sandy Toksvig. It was a bona nochy.
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Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My recent Darwin College lecture at the University of Cambridge on Polari is now available on YouTube eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Very proud that my department (Linguistics and English Language) is placed 3rd in the world for a second year www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...
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Lancaster subjects are among best in the world and Linguistics takes third place   - Lancaster University
Linguistics at Lancaster University has been ranked third in the world with eight other subjects making it into the world top 100, according to new rankings released today.
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Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A great week at the Lancaster University Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. I think this is the 15th year I've taught on it.
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📊MORNING RECAP: Some standout moments from @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social ‘s talk on the visualization of corpus data and practical session using the Lancaster Stats Tool online! #LancsSS25
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🧑‍💻An afternoon at #LancsSS25 ! With a talk from @danagablas.bsky.social on analysing and describing L2 production and a practical session from Dr. Andrew Hardie using CQPweb
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🚶📸Some snapshots from the Lancaster Walk yesterday afternoon! Highlights included Lancaster Castle, Lancaster Priory and J.L. Austin’s birthplace! #LancsSS25
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
‼️TODAY’S LIVESTREAMED LECTURE: Prof. Vaclav Brezina discusses the underlying principles of collocations—word combinations that occur together more frequently than by chance. #LancsSS25 🕥10:30-11:30am 🔗 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🚀 #LancsBox X 5.5.0 is here! The latest version of the powerful, free software tool for the analysis of large language datasets is now available. 📌TODAY AT 12:35 🔗LIVESTREAM OF THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🔴STARTING NOW: Drawing on insights from corpus linguistics, @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social demonstrates how collocations can be effectively identified, analysed, and visualised using corpus tools and techniques. #LancsSS25
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🧬 @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social demonstrates the corpus linguistic phenomenon of collocation using a molecular structure. #LancsSS25
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🚀 #LancsBox X 5.5.0 is here! #LancsBox X 5.5.0 introduces cool new features including: 🖍️Colour annotation of concordance lines 📝Metadata highlighting in texts and concordances 🗂️Advanced filtering options ...and much more 👉 Download now: lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
💥An action-packed morning at #LancsSS25 ! With talks from @tinekebrunfaut.bsky.social , @issyclarke.bsky.social , @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social , a practical session on collocations and the launch of #Lancsbox X 5.5.0!
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
👋The week has finally drawn to a close at #LancsSS25 ! Thank you to all our participants, speakers and helpers!
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
@vaclavbrezina.bsky.social shows us another fascinating object related to today’s talk on data visualization in corpus linguistics!💡#LancsSS25 🔗Join via the link to find out more: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🌤️Welcome to Day 3 of #LancsSS25 ! Coming up today: sessions from Dr Raffaella Bottini, @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social , @danagablas.bsky.social and Dr Andrew Hardie, as well as our Lancaster Walk!
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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🕰️Prof. @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social introduces two interesting objects relevant to our lectures today on corpus building and statistics! #LancsSS25 🎦Join the livestreams to find out more!
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Live streamed lectures available from 16 June... cass.lancs.ac.uk/free-online-...
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🚨 Join us for our next webinar in the @LancasterUni series on online MA & PG Cert programmes in Corpus Linguistics! 📢 Corpus Linguistics and AI: Challenges and Opportunities 📅 11 June | 🕙 10–11am (UK time) 👉 Register: forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF #AI #CorpusLinguistics #Future
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Linguistics and English Language @ Lancaster University @lancslinguistics.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are very excited that Samuel Schmück has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a great project on speech analytics and under-represented language varieties in speech technology. Many congratulations Sam! @samschmueck.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Sam Schmück awarded Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship - Lancaster University
Congratulations to Sam Schmück for being awarded a highly prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship!
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Some excellent news! Come and join us and study Corpus linguistics @lancasteruni.bsky.social We offer flexible (Online) programmes and we are recruiting right now! www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/...
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Today at the @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Open Research Group: Corpus Linguistics & AI – which professions will survive and which will be replaced? We compared Hamlet's "To be or not to be..." performed by an AI bot vs. a great Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh. 🎭 Can you tell the difference?
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A great meeting with the amazing #LancsSS25 volunteers today — full of enthusiasm and positive energy! Lancaster, hurrah! 🙌🎓✨
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Lancaster Summer Schools kick off next week — we are all excited! 🎉 Watch this space for links to public lectures throughout the week. A true highlight of the year for corpus linguistics! #LancsSS25 #CorpusLinguistics
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
📢 Read our latest blog post about a recent visit from the Consul General of the Czech Republic to @corpussocialsci.bsky.social ! From @lancasteruni.bsky.social 's early contributions to corpus linguistics to cutting-edge analysis of policy documents. t.co/Fowug85S42
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Lots of ways to celebrate matariki this year. Ria Hall with the Philharmonia is gonna be amazing! aucklandphil.nz/concert/mata...
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Matariki with Ria Hall - Auckland Philharmonia
Mānawatia a Matariki!
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Katarzyna Anna Kapitan @kakapitan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
2-yrs full-time #postdoc position in #digitalhumanities and #oldnorse in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social open for applications - there were some issues with the pdf circular, so I published the text on my blog. Please circulate widely. www.kakapitan.com/post/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Opportunity in Digital Humanities & Old Norse
I am pleased to share with you a new employment opportunity in the field of digital humanities, with a particular focus on computational philology and Old Norse studies, as part of my current project ...
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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I have written a piece for @theconversationuk.bsky.social about our study on a new form of vaccine scepticism: people questioning the status of some vaccines as vaccines, starting during the pandemic theconversation.com/its-not-a-va... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @corpussocialsci.bsky.social
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‘It’s not a vaccine, it’s a shot’: uncovering a new trend in vaccine scepticism
The COVID pandemic triggered a new kind of vaccine scepticism shared by people who normally take up vaccines – here’s why that’s a problem.
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
📚 Flicking through Johnson’s Dictionary on its 270th anniversary while finalising a Frequency Dictionary of Multi-Word Expressions It took Johnson 9 years to complete his — hopefully the frequency volume emerges a bit faster @lancasteruni.bsky.social @corpussocialsci.bsky.social #270YearsOfJohnson
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🚨 A blogpost by Adrian Hemler: how an MA in Corpus Linguistics from @lancasteruni.bsky.social helped shape a cutting-edge legal research career. 📚⚖️ From semantic precision to real-world legal applications—ideal for high-flyers in law, language & data. 👉 cass.lancs.ac.uk/corpus-lingu...
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🚀 Curious about the future of Corpus Linguistics and #AI? Check out this position paper: Corpus Linguistics and AI: #LancsBox X in the Context of Emerging Technologies (2025) published in International Journal of Language Studies. 📖 drive.google.com/file/d/1nBbP...
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Join us today 12pm UK time for our first session in the Summer Term to discuss #CorpusLinguistics and #AI Free registration: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka @corpussocialsci.bsky.social
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
.@corpussocialsci.bsky.social is offering a series of informal meetings to explore key issues in corpus linguistics. 🤖 How Not to Be Replaced by #AI: Corpus Linguistics Reflections 🗓️ Starts: 14 May, 12pm (UK time) 🔗 Register now: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
✨ Ad fontes! The Prague School 🎓 played a key role in linguistic functionalism ✒️. Their 1929 theses 📜 laid the groundwork for analysing language as a structured system 🔄 with meaningful functions 🎯. #Linguistics #Functionalism #PragueSchool
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Today 12pm UK time: A discussion about #repetition and #replication in #corpus #linguistics. @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Open research group (online and in person): cass.lancs.ac.uk/open-advance... Everybody is welcome.
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
📢 Join us for another webinar in our series on MA & PG Cert programmes in Corpus Linguistics @lancasteruni.bsky.social We'll explore explore #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities🔍📊 2 April 2-3pm UK time. Register: forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF
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Marianne Hundt @hundtmariann.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We have an opening for a post-doc in English linguistics starting on the first of August this year (please repost) jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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UZH: Senior Assistantship in English Linguistics
The English Department of the University of Zurich invites applications for a Senior Assistantship in the field of English Linguistics to start on 1 August 2025. This postdoctoral position is initiall...
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Between #naturalism and #conventionalism: 1. How does language differ from a stone? 2. How does what a linguist does differ from what a geologist does? @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Open research group meeting. 🕛Today 12pm Everybody is welcome forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Institutions and Traditions of #Languages #Corpora can facilitate the study of these. 🤔Find out how. cass.lancs.ac.uk
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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
New paper from Questioning Vaccination Discourse project (Quo VaDis www.lancaster.ac.uk/vaccination-... ) in Vaccine X: "It's a shot, not a vaccine like MMR": A new type of vaccine-specific scepticism on Twitter/X during the COVID-19 pandemic. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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‘It's a shot, not a vaccine like MMR’: A new type of vaccine-specific scepticism on Twitter/X during the COVID-19 pandemic
While it is well-known that vaccine hesitancy can be vaccine-specific, little is known about how people spontaneously evaluate different vaccines in c…
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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Save the date! On 11-12 September 2025, we are hosting the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) at Lancaster University. We hope you will join us! For more information, see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/
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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I always say that every project needs a linguist. Today I'm the linguist at the launch of the EU-funded PROACT-EU RESPONSE project in Paris - on pandemic preparedness in Europe. Lancaster's role is to study attitudes towards clinical trials via corpus methods. www.eu-patient.eu/projects/ong...
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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New open access paper by Questioning Vaccination Discourse (Quo VaDis) project team (www.lancaster.ac.uk/vaccination-...) on expressions of #vaccine #indecision on a parenting forum. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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‘I am still unsure…’ – Spontaneous expressions of vaccine indecision on Mumsnet
Vaccination programmes in 90% of countries in the world have been affected by ‘vaccine hesitancy’. Childhood vaccinations are particularly important. …
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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My study of pointing gestures in the spoken performance of Trump has been picked by @psypost.bsky.social. You can read Eric Dolan's excellent piece on the research here: www.psypost.org/the-power-of...
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The power of the point: The science of Donald Trump's gestures
Ever noticed Donald Trump's frequent pointing? A new linguistic study reveals it's not just random.
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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster: 'The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations.' Open to applicants with a background in Linguistics as well as Psychology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations. at Lancaster University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations. at Lancaster University, listed on ...
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Great audience today @ Xi'an Jiaotong University #CorpusLinguistics Masterclass ❓Does frequency matter? ❓How to interpret #corpus data? ❓What is the future of data-driven learning? @tonymcenery.bsky.social
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Dr Zsófia Demjén @zsofiademjen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I suppose one way to start here is to share a new publication. Here it goes: '‘I am still unsure’ - Spontaneous expressions of vaccine indecision on Mumsnet' with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @elenasemino.bsky.social @williamdance.bsky.social @drclaireh.bsky.social et al. #healthcomm #vaccinations
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