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John E. Richardson

@discodiscourse.bsky.social
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University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls. Website >> johnerichardson.wixsite.com/home ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184

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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 12h
This year's green hopped beer, a 5% IPA, in a brewery glass. Tasting pretty good #beestonhop
A half drunk glass of beer, in a glass etched with the name of the brewery Beeston Hop
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"[W]e call on the behavioral sciences to pause the use of LLMs as subjects [...] The use of synthetic samples misleads researchers, distorts the published record, and will impede the very science that these studies claim to advance." www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #AI #socialscience #scicomm
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AI cannot replace human participants in behavioral research | PNAS
AI cannot replace human participants in behavioral research
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is interesting. Does anyone know whether this is standard for journalism? I'd be really grateful for examples of zero tolerance, because my publisher's response to AI is to shrug and accept it.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Suella Braverman was the first MP to be sworn in on a copy of the Dhammapada! That's hardly paying lip service to the supremacy of Anglicanism in the UK, is it.
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Politics and Rights Review @polrightsrev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Professor Cheryl Thompson discusses her new book, Staging Blackface in Canada (WLU Press, 2026), on blackface in vaudeville and how Canadian coverage of US lynchings kept anti-Blackness out of national discourse. Open access in EN, FR, ES. @drcherylt.bsky.social politicsrights.com/black-perfor...
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Black Performance Under Empire and Anti-Blackness
A historian traces how blackface vaudeville and lynching coverage in Canadian newspapers, 1898–1919, exposed anti-Black sentiment.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CfP: Restorative Justice. Heritage Practices, Narratives, & Futures of Conservation (Vienna Oct 2027). 'How can practices of care advance justice in museums and beyond? And how can museums, archives, universities, and other sites of heritage contribute to more just futures?" tinyurl.com/mtexpbwj
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Call for Papers: Restorative Justice. Heritage Practices, Narratives, and Futures of Conservation — Cultural Heritage Studies Vienna
How can practices of care advance justice in museums and beyond? And how can museums, archives, universities, and other sites of heritage contribute to more just futures? The Global Conservation: Hi...
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John Benjamins Publishing Company @johnbenjamins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The latest special issue of LCS entitled 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 (𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁)𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺, 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗜, is the first part of a double issue that engages critically with hegemonic conceptualizations of both #heritage and #heritagelanguage. 🔓 Partly #openaccess: www.benjamins.com/catalog/lcs....
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An AI-enhanced version of a grainy image that appears to be authentic and shows several men being arrested in relation to the ongoing incident at RAF Fairford is currently being shared on multiple platforms. A SynthID check reveals that the enhanced image was generated with OpenAI.
AI-enhanced version of an authentic image showing arrests at RAF Fairford
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meanwhile, in 'hooded masked men news'
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Just ordinary men, with their faces concealed, wearing outlawed political uniforms and mobilising like a private army. Not to worry about'
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
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Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London The “complex and unsettling” story of what Britain knew during the Holocaust is being explored amid plans to create a new permanent national memorial. An exhibition highlighting how news of the atrocity reached Britain much earlier than is commonly understood will tour the country after being viewed privately by MPs at Portcullis House on the parliamentary estate at Westminster in September. Continue reading...
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's wild that, for this person, 'putting up personal taxes' equates to increasing taxes for people struggling to make ends meet, so oh no that's bad. Tax the rich! Tax the super rich! Tax corporations more! Tax financial transactions! Quit protecting the wealth of the exploiting classes.
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Excellent and important article. English cricket needs to become anti racist.
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Gillian Roberts @citizenofblue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Louder for those at the back.
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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. 

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review.  Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage.  To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is literally the opposite of super-intelligent www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Trump rebrands Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence
Trump has previously argued that whoever wins AI, wins, and he is firmly against regulation.
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The slippages and contradictions in her post are really telling, attempting to call on ethnicity to do the work of race and then making the additional leap to citizenship.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.
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DiscourseNet @discoursenet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The deadline for abstract submission for our DN35 Conference “Mapping and Countering Authoritarian #Discourses” is getting closer (30. September 2026). Make sure you get your abstract in on time! For more information see: discourseanalysis.net/DN35 #Authoritarianism #DiscourseStudies
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DiscourseNet
The community portal for Discourse Studies
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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New book on Narratives and Migration available to preorder! Edited by the great Anna De Fina&Sabina Perrino. Very happy to have contributed a chapter with Millie Montiel McCann& @samtbennett.bsky.social. Pleased to see @drsimongoodman.bsky.social's endorsement too! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/narrative...
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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
‘It’s a privilege to be in a position where you can help someone in their direst need’ said the RNLI volunteer on BBC2 just now. Yes it is. And you can help the helpers: rnli.org
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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Terrorist plot targeting Manchester Jewish community disrupted, say police
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Plot targeting Manchester Jewish community disrupted, say police
Two men were arrested in Manchester on Sunday, say counter-terror police.
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is appalling, at minimum criminal damage with intent to endanger life, possibly attempted murder.
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Middle-class racists are horrified to discover they've attracted working-class racists to their village 🤔
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Unease in ‘newly independent’ Piddington as world media and Danny Tommo descend
As villagers take stock following symbolic vote, some fear far-right weaponisation of asylum dispute and influx of ‘masked people like in Dover’
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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Last night, an exhibition I've been working on was launched at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire to mark 250 years since building of 2nd mill (blue print for cotton factories worldwide) and early industrial housing. It's open all weekend, with lots of activities. Critique my graphic design efforts!
Exhibition panels printed on cotton fabric hanging in pairs down a mill building from wooden ceiling beams. On the front panels the date 1776 and 'Why did cotton come to Cromford' are legible.
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And I've received my Jeremy Deller print, in support of the Durham Miners' Gala.
A Risograph print by Jeremy Deller, which reads 'The past We Inherit The Future We Build'
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies has been submitted. This edition has 44 chapters, plus the introduction. [Phew] My chapter on Fascist Discourse is thoroughly rewritten (partly to reflect the last 10 years...) with Prof. Cinzia Padovani.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026
It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
13 yrs after the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by members of the Golden Dawn, the leading member of the party is released from prison&commits to a return to politics. In solidarity with friends at the demonstrations&memorial events for Fyssas in Athens&the whole country. infolibre.gr/2026/09/17/a...
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Αντιφασιστικές διαδηλώσεις για τα 13 χρόνια απο την δολοφονία του Παύλου Φύσσα, Παρασκευή 18/9
"O ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΖΕΙ, ΤΣΑΚΙΣΤΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΝΑΖΙ"Kαλέσματα: Κερατσίνι, 17.30 στο μνημείο Παύλου Φύσσα, Θεσσαλονίκη, 18.00 στη Καμάρα, Πάτρα, 18.30 στη πλατεία Βασ. Γεωργίου, Γιάννενα, 18.00 στη
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Centre for Culture & Everyday Life @cceluliverpool.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CCEL member Dr. Jordana Blejmar screening her film, Juguetes. Pequeña historia política [Toys: A Brief Political History] (2025) at today’s Practising Memory Studies Workshop
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Centre for Culture & Everyday Life @cceluliverpool.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At today’s Practising Memory Studies Workshop, CCEL member Dr. Alyssa Grossman screened a cut of her in progress film The Silver Cord, which utilizes 100-year-old archival footage from her family collection
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The same cover, but with the "say 'i am alive'" AI meme pasted on top of it after 10000 hours in MSPaint
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
UK urged to ban Patriot Platform behind anti-migrant protests Exclusive: Shami Chakrabarti says group ‘appears explicitly to intend and incite violence and intimidation’ and their uniforms signify ‘a private army’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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UK urged to ban Patriot Platform behind anti-migrant protests
Exclusive: Shami Chakrabarti says group ‘appears explicitly to intend and incite violence and intimidation’ and their uniforms signify ‘a private army’
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
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Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@craighaslop.bsky.social presenting today on ‘Boys and manfluencers: gendered harms vs digital rights’ at the Growing Up Digital: Young People & Technology Workshop. The event was organized by the Political Studies Association
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The University of Gothenburg is launching the Global Scholars Initiative – a coordinated international recruitment effort comprising 25 research positions across a broad range of disciplines and faculties. academicpositions.com/ad/universit...
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Gothenburg Global Scholars Initiative – Hiring 25 Assistant Professors - Academic Positions
25 fixed-term (5-year) assistant professor roles across sciences, social sciences, arts & education. Top research environments, strong benefits, relocation s...
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The first issue of the Digital Hate Review is out now: digitalhatereview.com
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Digital Hate Review
Digital Hate Review (DHR) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to the empirical and analytical study of hate and exclusion in digital environments.
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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Withdraw bin collections. They'll fold within a fortnight.
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Overcoming adversity.
A self seeded flower, growing at the foot of a street light
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/09/2026
An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It turns out that his backing band and all the remaining support acts think being Irish entails a political position vis-à-vis genocide. Who knew?
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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The preliminary program for #OctoConf2026 (Language & Persuasion) is now online! Check out: events.tuni.fi/app/uploads/... Like what you see? ➡️ Early bird registration is still available today: events.tuni.fi/persuasion2026/registration-and-fees/ (regular registration is open until October 30) 🐙🐙🐙
octopus tentacles on red background: Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reading a chapter on why people enjoy watching 'tearjerker' movies that, oddly, doesn't seem to understand either art or rhetoric.
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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jimmie Åkesson’s far-right Sweden Democrats have suffered a significant electoral setback after four years propping up the country’s right-wing government, but their influence over Swedish politics remains substantial. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/swed...
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Sweden Democrats lose votes and seats as far right’s advance stalls | Searchlight
Jimmie Åkesson’s Sweden Democrats have suffered a significant electoral setback after four years propping up the country's right-wing government, but t ...
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Permissions, captions, alt-text, citations, credits, rights information... So much admin to tick off before manuscript submission nowadays.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 14/09/2026
"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" Excellent from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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