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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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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 14h
"Gyms for our brains," you say?
Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We need an inventory of what's being lost so that we can rebuild.
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 18h
Where does this end? Learning stuff is apparently financially unproductive. So, what, let's send kids back down mines at the age of 11? Dollar dollar bill y'all.
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My sister studied Zoology at Nottingham, but the music department was her real home where she was involved in many ensembles. It gave her an excellent grounding before she did postgrad performance at the Royal Northern. She's now principal bass with Royal Northern Sinfonia. Awful news. 1/
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Cricinfo @cricinfo.com · 06/10/2026
The ECB could be prepared to step in and fund England's scheduled Women's Test in the Caribbean to safeguard their Ashes preparations, in the wake of recent cost-cutting measures from Cricket West Indies Read more: srkl.in/63327BCkKGS
We want that Test match to play out. It's very important for us because our first women's match in the Ashes is the Headingley Test match. So we need a good red-ball warm-up. We've got to be playing somewhere, and I think we'd much prefer to be playing in the West Indies
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
560 (!!!) FTE cuts approved & closure of music and languages courses. absolutely horrific proposals coming out of Nottingham. measuring ‘interest’ in languages in n of students on UG degrees is so disingenuous—language modules can be combined with anything! www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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Uni to axe hundreds of jobs and scrap courses to cut costs
The university said the changes are 'among the most significant' in its 145-year history
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.
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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m appearing on a panel tomorrow evening reflecting on the Battle of Cable Street’s 90th anniversary and you can come listen for free!
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah, "they are not being run properly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here
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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People don’t realize how serious the situation is.
A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great signing, really looking forward to seeing her play
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Autocratic regimes, never great on understanding the separation of govt and the judiciary
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Critical Discourse Studies @critdiscstuds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#OpenAccess Research Article Rashid Yahiaoui: ‘God Gave This Land to Me’: parody, grievability, and settler-colonial semiotics in Nina Paley’s This Land Is Mine www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
well, quite.
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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shame on you Ollie Pope, Luke Wood, Moeen Ali, Reece Topley, James Vince, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Laurie Evans for caring more about the money in your own pockets than the human rights of women and girls. This was a personal choice by you, and you chose wrong.
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England players told to think of 'daughters, sisters or mothers' before committing to Afghanistan Premier League T20 tournament
English cricketers aiming to play in a men's T20 franchise tournament organised by the Afghanistan Cricket Board have been urged to think about their "daughters, sisters or mothers".
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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
Sounds like daylight robbery mate. We're in Nottingham, but no company charged us to get a quote.
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Showing your Jewdas roots with that image Joseph 😂
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In 2027, all being well with the production process
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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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