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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 06/10/2026

You are invited to GenLex, an online lecture series for and by the next generation of (historical) lexicographers! Opening event on 30 October at 6pm CET: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc #lexicography

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Events | Suomen historiallisen leksikografian seura ry

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ICAME48 @icame48.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#ICAME48 We are now also receiving abstract submissions! (deadline: 1 December 2006). More details on this call and on our previous call for pre-conference workshops (deadline: 31 October 2026) here www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

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Call for Papers | ICAME48 | University of Helsinki

The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin'. We invite all submissions on corpus-based approaches to English, and especially abstracts addressing the theme of the conference, such as submiss...

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 24/08/2026

How old is Garrodigh roughly btw? Trying to figure out if I can use him for my reading challenge prompt "60+ protagonist" 🤔

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Erika @eheinen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I have just finished reading THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026) by @wiswell.bsky.social, and I want everyone to read it. I love a good dragon shifter romance. This is not that. It's loads funnier, more thought-provoking, cooler world building, ... 1/2

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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

New PhD position in my group on Digital Forensic Linguistics! 🧑‍💻 If you think that's you, please contact me and/or apply! #linguistics #joboffer #phdPosition #phd jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/…

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PhD Candidate (65%, m/f/x) in Digital Forensic Linguistics

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 14/07/2026

Indexical Field of Dreams

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 13/07/2026

Finnish version: Kaari Utrio Johanna Sinisalo Outi Pakkanen Siiri Enoranta Terhi Tarkiainen

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 13/07/2026

Five living writers that you've read five books by each? Aliette de Bodard, @aliettedebodard.com KJ Charles, @kjcharleswriter.com Naomi Novik, @naominovik.bsky.social Seanan McGuire, @seananmcguire.bsky.social T. Kingfisher, @tkingfisher.com

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The #ISLE Outreach Prize is open for submissions (until November 30)! Comes with a cash prize & other goodies. More info at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i... #EnglishLinguistics

flyer for ISLE outreach prize
Call for Submissions
The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
is delighted to announce the ISLE Outreach Prize.
This prize seeks to recognize and celebrate outreach initiatives that
advance the public’s awareness of English linguistics.
Eligibility
The prize is open to ISLE membersi
Deadline
All submissions must be received by November 30, 2026
All submissions should be combined into a single document and sent to
vp-profession@isle-linguistics.org

Flyer for ISLE outreach prize (part 2):
What Can You Submit?
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Descriptions of outreach initiatives, projects, or efforts
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Other initiatives that spread awareness about English linguistics
What Do Prize Winners Receive?
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A cash prize of 500 EUR
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A dedicated section on the ISLE website to showcase their initiative
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An announcement and recognition during the next ISLE conference
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An invitation to present in the ISLE online forum
Submission Requirements
Submissions must include the following:
1.
A Conflict-of-Interest Statement (one paragraph)
2.
An Initiative Description (1–3 pages, 12-point font size, 1.5-line spacing)
The winner(s) will be announced at the next ISLE conference.
We encourage all eligible members to showcase their outreach initiatives and inspire others in the ISLE community. Apply now and join us in celebrating excellence in popularising English linguistics!

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 08/07/2026

I believe Elizabeth Olsson has a paper coming out where she discusses content drift in these kinds of situations - it's the "Embedding academic literacies in the age of generative AI" work mentioned here: www.gu.se/en/about/fin...

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Elizabeth Olsson

I support students in developing their reading, writing, and oral presentation skills while also assisting teachers in embedding academic literacies into their courses. I specialise in English, and ho...

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#ISLE also just opened the call for the Teaching Innovation Prize (for teaching projects/resources/initiatives related to English linguistics). Also comes with a bit of cash and other goodies. Submission deadline: November 30. More info can be found here: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i...

Flyer ISLE Teaching Innovation Prize:
Eligibility

The prize is open to ISLE members*

*The following individuals are not eligible to apply: (a) Non-ISLE members; (b) ISLE Board members; (c) Previous winners (within the same category, for a period of four years).

Deadline

All submissions must be received by November 30, 2026.

All submissions should be combined into a single document and sent to vp-teaching@isle-linguistics.org

Flyer part 2

What Can You Submit?

Descriptions of teaching-related projects
Innovative teaching resources
Other initiatives that demonstrate excellence in teaching English linguistics

What Do Prize Winners Receive?

A cash prize of 500 EUR
A dedicated section on the ISLE website to showcase their project
An announcement and recognition during the next ISLE conference
An invitation to present in the ISLE online forum

Submission Requirements

Submissions must include the following:

A Conflict-of-Interest Statement (one paragraph)
A Project Description (1–3 pages, 12-point font size, 1.5 line spacing)

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Diana Delosh - illustrator @dtdelosh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@romancingthevote.com Auction: July 1 - July 5. Raising money for voting access, cuz voter suppression is BAD. Link for my Fox Girl Coloring sheet: www.32auctions.com/organization... #Vote #auction #illustration #coloringsheet #kidlitart

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Floral Coloring Sheet - Fox Girl

Auction item 'Floral Coloring Sheet - Fox Girl' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Jukka Suomela @jukkasuomela.fi · 29/06/2026

Our research group at Aalto University is hiring 3 postdocs + 3 doctoral students to work on distributed quantum algorithms in projects funded by an ERC Advanced Grant and a QuantERA grant. Application deadline: July 31, 2026. Start date: October 2026–October 2027 (negotiable). Apply now!

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ICAME48 @icame48.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We are happy to announce that the call for papers for #ICAME48 is now out! 📢📢📢The call for pre-conference workshops is already open, while the call for abstracts will open in October. More info on our website: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

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Call for Papers | ICAME48 | University of Helsinki

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 24/06/2026

Slides from our #ICEHL23 presentation on "Improving part-of-speech annotation for socially diverse historical corpora": tanjasaily.fi/talks/icehl2... #corpuslinguistics #postagging

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 23/06/2026

Säily, Tanja & Minna Palander-Collin. 2026. Corpus linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. Daniel McIntyre, Gavin Brookes & David Wright (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Third Edition), Volume 11, 446–451. Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi.org/10.1016/b978... (4/4)

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Redirecting

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 23/06/2026

Nevalainen, Terttu & Tanja Säily. 2026. Sociocultural drivers of lexical innovation. Adam Ledgeway, Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É. Kiss et al. (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. doi.org/10.1002/9781... (3/4)

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Sociocultural Drivers of Lexical Innovation

In analyzing lexical variation, a distinction is usually made between two approaches: meaning, or semasiology, and naming, or onomasiology. Semasiology starts with a word and studies its various mean...

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 23/06/2026

Nevalainen, Terttu & Tanja Säily. 2025. Historical sociolinguistics. Laura Wright & Raymond Hickey (eds.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 1: Context, Contact and Development, 720–790. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781... (2/4)

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Historical Sociolinguistics (Chapter 19) - The New Cambridge History of the English Language

The New Cambridge History of the English Language - October 2025

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 23/06/2026

Recent handbook articles relevant to #historicalsociolinguistics and #corpuslinguistics – if you need access to any of these, just let me know! (1/4)

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alexbergs.bsky.social @alexbergs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New International Construction Grammar Association (ICGA)! icgaonline.wpcomstaging.com announced at ICCG14 thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social Sign up forms.gle/gXYDKC6xavkU... @alexbergs.bsky.social H Boas M Fried, @stefanhartmann.bsky.social Th Hoffmann F Masini B Nir @remivantrijp.bsky.social

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International Construction Grammar Association

Visit the post for more.

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Jenni Räikkönen @jenniraikkonen.fi · 10/06/2026

Researchers using corpus-based approaches to the study of English: Welcome to the ICAME48 conference in Helsinki in May 2027! Follow our BlueSky account @icame48.bsky.social and our website (see the link in comments) for updates. The CfP will soon be published. #ICAME48

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 08/06/2026

Ha, it totally is, but I won't post the link if you don't want to see it 😜

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 08/06/2026

So cool! Will it be on Yle Areena?

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 26/05/2026

Helsinki Society for Historical #Lexicography online lecture, 4 June: "Bringing slang into the academy: Issues in the making of the #Dictionary of Jamaican Slang" by Dr Joseph T. Farquharson and Dr Byron M. Jones (The University of the West Indies, Mona) blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 01/06/2026

Slides for our #ICAME47 presentation on "Improving automated #transcription to compile large and diverse historical corpora": tanjasaily.fi/talks/icame4... #corpuslinguistics #htr

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anteangaeile.bsky.social @anteangaeile.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

#ICAME48 is going to be in Helsinki May 17-22, 2027

Helsinki scholars in front of a powerpoint introducing the conference venue

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 26/05/2026

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Events | Suomen historiallisen leksikografian seura ry

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 11/05/2026

The MetaLing Corpus Project has been added to CoRD: varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora... #corpusresources

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CoRD | MetaLing Corpus Project

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 04/03/2026

The presentation by @rob-lawson.bsky.social et al. discussed perceptions of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic on UK Twitter using the TRAC:COVID interface. I like this function of plotting events on a frequency timeline (example word: nurses) traccovid.com/traccovid/da... #lancris2026

"Frequency over time" function of TRAC:COVID

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 04/03/2026

First up: a plenary by @tonymcenery.bsky.social on "Brexit – a crisis long in the making", starting with an insightful discussion of the pros and cons of corpus-assisted discourse studies. #lancris2026

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 04/03/2026

The LanCris conference has started! Our presentation tomorrow (with Terttu Nevalainen, Turo Vartiainen and Aatu Liimatta) deals with the acceleration of language change due to crises. blogs.helsinki.fi/languaging-c...

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LanCris Conference – Languaging Crises

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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Helsinki DH Seminar continues this Thursday with Yu Wu (UH) on "Beyond Text Reuse in 18th-century Reception: Evaluating Semantic Search through the Case of Locke”. For online participation and where to find us at Metsätalo, please visit: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h... All welcome!

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Digital Humanities Research Seminar | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki

Information about Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar

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Digitaalinen itsenäisyys @digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi · 04/02/2026

Digitaalinen itsenäisyys – Suomen seuraava kohtalonkysymys 🇫🇮 Suomi on riippuvainen yhdysvaltalaisista teknologiajäteistä. Riippuvuus ei lähitulevaisuudessa vähenny vaan syvenee. #DigitaalinenItsenäisyys #Suomi #Kansalaisaloite 1/

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Suomen kielitieteellinen yhdistys SKY @linguistics.fi · 30/01/2026

The SKY's graduate award 2025 is awarded to MA Jimena Jiménez Real from the University of Helsinki. The title of her thesis is Who led the semantic extension of the way-construction?: A corpus-based study of variation and change in the way construction in the 17th-19th centuries. Congratulations! ✨

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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Tuomo Hiippala @thiip.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #multimodality #digitalhumanities

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Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 08/01/2026

Out now! Rutten's Historical Sociolinguistics | With detailed explanations of core concepts, this is the first introduction to historical sociolinguistics based on multiple languages. Find out more: ☑️ cup.org/4jg540r

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Maija Tervola @maijatervola.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This beautiful song is about the etymology of joulu, jul or yule. It’s in Finnish worth to listen even without understanding the lyrics. Joulu (sana germaanin) Joulu (the word of German) The music group is called Kärhämä.

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Joulu (sana germaanin)

YouTube video by Kärhämä - Topic

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Robbie Love @robbielove.org · 16/12/2025

New volume "Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English", edited by Rhys Sandow & Natalie Braber, is out now. Great to work with @nelepoldvere.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy on "Lexico-grammatical variation in spoken British English corpora" using LLC-2 www.routledge.com/Sociolinguis...

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Joe McVeigh @eviljoemcveigh.com · 21/11/2025

It's happening! I'm about to defend my doctoral dissertation on the linguistics of email marketing! You can follow the stream here: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live... The puck drops at 13:15 Finnish time!

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HelsinkiUniTube Live Stream

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 20/11/2025

I'm reading this now and it's perfection! If you want a taster, read The Tomato Thief: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-... My only problem is that after this one I'm all caught up with @tkingfisher.com books – what to do next? Do I go for the children's books written under her real name? Halp 🥺

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Turns out the abstract submission deadline for ICAME47 has been extended to 16 November 2025! One more chance to secure your spot in Koblenz 😃 wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/cfp/

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CFP -

Call for Papers | Call for Workshops Below you’ll find the Call for Papers and Call for Workshops, along with Word templates for both. Abstracts for Full Papers, Work-in-Progress Reports, Software Dem...

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Jukka Suomela @jukkasuomela.fi · 18/10/2025

Tiesittekö, että "kuningatar" on 1800-luvulla muodostettu sana? Joten miten viitattiinkaan suomessa kuningattariin joskus 1600-luvulla… kaino.kotus.fi/vks/?p=as-ar...

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

oops, I did it again 🎶 Call for papers for Corpus Pragmatics special issue "Speech Acts in English: Corpus Insights from Past to Present", ed. by @racheledf.bsky.social, Christine Elsweiler & me. Abstract submissions due: 1 November 2025 link.springer.com/collections/... #Pragmatics #Linguistics

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Speech Acts in English: Corpus Insights from Past to Present

In recent decades, speech act use in English has received considerable attention, producing a substantial body of research drawing on both historical and ...

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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Week 1 on #CorpusMOOC: key techniques of data analysis #concordance #frequency 👉 Join us today for free! edx.org/learn/social...

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