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Taylor Brooks

@taylorbrooks.bsky.social
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PhD in Sociology •• Researching: immigration, media, emotions, voice, racism, food justice •• critical discourse analysis •• linguistics •• 🏳️‍🌈

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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We have a fab new 4yr PhD post available @uumediacomms.bsky.social within the project "AI Confidential: Emerging Forms of AI Chatbot Use for Emotional Support and Personal Well-being Among Young Swedes". Application deadline is 13 November 2026. Info: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Please kindly repost!
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PhD student in Media and Communication Studies - Uppsala University
PhD student in Media and Communication Studies, Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University
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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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Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New issue of the Journal of Hate Studies is out, including my review of Ronald Beiner's "Radical Ideologues in the Age of Trump." Beiner looks at how fascist intellectuals today use philosophers like Nietzsche and Heidegger and rely on academic credentials to promote their movements.
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The Journal of Hate Studies | Gonzaga Library Publishing | Journals | Gonzaga University
The Journal of Hate Studies is an international scholarly journal promoting the sharing of interdisciplinary ideas and research about hate’s definitions, origins, and expressions as well as resistance...
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 23/09/2026
Explore a new collection of #OpenAccess article highlights in #Sociolinguistics All articles are free to read here🔗➡️ cup.org/3TESi3c
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Dr Jessica Aiston @jessaiston.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New publication from the @mantrap.bsky.social team ( @alexiconartist.bsky.social , @veronikakoller.bsky.social , @markmcglashan.com) in Journal of Gender Studies. We focus on the metaphor of "the wall" and how it is used and adapted in different parts of the manosphere. Available open access here:
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What is the Wall? Negotiating boundaries of women’s desirability in and around the manosphere
In this paper, we explore how the metaphoric concept of The Wall is constructed in both the Reddit manosphere as a whole and in r/PurplePillDebate, a Reddit community purporting to facilitate open ...
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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
OUT NOW: Laura Locatelli explores the semantic–pragmatic interface of Chinese lexical passive constructions across domains, showing that LPCs differ not only in the events they conceptualize but also in the affective valence they convey. #FrameSemantics #ChineseLanguage doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
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The passive voice of subjective experience and objective response
Abstract The passive voice in Chinese is the focus of extensive research seeking to understand its diverse discourse functions. Adopting a corpus-assisted approach, this paper brings attention to an underexplored category of passives — Chinese lexical passive constructions (LPCs) — and analyzes the semantic and pragmatic aspects of the zāo, shòu, and dédào structures. Quantitative and qualitative analysis helps to identify the semantic frames triggered by each LPC, highlighting potential differences in how events are conceptualized. Based on evidence from three corpora representing distinct discourse domains, the paper contends that LPCs differ in the range of events they represent as well as the affective valence they convey. As such, they constitute three distinct ways of conceptualizing the effects of an action, allowing the speaker to express their subjective-objective response to the event. This supports the unique form-function relationship of each LPC and informs the pragmatic implications involved in their selection.
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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.
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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Way to go! Yes... you did it! Do a happy dance. 💃
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 28/09/2026
LGBTQ+ People’s Views of the Police: Friend or Foe? Stefan Vogler and Valerie Jenness find that LGBTQ+ respondents are more likely than non-LGBTQ+ respondents to see police as a foe, but this varies across gender identity and sexuality. doi.org/10.1177/1536...
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well pleased to be part of #Snabbtankt2026. Thanks to @mariegrusell.bsky.social & @niklasbolin.bsky.social for the invite to write about how the issue of immigration played out! www.snabbtankt.se/globalassets...
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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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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's getting closer. The e-book will be published in April 2027, followed by the print edition in June 2027.
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CADAAD Journal @cadaad-journal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We are pleased to announce the following changes to the editorial team of the CADAAD Journal [1/9] ⬇️
Announcement of Editorial Team changes at CADAAD Journal.
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/s...
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Gloria Steinem’s Glamour Was a Means to an End (Gift Article)
The glasses, the hairdo, the bell bottoms and hip-slung belts were all wrapped up in her feminist cause.
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In Her Words: Gloria Steinem www.nytimes.com/video/obitua...
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Video: In Her Words: Gloria Steinem
In a never-before-seen 2008 interview with The New York Times, Ms. Steinem reflected on her career as a writer, organizer and fund-raiser.
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
She has a memoir coming out this month... it is called An Unexpected Life. I'm so looking forward to reading it! ✨
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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This week on patter. Three playful ways to deal with a fierce inner critic. patthomson.net/2026/09/02/w...
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write with the criticism you’re afraid of
What do you do if you have a bit of a writing block?  Sometimes not being able to generate a sentence is the problem. But just as often it’s not –  you have the ideas but something else is st…
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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Are you heading to Boston for #APSA2026? Here's your ultimate reading list. 🧵 The 10 papers political science readers have saved most this year on SciLove (the app I built). Pity to miss out myself this time — have a wonderful conference! 👋 @apsa.bsky.social
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have looked forward to this. Thank you for the link.
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#OpenAccess book Contesting hate: Digital counter- narratives against Islamophobia www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... Full book download available, as Html or pdf
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AFP Fact Check @factcheck.afp.com · 30/08/2026
Our North America team is excited to be partnering with other US fact-checkers to produce a pop-up newsletter debunking deceptive 2026 midterm ads and election disinformation. Subscribe today: u.afp.com/USMidtermsNe...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 02/09/2026
Good summary of what is at stake in Sunday's regional elections #Germany #farright
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Siegmund wants to make Saxony-Anhalt a model for AfD rule
The AfD's lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund aims to turn his small federal state into a blueprint for right-wing extremist politics across Germany.
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Gayle Kaufman @gaylekaufman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
📢 Call for Abstracts | 2027 ISA World Congress of Sociology July 4-10, 2027 in Gwangju, Korea 'Queer Lives, Queer Methods' co-org with @drcompton.bsky.social 📅 Abstract deadline: 14 October 2026 🔗 Click below to submit your abstract! #ISAWorldCongress2027 isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc20...
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Session: Queer Lives, Queer Methods (XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 4 - 10, 2027))
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Andria Christofidou @andriachristofidou.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Very happy to share that my latest paper, Critical Reflections on Caring Masculinities: Nuances, Tensions, and Complications is now available online! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Critical Reflections on Caring Masculinities: Nuances, Tensions, and Complications - Andria Christofidou, 2026
This article draws selectively on three cases of young heterosexual fathers to highlight nuances, complexities, and tensions that could complicate understanding...
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Very useful indeed. It’s a fantastic idea and I wish you much success with this! I sent you a few department links. ☺️
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Bas Aarts @englishgrammar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New Substack post: “I don't imagine they probably will”: Transferred negation and syntactic priming basaarts.substack.com/publish/post...
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yay you! 💪 #AlmostThere #25DaysofPhD
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is a fantastic resource! I really like that I can search out seminars not only according to subject, but then also I can narrow it down to 'online'. Nice work!
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tpmcgee.bsky.social @tpmcgee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Question for grad students and faculty: how do you actually find out about seminars outside your own department? I've been building seminarsearch.org — talks from ~90 universities in one searchable place — and the answer I keep getting is "I mostly don't." #AcademicSky #PhdSky
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SeminarSearch — Find University Seminars
Discover upcoming academic seminars across US universities. Search by topic, speaker, institution, or location.
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Keep on going! 🚅
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Disability Communities Defending Democracy @dcddemocracy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Anti-trans laws are anti-democracy. Any laws that discriminate against a group of people hurt inclusive democracy. DCDD believes that transgender people should be free to be who they are.
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Inclusive Democracy Means Including Transgender People
Words to Know Accessible means that disabled people can easily use it. This includes disabled people with all kinds of disabilities. Anti-democracy groups are organizations that want to get rid of …
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Once more before Sunday ends, here’s today’s thread of great public scholarship from the last week. Please share widely to support all this work, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 30/08/2026
The Nordic Journal of Linguistics is curating a special issue dedicated to the past, present, and future of the Saami languages. We invite contributions on Saami languages and Saami linguistics. We also welcome studies with varied linguistic methodologies, topics and more. 📚 cup.org/49ZHZLp
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#CFP: Oxford Intersections: Gender Justice, is a series exploring how gender shapes everyday life and how it intersects with power, inequality, identity, and justice. I’m editing the Gender, Home, and Family section. Let me know if you have questions! @oxfordunipress.bsky.social #rollingsubmissions
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About Gender Justice
Gender is an element of every human’s identity, intersecting with every aspect of human life. It is an enormous subject, one that crosses myriad intellectual fi
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Billy Goodwin @billygoodwin1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
📣Call for Papers The Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference 📍South East Technological University (Waterford Campus) 🗓️6th – 7th May 2027 Sociology, Technology, and the Future of ‘the Republic’ sociology.ie/event/2027-a...
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KD Thompson @phdeviant.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Excited to share a new article on ushirikina ("superstition") in Swahili. Through dictionaries, missionary archives, and contemporary usage, I trace how language becomes a tool for defining “true” and “false” religion. doi.org/10.1353/mrw.... #ReligiousStudies
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/08/2026
I was part of a workshop about communicating uncertainty and we shared our findings. Check out the write-up here: theconversation.com/communicatin...
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Communicating uncertainty in research is hard, so we worked on how best to do it – here’s what you can watch out for
Uncertainty is part of the scientific process, and it’s not a bad thing – it’s where future discoveries can happen.
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Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Māori word "kaitiakitanga" has been named the world’s most beautiful word, selected from 223 words across 75 languages for its sound, meaning, rarity & cultural significance. 🔗 tinyurl.com/y4bb9ua2 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #language #languagepreservation #indigenouslanguages
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Recognition of Māori word "kaitiakitanga" highlights the value of
The Māori word "kaitiakitanga", which expresses the responsibility to care for the natural world, has been named the world's most beautiful word by the language learning platform Babbel.
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Cadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A research line on discourse, gender, and power underlies Viviane Cristina Vieira's new study on an ANTRA booklet and the fight against transphobia in Brazilian prisons. doi.org/10.25189/267... #linguistics #discourseanalysis
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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026
"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My author copies have arrived. I'm really pleased to have contributed to this project, led by @elizabethpoole.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181527/
Front cover of the book Contesting Hate: Digital counter-narratives against IslamophobiaPage inside the book, opening the chapter entitled Triggers and Time
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
While Trump cuts billions of USD from scientific research, Canada is recruiting professors, providing them with millions of dollars in funding for research. Go Canada! 🍁📣 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada recruited 64 professors with new research fund. Three-quarters are from U.S. schools | CBC News
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announced on Thursday that the federal government is providing $541 million in research funding to a tranche of new professors recruited into Canadian institutions from ...
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wow! Just look at you go! How amazing. I just love that you have shared the steps of your programme here and that I followed along and got to see your remarkable journey. Keep going... you're so, so close now! 🎊🎉📣
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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A nudge for the free online writing retreat I am running next month. I'll say that again...it is totally free. You just need to give yourself permission and the time to come. Break from those pesky emails and see what happens. #PhdChat #PGRChat www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-club...
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Write Club Radio - An online writing retreat like no other.
Write Club Radio, a live three-hour virtual co-working, writing retreat broadcast on Mixcloud Live with a live vinyl record soundtrack.
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
That's a huge win, and you are so much more braver than I am. Congratulations! 🏆
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
At the end of #25DaysofPhD, are you finished? All done? Fini? 😀📣
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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New at Fight the Fire: "Democratic lawmakers had better pack themselves an overnight bag. They’re going to have to lie down in front of bulldozers and excavators soon." Links and subscriptions are free.
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Feeling sleepy yet, Kennedy Center?
A dirt nap awaits as plans to give the place the East Wing treatment become more apparent
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I always had a smile together with a happy tear when this song played. My favourite Dolly song. Rest in Peace, Sweet Songbird. youtu.be/cxTIIYU6aSg?...
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Dolly Parton - Together You And I (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@andizeisler.bsky.social writes, 'A preoccupation with what others have on their shelves might be purely aesthetic, but often conveys something more, like a sense of judgment'. When the number of books you have invites more than curiosity: www.salon.com/2026/07/23/h...
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How owning books became everybody's business
The number of books you have, and the way you shelve them, invites judgment.
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