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Tim Grant

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Forensic linguist - academic and practitioner. Co-host Writing Wrongs podcast www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social www.aston.ac.uk/aifl Personal: timgrantforensiclinguist.com/home/

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Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This month, Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen joins hosts Dr @drniccimacleod.bsky.social & @timgrant123.bsky.social to unpack a Danish investigation involving 192 chat messages exchanged between two men in 2015. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3cehcmtk 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #extremismstudies
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Terror in the State of Denmark - Conversations from a List of Resolutes
Series 2 - Episode 5 Terror in the State of Denmark - Conversations from a List of Resolutes * Warning: Today’s episode contains descriptions of religious extremism, radicalization and plots of violence or terrorism. *   Joined by Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen, hosts Nicci and Tim discuss a counterterrorism investigation from Denmark. In this case, linguistic analysis proved vital in unraveling implied meanings in text messages between a young man of Kurdish background, suspected of planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS, and another man, suspected of trying to recruit him.   Through an analysis of 192 written chat messages from March 2015 between the two individuals, Tanya shares how themes of money, battle and war, and urgency in planning played a role in advancing a Danish police investigation. Listen to discover more.   For a list of our sources and more information about this case, please visit https://www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs   Have a question for Nicci or Tim? Email us at writingwrongs@aston.ac.uk (mailto:writingwrongs@aston.ac.uk)  and we may answer it during an upcoming episode!   Check out the official AIFL blog for more forensic linguistic goodies here: https://medium.com/@AIFLblog   If you have been affected by any of the themes in this week’s episode, please contact one of these free sources: • https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/ • https://www.helpguide.org/find-help   Production Team: Angela Walker, Jordan Robertson, Neus Alberich Buera Sound: Angela Walker Visual design: George Grant Additional Voices: Mark Round, Peter Kiddle With our thanks to Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen   Resources Professor Tim Grant’s home page: Tim Grant - Aston Research Explorer (https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/tim-grant)   Dr Nicci MacLeod’s home page: Nicci MacLeod - Aston Research Explorer (https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/nicci-macleod) Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen’s home page: Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen - Research Profile (https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/tanya-karoli-christensen)
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 05/11/2025
“Forensic linguistics is an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language” In this episode of The We Society @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social discusses how language analysis can help solve crimes & lead to justice for all: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/grant
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 07/11/2025
Writing Wrongs from @aifl.bsky.social explores historic and contemporary forensic linguistic cases. Join @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social as they discuss Derek Bentley's story: 🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/dere...
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Derek Bentley: Death by Ambiguity
In this first episode of a two-part case, Dr Nicci MacLeod and Professor Tim Grant discuss Derek Bentley’s story and the miscarriages of justice that occurred when he was found guilty of murder and re...
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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“Forensic linguistics is an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language.” In this ep. of the We Society Will Hutton is joined by @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social to discuss how language analysis can help lead to justice. podfollow.com/the-we-socie...
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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · 21/10/2025
Have you seen our Forensic Linguistics elements series? Edited by @timgrant123.bsky.social & Tammy Gales, this series offers cutting-edge research, theoretical advancements, & discussions of historical development across all areas of language & law. cup.org/48Ah0ac #LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 11/10/2025
🎥Check out this video introduction to the new #CambridgeElement "Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption" by Matteo Fuoli, Adam Nix, Alicia Wickert, & Annina Van Riper, part of the Elements in Forensic Linguistics 🔗 cup.org/3VXRofO #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 21/10/2025
Have you seen our Forensic Linguistics elements series? Edited by @timgrant123.bsky.social & Tammy Gales, this series offers cutting-edge research, theoretical advancements, & discussions of historical development across all areas of language & law. cup.org/48Ah0ac #LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky
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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The Derek Bentley Case 👇 In a gripping two-part series, the Writing Wrongs podcast investigates one of the UK’s most infamous miscarriages of justice: the tragic story of Derek Bentley, who was sentenced to death in 1953.
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🚨 Season 2 of our podcast Writing Wrongs starts tomorrow! 🚨 ❗ Not one, but two episodes ❗ Find out all about the infamous Derek Bentley case - executed in 1953 for his participation in the murder of a police officer, and acquitted forty-five years later in 1998. #podcast #truecrime #lingsky
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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 02/09/2025
Check out the full special issue! We're in excellent company @mathewgillings.bsky.social @katebarber.bsky.social @danaroemling.bsky.social @timgrant123.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Applied Corpus Linguistics | Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Language plays a key role in online offending and adversarial interpersonal behaviours. Corpus linguistics is a distinctive and valuable part of the researcher and practitioner toolkit for better unde...
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Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I'm doing my annual update to my list of linguistics and language podcasts: www.superlinguo.com/post/1584480... If you listen to anything that's not already on the list, please let me know about it! (I wait until something has 5 episode before adding it to the list)
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Linguistics and Language Podcasts
Looking for podcasts about language and linguistics? Here’s a comprehensive list with descriptions! I’ve also mentioned if shows have transcripts. If there are any I missed, let me know! Linguistics...
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Season 2 of Writing Wrongs starts next Friday with a double-bill 🤫🤐 But I can tell you that Episode 4 is going to involve a live recording as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - and that you can come along! #podcast #truecrime #lingsky #langsky #academicsky #forensiclinguistics
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
22nd August - so we walked up to the memorial at the top of Bosworth Field. Of course about 30 years after it was built the archaeologist showed they’d put it in the wrong place - he died in the swamp at the bottom of the hill, like Shakespeare said. And then got buried in the Leicester car park
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
It has been so much fun contributing to this podcast Can't wait for the release of Season 2 to start ... first Friday of each month ... so that's September 5th for Season 2! #truecrime #podcast #forensiclinguistics #appliedlinguistics #linguistics #academicsky #langsky #lingsky #TeamAston
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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
That was season 1 of the Writing Wrongs podcast! Dr Nicci MacLeod and Tim Grant have taken a case-by-case look at the field of forensic linguistics in action throughout 8 episodes 👇
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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🔎 Decoding slang meaning and forensic linguistics 🔎 @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social discuss how important slang is in forensic linguistics casework in the Season One Series finale of Writing Wrongs. You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or any podcast platform
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
That was fun, I was just able to explain how a phrasal verb works under cross examination in a criminal trial. Everyday a teaching day #forensiclinguistics
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
‼️Out now‼️ 🎙️Writing Wrongs🎙️our Season One Series finale: 🎧 ❗ Listen Now❗🎧 ⁉️ The Questions and Answers Episode⁉️ You can listen on any podcast platform or direct from 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs for the full answer to this question and more.. ❓ Do forensic linguists get cases involving slang❓
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Colleague @drniccimacleod.bsky.social co-host, forensic linguist, Ghostbuster! 🎙️Writing Wrongs🎙️podcast series final tomorrow! Catchup on the whole series today on every podcast platform or at 👉 aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs #academicsky #langsky #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #truecrime #podcast
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Really excited by this episode - we got to sift through our listeners’ questions and answer as many as we could. It’s out on Friday - and if you want to catch up between now and then, there are seven case file episodes you can listen to right now! 👉 🎙️ www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Really excited by this episode - we got to sift through our listeners’ questions and answer as many as we could. It’s out on Friday - and if you want to catch up between now and then, there are seven case file episodes you can listen to right now! 👉 🎙️https://www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs
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Andrea Nini @andreanini.com · 08/07/2025
I recently had the pleasure of being a guest on the ‘Writings Wrongs’ podcast, where we discussed the Aiya Napa rape case and my trial evidence. I highly recommend this episode and the whole podcast: www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-l…
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Appearance on the Writing Wrongs podcast
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of being a guest on the ‘Writings Wrongs’ podcast. The episode covered the events of the Aiya Napa rape case and the evidence I presented at the trial. Like all other episodes, the hosts do an amazing job explaining everything in detail but in a really accessible way. I highly recommend this episode, as well as the whole podcast! You can find it here:
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🚨NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY🚨 🎙️Writing Wrongs podcast🎙️ A true crime forensic linguistics podcast from @aifl.bsky.social - Every word leaves a trace Season1️⃣ Episode7️⃣: "They Said, She Said: The Ayia Napa Rape Case" 👉 Listen 🎧 aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs 🎧 #truecrime #podcast #academicsky #linguistics
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Our next episode of our🎙️Writing Wrongs 🎙️ podcast is out tomorrow. It concerns the 2019 Asia Napa Rape case involving a British teenager on holiday in Cyprus. A few days after the report a retraction is produced. ⚖️ *She says* the words were not her own ⚖️ *They said* she had made a false allegation
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I hadn’t seen this had been put out here. I’m of course truely delighted.
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
✴️ New episode ✴️ of 🎧 Writing Wrongs 🎧 out tomorrow: In🎙️ The Disputed Confessions of Darnell Rusan 🎙️ Writing Wrongs goes stateside and listens into a murder investigation in St Louis, Missouri. Here’s a discussion of Miranda rights in the case. #forensiclinguistics #langsky #academicsky
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 30/04/2025
Dear Linguists, the Philippines Association for Forensic and Legal #Linguistics is creating a Journal of Forensic and Legal Linguistics. I am the Editor in Chief. We will be a purely electronic journal focusing on articles on #LegalLinguistics & #ForensicLinguistics with practical applications. 1/
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Episode 5 of our podcast 🎙️Writing Wrongs🎙️has been released. It’s called “Foreygensic Lingeyguistics - Cracking the Killer’s Code” www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news You can listen and subscribe for our website or your favourite podcast app #forensiclinguistics #truecrime #langsky #academicsky #podcasts
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Episode 5 of Writing Wrongs will drop this Friday! Follow/subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, my co-host Dr Nicci MacLeod explains how she decoded an obscure language game to help solve “A murder in egg Latin” #podcast #truecrime #langsky #forensicligists #academicsky
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
So the 1991 film “Let him have it” with Christopher Eccleston still stands up. #podcastprep
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Couple of days conferencing. This one is new territory for me and I’m really looking forward to it. Thanks to Nadia Tuominen for the invitation!
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Bank holiday weekend research #booksky #forensiclinguistics #podcast
Photo of four books about the Bentley & Craig case

David Yallop - To Encourage Others
John Paris - Scapegoat 
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Gangland/ Nothing But Revenge
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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🎙 How are statements taken in police interviews? @timgrant123.bsky.social & @drniccimacleod.bsky.social discuss this in the first episode of our podcast 'Writing Wrongs'. 📱 Listen now on all major platforms 👉 aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs Do let us know what you think 👉 writingwrongs@aston.ac.uk
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
If you’re not listening to our podcast yet, we’ll set the baddies on you! Also this episode has me utter the words “so I know I’m going to sound like the prick here, but…” Listen now, if only to find out how much of a prick I am. #forensiclinguistics #truecrime #langsky #academicsky #podcasts
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Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I listened to this episode on my commute this morning & it was such a fascinating listen. It's such an interesting exploration of financial grooming, romance scams & how forensic linguistics can provide answers to those affected by them. #langsky #forensiclinguistics #languageandlaw
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Five Seventeen @nowwearefive.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A fascinating podcast on language and manipulation. The latest episode is a deep dive on romance fraud (also a good complement to the BBC’s Stalked podcast)
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hey #lingcomm25 have you seen Writing Wrongs yet - a new forensic linguistics true crime podcast series! Four episodes out so far with another released first Friday of each month.
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
In case you’d not had enough of Nicci MacLeod and myself on our own Writing Wrongs podcast, you can also hear us with Jim Fitzgerald and Ray Carr on their Cold Red podcast: www.coldredpodcast.com They were very kind to invite us to talk all things forensic linguistics with them.
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Cold Red Podcast: Gripping True Crime Stories by Retired FBI Agents | Listen Now
Explore Cold Red, a true crime podcast hosted by retired FBI agents Raymond Carr and James Fitzgerald. Dive deep into untold stories of notorious criminals and the relentless pursuit of justice. Tune ...
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Out today! The latest episode of Writing Wrongs our forensic linguistics true crime podcast. Today’s episode is with Dr Elisabeth Carter and is a romance fraud case. Listen or subscribe form here 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs And let us know what you think.
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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🚨 Coming this Friday on the 'Writing Wrongs' podcast 🚨 Series 1 - Episode 4 - Romance Fraud: The Linguistic Crime Scene with @drliscarter.bsky.social (available on all platforms)
Picture of Dr Lis Carter, Dr Nicci MacLeod and Prof Tim Grant recording the episode of the podcast
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The next episode of our 🎙️ Writing Wrongs 🎙️ podcast will be out this Friday! #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #academicsky #podcast #truecrime
Image for Writing Wrongs Podcast episode “Romance Fraud the Linguistic Crime Scene“ with Dr Elisabeth Carter. 

Image features a bloody typewriter and a case folder with documents spilling out illustrating an online chat.
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Thanks Clare - we’ve a later episode this series “She said. They said”, which is sure to interest you.
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Things we learnt along the way: forensic meteorology is a thing… #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #academicsky #podcasts #truecrime
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Dr Nicci MacLeod @drniccimacleod.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Write up of Episode 1 of our podcast @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
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The 'confession' that doomed an innocent man after key parts dictated by police
Infamous case described by Aston University expert as 'origin story' for forensic linguistics and re-examined in new podcast
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Omg I’m reposting bc I didn’t type the most important word in the alt text bc my brain said I typed it but my fingers didn’t type it 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Part one of a tumblr post. User zerolinfinity posted a picture of a bottle of Caesar dressing with a knife stabbed through it on April 14, 2014.Part two of a tumbir post. Mamacastiel reposted the Dimage with the following text: "why does this have 32kS s notes? it's just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it's just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain"
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Thank you - so let us know what you think, rate us on your podcast app and generally spread the word!
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Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In this episode of the Writing Wrongs #podcast from @aifl.bsky.social, @timgrant123.bsky.social & @issyclarke.bsky.social discuss their experience of doing an authorship analysis to help the police identify the builder of a crude bomb. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6nay...
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Imposters Tending To The Wild with Dr Isobelle Clarke
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
#truecrime #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #academicsky
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Our new Writing Wrongs podcast has had a great first week! Listen 👉 aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs We've had more than 1200 plays reaching 42 countries! According to the Podcast host website this puts us in the top 5% of podcasts globally last week! 👉 www.thepodcasthost.com/planning/wha...
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Average Podcast Downloads: Podcast Measurement and Growth
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