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Tony McEnery

@tonymcenery.bsky.social
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Professor at Hong Kong PolyU and Lancaster University. Advisory Chair Shanghai ISU. Adjunct chair Xi’an JTU. All views are my own.

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A research funding network that used artificial intelligence to reject half of grant proposals to its latest funding call has committed to redoing the review process, reports Frances Jones #research #UKRI #AI #grants ow.ly/ZCj150ZUqXc
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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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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I remember watching that when it was first broadcast. Have seen it a couple of times since. Incredibly good and the performances are outstanding.
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One week left to register for the Influence, Manipulation, Seduction 3 conference and pay the early bird fee 🐦 From 15 September, the reg price goes up... events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...
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Corpus Linguistics 2027 @cl2027.info · 19/08/2026
We are pleased to finally announce… 📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2027 Venice, Italy | 12th-16th July 2027 CfP details: www.cl2027.info/call-for-pap... Deadline: 8th January 2027 🔗 All links in bio 🔁 please share widely! #CL2027
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#CL2027 - Call for Papers
Adaptation and Adaptability in Corpus Linguistics
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This will be great! We planned to hold the conference in HK, but with on-going problems in the Middle East the CL organising group thought we should switch venues. Thanks so much to Mark and Stefania for stepping in. It will be a great conference in a great location - Venice!
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I had the great pleasure this morning of downloading and accessing the completed Lancaster-Northern Arizona (LANA) corpus of conversational US English. Nearly 10 million words of lovely data!🙂 Big thanks to @samschmueck.bsky.social @hankslizzy.bsky.social @jesse-egbert.bsky.social in particular.
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I had the great pleasure this morning of downloading and accessing the completed Lancaster-Northern Arizona (LANA) corpus of conversational US English. Nearly 10 million words of lovely data!🙂 Big thanks to @samschmueck.bsky.social @hankslizzy.bsky.social @jesse-egbert.bsky.social in particular.
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Join us online for two of these events in September, or join us in person for all three! QR codes below give you more details and allow you to register. See you there!
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Join us online for two of these events in September, or join us in person for all three! QR codes below give you more details and allow you to register. See you there!
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Thanks for sharing, a charming read.
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Vale!
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The latest hardcopies of @ijcl.bsky.social have arrived. I have some to #giveaway If you’d like one, let me know - and give the journal account a follow 😀
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Well deserved! Birmingham are lucky to have you.
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Some big news to share! From September 1st, I will be joining the University of Birmingham as a 125th Anniversary Fellow and Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/un...
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University of Birmingham's new 125th Anniversary academics - University of Birmingham
Introducing nine new 125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs - outstanding academics who bring expertise in key areas.
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I like a lot of things about this paper, but one of its special features is that it’s from the future: published in December 2026 apparently 🙃 Great stuff from Paul Baker, as usual www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Charlene Polio @charlenep.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Please share this call for book chapters with anyone teaching a research methods class. Sal Consoli and I are editing a volume in the Applied Linguistics Press series. If you are teaching a research methods course and want to submit, feel free to contact me. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Call for proposals_public
Call for chapters for Syllabi in Applied Linguistics Research Methods Courses Editors: Sal Consoli (University of Edinburgh) and Charlene Polio (Michigan State University) Series editors: Benjamin Kr...
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
On a vanishingly small chance you haven’t heard about it from me during CADS (sorry not sorry), we’re @sofiaruediger.bsky.social @domini.bsky.social doing a conf about persuasive language in Tampere this November and the CFP ends on July 1 and you should all come! events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...
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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 25/06/2026
A Brucie Bonus (Scotty Supplement?) for those travelling home from @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Here's the full live stream of '30 Years of Keyness – in honour of Mike Scott' held at @livunienglish.bsky.social earlier this week ▶️ drive.google.com/file/d/1PivK... Please enjoy & share! #CADS2026
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hope you enjoyed my merry ramblings!
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Don’t just share this on here. Stick this on your family WhatsApp group. Send it to your Brexit uncle. Print it out and give it to that neighbour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
📢 Join us for the launch of the EMI Corpus — a unique new resource for researchers and practitioners interested in English as a Medium of Instruction 🌍🎓 📅 17 June 2026 💻 Online Register here: tinyurl.com/3bntvhya @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @danagablas.bsky.social @britishcouncil.bsky.social
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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Social scientists📣UKRI has funding available to support interdisciplinary research into the relationship between gambling & video games to generate actionable insights that can inform treatment, prevention & guide policy & best practice. ⏰ Closes 23 July. ➡️
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Video games and gambling-related harms
Apply for funding to improve understanding of the relationship between gambling and video games and produce insights to inform policy and regulation, support interventions, and promote safe and…
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Chris Jones @eltresearch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thanks to Bernard Cassie for this nice open-access review of 'The Big Beasts of English Grammar...', which I co-authored with @grahburton.bsky.social @candlinmynard.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
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Review: Jones and Burton. 2024. The Big Beasts of English Grammar: An Exploration of Form and Function in Conversations. Hong Kong: Candlin and Mynard | Corpora
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This is a great read with a conclusion that rings like a fire alarm “an object lesson for other universities from the UK … Overseas markets may not yield the fruits expected … troubles in the home campuses … can damage perceptions and stakeholder approvals” open.substack.com/pub/drgeoffr...
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THE DESTRUCTION OF LEGACY HIGHER EDUCATION IN BRITAIN – NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY CASE STUDY
Geoffrey Williams and Murray Hunter: Nottingham University is an object lesson for other universities from the UK and elsewhere who may be considering or even undergoing international expansion.
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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 21/05/2026
Free symposium: 30 Years of Keyness Talks from: · Mike Scott · @tonymcenery.bsky.social · @michamahlberg.bsky.social & @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · @issyclarke.bsky.social · @markmcglashan.com 📅 22/06/2026, 10:00 (UTC+0) 🌍 @sotauol.bsky.social ➡️ Register: www.ticketsource.com/school-of-th...
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Tove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Just out: Kim, Larsson, Kaatari, Wang, & Sundqvist (2026). Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes Available OA: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes
Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture ....
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Who broke Nottingham University, Vol 3? Vice Chancellor Shearer West presided over property expansion & vanity projects that have caused near-bankruptcy And the landing spot? Vice Chancellorship of Leeds Uni It's important to know when to skip out www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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University's disastrous new campus could be sold for just £14m
It was previously decided to sell the short-lived campus
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Financial crisis at Nottingham University stems from poor decisions under Vice Chancellor Shearer West Shearer's moved on & upward, leaving staff facing consequences of her reckless management There are cuts in Arts & Humanities as well as Sciences nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/...
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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Support Our Initiative Film is Fabulous! is a charitable trust. Its primary aim is to ensure that vulnerable film collections held privately in the U.K. are preserved when film collectors, and former industry professionals, pass away. filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-...
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Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It's official: after 22 (!) years at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social, I will start as Professor of Organisational Communication at @sdu.dk's Department of Language and Culture on 1 September this year. 1/2 www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/in...
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Department of Culture and Language
Research within the department covers the areas of American Studies, Business Language, Classical Studies, Communication, Comparative Literature, Culture, Danish, English, German, History, Middle East...
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Open Research Group meets tomorrow (Wed)! We’ll be focusing on association measures and continuing our exploration of R. Brezina, V. (2018) Statistics in Corpus Linguistics, Ch. 3: www.google.co.uk/books/editio... Evert, S. (2008) “Corpora and collocations”: stephanie-evert.de/PUB/Evert200...
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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 26/04/2026
Is the Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) corpus available any other way than the 2005 CD-ROM?
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Am hosting a small symposium on multilingualism here in Hong Kong in early May - free to attend, so do pop along if you are interested!
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
📣 Open Research Group – @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Join us from 22 April (12:00 UK time) for a new series on collocations 📊—how words co-occur and how we can measure these patterns statistically 🧠 + gentle intro to R for beginners 💻 🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 16/04/2026
'Science is driven by an ongoing effort to make sense of the universe based on what we observe.' Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Didier Queloz, @ethz.ch @lclu.bsky.social @cambridgephysics.bsky.social on data, facts and what makes a good scientist. Watch now @expeditions.bsky.social.
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The discovery of a new planet
Science is always grounded in data. Theories evolve, but data remain. In this EXPeditions video, Professor Didier Queloz, Nobel Laureate in Physics, highlights that science is driven by an ongoing eff...
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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
OUT NOW: Guest Editor David Wright introduces the Special Issue on Corpus perspectives on #LegalDiscourse Wright draws out the themes explored across the papers in the issue, as indicative of the cutting edge of forensic linguistics – showing what corpus studies can do! doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Doctor Who Treat This Easter Film is Fabulous! has worked closely with the BBC Archives and iPlayer teams to ensure the two missing episodes of ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’, which were found in a private film collection, are available for fans in the U.K. to enjoy this Easter.
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
What a treat to have watched The Daleks’ Masterplan episode one for the first time - it was originally broadcast on my first birthday! Thanks to all at @filmisfabulous.bsky.social and to the anonymous collector who saved this gem and episode 3. On to episodes 2 and 3 ….
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Great morning at #AAAL2026, where we are discussing all things AI and Applied Linguistics! Honoured to be a part of this invited colloquium, organised by Andrea Révész & Shungo Suzuki, speaking about our paper (with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social) here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Cover slide for colloquium on AI in Applied Linguistics. Promises and Challenges.Andrea Révész & Shungo Suzuki opening the colloquium.This colloquium brings together experts from various applied linguistics fields to share their 
perspectives on AI:
▪ Corpus linguistics
▪ Global Englishes
▪ Intercultural communication
▪ Language teaching
▪ Second language acquisition

Contributions based on the latest issue of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL). This colloquium: Main themes
▪ Implicit bias in GenAI: A need for critical 
engagement
▪ David Wei Dai, Zhu Hua, & Guanling Chen
▪ Okim Kang & Kevin Hirschi
▪ Seongyong Lee, Jaeho Jeon, Jim MicKinley, & Heath 
Rose
▪ AI in L2 learning and teaching 
▪ Jerry Huang, Atsushi Mizumoto
▪ Shaohua Fang, ZhaoHong Han 
▪ Taking stock: Opportunities and challenge of AI 
and GenAI in applied linguistics
▪ Niall Curry, Tony McEnery, Gavin Brookes
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Lily Zhou @lilyzhou.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Our chapter on corpus-based diachronic discourse analysis in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics is now out.🎉 Co-authored with @tonymcenery.bsky.social. If you are interested, feel free to check it out. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
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Corpus-Based Diachronic Discourse Analysis
This article provides a comprehensive overview of corpus linguistic approaches to tracking language change over time. Specifically, this article explo…
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Languaging Crises @languaging-crises.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Prof. Hakosalo talks about the role of historians as crisis communicators. And finally, Dr. Del Fante's plenary focuses on the role of language in understanding crises: is there a common underlying factor in the way language is used to make sense of, understand, and respond to a crisis?
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Languaging Crises @languaging-crises.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It is the week of the LanCris Conference! We are very excited to hear about new research related to language and crises. #lancris2026 In addition to over 40 paper presentations, we will have four keynote speeches that look at languaging crises from four different perspectives:
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Languaging Crises @languaging-crises.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Prof. McEnery (@tonymcenery.bsky.social) will discuss Brexit, taking a long-term view on British discourses about Europe. Prof. Koskela discusses Rhetorical Arena Theory that provides a lens for analyzing how crisis situations are actively constructed through discourse.
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Still time to apply! 🎓✨ Fully funded PhD Opportunity @corpussocialsci.bsky.social jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL407/f...
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
💥New | @rschrobuk.bsky.social reflects on the demise of a platform that united the UK research community in one thing: complaining about it. #ResearchFish #AcademicSky #ResearchFunding
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So long, and thanks for all the Researchfish - LSE Impact
Rob Johnson reflects on the demise of a platform that united the UK research community in one thing: complaining about it.
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Erik Hansson @erikhansson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
greekreporter.com/2026/02/24/e... 40,000-Year-Old Signs Found in Europe Could Be Humanity’s First Language #history #langsky
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40,000-Year-Old Signs Found in Europe Could Be Humanity’s First Language - GreekReporter.com
Research shows Ice Age humans used structured signs 40,000 years ago as a communication system, revealing deep prehistoric roots of writing.
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