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Yingnian Tao

@yingniantao.bsky.social
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Senior RA, Wellcome-funded project on sustainability, ethics and inclusion. Linguistics PhD at Lancaster University. #sustainability discourse #greenwashing #Greenlash #corpus linguistics #pragmatics #ethics #responsible AI.🏃🏻‍♀️ in training

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Turn to AI in research grant assessment ‘is inevitable’. UKRI becomes first mover to explore automation for processing applications, as other British funders hesitate. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📣 Happy to share my new paper with @myc-eco.bsky.social on green energy transition, published in Applied Corpus Linguistics. doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... What I really wanted to share (see attachment) is that environmental and economic issues are just two sides of the same coin, really. 🌎🏞️
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. They told YOU to recycle better while they polluted more. Don't fall for it. Hold systems accountable. #ClimateCrisis
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Came back from work and welcomed by double 🌈. I will take it as a good-luck sign 🥳🥳
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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 · 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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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The power of partnerships: European climate leadership with less America: ecfr.eu/publication/...
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The power of partnerships: European climate leadership with less America – European Council on Foreign Relations
In a Trumpian world, Europeans must drive climate action through stronger climate partnerships with countries across the globe. Here’s how they can act.
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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 03/07/2026
A narrative has taken hold that science and the humanities are at odds. But as science and technology race ahead, the world needs humanities research to understand the reasons and implications. spklr.io/63327EO9d5 🧪
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Why science needs the humanities more than ever
From AI to biotechnology, today’s scientific breakthroughs raise ethical and social challenges that technical expertise alone cannot solve.
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Another runner high moment- longest run 15:42km, though not aiming for good time
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We wrote this piece quickly - we felt a sense of urgency in peeling back the layers of greenwashing. @myc-eco.bsky.social Check it out www.sagepub.com/explore-our-... It is based on our previous publication journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #greenwashing#fashionethics#corpuslinguistics
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Airing dirty laundry: Unveiling greenwashing— the dark side of sustainability marketing in the fashion industry
Greenwashing demonstrates why consumers can't always take brands' claims of sustainability at face value.
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Well, cannot help but show it off, a runner high moment. Celebrating longest everyday run  and passed this guy @myc-eco.bsky.social
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
How impressive the live illustration is- taking notes and drawing at the same time, hats off to artists 👩‍🎨
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Spotted this hydroponic plant-tower in the Wellcome-Trust building, truly impressive in the sense that they bring the otherwise lab scene into public eyes. Unconscious influence of ESD 🍃🍃🍃
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Grateful for the space you have provided and glad to run a session on voices in sustainability with @myc-eco.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
True, but hundreds of times more positive than Trump claims climate change is a con job” and green energy is a green scam. One is at least working towards the right direction, and the other is running wildly towards “god knows what he is doing” path. Mad, sad bad-i’ll delete this post bf entering US
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
So this is working on #cleanenergy transition with #windturbine and #nuclearpower station right in my view- all spontaneous 🏖️ 🏄‍♀️
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Reading this for a media study, shocked to know 83% of UK oil is exported and the UK has to buy back at market prices. This undercuts the right-leaning newspapers' claims that more North Sea drilling will secure domestic supply during the cost of living and energy crisis.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
For early career #researchers, #impact is more than data. It’s about making a difference. Here’s how to bring your research to life: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/early... #Academia #Highered #Academicsky @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social
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An early career researcher’s guide to impact
Research impact can often be reduced to an administrative task, yet looking past metrics and seeing your work come to life can be incredibly rewarding. Here’s how to connect with the ‘why’ of your res...
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"vague, generic, overly emphatic" - a classic greenwashing tactic in fashion, as highlighted in my study on sustainability communication. But outright "false" statements? Ignorance of #environmentalregulations or assumption that consumers are sustainability-illiterate? #greenwashing
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Washing Dirty Laundry: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Fashion Firms’ Webpage Sustainability Discourse - Yingnian Tao, Mark Ryan, 2025
This study analyzed and compared the sustainability discourse on websites of fashion firms judged as high-rated or low-rated in sustainability ratings by an ind...
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I would deeply enjoy supervising a PhD thesis about this advertisement… please get in touch 😅 (Yes, it’s a real advertisement!)
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I've found a funny way to stay motivated for writing: imagining myself is the bell pepper on the right (and yes I am), and the left guy is my goal 😏😱🤥🤑🥳 Seriously, the left one is abnormally big.
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We found that Reform's plans to attack renewable energy industries could wipe £92bn off the UK economy and destroy 60,000 jobs by the end of the decade. These plans would damage our economic health and the health of our climate. 1/2
Image of Nigel Farage in Parliament. Text overlayed reads: Reform's anti-renewables policies could wipe £92bn off the economy
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
EU: Commission proposes to double Horizon budget for 2028-34. Ursula von der Leyen also sets out planned 50 per cent increase for Erasmus+ scheme. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
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Commission proposes to double Horizon budget for 2028-34 - Research Professional News
Ursula von der Leyen also sets out planned 50 per cent increase for Erasmus+ scheme
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
An interesting metaphor, in that sense I am looking forward to leaving the “single market” 🫣🥳
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The Wild @thewild.news · 16/07/2025
AI's energy demands drive Texas data centers to construct new gas-fired power plants, bypassing renewable energy pledges. #AI #DataCenters #FossilFuels
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Data Centers Are Building Their Own Gas Power Plants in Texas - Inside Climate News
Not so long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar power. But now, with the coming of power-hungry AI platforms, they’re bypassing the grid, building their own gas-fired power plants on site.
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Our President, Professor Dame Julia Black, sat down with @financialtimes.com. Describing the government's approach to universities as "confused, if not incoherent", she calls for regulatory reform and a cross-party commission to look at the future of higher education www.ft.com/content/3162...
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Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy
Outgoing president Dame Julia Black calls on ministers to overhaul their ‘confused’ approach to higher education
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Preparations for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse International Conference at Lancaster University are under way! We will be sharing information on dates for your calendars, plenary speakers, and the upcoming call for papers very soon. Follow here for updates, and please share widely! #CADS2026
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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 08/07/2025
How well can AI grasp what’s left unsaid in everyday conversation? In a surprising study born over tea in Vienna, a team pitted GPT-4 and other language models against humans to see who reads between the lines better. Read more in this Behind the Paper in our Springer Nature Research Communities:
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When AI Reads Between the Lines: Pragmatics, Robots, and the Unexpected Superiority of GPT-4
How well can AI grasp what’s left unsaid in everyday conversation? In a surprising study born over tea in Vienna, our team pitted GPT-4 and other language models against humans to see who reads between the lines better—and found that AI's subtlety may now rival, or even surpass, our own.
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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 07/07/2025
Come work with us at Liverpool! @liverpooluni.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT935/l...
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Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics (Teaching and Scholarship) - Grade 7 (0.8 FTE) at University of Liverpool
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics (Teaching and Scholarship) - Grade 7 (0.8 FTE). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore mor...
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Open science is the trend; glad the CL community is embracing it, slowly. 😉
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
#CL2025 is over! See you all at #CL2027—if it happens and wherever it ends up being.
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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It seems that the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series is free to download for the duration of #CL2025 again — including my own. I’m never one to pass up a freebie, so do take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Curious about the new term “greenlash”, check out our paper Greenlash in the Media using corpus methods #greenlash #cl2025 #farmerprotest#EUgreendeal www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Greenlash in the media - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Greenlash in the media
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
One positive thing about jet lag is you wake up at the same time as 🐦, so by the time of sunrise, you've already worked for half a day and posted tweaks about two conference presentations😏😜 An amazing experience attending both #ipra25 and #CL25, lots of intersections and cross-references happening.
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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Conference website already up and running: wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/ #ICAME46 to #ICAME47
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ICAME47 - ICAME47
Home CFP Venue Programme Registration Committees Contact We are pleased to announce that ICAME47 will take place in Koblenz (Germany) on 26-30 May 2026. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern...
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
On my way to Brisbane for IPrA 2025! First time ever in the southern hemisphere 🌏✈️
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
University librarians need to understand how to guide students and faculty in using #AI ethically and effectively. Yinlin Chen of @virginiatech.bsky.social offers advice on laying the groundwork: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/ai-sk... #GenAI #libraries #highered #edusky
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AI skills for tomorrow’s university librarians
University librarians need to understand how to guide students and faculty in using AI tools ethically and effectively. In the future, they will be not only information experts but also AI facilitator...
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Nature @nature.com · 05/06/2025
"I feel like it’s my duty to stand up for science” These scientists are suing the US government go.nature.com/4427A4j
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‘We were ready for this’: meet the scientists suing the Trump administration to reinstate terminated grants
Judge sets court date to hear the US government detail how termination directives were made.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
FAIR WARNING: It’s ground squirrel kiddo season and excessive cuteness levels may occur or be occurring 🌿
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Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Happy to share that our paper on corpus analysis of sustainability statements in fashion is out, finally. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... We also identified seven greenwashing indicators commonly used by fashion firms. All examples come from our purpose-built corpus.
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