linguistlaura

Advice about keeping a blog always says not to apologise for not writing for a while, because no one will really notice, so just write whate...

The President of the NUS, Zamzam Ibrahim, has called for students to get a refund on their tuition fees for the current year, or the opport...

I went to a training workshop thing at Canterbury Christchurch University recently. They number their rooms differently than we do at Kent. ...

The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) annual meeting has been happening, so loads of linguists I know are in New Orleans and I've got ...

New year's resolutions time! Last year I resolved to read #100papers (a more modest version of Jen Nycz's #365papers) and I didn...

Female academics on twitter have been adding their 'Dr' title to their handle today (I've done it too) to make a point. A discu...

My final-year students are graduating today. They'll be graduands for the duration of the morning and afternoon, and by around 3.30pm th...

We held our annual department research day on Thursday, and I storified the livetweeting (as usual, mostly from me and Christina): [ View...

There is a building site at my work (show me a university that doesn't have at least one building site on campus at any given moment) an...

One other thing I've noticed in student essays much more this time than previously is the use of likely . Here is the relevant use: Th...

Lately, perhaps as a reflex of the news that there will soon be a TEF , articles have often included advice on how to do lecturing better.  ...

I went to a talk by Steven Pinker to promote his book, The Sense of Style . It was held at the Royal Institution, which is a science institu...

Sorry for the non-posting lately. Things have got a bit manic as summer draws to an end and I try to finish off all my various research proj...

Not so long ago, we told students off for using phones in seminars. Today I found myself encouraging the use of phones. What is the world co...

I think there is this idea that a seminar is a place for lively discussion and informed debate. In practice, it's not like that. More of...

A tweet from the Invisible Woman made me think about attribution and reported speech: Just in case you don't tweet, I'd better...

This is a blog about linguistics and language, but I do occasionally stray into academia (which is where I do linguistics). This is one such...

This is an illustration of yellow. When the UGs at my university hand in their essays, we have a big massive 'handing in day' wh...

This is possibly a world first. I find it hard to turn down work, because the twin draws of money and experience are irresistible to me, and...

Before I begin, this post is about bad scholarship. It's not an attack on Creationism (although I do disagree with every single thing ab...