Evangelical Christian | Research Associate @ManMetUni | Extraverted; wobbly jointed; love people, food, music, Jesus
Newcastle upon Tyne
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All my fave things in 1 thread. Phonetics, phonology, Bible translation & the meaning of Good Friday
Jesus on the cross "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
He was forsaken for me - the perfectly sinless Son punished by the perfectly just Father for the sins of us all. – at Byker, England
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Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE
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MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what MMU’s linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at eventbrite.co.uk/e/linguisti…
ALT Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics Inaugural Symposium: Linguistics in Action Free Face-to-Face Event Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics May 28th 2025 @ ManMet Business School G.26 Event outline running from 9am to event closing at 5pm.
Hey @jobsacuk I'd really like a way to turn this alert off...the academic job market is depressing enough without having an email reminder of it every three months
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A Manchester Voices request. If you've used the interactive resource, either in person at Manchester Library, or online here explore.manchestervoices.org…, please do consider leaving some feedback (link on site). It helps us keep track of its value. Thanks! @VoicesMcr @MancLibraries
.@jobsacuk I've said it once, I'll keep saying it. These emails aren't useful and are a great way to dishearten an ECR who's well aware there aren't many jobs in her field. 'change your search' is tantamount to saying 'change your specialty'...please stop...
ALT email screenshot with jobs.ac.uk header and the following text Hi Caitlin, There have been no new jobs matching your chosen search criteria within the last 3 months. You might like to consider creating a new job alert to ensure you don’t miss out on great opportunities. Here are some suggestions: Broaden your search by selecting fewer criteria Reduce the number of keywords in your search Extend your search range if searching by location Search using keywords or categories only Increase your salary range if searching by salary
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Can you share #dataviz examples where the designer missed the audience by a mile? too technical? too unconventional? too much detail? Please share!
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🏆 Babel Young Writers' Competition
📚 Win publication in Babel No50 + a year's subscription!
📖 Read our first ever winner @katpavv on British Sign Language: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u…
📜 Rules below...
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We have two sets of portable banners (a set of 5 and a set of 9) describing key findings from the Manchester Voices project. If any Greater Manchester schools, colleges, libraries, community centres etc would like to host them for a bit, please get in touch!
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Calling all UK-based speech and language therapists! We want to hear your thoughts about linguistics. Please consider completing our short survey. For more details and to take part in this study, visit: forms.office.com/e/Zxy8U6t6k…
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Paperback of #YoureAllTalk announced for April 2025 with a fancy new cover! Hardback still on offer in various places. Almost too many options to learn about the relationship between how we speak and who we are! 😁😁 scribepublications.co.uk/boo…
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Deception detection is a critical area, but do we all lie in the same way? We're looking for British-English-speaking adults (18+) who are either neurotypical or have ADHD to take part in a short 10-15 min study. Your participation can make a difference! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.co…
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Did you know people from Westhoughton in Bolton are known as 'Howfeners'? Here's a clip from the virtual #AccentVan #Bolton #ManchesterVoices
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🚨 GIVEAWAY! 🚨
We're giving away @ESOldfield's (@sacred_podcast) new @BrazosPress book, "Fully Alive!"
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Winner will be DM'd tonight at 6 PM PST!
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@RobDrummond “Sociolinguisics has at its core a desire for social justice”
@ManMetUni’s 10th Anniversary of Research in Linguistics
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Join us on Tuesday 25th June, the day before our 10 year anniversary for @NatalieBraber's hybrid talk about 'Intangible cultural heritage in the UK: Recognising language as heritage' as part of the @MCRLinguistics seminar series at @ManMetUni.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/intangibl…
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Do I know anyone who is knowledgable about the risk of harm or death whilst on a methadone programme? Particularly if disrupted and/or overdose risk.
Please drop me a DM as I am trying to understand medical risk, and just want to understand a particular example I have.
Today copying and pasting chunks of my thesis into a Word document @CountsAsWriting
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vowel ppl/socio hive mind...if I have data set with many speakers, but variable amounts per speaker - what are sensible choices to make wrt to outliers & normalising? Usually I'd group by speaker & lexical set for both but with sometimes less than 1min it doesn't quite make sense