John E. Richardson
@discodiscourse.bsky.social
University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls.
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
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will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
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PhD Funding!
University of Leeds
The School of History invites applicants from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who wish to study for a PhD commencing in the academic year 2026/27 to apply for the School of History Access to Research Scholarship.
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/387-...
University of Leeds
The School of History invites applicants from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who wish to study for a PhD commencing in the academic year 2026/27 to apply for the School of History Access to Research Scholarship.
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/387-...
School of History Access to Research Scholarship 2026/27
Project opportunity - School of History Access to Research Scholarship 2026/27 at the University of Leeds
phd.leeds.ac.uk
December 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
PhD Funding!
University of Leeds
The School of History invites applicants from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who wish to study for a PhD commencing in the academic year 2026/27 to apply for the School of History Access to Research Scholarship.
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/387-...
University of Leeds
The School of History invites applicants from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who wish to study for a PhD commencing in the academic year 2026/27 to apply for the School of History Access to Research Scholarship.
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/387-...
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A violent Neo Nazi organization with close ties to and funding from the Kremlin appears suddenly to get a green light from Kash Patel's FBI.
Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back
Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A violent Neo Nazi organization with close ties to and funding from the Kremlin appears suddenly to get a green light from Kash Patel's FBI.
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Just seen Ickle Tommy Ten Names referred to as "Ewok Powell"
Tremendous
Tremendous
December 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Just seen Ickle Tommy Ten Names referred to as "Ewok Powell"
Tremendous
Tremendous
tldr: No. A thousand times, no.
December 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
tldr: No. A thousand times, no.
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JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
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Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
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2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
Lovely dancey weekend. Strictly final tonight and Horse Meat Disco tomorrow in Vauxhall 🪩
December 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Lovely dancey weekend. Strictly final tonight and Horse Meat Disco tomorrow in Vauxhall 🪩
My article has been accepted! Great news, at the end of 2025. "Paths to action: fantasy, ideology and incitement in an extreme-right narrative" is forthcoming in Language in Society.
December 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My article has been accepted! Great news, at the end of 2025. "Paths to action: fantasy, ideology and incitement in an extreme-right narrative" is forthcoming in Language in Society.
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A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
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Standing Together stands firmly behind Melanie and calls on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to reinstate her to her role.
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Standing Together stands firmly behind Melanie and calls on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to reinstate her to her role.
The Music in Everyday Life study, "working from the young to the old, confirms the suggestion that we do not have to be taught to move our bodies to music; on the contrary, as we get older in western society, we are ‘taught’ not to […] reports of spontaneous dance diminish with age"
Dance is life.
Dance is life.
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Music in Everyday Life study, "working from the young to the old, confirms the suggestion that we do not have to be taught to move our bodies to music; on the contrary, as we get older in western society, we are ‘taught’ not to […] reports of spontaneous dance diminish with age"
Dance is life.
Dance is life.
We've noted this via student work too: a ref that looks dodgy; a search shows that it doesn't exist; but it has multiple (50, 60+) citations in Google scholar. Really poor scholarship.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
We've noted this via student work too: a ref that looks dodgy; a search shows that it doesn't exist; but it has multiple (50, 60+) citations in Google scholar. Really poor scholarship.
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Battlefield Linguistics is finally out there in the world! We packed this volume with cutting-edge scholarship on language and gender/sexuality across diverse linguistic contexts.
Together, our authors meet the reactionary transantagonistic moment with inspiring & brilliant resistance!
Together, our authors meet the reactionary transantagonistic moment with inspiring & brilliant resistance!
💪 Congratulations to @burscott.bsky.social and Francesca Vigo on the publication of their impressive collection!
👉 Details here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111351568/html#overview
@montreallx.bsky.social @kleonichka.bsky.social @helensauntson.bsky.social @robvoigt.bsky.social
👉 Details here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111351568/html#overview
@montreallx.bsky.social @kleonichka.bsky.social @helensauntson.bsky.social @robvoigt.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Battlefield Linguistics is finally out there in the world! We packed this volume with cutting-edge scholarship on language and gender/sexuality across diverse linguistic contexts.
Together, our authors meet the reactionary transantagonistic moment with inspiring & brilliant resistance!
Together, our authors meet the reactionary transantagonistic moment with inspiring & brilliant resistance!
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New Zealand has joined Canada in designating as terrorist entities two far-right online networks [Order of Nine Angles and Terrorgram] that encourage extremist violence and exploit children
Two far-right networks designated as terrorist entities
NZ has joined Canada in designating as terrorist entities two far-right online networks that encourage extremist violence and exploit children.
newsroom.co.nz
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
New Zealand has joined Canada in designating as terrorist entities two far-right online networks [Order of Nine Angles and Terrorgram] that encourage extremist violence and exploit children
Third version of article (amended after 2nd round of reviews) = submitted. Fingers crossed it's accepted.
December 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Third version of article (amended after 2nd round of reviews) = submitted. Fingers crossed it's accepted.
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Remembering Sylvester (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988) who died 37 years ago today in San Francisco of complications
from with AIDS. He was 42.
Known as the “Queen of Disco”, Sylvester propelled himself to fame during the disco craze with his gospel-style singing and nightclub routines.
from with AIDS. He was 42.
Known as the “Queen of Disco”, Sylvester propelled himself to fame during the disco craze with his gospel-style singing and nightclub routines.
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Remembering Sylvester (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988) who died 37 years ago today in San Francisco of complications
from with AIDS. He was 42.
Known as the “Queen of Disco”, Sylvester propelled himself to fame during the disco craze with his gospel-style singing and nightclub routines.
from with AIDS. He was 42.
Known as the “Queen of Disco”, Sylvester propelled himself to fame during the disco craze with his gospel-style singing and nightclub routines.
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THREAD: These three Palestinian films have just been shortlisted for an Oscar
December 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
THREAD: These three Palestinian films have just been shortlisted for an Oscar
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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Meta removed a few Nazi posts — but left influencers with millions of followers free to push misogyny, racism, and white supremacist content. Instagram is still hosting creators who monetize hate. The platform isn’t moderating extremism — it’s amplifying it.
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After GPAHE Reporting, Meta Removes Antisemitic Content But Leaves Misogyny and Anti-Black Racism Unchecked
GPAHE’s investigation forced Meta to remove some antisemitic and neo-Nazi content — but the platform continues to host rampant misogyny, anti-Black racism, and other extremist propaganda from major in...
globalextremism.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Meta removed a few Nazi posts — but left influencers with millions of followers free to push misogyny, racism, and white supremacist content. Instagram is still hosting creators who monetize hate. The platform isn’t moderating extremism — it’s amplifying it.
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In case you missed it: “Horrifying” levels of state violence at UK-France border detailed in new report | Sonia Lenegan
"Horrifying" levels of state violence at UK-France border detailed in new report - Free Movement
Humans for Rights Network has published a new report “You can’t stay but you can’t go” - State violence at the UK-France border, evidencing the levels of
freemovement.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
In case you missed it: “Horrifying” levels of state violence at UK-France border detailed in new report | Sonia Lenegan
Woeful
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Woeful
RIP Rob Reiner, awful news at the end of a particularly bad weekend.
December 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
RIP Rob Reiner, awful news at the end of a particularly bad weekend.