Anna Marchi 🌈
@journolinguist.bsky.social
Associate professor at University of Bologna, editor-in-chief JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social, research in #corpuslinguistics, #discourse, #journalism, #nostalgia. Website: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/anna.marchi/en
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Anna Marchi 🌈
@journolinguist.bsky.social
· Sep 10
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thrilled to have my paper "Hypothesis-testing in corpus-assisted discourse studies
A methodological exploration" published in @ijcl.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Thanks to colleagues, reviewers and editors for the precious feedback #corpuslingustics
A methodological exploration" published in @ijcl.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Thanks to colleagues, reviewers and editors for the precious feedback #corpuslingustics
Commute listen 🎧: the wonderful @valmcdermid.bsky.social reading (and singing) a contribution by the wonderful Ali Smith in the collection "Imagine a country" open.spotify.com/episode/32lS... and giving a damn ✊
Val McDermid & Jo Sharp: Shaping a Better Future (2020 Event)
open.spotify.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Commute listen 🎧: the wonderful @valmcdermid.bsky.social reading (and singing) a contribution by the wonderful Ali Smith in the collection "Imagine a country" open.spotify.com/episode/32lS... and giving a damn ✊
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“Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’
Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’
Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...
October 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’
Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’
Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future.
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And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires...
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And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires...
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future.
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And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires...
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And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires...
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Huge pro-Palestine protest - said to be 1 million strong -- right in front of my house in #Rome earlier today. The marching went on for hours.
October 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Huge pro-Palestine protest - said to be 1 million strong -- right in front of my house in #Rome earlier today. The marching went on for hours.
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Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
The numbers of yesterday's strike for Gaza (since the @theguardian.com got the size - among other things - quite wrong): protests in more than 100 cities all over Italy, 2 million people marching, in some sectors 90% of workers on strike #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive #StopGenocide
October 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The numbers of yesterday's strike for Gaza (since the @theguardian.com got the size - among other things - quite wrong): protests in more than 100 cities all over Italy, 2 million people marching, in some sectors 90% of workers on strike #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive #StopGenocide
#Bologna today, general strike: 150,000 people marching for #Palestine and demanding #StopGenocide. Israel blocked the #GSF humanitarian mission, we block everything!
October 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
#Bologna today, general strike: 150,000 people marching for #Palestine and demanding #StopGenocide. Israel blocked the #GSF humanitarian mission, we block everything!
Tomorrow I'll be joining the general strike to protest the Israeli genocide in Palestine and the illegal assault of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Come raise your voice to break the government's silence!
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Tomorrow I'll be joining the general strike to protest the Israeli genocide in Palestine and the illegal assault of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Come raise your voice to break the government's silence!
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Writing lecturers will not reach students by simply talking down AI, but we might reach them by embracing our expertise and engaging in the politics of resistance
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
The craft and politics of academic writing in the AI universe
Writing lecturers will not reach students by simply talking down AI, but we might reach them by embracing our expertise and engaging in the politics of resistance
northwestbylines.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Writing lecturers will not reach students by simply talking down AI, but we might reach them by embracing our expertise and engaging in the politics of resistance
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
The Italian PM claims that the #GlobalSumudFlotilla is sailing towards Gaza just to make her government uncomfortable (hello pathological narcissism!)
#LetGazaLive #freepalestine
HALLELUJAH TO MAKING EVERYONE UNCOMFORTABLE
www.facebook.com/reel/1286844...
#LetGazaLive #freepalestine
HALLELUJAH TO MAKING EVERYONE UNCOMFORTABLE
www.facebook.com/reel/1286844...
63K views · 2.9K reactions | "I stopped calling myself a pacifist when I heard Ghandi tell women not to fight off their rapists." - Andrea Gibson performing at the mobile Button Poetry Studio, from Lo...
"I stopped calling myself a pacifist when I heard Ghandi tell women not to fight off their rapists." - Andrea Gibson performing at the mobile Button Poetry Studio, from Longmont, Colorado..
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September 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The Italian PM claims that the #GlobalSumudFlotilla is sailing towards Gaza just to make her government uncomfortable (hello pathological narcissism!)
#LetGazaLive #freepalestine
HALLELUJAH TO MAKING EVERYONE UNCOMFORTABLE
www.facebook.com/reel/1286844...
#LetGazaLive #freepalestine
HALLELUJAH TO MAKING EVERYONE UNCOMFORTABLE
www.facebook.com/reel/1286844...
Volume 9 of @jcads.bsky.social is growing into one of my favourite issues. Great new article by @lukeccollins.bsky.social and @elenasemino.bsky.social just out
New article by @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @elenasemino.bsky.social exploring patterns
in reports of disability experience jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10....
in reports of disability experience jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10....
September 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Volume 9 of @jcads.bsky.social is growing into one of my favourite issues. Great new article by @lukeccollins.bsky.social and @elenasemino.bsky.social just out
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"Power to the people, with ice cream at midnight! Taste it and see. Not everything in the world is going to hell." 🎞️🎞️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration
Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.
www.newyorker.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Power to the people, with ice cream at midnight! Taste it and see. Not everything in the world is going to hell." 🎞️🎞️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
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Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...
Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about.
cambridgeblog.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...
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“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth”
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025
September 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth”
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025
Tomorrow I will be joining the general strike against Israel's genocide in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people. If you are in Bologna and wish to raise your voice, see you in Piazza Maggiore at 10:30 #LetGazaLive
September 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Tomorrow I will be joining the general strike against Israel's genocide in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people. If you are in Bologna and wish to raise your voice, see you in Piazza Maggiore at 10:30 #LetGazaLive
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We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid.
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies
September 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid.
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies
'She chose September, that most excellent month' open.spotify.com/episode/6FEY... reading and listening to #ArundhatiRoy on my commute
September 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
'She chose September, that most excellent month' open.spotify.com/episode/6FEY... reading and listening to #ArundhatiRoy on my commute
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Pattern, Construction, System: A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis. Susan Hunston's latest book. It's Open Access, so the PDF is available online already...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
Pattern, Construction, System
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Pattern, Construction, System
www.cambridge.org
September 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Pattern, Construction, System: A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis. Susan Hunston's latest book. It's Open Access, so the PDF is available online already...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!
September 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!
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Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...
lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX
In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...
www.edx.org
August 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...
'We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people'
The latest on the Mystery AI Hype 3000 newsletter: Back to School is Better Without AI
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social
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w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social
Back to School is Better Without "AI"
It’s that time of year again, when fall is in the air and “AI” is back and worse than ever, creepy-crawling into every corner of our education system.
buttondown.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people'
Thought that boycotting Google would be impossible, but as of today I am surfing the web Chrome-free using Ecosia and it is great. I am now trying to find an alternative to Gmail (though the transition is going to be slower and trickier). Any suggestions? Currently considering Runbox and Posteo
September 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Thought that boycotting Google would be impossible, but as of today I am surfing the web Chrome-free using Ecosia and it is great. I am now trying to find an alternative to Gmail (though the transition is going to be slower and trickier). Any suggestions? Currently considering Runbox and Posteo
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That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic?
@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics
What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics
What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
September 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic?
@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics
What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics
What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...