Poppy Plumb
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A preprint of mine and Matt's paper theorising critical OCD studies (accepted for publication Jan 2026) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Title: The Paradox of Purity: Envisioning Theoretical Direction for Critical OCD Studies
PDF | In this paper, we imagine some theoretical directions for what we deem as "Critical OCD Studies." Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...
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June 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A preprint of mine and Matt's paper theorising critical OCD studies (accepted for publication Jan 2026) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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@gavinbrookes.bsky.social utterly satisfying and scarily good keynote #CL2025 so much food for thought it will keep me energized for the whole conference and beyond
June 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social utterly satisfying and scarily good keynote #CL2025 so much food for thought it will keep me energized for the whole conference and beyond
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Another week, another research ethics controversy.
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.
www.404media.co
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Another week, another research ethics controversy.
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
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📣 Applications closing on 25 April!
Could you be one of our Bridging Fellows? If you are a recent PhD graduate interested in researching the medical humanities, apply for the chance to develop your research and grow your connections with us!
Find out more 👇
medhumsplatform.org/2025-26-brid...
Could you be one of our Bridging Fellows? If you are a recent PhD graduate interested in researching the medical humanities, apply for the chance to develop your research and grow your connections with us!
Find out more 👇
medhumsplatform.org/2025-26-brid...
2025–26 Bridging Fellows: Applications Open!
We are currently recruiting three Bridging Fellows with an interest in race and health, neurodiversity and lived experience research. Applications close 25 April 2025.
medhumsplatform.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📣 Applications closing on 25 April!
Could you be one of our Bridging Fellows? If you are a recent PhD graduate interested in researching the medical humanities, apply for the chance to develop your research and grow your connections with us!
Find out more 👇
medhumsplatform.org/2025-26-brid...
Could you be one of our Bridging Fellows? If you are a recent PhD graduate interested in researching the medical humanities, apply for the chance to develop your research and grow your connections with us!
Find out more 👇
medhumsplatform.org/2025-26-brid...
Trivialising uses of OCD as an adjective are all too known and a great source of frustration for people like me who have the illness. I’m pleased to see this article offering empirical evidence for the linguistic forms these uses can take
How is the phrase “I'm so OCD” used—and challenged—on social media?
Batchelor & Lee-Laminack explore this in 'I'm so OCD lol: A corpus-based study of obsessive-compulsive disorder used as an adjective' benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #mentalhealthdiscourse @gsuresearch.bsky.social
Batchelor & Lee-Laminack explore this in 'I'm so OCD lol: A corpus-based study of obsessive-compulsive disorder used as an adjective' benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #mentalhealthdiscourse @gsuresearch.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Trivialising uses of OCD as an adjective are all too known and a great source of frustration for people like me who have the illness. I’m pleased to see this article offering empirical evidence for the linguistic forms these uses can take
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I, alongside Dr Mike Ryder at Lancaster University, have just published an article in BMJ Medical Humanities titled 'Role of science fiction in conceptualising the reproductive future: a linguistic and literary perspective'! It is open access and you can read it here - mh.bmj.com/content/earl... 1/3
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March 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I, alongside Dr Mike Ryder at Lancaster University, have just published an article in BMJ Medical Humanities titled 'Role of science fiction in conceptualising the reproductive future: a linguistic and literary perspective'! It is open access and you can read it here - mh.bmj.com/content/earl... 1/3
Sunshine on campus as two buzzards (too quick to photograph) pass over my old County College before I go to teach. Bliss.
March 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Sunshine on campus as two buzzards (too quick to photograph) pass over my old County College before I go to teach. Bliss.
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I'm concerned about several ideas promoted in this article on overdiagnosis, which argues that people are now excessively and unnecessarily seeking medical diagnoses for a range of difficulties. I describe my concerns below
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The number of people with chronic conditions is soaring. Are we less healthy than we used to be – or overdiagnosing illness?
Are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? One doctor argues just that
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'm concerned about several ideas promoted in this article on overdiagnosis, which argues that people are now excessively and unnecessarily seeking medical diagnoses for a range of difficulties. I describe my concerns below
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Today’s writing struggle: trying to discuss the analytical framework I’m applying to my sample, but this framework has developed based on how well existing frameworks reflect the data in my sample. It’s all feeling a bit chicken-and-egg
February 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Today’s writing struggle: trying to discuss the analytical framework I’m applying to my sample, but this framework has developed based on how well existing frameworks reflect the data in my sample. It’s all feeling a bit chicken-and-egg
This certainly does not reflect linguistics-based research on mental health/illness. This campaign seems to conflate the verbs ‘have’ and ‘be’, whereas ‘having’ a mental illness is usually reported as preferable to ‘being’ a mental illness
Some of the content that appears on mental health social media accounts is so odd. I don’t know anyone with experience of mental illness who has a problem with the framing ‘I have (or had) X’, myself included. Surely this isn’t evidence based?
(NB I’m not talking about neurodivergence)
(NB I’m not talking about neurodivergence)
February 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This certainly does not reflect linguistics-based research on mental health/illness. This campaign seems to conflate the verbs ‘have’ and ‘be’, whereas ‘having’ a mental illness is usually reported as preferable to ‘being’ a mental illness
At my institution, official student guidance states that it’s acceptable to use Gen AI to ‘generate ideas’ and that makes me feel a bit sick
Another day, another 'AI' generated submission. Ho hum.
A reminder: we believe that critical analysis requires critical thinking, and that does not (cannot) occur when the task of 'thinking' is conferred to a slop generator.
A reminder: we believe that critical analysis requires critical thinking, and that does not (cannot) occur when the task of 'thinking' is conferred to a slop generator.
February 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
At my institution, official student guidance states that it’s acceptable to use Gen AI to ‘generate ideas’ and that makes me feel a bit sick
Whether this was intentional or a timetabling quirk, I must say having a weekend to break up workshop days is a massive accessibility win for us fibro/chronic fatigue sufferers. Looking forward to this (with sufficient energy for both days 👏🏻👏🏻)
We are delighted to confirm our #2025 Workshop series: Inequalities, inclusion and innovation. In person @lancslinguistics.bsky.social on 21/03/25 and online on 25/03/25. Plenaries @elenasemino.bsky.social & @fmfederici.bsky.social All welcome: register via website - baalhealthsci.wordpress.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Whether this was intentional or a timetabling quirk, I must say having a weekend to break up workshop days is a massive accessibility win for us fibro/chronic fatigue sufferers. Looking forward to this (with sufficient energy for both days 👏🏻👏🏻)
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A reminder that we are hosting the BAAL Health and Science Communication SIG event on the topic of Inequalities, inclusion and innovation
Day 1: Friday 21 March, Lancaster University (hybrid)
Day 2: Tuesday 25 March (online only)
Registration is open and FREE: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Day 1: Friday 21 March, Lancaster University (hybrid)
Day 2: Tuesday 25 March (online only)
Registration is open and FREE: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
We are delighted to confirm our #2025 Workshop series: Inequalities, inclusion and innovation. In person @lancslinguistics.bsky.social on 21/03/25 and online on 25/03/25. Plenaries @elenasemino.bsky.social & @fmfederici.bsky.social All welcome: register via website - baalhealthsci.wordpress.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A reminder that we are hosting the BAAL Health and Science Communication SIG event on the topic of Inequalities, inclusion and innovation
Day 1: Friday 21 March, Lancaster University (hybrid)
Day 2: Tuesday 25 March (online only)
Registration is open and FREE: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Day 1: Friday 21 March, Lancaster University (hybrid)
Day 2: Tuesday 25 March (online only)
Registration is open and FREE: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Save the date!
On 11-12 September 2025, we are hosting the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) at Lancaster University. We hope you will join us!
For more information, see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/
On 11-12 September 2025, we are hosting the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) at Lancaster University. We hope you will join us!
For more information, see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/
January 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Save the date!
On 11-12 September 2025, we are hosting the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) at Lancaster University. We hope you will join us!
For more information, see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/
On 11-12 September 2025, we are hosting the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) at Lancaster University. We hope you will join us!
For more information, see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/
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The paper we have all been waiting for and missing greatly whenever the issue of “why NOT liwc” needed to be backed up by linguistic references!
Delighted to announce the pre-publication of this paper; it's one I've wanted to write for a while and was really pleased when Madi Hunter decided to give this the impetus and the heavy lifting that it required.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#academicsky
#linguistics
#forensicliguistics
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#academicsky
#linguistics
#forensicliguistics
Is LIWC reliable, efficient, and effective for the analysis of large online datasets in forensic and security contexts?
This article evaluates the reliability, efficiency, and effectiveness of Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC; Boyd et al., 2022) for the analysis …
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January 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The paper we have all been waiting for and missing greatly whenever the issue of “why NOT liwc” needed to be backed up by linguistic references!
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Well, this is horrendous.
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Well, this is horrendous.
I’m thinking a lot* about the semantics and pragmatics of ‘just’ for my thesis. Obviously here, the intended meaning relies on the temporal sense of ‘just’ (recently baked), but the italics, implying stress, suggests the reader has affected or negatively modified the goods in some way.
Why have they written this as if someone’s pissed on them
January 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I’m thinking a lot* about the semantics and pragmatics of ‘just’ for my thesis. Obviously here, the intended meaning relies on the temporal sense of ‘just’ (recently baked), but the italics, implying stress, suggests the reader has affected or negatively modified the goods in some way.
One day I will stop being surprised to find men’s clothing is better quality and more supportive. Today is not that day (new slippers are my favourite pre-Christmas treat)
December 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM
One day I will stop being surprised to find men’s clothing is better quality and more supportive. Today is not that day (new slippers are my favourite pre-Christmas treat)
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Vale William Labov.
Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is:
“I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”
Thank you for everything, Bill.
Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is:
“I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”
Thank you for everything, Bill.
December 18, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Vale William Labov.
Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is:
“I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”
Thank you for everything, Bill.
Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is:
“I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”
Thank you for everything, Bill.
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Scott Parrott, Laura Cariola and I are editing a book series for the University of Exeter Press called "Language, Discourse, and Mental Health". We hope to further our understanding of mental health from a pluralistically informed linguistic perspective. Do you want to publish with us? Get in touch!
December 17, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Scott Parrott, Laura Cariola and I are editing a book series for the University of Exeter Press called "Language, Discourse, and Mental Health". We hope to further our understanding of mental health from a pluralistically informed linguistic perspective. Do you want to publish with us? Get in touch!
Have any sociolinguists looked at dialect variation for these? Because I’ve just learned they’re not universally ‘party poopers’ in English and I’m disappointed
December 11, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Have any sociolinguists looked at dialect variation for these? Because I’ve just learned they’re not universally ‘party poopers’ in English and I’m disappointed
A great thread that I’ve been thinking about a lot today 👇
1/ Last week, a BBC report and podcast claimed UK universities enrol students with poor English to balance books. This sparked two reactions: "no shit, Sherlock" or outright denial. 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mzdejg1d3o
Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds
Institutions may be overlooking inadequate language skills to receive high fees from overseas students.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 5:50 PM
A great thread that I’ve been thinking about a lot today 👇
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December 11, 2024 at 1:32 PM
This is a fun research survey! Highly recommended if you’ve got a spare 15-20 minutes