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
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!
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
'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
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...
So long Birmingham, how wonderful #CL2025 has been! A huge thank you to @robbielove.org and all the organisers. I am sorry I didn't get to say a proper goodbye to every single one of the colleagues I chatted and shared ideas with this week. You've really made it special!
July 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So long Birmingham, how wonderful #CL2025 has been! A huge thank you to @robbielove.org and all the organisers. I am sorry I didn't get to say a proper goodbye to every single one of the colleagues I chatted and shared ideas with this week. You've really made it special!
Simply super talk by @hankslizzy.bsky.social #CL2025 taking us on a journey on the yellow brick road of corpus creation and representativeness by means of a reflection on prototypicality
July 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Simply super talk by @hankslizzy.bsky.social #CL2025 taking us on a journey on the yellow brick road of corpus creation and representativeness by means of a reflection on prototypicality
@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
@robbielove.org kicking off a huge #CL2025 a lot of history and a beautiful room of new faces and old friends
June 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
@robbielove.org kicking off a huge #CL2025 a lot of history and a beautiful room of new faces and old friends
@alisonbechdel.bsky.social 'SPENT a comic novel' just made it to the top of my very competitive list of her books: 1) Spent 2)The essential DTWOF 3) The secret of super human strength 4) Fun Home 5) Are you my mother? Crikey, do I hate rankings but do I love lists 🐐🌈🚲⚱️💔
June 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
@alisonbechdel.bsky.social 'SPENT a comic novel' just made it to the top of my very competitive list of her books: 1) Spent 2)The essential DTWOF 3) The secret of super human strength 4) Fun Home 5) Are you my mother? Crikey, do I hate rankings but do I love lists 🐐🌈🚲⚱️💔
simply made for me
June 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
simply made for me
any idea where this quote - attributed to Tove Jansson - comes from? "I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing..."
May 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
any idea where this quote - attributed to Tove Jansson - comes from? "I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing..."
an excellent discussion with @jolittler.bsky.social about the myth of meritocracy, with hugely quotable pearls such as: "threads of truth within this
quilt blanket of mystification". I recently got Jo Litter's brilliant book Against meritocracy #openaccess here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
quilt blanket of mystification". I recently got Jo Litter's brilliant book Against meritocracy #openaccess here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
May 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
an excellent discussion with @jolittler.bsky.social about the myth of meritocracy, with hugely quotable pearls such as: "threads of truth within this
quilt blanket of mystification". I recently got Jo Litter's brilliant book Against meritocracy #openaccess here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
quilt blanket of mystification". I recently got Jo Litter's brilliant book Against meritocracy #openaccess here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
May 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A rather special family night out - listening to the magnificent @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A rather special family night out - listening to the magnificent @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social
all time fav trio
January 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
all time fav trio
after a week largely spent writing about Desert Island Discs, this might just be people's feeling being around me
January 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
after a week largely spent writing about Desert Island Discs, this might just be people's feeling being around me
Gliff: “the smallest unit of meaning which is not actually a word” www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... ❤️ Ali Smith on Language, meaning and her latest book (which was my first book of 2025 thanks to @proftaylor.bsky.social )
January 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Gliff: “the smallest unit of meaning which is not actually a word” www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... ❤️ Ali Smith on Language, meaning and her latest book (which was my first book of 2025 thanks to @proftaylor.bsky.social )
have a jolly relaxing Christmas break everyone 🎄
December 20, 2024 at 3:21 PM
have a jolly relaxing Christmas break everyone 🎄
I always think of Georgie ❤️ when I brush up on foundations
December 6, 2024 at 11:09 AM
I always think of Georgie ❤️ when I brush up on foundations