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Heartbreaking news once again. Migrants are forced to make dangerous journeys across the Aegean Sea, fleeing conflict and poverty, and when they finally arrive, they face illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities, forcing them back into dangerous waters.

Nothing better than reviewers who recommend your paper for publication, while making suggestions that will further improve it! Sometimes I find it difficult to work on side projects in my 'free' time, but I'm thrilled to see some of my individual work taking shape 🥳

ELAN is an essential tool for multimodal conversation analysis. It's used for close observation and multimodal transcription, among other things. I've made a series of short videos that demonstrate its most useful features. The links to the videos are in the thread below. 👇

Hey Aston University, Glad you're improving your staff-student ratio. However, I'd appreciate it if you didn't use my face to advertise your new hires since you actively encouraged me/my colleagues to leave or made us redundant. #Translation & #languages at Aston are now closed.

Everyone talks about the student not being good enough but no one about the supervisors massively failing her, deciding AFTER 4 years that her PhD is out of scope. We need senior academics to do better in so many aspects.

📢Join us for the next webinar! We will have Marianna Patrick from Warwick Applied Linguistics deliver a talk on “Placing serial migrants: Rethinking nation-centric approaches to migrant identity construction”. 📅 Wednesday, 6th November ⏰ 17:00-18:00 GMT warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/… #migration

Third weekend in a row with a bad cold. How do people manage showing up at work/teaching and not catching everything? It's only November...

I am looking for two Research Assistants to work with me on a project funded by The British Academy Paid positions perfect for discourse analysts interested in human-human and human-AI interaction. To apply: portal.unitemps.com/Search/JobDeta… Application deadline is 26th Nov 2024.

Our call for papers for our 2026 special issue on ‘textu(r)alities: Semiotics, bodies, texts’ is now open! Send your abstracts to [email protected] and [email protected] by the 24th of January 2025. More details here - journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmsc…

Getting a bit tired of the discussions around career breaks and how they 'look bad.' Burnout looks bad. Being forced to choose between work and caring for family looks bad. Chronic illness looks bad. Jobs shouldn’t be gatekept for people who’ve never had to take a break.

"we apologize for the short delay"

One thing I struggle with in academia is how slow things can be. Great ideas, collaborations, papers, but all these often come to life when they're no longer relevant (if at all). How do you deal with this and any tips to speed things up? #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

This week is Crohn's & Colitis Awareness Week. Bowel diseases often come with stigma, but they shouldn’t remain unspoken. Talk to a doctor, just like you would for a headache. Here's a meme to catch your attention and an informative link🙂 crohnscolitisfoundation.org/awarenessweek

The kind of LinkedIn posts I hate are now everywhere 😩😩

Welcome to the next Multimodality Talk; Mapping Material Zones: A Multimodal Exploration of Medical Emergencies by Dr Polina Mesinioti. Online 7 March 12-1.30 BST. Please register: tinyurl.com/msbdjm3m For more information see tinyurl.com/28r8vyhz #MMTalks #multimodality

Honoured to be opening the Multimodality Talks series 2025, hosted by Karolinska Institutet, on March 7th (1-2:30pm GMT) 😊 I'll be sharing insights from my earlier research on the discursive construction of leadership in medical emergencies! news.ki.se/calendar/mappi…

Universities: We're firing 200 staff, freezing promotions, and cancelling hires. Also universities: here's a mandatory 3-hour Wellbeing course so you can learn to manage stress ❤️

🎉 We’re delighted to announce that Polina Mesinioti (Polina Mesinioti)✨, Lead Researcher on the Response Study at the University of York, will be delivering an engaging morning workshop on 17th June for #WICAL2025!