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🚨 COMING SOON 🚨 🎙 Writing Wrongs 🔎 Every sentence tells a story, every word leaves a trace. 🔔 Follow our new True Crime podcast Spotify 👉 t.ly/Ys8ya Apple Podcasts 👉 t.ly/HmQ1Q Amazon Music 👉 t.ly/dytDZ

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Another online CPD training! Would you like to discover the capabilities and limitations of authorship analysis for investigation and evidence? Then join us Friday 23rd May for the one-day course with @timgrant123.bsky.social & @emchiang.bsky.social Booking & more info here: shorturl.at/YgTd2

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It's the moment you've all been waiting for - subscribe now to Writing Wrongs, the podcast from AIFL. First episodes drop 7th March 2025! Listen to the trailer here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... @timgrant123.bsky.social @drniccimacleod.bsky.social

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Join us in April for our next CPD event for legal professionals!

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We'd like to share our next CPD training course! We'll talk about the types of linguistic evidence admitted to Court in the English and Welsh Legal System Where? Online When? Friday, April 11 (12-2pm UK time) For booking and more information: www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

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I'm really looking forward to giving this talk next week! I've been working on this for a while (some version of this has been in my head for years) and am excited to finally get my ideas out there. You can attend for free in person or online!

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'What are we doing here?' @linguistlawyer.com will be exploring this with us next Thursday as he presents his research into linguistics and the legal domain. Free tickets are available here: tinyurl.com/3eucnwcy

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AIFL were delighted to welcome Kate Summerscale, bestselling author and historian, to talk about her book The Peep Show: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place @drniccimacleod.bsky.social @timgrant123.bsky.social

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Very happy to be presenting at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics' symposium "Forensic Linguistics and the Law" in March. I will be talking on "Cross-Examination on Trial: Perspectives from Language and Law". More details about the event are below.

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First bluesky post goes to advertise our symposium on FL and the law! Come along if you want to hear me blabber about syntactic complexity, construction grammar, and genre blending

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Registration is now OPEN for our free symposium "Forensic Linguistics and the Law", which will showcase interdisciplinary research conducted across these two fields. Join us Friday, March 14 · 1 - 4:50pm GMT (in-person or online) 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forensic-l...

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Happy Monday everyone! We wish you a good week by sharing that exciting things are coming... stay tuned for more @drniccimacleod.bsky.social @timgrant123.bsky.social

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We're back next week with our Thursday seminars! For our first of 2025, we have Dr Daniela Schneevogt, who will present her research on the naming choices used on the dark web. Jan. 16th, 2025, 4pm GMT! Grab your free ticket here: tinyurl.com/ysk7urbr

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Free talk alert: Come learn about my latest research @aifl.bsky.social at 4pm on 20 Feb! (You can also watch remotely via the link below) This talk brings together my thoughts on legal genres, legal English, and the scope of "forensic linguistics" as a field. Plus I'll have some cool graphs!

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24th January 2025 Start your year with updating your investigative interviewing skills using #ForensicLinguistics.

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We've got good news! Information regarding our 2025 International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis is now online - check it out now 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/research/for... #ISSFLA25 #academicsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics

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And we've got some for feedback for you: “I found further and solid inspiration for future research.” “Great delivery, a wealth of information and well-pitched.” Join us Friday, 24th of January for another CPD training session. Details below 👇

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I'm pleased to share that my entry for Janet Cotterill in the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics is expected to be published online in spring 2025, and in print in winter 2025. In there, I explore her remarkable research and her contributions in the field of language and law

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Some good news!😍

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For our final Thursday seminar of 2024, we have what is sure to be a fascinating talk with William Costello regarding the prediction of harmful attitudes and beliefs in incel communities. Join us this week (4pm GMT)! Book your free online/in-person tickets here: tinyurl.com/2r8fhfsj #academicsky

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A good general-readership write-up on #forensiclinguistics, with a quote from our own @drniccimacleod.bsky.social 👇https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-22/forensic-linguists-solve-crimes#new_tab #academicsky #linguistics

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“The trainers are amazing! Great teamwork, totally approachable and so very knowledgeable.” This is some of the feedback we got from our last CDP training. Are you sure you want to miss the next one - it will be on enhanced communication skills for investigative interviewing! See below 👇

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🚨As I am leaving my current post at Manchester at Christmas, an 8 month Lectureship in Discourse Analysis and Stylistics (Teaching-focussed) is now being advertised. Deadline 12th Dec. Please share widely! It’s an excellent department! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Our next CPD offering (and the first of 2025) will be on enhanced communication skills for investigative interviewing! Join us on Friday 24th January 2025 for a one-day course demonstrating how linguistic understanding can support investigative interview practice.

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The International Association for Forensic & Legal Linguistics is now on Bluesky: @iafll.bsky.social

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Got plans for this Thursday? If so, cancel them, because we will be welcoming Dana Roemling and Dr Lucia Busso to our Thursday seminar series to talk about their work on CorGeS: a historic corpus of German suicide notes. Get your free (!) tickets here: tinyurl.com/525crbn9

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Check this out! 👇

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Continuing our CPD Training Programme series, here's Forensic Linguistics for A-level English teachers! Join us on Friday, 29th of November for a one-day course where we will explore how topics in forensic linguistics can be used to support teaching. You can get your ticket here 👉 shorturl.at/wRNxK

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Trust us, you don't want to miss this week's Thursday seminar: '"You need to work her down to the bone": how seduction experts project an image of trustworthiness' with Annina Van Riper from the University of Birmingham. It's hybrid! You can now get your tickets here: tinyurl.com/584eraxz

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Hello hello! We are also heading over here. We have created an Institute's starter pack with current and past members, DM us if we missed you! go.bsky.app/K2SL5Lj

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