Joanna Gavins

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Very sad to hear of the death of Paul Auster. I wrote part of my PhD on his work and he has always been one of my favourite writers. RIP.

Paul Auster, Prolific Author and Brooklyn Literary Star, Dies at 77 www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/b...

Paul Auster, Prolific Author and Brooklyn Literary Star, Dies at 77www.nytimes.com With critically lauded works like “The New York Trilogy,” the charismatic author and patron saint of his adopted borough drew worldwide acclaim.

My birthday. My Sazerac. And my girl. 🧡

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my department is advertising for a Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice. Challenging raciolinguistic ideologies in education is part of the job advert. Come and work with me and my brilliant colleagues doing critical language work! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Delighted to have been awarded funding to build a new network of industrialists, academics, policy makers, retailers, consumers and funding bodies to address the challenges slowing down the development of bio-based and biodegradable materials. www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/switch-....

Switch to a bio-based economy boosted by new University of Sheffield initiativewww.sheffield.ac.uk The discovery phase for a new network that is set to help speed up the development and adoption of bio-based and biodegradable packaging - reducing our reliance on fossil resources - has been launched...

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Kicking off tonight's whisky pairing with these... Exciting day tomorrow. Our Electronic Odyssey Synth Pop special LIVE on Radio Free Matlock in collaboration with @paulofarrell.bsky.social Getting into the mood with these all-time classics. Cheers 🥃x

This is a great series combining music and academic research. And I’m in it!! What more you could ask for from a podcast?!

I'm really pleased that the Research Records podcast I produce with the brilliant hosts Prof Tony Ryan OBE and @mariekinsey.bsky.social is now on the @sheffielduni.bsky.social Player. Lots of more great guests and conversations to come. player.sheffield.ac.uk/series/resea...

Research Records | The University of Sheffield Playerplayer.sheffield.ac.uk The podcast hosted by Tony Ryan and Marie Kinsey, featured esteemed guests for a lively chat about their own personal and professional journey alongside their own soundtrack to academic adventure.

Very proud to see another of my PhD students successfully through his viva today. Neither the newly minted Dr Pete Harvey nor his excellent examiners, Dr Chloe Harrison and Prof Joe Bray, are on here, but I always used to announce these things on the other platform and couldn’t let this one pass.

Come and work at the University of Sheffield! Research Associate in corpus linguistics needed for a project on Kazuo Ishiguro. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF991/r...

Research Associate at University of Sheffieldwww.jobs.ac.uk Apply for the Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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A new month and we're back on Radio Free Matlock with TWO editions of 'Electronic Odyssey' 🚀💫 Tues 5th Mar 7pm, it's our regular show Then Sat 9th Mar 12pm, I'll be joined by @paulofarrell.bsky.social as we present a LIVE 'Synth Pop' special from our RFM studio ⚡ Join us > radiofreematlock.co.uk

Some help at the end of a long, rough week.

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The British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG) awards one-off prizes to PhD students in British universities who identify as female. The latest round targets those going into their final year in 24/25. More information on their website: bfwg.org.uk/bfwg2/awards...

‘We cannot recycle our way out of a solid waste issue’. The only solution to this is to reuse more and consume less. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report revealswww.theguardian.com Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds

How to talk about ‘woke’…

'Redpilled," QAnon, Anti-Vaxx: Understanding Republican versions of 'woke' www.theframelab.org/p/redpilled-...

Redpilled, QAnon, Anti-Vaccine: Conservative versions of 'woke'www.theframelab.org Part 2 of a multipart analysis of newest Republican weapon word

Saturday morning in the ‘Brook. ☺️

Lambchop in Leeds last night. Not the best picture, but I don’t think any picture could’ve captured the beauty of this performance. 💕

First signs of spring in the garden today. 💕

Friday evening…

Very happy to have been invited to give a talk, ‘How to Talk About Plastics’, at the Sustainable Packaging Coalition conference in New Orleans in April. I’ll be sharing some results from our linguistic research on the ‘Many Happy Returns’ project here at Sheffield. spcimpact.com/series/spc-i...

SPC Impact 2024spcimpact.com SPC Impact is the flagship spring event of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition. Over 800 packaging and sustainability professionals representing the entire packaging value chain will convene in New Or...

This is why rigorous linguistic research on language and the environment is so essential! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Key climate language poorly understood by majority in UK, poll findswww.theguardian.com Terms such as ‘green’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘environmentally friendly’ understood only by minority, says study

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Two full-time open ended positions in linguistics at Cardiff for September 2024. Please share! #linguistics One lecturer in Discourse Analysis krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... One senior lecturer in Forensic Linguistics krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Closing date 18 Feb

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Come and work with us at RWTH Aachen. Full Professorship (W2) in Empirical Reader Response Studies and English Literary Studies at the English Department and the Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies. For details go to the ACCELS site accels.rwth-aachen.de/cms/accels/d...

Job Openings - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY ACCELS - Englishaccels.rwth-aachen.de

Time to get started…

Sunday walk around the neighbourhood.

Long day, featuring a trip to minor injuries and much house cleaning. We’ve deserved this @paulofarrell.bsky.social 💙

Honestly just the worst film I’ve seen in ages. Not sorry.

Just watched Saltburn. The Talentless Mr Ripley + Hammer Horror ÷ Keeping Up Appearances - plot and believability Absolute canned shite

Sad to learn of the death of David Paterson, photographer and frequent collaborator with Ian Hamilton Finlay. The image below is of one of Finlay’s model boats and accompanies ‘I’ in Finlay’s ‘A Boy’s Alphabet Book’ (1976).

Copenhagen 04/01/24 ❤️ 🇩🇰

Lauren is a psychopath who doesn’t read. (Via Instagram, where the psychopaths who don’t read hang out.)

Delighted that @patriciacanning.bsky.social has arrived here. Legend.