Christian Ilbury

@christianilbury.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics & Director of EDI for PPLS at University of Edinburgh.
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LVC, digital (queer+youth+popular) cultures, 'MLE', & accent bias/linguistic discrimination - Edinburgh/London.

https://cilbury.wordpress.com/

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On Oct 27 at 4P ET, linguists at different career stages will have a conversation about applying for jobs amid anti-trans & anti-queer legislation, being visibly out in research & classrooms, finding community, & putting queer & trans issues at the center of our work. www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

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Great piece!!! On the benefits of social media: I think this about LGBTQ+ spaces -- the way that my life would be super different if I hadn't have found several online platforms that helped me find community. I worry v much about increasing social media restrictions on minority groups 🙃

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Social media is far from perfect, but it provides important community spaces for autistic young people. Rather than restricting young people's access, we argue that it's the platforms themselves that need to change. Read our new piece in the Conversation:

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Was teaching about the shift towards performativity/social-constructivist perspectives in sociolinguistics yesterday and a student posted this meme on our course page. Fairly accurate representation of first wave --> third wave sociolinguistics. n.b., /n/ refers to (ING) variation.

Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh Meme: The first 'typical' Winne the Pooh has text next to him that says "speaker uses 'mate' and /n/ because he is male" - the second, tuxedo Winnie the Pooh is followed by text which says "speaker uses 'mate' and /n/ because he is indexing stances (e.g., toughness) which are ideologically linked to heternormative masculinity'.
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We're looking for up to four new members to join the CogSci Society Student Committee. You can apply from anywhere in the world 🌎🌍🌏 You just need to be: • A CSS member; • Enrolled in a PhD program (or a Master’s program with the expectation of continuing to a PhD). Check out the details 👇🧵

Graphic with three illustrated students interacting on the right and large text reading “Become a member of the CogSci Society STUDENT COMMITTEE” on a dark teal background with bright green accents.
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On this: Pleeeeeease, for the love of God, have a clear profile picture. The amount of times I want to meet/talk to someone at a conference and their profile picture/online presence is a penguin or an abstract image.

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🗣️ I'm hiring! To support my ESRC-funded project 'Accent Bias and Domestic Abuse Victimisation (ABDAVic)', I'm hiring a 12-month fixed-term research fellow.

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⭐ NEW PAPER ⭐ "The neurotypical listening subject in autistic young people's accounts of participation in online affinity spaces," by @nelya-kot.bsky.social, @martinevandriel.bsky.social, Flo Bremner, and me, is now published in Language and Society. Very excited to finally see this online.

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