Federica Formato (she/her)

May the spirit of the real Twitter continue to live in the friendships we made and the co-authors we met and in the case of Giulia, both! 🩷

Se siete a Bologna o ovunque nel mondo, unitevi ai festeggiamenti 🎉 Ci vediamo li'

I just saw that the conference website for #ADDA6 (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 6, Brno, 26-28 May 2027) is online: english.phil.muni.cz/adda This is one of the conferences I'm looking forward to the most for 2027 🤩 (abstract deadline November 30)

On my way to Queen Mary University, where I am going to deliver a plenary for the PG conference on language, gender and sexuality. Huge thanks to Matilda and Liam for putting together a wonderful line up of talks. Website of the conference here: sites.google.com/view/slags-c...

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Today Meloni's government becomes the longest serving government in the history of the Italian Republic. Pity it's achieved nothing of any value whatsoever.

I reached one of the other sides of the world (from Europe) for the holidays. While i am still adjusting for time, i look forward to visiting Sydney/Gadigal Country and surroundings.

⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July

Wow, gender affirming care

We invite proposals for the 2027 International Gender and Language Association Conference, hosted by York St John University on 21–23 July 2027. This year’s theme is: ‘Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality in Times of Political Challenge’ 🌐 Full details and submission: igala14.com

On Friday, there is our @lgas-baal.bsky.social summer event! And the AGM! Registration here: baalgensex.wordpress.com/events/forth...

This is such an important point.

Please share this call for book chapters with anyone teaching a research methods class. Sal Consoli and I are editing a volume in the Applied Linguistics Press series. If you are teaching a research methods course and want to submit, feel free to contact me. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

it's Monday, if you have suggestions send them my way!

I know it's Saturday☺️& some of my corpus fellows have just returned home from a wonderful #CADS2026. Next week, I'll start a chapter on gender, sexuality & language + corpus. I'm familiar with a lot of studies, but feel free to share your work so that I can give a good overview of what's being done!

One week to our summer seminar with wonderful speakers! And the AGM too!

On a vanishingly small chance you haven’t heard about it from me during CADS (sorry not sorry), we’re @sofiaruediger.bsky.social @domini.bsky.social doing a conf about persuasive language in Tampere this November and the CFP ends on July 1 and you should all come! events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...

On my way home after #cads2026. I have thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of it! the community is going stronger and stronger making it a place where we all blossom. Looking forward to the next one in Vienna!

12 years ago, I was walking through this spine at Lancaster University to attend my PhD viva. I was anxious but it was such a good experience! Today, I celebrate this anniversary and these 12 years in academia on the very same campus (while attending a conference)!

Thank you for attending our rmtalk and for the questions and feedback. We enjoyed presenting this for the first time. More to follow!

@seleniaanastasi.bsky.social and I are giving our paper this afternoon at 5.30. If you are interested in "the" manosphere, come and check what happens in the Italian one (through an historical lens). #cads2026

Spent the weekend in London with some friends, now in Lancaster for CADS. Looking forward to meeting the CADS community, it will be three days of interesting talks and chats.

Life comes at you fast when you are client journalists for Meloni.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Guess what is the anti-fascist side in Brighton? With the spirit in Brighton, with the body here in Bologna, getting ready to attend the pride this afternoon!

Lovely meeting with the octo-crew (@coocho.bsky.social & @domini.bsky.social) today to plan "Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language" (aka #OctoConf3). Abstract submissions are due July 1! The octopus awaits you 🐙 events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...

Io credo che le donne nel 1946 sognassero la liberta' delle donne, non UNA sola donna che si occupasse male delle questioni di genere. Ma evidentemente io e FRATELLI d'Italia la pensiamo in modo diverso. #meloni #giorgia

Today, Meloni remembers Giorgio Almirante on the anniversary of his death. He was leader of far right party MSI (precursor to Fratelli d'Italia) & is greatly admired by Meloni. Under Mussolini he edited the periodical "La difesa della razza" aimed at spreading antisemitic sentiment [Thread] >> 1

Looking forward to this!

There are 10 funded PhD opportunities at the Uni of Brighton, only for home students (unfortunately!). Find info here (there is a special focus on widening participation): www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos... There are wonderful people you could work with! The second round deadline is end of May

A reminder that the women of the Iranian national soccer team were forced to return to Iran. They did not leave Australia voluntarily! The fact that Iran is currently being illegally bombed by the U.S. does not, in any way, shape or form, make its regime less authoritarian, brutal, and misogynist!

See you there on Friday!

One week to our yearly event! If you haven't joined yet, there is still time to register! See link below.

It's a good day in Italy. Meloni said she'll go ahead with working for the nation, while we hope for a change.

The University of Essex has proposed to discontinue most of their undergraduate language provisions as well as the Languages for All programme as part of large-scale restructuring. Sign their petition to urge the Executive Committee to reconsider the proposal: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Have you registered to join us in Southampton for the yearly event? See you there!

I have the sun-FOMO (did we need a new term? no!), I really wanted to enjoy more of the good weather but some urgent work things kept me in the flat the whole day, today. I now found out that the sun is here to stay for some extra days, my sun-fomo is taking a step back and i can plan some walks!

Finally, a long sunny day here in Brighton. We needed it. Rain tomorrow 🤣

Join us in Southampton! store.southampton.ac.uk/conferences-...

We are delighted to announce this year's winner of the Judith Baxter Award. Congratulations, @peterbrowning.bsky.social. Join us in Southampton (on 10 April) to hear more about Peter's research. See info to register.