For those of you wondering about online academic events open to the public focusing on linguistics and multimodality that you can attend to quench your thirst for knowledge...
Here's a list I've compiled, feel free to add your own:

Speech Science Forum at UCL @SHaPS_UCL https://twitter.com/SHaPS_UCL/status/1349698167118434304?s=20
Multimodality Talks Series by the Visual and Multimodal Research Forum - UCL Centre for Multimodal Research @ucl_cmr https://multimodalforum.org/past-events/
The Language and Cognition seminar at UCL @UCLLangCog https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/events-0?collection=drupal-brain-sciences-events&meta_UclOrgUnit=%22Division+of+Psychology+and+Language+Sciences%22&&ge_DateFilter=20210118
Linguistic Seminar series at QMUL @QMULLinguistics
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguistics/events/upcoming-events/
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguistics/events/upcoming-events/
Linguistics Research Seminars @HuddLinguistics https://twitter.com/HuddLinguistics/status/1349682149599932417?s=20
Psycholinguistics Coffee at Edinburgh Uni @PsylingCoffee https://twitter.com/PsylingCoffee/status/1257694976198299648?s=20
Linguistics Research Seminar series at Ulster Uni https://twitter.com/JackBJoyce/status/1351253188951863296?s=20
The Bremen-Groningen Online Workshops in Multimodality organised by @neous
#BreGroMM https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I0-KBshqERN9HkV2voTMDYn4lvj5QrhDZXqLbTYc3ko/edit
#BreGroMM https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I0-KBshqERN9HkV2voTMDYn4lvj5QrhDZXqLbTYc3ko/edit
The Nijmegen Gesture Centre (NGC) virtual colloquia
https://nijmegengesturecentre.wordpress.com/events/
https://nijmegengesturecentre.wordpress.com/events/
The International Society for Gesture Studies - Hong Kong Online seminar series @GestureHK https://isgshkhub.wixsite.com/home/event
The Open DiscourseNet monthly seminars @DiscourseNet
https://discourseanalysis.net/DN/seminars/OpenDNLondon
https://discourseanalysis.net/DN/seminars/OpenDNLondon