He is currently an Emeritus professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom.
[3] He has been on the editorial boards of the journals Applied Linguistics, Discourse & Society, English for Specific Purposes, ESPecialist, Language in Society, Language Teaching Research, Science as Culture, Text and Talk, and Written Communication.
Myers was the editor, along with Ruth Wodak, the John Benjamins Publishing Company's series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society, and Culture.
[6] Myers's most cited work is entitled Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge.
[7] In a research article, entitled The pragmatics of politeness in scientific articles and published in Applied Linguistics in 1989, Myers proposed a simple model of a two-part audience, and focus on two kinds of impositions: claims and denials of claims.