Barbara De Cock

Woods with daffodils

Woods with daffodils

Spring in the woods! Sunday #hike

Viñeta con el texto "Evil AI? Or evil human?"

Repetid conmigo: la IA no desnuda cuerpos. La IA no roba datos. La IA no quita empleos.

Alguien la entrena, alguien la implementa, alguien la monetiza. Decir “la IA lo hizo” es una forma de diluir la responsabilidad.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Society), 3 positions (Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, Tampere IAS) / Tutkijatohtori (Yhteiskunta), 3 tehtävää (Tampereen yliopiston tutkijakollegium)

Tampere Institute for Advanced Study is advertising paid postdoc and senior fellow positions (Society). You can be affiliated with Plural Research Centre if you work on a relevant topic - check out our website to find the research groups and projects!
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Tree with tinderboxes

Woods with sun

Glorious 🌞 Sunday #hike in #Meerdaalwoud near #Leuven. Thanks to WSPHeverlee for the organisation!

11defebrero.org/materiales-1... ✨ En la web del 11 de Febrero encontrarás una gran variedad de materiales gratuitos para visibilizar a las mujeres en la ciencia: pósteres, ilustraciones, presentaciones y propuestas educativas. Todo el material está disponible aquí. 💜
#11F2026 #STEAM

poster for conference on address forms at UCLouvain, Belgium

From 20 till 22 May, we're hosting a colloquium on #address forms at UCLouvain. We'll include and are interested in multiple perspectives ( #didactics, #translation studies, professional language, #pragmatics,...).
You can send in an abstract till 16 February.

www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts...

On 4 Feb, Laetitia Aulit and I will give a talk in the @circleu.bsky.social U.nited for hashtag #Sustainability series, hosted at @humboldtuni.bsky.social on #FashionRevolution between social and environmental sustainability, as a case of digital activism
Sign up: www.circle-u.eu/open-campus/...

Trees with wintersun

Wintersun on this Saturday #hike at Bosberg

Colegas #fle en España: se ofrece esta posibilidad de becas para el curso de verano para profesorado de francés en mi universidad.

Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) ofrece una beca de verano FLE para el personal funcionario de carrera o en prácticas en España, cuya labor esté vinculada al ámbito de las relaciones internacionales.
📅Hasta el 01/03/2026
🔗https://acortar.link/PANWPL

#AcciónEducativaExterior #becasfrancés

👇Exciting opportunity for a postdoc position at Queen Mary, University of London.

This project is situated at the intersection of digital linguistics, visual studies, and critical autism studies.

First breath of fresh air of the new year at #bosberg #hike

Row of trees in sunny winter landscape

Icy wind but I think this is the most luminous Christmas break I've ever had. #hike

Willow tree with sunny landscape

Chilly but bright morning #hike at Bosberg, Belgium

Landscape with a few trees, a little bit of sun and grey clouds

Start of Christmas break #hike

Datacenters gebruiken enorm veel stroom: wat kost het en wat levert het op? De grootste datacenters gebruiken bijna net zoveel stroom als een kwart van alle woningen, en dat gaat alleen nog maar groeien verwacht de landelijke netbeheerder Tennet.

Nederland telt bijna 200 datacenters. Vorig jaar gebruikten zij 4,6 procent van alle elektriciteit in Nederland. Tennet denkt dat de vraag naar elektriciteit van datacenters de komende jaren minstens verdubbelt naar 10 tot 15 procent van het totale stroomverbruik in 2030.
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Had a similar experience at the Brussels study day where I presented our work. The QRs used by colleagues also contained with links to publications, questionnaires, project sites...). I had so far only used it for extra material on a poster, but am now also contemplating a wider use.

Absolutely. As an online participant, I feel at the same time motivated and discouraged to participate next year after watching this :-) (and feeling hungry too... 😋)

Great to be able attend #LboroCADay2025 online but the disadvantage is one misses out on the legendary CAkeOff. Luckily, there are weekend leftovers to somewhat compensate.

Qualitative Research Methods in Argumentation Studies | Corina Andone, This book explores the core principles, related theories, and conventions of qualitative research methods within the field of argumentation studies. In each

Just out! Sara Greco and I wrote a chapter on
"Approaching social media argumentation from a linguistics-informed perspective. Methodological aspects"

as part of this open-access collective book "#Qualitative Research Methods in #Argumentation Studies"
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

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"Optimising healthcare communication" as the important aim of a one day 🇧🇪 colloquium with researchers and practitioners.
It gave me the chance to present (part of) this joint work with @charlesantaki.bsky.social on troubles-telling by diabetes forum-users.
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Hilo interesantísimo sobre IA y género, más allá de los sesgos de género en la IA que ya sabemos 👇.
¡Leer hasta el final!

Footpath in autumn woods

Autumn #hike

One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids

Landscape with grey sky

Five shades of grey on the afternoon #hike near 3 province frontiers and 1 linguistic frontier in Belgium

Sign the Petition Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!

Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

Self-reference by politicians on Twitter: Strategies to adapt to 140 characters This paper studies how language is used on Twitter by Belgian and Spanish politicians in the context of the 2014 European elections campaign. Taking a…

This paper I co-authored concerning Twitter (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) was not mainly about the impact of character limits, but we do discuss the impact of the limit on e.g. subject pronoun ellipsis or on the preference for some constructions.

Sunday #hike along the linguistic frontier on a sunny morning, before the rain sets in.

Holiday #hike in #Ostbelgien with the moors (les Fagnes) and lots of mushrooms!

Si todo va bien, será en enero 🙂.