Hege Larsson Aas

Stage at the ”Forsker Grand Prix“ finale

klar for å lære, klappe, stemme #takeitaway #forskningsdagene #forskergrandprix @susannacey.bsky.social @sirifs.bsky.social

Maybe I would be more tempted to use LLMs if I didn't really like writing and thinking, but, well,

book with pen and notebook (and a coffee mug) on a bench in the shade next to a stroller

Summer office 🌼

Utsnitt fra Forskerforum med bilde av person i hengekøye og teksten «Eksperten svarer: Må jeg ta ferie?»

Bare i akademia

(fra @forskerforum.bsky.social )

A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).

A picture of the book ”Gesture. A slim guide“ by Lauren Gawne

lovely Friday afternoon read for me in a phase where the little guy at home spends his days pointing, and personal and professional interests merge 👌 @superlinguo.bsky.social

Verre er det ikke!

A bookshelf filled with various books about gesture, with a prominent book in the center titled 'Gesture: A Slim Guide' by Lauren Gawne. The book cover features a black line illustration of a person with abstract representation of eight different hands doing gestures.

It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide

If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.

Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

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Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction Cambridge Core - Discourse Analysis - Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction

What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

a coffee mug and an egg sandwich

back from maternity leave, sleepy but optimistic, found a new Japanese coffee shop, (very) slowly getting back into teaching and writing ✍️

Jeg tror jeg har noen klær det fortsatt sitter vaffel-lukt i fra den tida der. I alle fall kan den lett manes fram!

Zoom webinar view of the candidate and the second opponent in discussion.

Feeling grateful to be able to “attend” my colleague’s defence when I can’t be there physically 🙏 www.inn.no/english/even...

#corpuslinguistics @niallrcurry.bsky.social

Interesting! Lots of language-related early memories here, too, many to do w/learning English. I remember what the classroom looked like when I first heard ‘every cloud has a silver lining’, and the DISBELIEF when a teacher explained how to pronounce ‘vegetable’ (not like ‘table’, then? 🤷‍♀️)

brilliant 🤩