Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
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becoming pope 🤝 gender transition:
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Thank you for coming, Juliet!
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This is too real 🥲 so much “trans” in applied linguistics except when it refers to actual trans people
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Meme with a picture of an infant sleeping and the text “Me in 1994 resting instead of publishing papers”
WhatsApp message replying to the meme:
“Curiously, no study to date has approached the acquisition of language from the indispensable infant autoethnographic perspective. This article
therefore seeks to fill the glaring gap by..."
our cohort group chat never misses
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[winces]
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TO THE DAY
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🐦 🐦
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Graphic with information about a research study for undergraduates. Participants are eligible if they are 18 years or older, an undergraduate student, and they are studying in the US. They will be asked to listen to a 25-minute podcast and take two short surveys. It will take one hour or less.
Are you teaching undergraduate students in a language-related course this semester? Or, do you know some undergraduate students interested in language?
If so, I'd appreciate you sharing some info about a study I'm doing on podcasting and critical language awareness!
bit.ly/psuplp
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We should compile these nonstarters as a public service
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to me, there is something distinctly unfunny about the “HAHA” react in iMessage
can someone with digital/ internet pragmatics knowledge weigh in on this?? 🐦🐦 #linguistics
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Are you teaching or taking the course? And if the latter: where!?
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we literally had white supremacists chanting "jews will not replace us" on a campus and nothing *close* to this was suggested
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#AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcademicChatter
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Fellow adhd and neurodivergent academic folk: how does your neurodivergence make you who you are as a scholar? I always hear about the struggles but I want more stories of our creativity and resistance, too
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A meme showing a car swerving onto a highway exit ramp. The road sign says “actually paying for Netflix” (straight ahead) and “watching library DVDs for the rest of my life” (exit).
Happy to announce I bought a used DVD player and am joining the resistance
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Yes! I Perhaps a variation on bare feet ? (speaking as an upstate New Yorker here)
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אדאנק!
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Hello, would love to be added!
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Helllloooo out there ~ new to Bluesky and looking to connect with fellow language folks, especially those working in race/language, Yiddish, queer linguistics, linguistic landscape, discourse analysis, and beyond :)
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Curly hair enthusiast, ☭, mom, abortion aficionado, misplaced Kentuckian, Berliner, Colonel Sanders chronicler, recovering lawyer, contributing writer @therealnews.com Social Media etc for @burnitdownkimbrown.bsky.social
Always Antifascist
German-Swedish translator since 1995. Keynote speaker here & there. Member of SFÖ-SAT (SE), founding & honorary member of DVÜD (DE). 3rd last Curator of Sweden in 2018. That guy who founded TTNS on FB. Escaped from the blue bird. Prefers beer to wine. #xl8
they/them
sociocultural and computational linguist at uc santa barbara! i study queer and trans language 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💕
more about me: cbedin.gay
linguistic anthropologist, postdoc in the forest 🌲, she/her
3rd-Gen Mexican-American | Linguistic Anthropologist working in healthcare | Language Accessibility consultant.
Advocating for immigrant and minority communities in Minnesota🗣️
Originally from SoCal🌴🌞
Occasionally carve wooden spoons 🥄
Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College, CUNY.
Ling prof in NH; intonation, lg. variation, lg. and identity, Jewish languages. Occasional runner, knitter, garment maker. she/her.
full & freed with love | Assistant Professor @uoregon | I’m here for Black women, African American English, sociolinguistics, & mentorship.
Linguist trying to understand logic, emotion, identity and human cognition.
Semantics, pragmatics, syntax; Cognitive Grammar; English history and sociolinguistics.
Berkeley -> San Diego -> Leipzig -> Silver Spring, Maryland
Multilingual, multicultural, multilovely.
Professor of Sociolinguistics at Cardiff University 🇨🇭🏴🇺🇸
Currently studying varieties of Welsh English
She/her
linguistic anthropologist, linguistic relativist, philologist, humanist, kayaker, tree grower, midwesterner, purdue alum
Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
Undisciplined linguist. Enthusiastic web surfer. Storyteller. AI resister. She/Her/Ella 🏳️🌈
Interactional sociolinguist. Knowledge serf. Author of Millennials Talking Media. Interested in identity, media, literature, art, music, history. Views expressed here are my own; you don’t want to know my employer’s views.
sylviasierra.com
Onondaga land
I am an anthropologist and editor in chief of American Anthropologist. Talking about editing, being transparent and stuff like that. #academicsky #anthropology
PhD student @ UofA • Linguistics & Anthropology
Studying parody, performance, persona, & gender
he/him
Ph.D. Languaging and Literacies. Immigration. Musings on my interdisciplinary academic life, pop culture, and politics. 双语 who loves travel (views my own)
linguist, cat lover, nerd
Ethnography of communication. I study how and why culture and discourse move sideways. Associate Prof at CU Boulder. Parent. He/him/ő.