Thomas Pellard

Nothing beats the feeling when a student takes my historical linguistics class for the second year in a row, not because she has to, but because she loves it. She literally said it was her favorite course 😍

J'ai toujours un petit sourire quand une publication de critique sociale impose la soumission au format Word.

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La seule condition : la personne qui crée la réunion doit s'identifier avec ProConnect (via mail fonctionnel d'un agent de l'État ou SIRET).

« la tutelle secondaire joue, dans cette logique, un rôle comparable à celui qu’assumaient auparavant les formations de recherche en
évolution (FRE), en tant que phase de transition et de réflexion sur l’avenir de l’unité. »

« La mise en tutelle secondaire constitue précisément un dispositif permettant de signaler que le CNRS ne se reconnaît plus pleinement dans son rôle de tutelle d’une unité dans laquelle il n’est plus présent »

Compte-rendu du CSI INSHS, 1 octobre 2025 Le compte-rendu (des élu·es) de la réunion du CSI InSHS du 1 octobre 2025 est disponible (format PDF) : Rédigé par Michela Russo OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :CS-...

Compte-rendu du CSI INSHS, 1 octobre 2025 csinshs.hypotheses.org/2040

And now a dozen of accounts have been created for the only purpose of defending the retracted article. If you’re not happy with that retraction, write to the editor of the journal, not me. But yes I think it should never have been published in the first place

‘Bizarre’ linguistics paper on water retracted by Springer Nature Jordanian professor’s free-wheeling study is pulled and an editorial board member sacked after linguists criticised ‘extremely strange’ article

‘Bizarre’ linguistics paper on water retracted by Springer Nature www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bizarre...
@lameensouag.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social @verbingnouns.bsky.social

📢 CfP now open for the Computational Cultural Science Workshop (Paris, 18-19 May 2026) until 16 February.

Topics of interest:
*️⃣AI and cultural datasets
*️⃣Theory-driven humanities research
*️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes
*️⃣Cultural analytics

👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org

Bonjour et avez-vous besoin d'encouragements pour passer à un système d'exploitation libre et utiliser un outil d'écriture indépendant de Microsoft ?

La dépendance des entreprises et services publics à Microsoft (puis aux autres tels que Google ou AWS) j'en entends parler depuis trente ans.
Mais c'était traité de geekeries, au mieux traité en rubrique tech, jamais en rubrique politique.

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This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents).

uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...

Happy(?) to report that it's under investigation now. But yeah, who tf were the reviewers (goose meme).

I will be vary of reviewing for or submitting to @natureportfolio.nature.com @nature.com in future.

Thank you for sharing this! Recently, I decided to not submit our final manuscript which was accepted. We didn’t receive any feedback on our science and the only review we received was AI generated wording changes. It is the same journal. I emailed the editorial team too and I received no answer.

#ichl28 update! The next International Conference on Historical Linguistics will take place in August 2027 at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. This hasn't been advertised yet, but #ichl27 organiser Dr Gvozdanović was kind enough to inform me.
#histling

You need to switch to the “For you” tab instead of “Following” 🙈

NA->0 strikes again!
@rmcelreath.bsky.social

@nature.com doesn't mind publishing "thoughts some dude had in the bathtub" as long as they're on language, apparently.

AI slop published on your watch: very bad look for HSSComms and Springer/Nature  Dear editors, I have failed to locate contact information for most of the academic editors for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; I trust that you will forward this message to them. I want to note that AI slop is being published on your watch in the journal you edit. This paper, out last week (Al-Jarrah 2026), is full of inaccurate claims and includes countless hallucinated references. Even a cursory look at the bibliography shows that at least 10 and probably many more references are bullshit pure and simple; the simplest explanation is that they are confabulated by generative AI, which sheds doubt on the quality of the manuscript as a whole and on the review and editorial processes at your journal. It is a great lapse of editorial judgement to let this kind of obvious drivel pass and I am warning my colleagues at MPI and Radboud to avoid your journal until clear and unambiguous action is taken. You may also want to take note that many people are finding out about this and the online discussion of this paper and of the journal's failing standards is something I hope that Springer Nature cares about. In my opinion the paper does not pass even the most minimal quality assurance checks and is fully against the COPE guidelines on publication ethics. You may want to hold the author accountable for this; I think the only reasonable course is retraction. But the scholarly community also holds the journal accountable. By letting AI slop through, your journal is polluting the information ecology of scientific publishing. Amidst a rising tide of synthetic text, scholarly publishing, with its tradition of human oversight and strong peer revidew, should be one of the last stalwarts to defend the integrity of our research. I look forward to your response and to find out what decisive action you are taking.

Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do.

Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess

I have a few predictions...

1/n

Okay, I see. Is there an #ICHL- equivalent anywhere to #lingtyp 's webpage that lists conferences ?
linguistic-typology.org/conferences/

Il reste encore des places pour vous inscrireà notre formation "Apprentissage au Logiciel R", mais il faut nous contacter rapidement ! ⌛

Not yet I think

This paper is batshit insane. It also (of course) has A TON of bullshit references that do not exist. Hey @springernature.com retract this AI slop and fire the editor that let it pass. There is evidently no review or quality assurance process in place at this journal.

Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen.

This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?

@retractionwatch.com

"By enforcing the restriction of religion in public spheres, the state contributed to limiting all reference to /HO/ (هو) […] a reference to the creator who breathes (H) into his creation. As a sign of secularism, the Greek language […] dropped altogether this sound from its phonemic inventory"

"If we observe the symbol which stands for hydrogen (H), we find that its drawing (H) consists of 2 identical parallel lines […]. At the symbolic level, the 2 lines are the 2 identical atoms of hydrogen"

WTF?! 🫣 Is this a joke?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A religious quote, "primitive languages", and nonsense everywhere. Is Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications a scam journal?