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Flyer with brief description of the journal, announcement that the journal is now accepting manuscripts, and a QR code to submission guidelines/portal.

📢 We are now accepting manuscripts for our Fall 2025 issue! Check out the guidelines & make your submission here: tesolal.columbia.edu

CFC: We’re excited to invite chapter proposals for our upcoming edited volume, “Imagination in Different Words: A Stylistic Atlas of Global Speculative Fiction”! 🖖🏻

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@ademarjunior @LivroArcano

worse yet, the AI is probably using your texts to train itself, which you are also not being compensated for

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

The publisher has cut their costs by outsourcing to this company, the company has cut their costs by using AI/low-paid staff instead of paying for a proper job, while I’ve spent hours & hours fixing the manuscript, so all the extra labour from cost-costing has fallen on me, the unremunerated author

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Hey academics, do you have recommendations for books that assist with dissertation advising? I found ones for doctoral students but I want to improve my skills in guiding them through it. Thank you! #academicsky #phdchat

Poster supporting the BookTrust/Children's Laureate Reading Rights campaign, with illustration by Chris Riddell of a reader with books

Reading with children changes their lives forever, and EVERY SINGLE CHILD is entitled to this right! That's why I support the #ReadingRights campaign. The full report is out today from @booktrust.org.uk & @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social: please read & share!
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🗓️ New #DigitalHumanities Summer School in September!
Pre-register now for #DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety
👩‍💻 Free for incoming MA students in #DH at @fau.de!

In early writings on phonetics, voiceless consonants (like k) are called sharps and voiced consonants (like b) are called flats. This works on miltiple levels but especially because the most common form of tonogenesis is voiced consonants becoming low tones.

The 12th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop will be held 14 Nov 2025 at Monash Uni, Melbourne.
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do (quoc-anh.do@monash.edu) & Laura Panza (lpanza@unimelb.edu.au)
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged
📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky

A novel multimodal framework for emotion recognition in comics: Integrating background color, facial expressions, and text sentiment using fuzzy logic With comics being a multimodal composition of content, their characters typically display stylized appearance, do not make use of verbal communication…

Here's an interesting new paper proposing computational methods for assessing emotion in comic panels: "A novel multimodal framework for emotion recognition in comics: Integrating background color, facial expressions, and text sentiment using fuzzy logic" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Learning a second language as an adult can be hard — but it's not impossible #NPR www.npr.org/2025/05/...

Gift a membership for Lingthusiasm on Patreon Bring the world of Lingthusiasm to your friends and family.

So...this community gifting feature now exists and we're interested in hearing from people

Is a gift membership something that would help you?
Should we do a drive to try to get people to contribute them?

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Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.

Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."

119: Eurovision Goes to Uni (with Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig) | Because Language Get more from Because Language on Patreon

New ep: @eurovision.tv has a lot to teach us about language.
So much that there's a unit at
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social about it!
And we're talking to coordinators Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig.

Wherever you get podcasts.
#Eurovision2025

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for the record, when I (and fellow colleagues) talk about human-machine collaboration or creativity, it doesn’t mean this. fuck off that’s our term first.

You asked chatGPT, I asked Anubis the Jackal Headed Goddess to weigh your heart against a feather, we are not the same.

Also, I have bad news, I hope you’re not a fan of fields of reeds.

A map of France broken up into regions and showing major cities, titled 'When you greet a friend, how many time do you kiss?'. There is a colour key showing orange = once, yellow = twice, green = three times, blue = four time, and pink = five times (18% of Corsica). The map is mostly blue in the north, with two predominately orange regions to the north west. The central, east, and south west sections are mostly yellow, and the there is a green section in the southern central region. The island of Corsica at the bottom right of the image is a mix of colours.

How many times do you kiss on the cheek when greeting a friend in France? Check out this map from Buzzarena's guide (and get ready for up to 5 smooches in Corsica!)

For more on the linguistics of kissing, check out our latest bonus ep: www.patreon.com/posts/127782...

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AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showing the disease

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showing the disease

Virginia Fox and Buster Keaton prop each other up in The Electric House (1922). Foto: Wikimedia Commons

Call for Papers 📢 ”Materiality Matters: Figurations of Comic Bodies and Things” – The Network “Comic Literacies” asks for abstracts and a short bio for its annual conference from 13-15 November. Organized a.o. by @ancaleth.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 15 June 2025. More info: tinyurl.com/53jw3z7d

Fun linguistic fact of the day. We used to speak of 'messagers' and 'passagers' before they became 'messengers' and 'passengers', since they were borrowings from French. Speakers in the Middle Ages decided to throw in what linguists call an 'intrusive n' to make them easier to say.

Exciting new CFP for a Special Issue of the OA journal, 'Neurodiversity' thinking through the critical turn(s) in #neurodiversity studies across the arts, humanities & social sciences.

Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social

New post!
I collaborated with Danny at Linguistic Discovery to make a huge image about English words related to the word "one".

Danny wrote a detailed article on the topic that you can read here:
linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/one/

We are hiring 2 full professors in DH

Join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de

2 full professorships in #DigitalHumanities

‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #HCI

‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #Place&Space

⏰ Deadline: 2 June 2025

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Crash Course is a free educational video series that is used in over 90% of high schools in the US. Because it's free, teachers and students decide for themselves whether they want to use it...and they do.

Also...the world record for most high fives in a day is 15,338.

Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI. Now its eyes are set on schools.

If you were wondering when to ditch Duolingo, let this be your cue:

Looking forward to attending the virtual launch of this alternative festschrift for Monica Heller, on June 18, 2pm CET

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An excerpt from a signboard. The critical feature is an illustration showing two Neolithic farmers, which is clearly a take-off of American Gothic by Grant Wood.

Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow - University Cultural Collections & Generative AI This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.The University of Leeds’s Brothert...

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