Šarolta Godnič Vičič

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

New from me on productivity, AI, and the problems in how we measure it: “AI’s core function is completing goals as if they were a yes/no checkmark: having a text, rather than writing the text; having a numbered list of ideas rather than finding a good idea.” www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...

Nieman Lab’s Andrew Deck Has Been Tracking AI Use in the Journalism Industry for Years. Here’s What He Says We Need to Know. - Ethics and Journalism Since the public launch of ChatGPT nearly three years ago, the media industry has cycled through many phases of AI adoption and experimentation.

Great to chat with NYU’s Ethics & Journalism Initiative about my reporting!

We talked about AI "bias detectors,” automated fact-checking, and navigating both the hype and fear cycles on my beat. ethicsandjournalism.org/2025/09/18/n...

May be of interest of attendees at the #RC21symposium by
@rc21project.bsky.social, where Susan gave a wonderful talk on a very related topic back in spring ☺️

So glad to share the lineup of speakers for the 2025 edition of the #Corpuslinguistics & applied #linguistics #research series. We'll reflect on the impact of #AI on the field. Sponsored by
@letrasumu.bsky.social
& the Dept of Linguistics & Modern Language Studies, EdHK 💻 um.es/languagecorp...

Important read on "research automation" just as the GPT5 marketing about having "PhDs in your pocket" kicks in

"AI evangelists, and others keen on rationalizing academia, reframe the traditional process of research as a problem in need of a solution"

Domain-General Cognitive Ability In subject area: Psychology Domain-general cognitive abilities refer to cognitive skills that are not unique to humans but are present across various primate species and potentially other mammals and birds, indicating a general factor underlying cognitive performance that correlates with brain size and is associated with selective attention and working memory capacity. AI generated definition based on: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2012

Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term.

Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.

Sigh.

On day 3 of our Reading Concordances course at #ESSLLI2025, @michamahlberg.bsky.social is ready to go hands-on with FlexiConc in CLiC. Teaching materials available soon at github.com/reading-conc... CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Democracy & the AI Question Remarks from an in-person debate, 'L’IA en question, questions à l’IA', a two-day event at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, on May 24/25. The event focused on debates about the role of AI in contemporary s...

My remarks for the debate on AI in government at the Centre Pompidou were shortened on account of the need for sequential translation but this is what I’d written as remarks. mail.cyberneticforests.com/democracy-th...

Right after CL2025 #RC21 team we're about to head to CL2040 – time really does fly!

www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/pb-s...

Law360 mandates reporters use AI “bias” detection on all stories The policy was announced after an executive accused the newsroom of bias in its Trump administration coverage.

Law360 is requiring all stories pass through an AI "bias indicator" before publication.

The new policy came weeks after an executive from its parent company, LexisNexis, accused the newsroom of liberal bias in its Trump admin coverage. My latest for @niemanlab.org
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/law3...

Glad to announce I will be panelist at the SCOT( Smart Community Tourism) webinar about Co-Creating Tourism Values through Regeneration on 14 June at 10 CET
If you are interested in it, and would like to participate, please register for free here scotwebinars.org/events/volum...

Translating Tourism This engaging textbook provides an in-depth examination of tourist discourse and communication and a guide to how to translate tourism texts. Through analysis of the linguistic, intercultural, and soc...

Just released: Translating Tourism, co-authored with Cinzia Spinzi—unpacking the critical role of translation in tourism discourse. Essential reading for linguists and travel professionals. Available now at Routledge. 🌍📚 #TranslationStudies #Tourism

www.routledge.com/Translating-...

AI & Art: Cutting the Strings How might generative AI shape the possibilities of performance? Eryk Salvaggio is an "anti-AI AI artist," interested in contrasting the definitions of creative process in AI with those of the human. I...

I’ll be speaking at Hamilton College today! Exploring embodiment as a way of glitching AI systems through, and for, performance — including dance, happenings, and puppetry. www.hamilton.edu/about/region...

I contributed to this AI toolkit with a piece on Navigating AI in Open and Higher Education: Critical Guidelines and Practical Applications
floeproject.org/projects/ai-...

(check out the rest of the collection as well!)

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

Future Challenges and Opportunities for Data-Driven Learning This entry examines the evolving landscape of data-driven learning (DDL) in language education, addressing both opportunities and challenges. As DDL expands beyond higher education, issues such as the...

Out now: "Future Challenges and Opportunities for Data-Driven Learning" with @languagecopora @carlosordonana.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics #languagelearning an entry in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning. doi.org/10.1007/978-... Thanks to the editors and reviewers.

None of us has read beyond the abstract yet but #404media reported on this new study about the impact of #generativeAI on #criticalthinking which (as many of us have been intuiting for some time!) is not...good.

advait.org/files/lee_20...

RSVP CLT Symposium February 2025 Dear faculty member, We hope you will be able to join us at during CLT's 2025 Symposium, "The Future of Learning 2025". There are multiple in-person and online events you can register for. Please ind...

My department is running our annual Symposium in February and we will have multiple virtual sessions and a hybrid session which anyone can join. Speakers are @miazamoraphd.bsky.social on Feb 17, @bonni208.bsky.social on Feb 19 and @saraheaton.bsky.social on Feb 25.
bit.ly/CLT25symposium

@FOMATPLAY Conference on Migration, identity and transnational discourse U. Granada, 2-5 September 2025

Interested in #migration, #discourse and #identity in the EU and beyond? @FOMATPLAY @fyl-ugr.bsky.social Conference on Migration, identity and transnational discourse U. Granada, 2-5 September 2025 Info 👉👉👉https://granadacongresos.com/fomaplay The ⌛️deadline to submit your abstracts is 21 March!!!

The Future of AI Is Uncertain, And It’s Up to Us - HEPI Jack Goodman reviews AI Snake Oil, highlighting its critique of AI hype and the need for universities to shape AI’s future impact.

Jack Goodman has completed the following review for @hepi-news.bsky.social:

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, & How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayan & Sayash Kapoor.

It is a great overview of the book from the #HigherEd perspective. #AI #UKHE #AcademicSky

1️⃣ check Laurence's abstract on AI-enhanced concordancing

2️⃣ register for the #RC21 Symposium to hear his talk

3️⃣ still undecided? Check his blog post from our ICAME Workshop: go.fau.de/1bf--

#DigitalHumanities #DH #CorpusLingusitics #AI #AntConc #Linguistics #uniFAU

Call for Papers Call for Papers: 58th Annual Conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL 2025) The Call for Papers for the 58th Annual Conference of the British Association f…

BAAL2025 call for papers baal2025.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

Deadline is 31st March

Focus and format | LxGR | Edge Hill University The Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGR) symposium explores the interaction of lexis and grammar. Read more about the focus and format.

Corpus and lecicogrammar. This is a really lovely annual event within a friendly and supportive community. Check it out!

Call for papers: BAAL SIG Vocabulary Studies Annual Conference 2025

Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Vocabulary in Multilingual Contexts, 28-30 May 2025, University of Edinburgh, UK

A title and a 300-word abstract should be submitted tinyurl.com/BAALVOCABSIG... by the 19th of February 2025.

On immigration and disinformation - and how it feeds the migration myths

A fascinating series to follow #ThinkingForwards #EduSky #TeamEnglish

Multimodal transcription is essential for representing visible action in CA transcripts. I’ve recorded a video series showing how I transcribe embodied action step by step. Links to the videos are in the thread below ⬇️

@eurocall2025.bsky.social SUBMISSION DEADLINE – 17th February 2025 - #CALL #computerassistedlanguagelearning The 2025 EUROCALL c#onference will be held in Milan (Italy) on 27-30 August. Hosted by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore For more information: eurocall2025.com/call-for-pap...

Come join the conversation at this fantastic *free* symposium 👋

📣Call for papers📣

SLRF is back! Come join us in Flagstaff, AZ, in September.