Bridget Copley PhD

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

ah, didn't mean to put you on the spot! anyway your post was funny!

Now do continental

"The Poverty of the Stimulus, Gen-AI Edition" 🐦🐦

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We’d be funding courses at universities to teach students about right-wing disinformation.

We’d be running info/public service ads about groups like the Heritage Foundation and PragerU to inoculate people to their billionaire-funded propaganda…

Speaking of, if you want to help us:

Got bad news about your grammarian, mate 🐦🐦

When I was writing about the French scientist Marie Le Masson Le Golft, I found other women who became "firsts" in the 1780s. It was a decade when things opened for women & men (like a pre-FrRev Robespierre!) denounced gender prejudice.

By 1800 that moment was over, & here we are with more firsts!

American Crisis exclusive: The 'Media Capitulation Index' A sweeping report — with rankings — on the decline of independence in our corporatized media

“It’s more than a trend. It’s a growing crisis of the press abdicating its responsibility to hold powerful people and institutions accountable”

@sulliview.bsky.social

margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/american-c...

For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

Starting up OnlyLabs, where people can pay to watch researchers who used to have federal funding do Hot Uncensored Cutting Edge science experiments.

(the end is a little weird)

YouTube video by Dr Geoff Lindsey Vocal Fry: what it is, who does it, and why people hate it!

Here's a great video from a linguist on vocal fry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yL...

Some ways linguists can help support and defend immigrants & refugees in their local communities (free free to add more, these are just things that have come up locally)

-consulting on political communication
-identifying trolls on icewatch apps through their writing style
-interpreting/translation

This is one of the reasons I am so passionate about the Caleb Scholars program. We give students funds to return home to learn from elders as they go to school, and we find undergrads though professional/PhD programs bc I know how hard it was to return home during grad school.

www.calebscholars.org

Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) at University of Glasgow Discover Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...

Applications accepted on rolling basis: 4 postdocs, neuroscience of language, Georgetown University (US citizens/permanent residents only) neurolang.georgetown.edu/admission

important: what endearing thing do the screenwriters of the movie of your life have you doing in an early scene when you're by yourself to establish your quirky likeability?

i'm listening to Al Green's "Love and Happiness" and singing the backup singers' lines in falsetto while chopping garlic

One of my English teachers years ago told me this little anecdote about writing process that legit changed my life.

Writers fall into two primary archetypes. They are equally "good," just different in their processes:

1. Mozarts
2. Beethovens

Ooh, I would also like to attend hermeneutics happy hour, and I would like an aperol spritz please

I can’t even

Call for papers Call for papers for OASIS

Join us for OASIS 5 in Edinburgh in December. Abstracts welcome on semantics and semantics-adjacent topics, deadline August 15.

Aside from the main session there's a satellite workshop on nominals in non-referential use: oasis.cnrs.fr/meetin...

Come join us at OASIS, Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics, in Edinburgh in December. Call deadline: August 15.

What do you do when a theory is crazy in one domain and elegant in another? Find out invited speaker Tadeg Quillien's answer here: oasis-5.webflow.io/s...

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ah, I see! thanks.

do you mean the fact that there's something non-propositional in the consequent or something else about it?

Join us at OASIS in Edinburgh! Call deadline: August 15.

We are delighted to have Fabienne Martin as one of the invited speakers for OASIS this year. Discover one of her favorite recent "aha" moments in our interview with her: oasis-5.webflow.io/s...

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*Quillien

Come join us at OASIS, Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics, in Edinburgh in December. Call deadline: August 15.

What do you do when a theory is crazy in one domain and elegant in another? Find out invited speaker Tadeg Quilien's answer here: oasis-5.webflow.io/s...