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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Apr 24

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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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · May 11

becoming pope 🤝 gender transition:

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · May 11

There are a variety of reasons why I wouldn't want to become Pope, even if I were a Roman Catholic bloke, but I have to admit that "having to choose a name that everyone will regard as hugely significant and read things into, under extreme time pressure" is right up there.

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thank you for coming, Juliet!

Juliet Huynh @jhuynh.bsky.social · Mar 26

Highlights from AAAL (Monday only): I attended a talk by @joshuaraclaw.com and @hannahlukow.bsky.social on Queer Yiddish(kayt) and Gender-Justice in Yiddish Language Learning

(hi, cis-het woman sneaking in to your talk. Thank you for the welcome! Also, lovely to meet people off Bluesky!)

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Hannah Lukow at the podium/lectern to the left of frame presenting with Joshua Raclaw via Zoom on screen to the center of frame. Audience members are sat in front of the screen.

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AAUP @aaup.org · Feb 19

In the face of these assaults on education & civil rights, students & faculty nationwide are organizing in their communities. Join us. The way to confront those intent on dismantling our democracy is to join together in mass action.

Full statement here:

www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

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AAUP President: ED's Office of Civil Rights Has Declared War on American Civil Rights in Education

A new statement by AAUP President Todd Wolfson speaks out against the potential elimination of federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds, the latest blat...

www.aaup.org

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Feb 13

This is too real 🥲 so much “trans” in applied linguistics except when it refers to actual trans people

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Jul 17

our cohort group chat never misses

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..."

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · May 2

[winces]

This is not who we are as a campus community. When [NAME OF COLONIAL SLAVE OWNER] founded our college as a [SEMINARY / FARMING AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY TECHNICAL COLLEGE] in [YEAR OF FOUNDING WHEN NEITHER WOMEN NOR STUDENTS OF COLOR WERE ALLOWED TO ENROLL], he bravely coined our motto: [LATIN PLATITUDE THAT OVER THE YEARS HAS BECOME A RUNNING JOKE AMONG STUDENTS AND FACULTY]. These wise words have guided our mission ever since and rang in my ears as I called in the [CAMPUS POLICE / MUNICIPAL POLICE / NATIONAL GUARD / PRIVATE MILITIA HIGHERED BY BOOSTERS OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM] to use [EUPHEMISTIC REFERENCE TO MILITARY-GRADE WEAPONS] on the enemy infiltrators.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · May 1

TO THE DAY

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · May 1

April 30, 1968: "University Calls in 1,000 Police to End Demonstration As Nearly 700 Are Arrested and 100 Injured;
Violent Solution Follows Failure of Negotiations"

University Calls in 1,000 Police to End Demonstration As Nearly 700 Are Arrested and 100 Injured;
Violent Solution Follows Failure of Negotiations

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Apr 24

🐦 🐦

Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

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.

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Apr 24

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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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Mar 21

We should compile these nonstarters as a public service

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Feb 21

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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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Feb 19

Are you teaching or taking the course? And if the latter: where!?

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · Dec 10

we literally had white supremacists chanting "jews will not replace us" on a campus and nothing *close* to this was suggested

NYT OPINIONS
To fight antisemitism on campuses, we
must restrict speech

Free speech has been elevated to a near-sacred level on university campuses. That was a mistake
By Claire O. Finkelstein.December 10, 2023

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Oct 23

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcademicChatter

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Oct 23

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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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Oct 12

Happy to announce I bought a used DVD player and am joining the resistance

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).

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Oct 8

Yes! I Perhaps a variation on bare feet ? (speaking as an upstate New Yorker here)

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Oct 7

אדאנק!

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Oct 7

Hello, would love to be added!

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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · Oct 7

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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