Wendy Baldwin - Linguaverse
@linguaverse.bsky.social
I help academics write (writing retreat facilitator & AcWri trainer) & publish their work (authors' editor, academic translator). 🎓(Psycho-)linguistics 🏠Donostia-San Sebastián 🌴 https://linktr.ee/linguaverse.
Co-founder of WRAP: @wrap-net.bsky.social.
Co-founder of WRAP: @wrap-net.bsky.social.
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Wendy Baldwin | Effective self-revision mini-course
Learn self-revision strategies and tools with a professional editor of academic texts. Practice applying them in a work-in-progress of your choice. Enjoy greater confidence when delivering your work t...
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Are you an academic writer looking to boost your revision practice? My mini-course—running in January—may be the thing you need.
I share the strategies and systems I use as an editor/translator of academic texts; you practice & adapt them in a WIP during & between sessions.
www.linguaverse.net/erm
I share the strategies and systems I use as an editor/translator of academic texts; you practice & adapt them in a WIP during & between sessions.
www.linguaverse.net/erm
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Heads up, AI slop is hitting the nonfiction shelves, too.
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it's getting Weird Out Here part 193,752: bookshop.org has a listing for a book of 40 photographs of the Edinburgh subway system. but Edinburgh doesn't HAVE a subway. its entirely AI generated
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November 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Heads up, AI slop is hitting the nonfiction shelves, too.
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Revising your own academic texts requires lots of juggling and sifting through of layers, perspectives and choices. No wonder results can be uneven and less than satisfying.
In January I'm running a mini-course that helps you build a strategic approach to managing the task, adapted to your needs. 👇
In January I'm running a mini-course that helps you build a strategic approach to managing the task, adapted to your needs. 👇
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Revising your own academic texts requires lots of juggling and sifting through of layers, perspectives and choices. No wonder results can be uneven and less than satisfying.
In January I'm running a mini-course that helps you build a strategic approach to managing the task, adapted to your needs. 👇
In January I'm running a mini-course that helps you build a strategic approach to managing the task, adapted to your needs. 👇
Very cool that my home NPR station is doing this. I must stream from Spain more often so I can hear it.
So this is cool: my local NPR station, @kuow.org is broadcasting their station identification in different languages. The first one I caught was Lushootseed, and so at first I thought it was an acknowledgment of the people whose land KUOW is located on. It is that, but also more:
Why KUOW is broadcasting our Legal ID in different languages
www.kuow.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Very cool that my home NPR station is doing this. I must stream from Spain more often so I can hear it.
Are you an academic writer looking to boost your revision practice? My mini-course—running in January—may be the thing you need.
I share the strategies and systems I use as an editor/translator of academic texts; you practice & adapt them in a WIP during & between sessions.
www.linguaverse.net/erm
I share the strategies and systems I use as an editor/translator of academic texts; you practice & adapt them in a WIP during & between sessions.
www.linguaverse.net/erm
Wendy Baldwin | Effective self-revision mini-course
Learn self-revision strategies and tools with a professional editor of academic texts. Practice applying them in a work-in-progress of your choice. Enjoy greater confidence when delivering your work t...
www.linguaverse.net
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Are you an academic writer looking to boost your revision practice? My mini-course—running in January—may be the thing you need.
I share the strategies and systems I use as an editor/translator of academic texts; you practice & adapt them in a WIP during & between sessions.
www.linguaverse.net/erm
I share the strategies and systems I use as an editor/translator of academic texts; you practice & adapt them in a WIP during & between sessions.
www.linguaverse.net/erm
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Happy World Linguistics Day from Donostia, in the Basque Country! #hizkuntzalaritza #lingüística
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy World Linguistics Day from Donostia, in the Basque Country! #hizkuntzalaritza #lingüística
Buenísimo todo!
What other languages can use the same verb three times and have the same effect?
#WorldLinguisticsDay
What other languages can use the same verb three times and have the same effect?
#WorldLinguisticsDay
La maravilla lingüística que es el "me voy a ir yendo".
Venga, va: vídeo inocente y gracioso de ayer por la tarde. En Conexión Extremadura enviaron a un reportero a Fuente del Maestre para cubrir el encendido navideño y, bueno… pasó lo que tenía que pasar. Otro exitazo del periodismo extremeño, digno sucesor del “Marichocho” y de otras joyas similares.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Buenísimo todo!
What other languages can use the same verb three times and have the same effect?
#WorldLinguisticsDay
What other languages can use the same verb three times and have the same effect?
#WorldLinguisticsDay
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Fun #linguistic fact for World Linguistics Day:
If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.
If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Fun #linguistic fact for World Linguistics Day:
If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.
If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.
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‘Get someone from Linguistics down here!’
Happy World Linguistics Day!
Happy World Linguistics Day!
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
‘Get someone from Linguistics down here!’
Happy World Linguistics Day!
Happy World Linguistics Day!
Today in jaw-dropping GenAI wrongheadedness..
I took the K-12 student certification to see how it works. Sample question.
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Today in jaw-dropping GenAI wrongheadedness..
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Today's post is the second in my trilogy of research into GenAI and metaphors, providing an overview of the most recent #AI #metaphor studies. There will be gaps and if you find any, please let me know. #linguistics #education
makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/21/a...
makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/21/a...
AI metaphor studies: An overview
In my previous post (part 1 of a trilogy) I called for an AI metaphor observatory to watch how people make sense (and sometimes nonsense) of generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, through me…
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November 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Today's post is the second in my trilogy of research into GenAI and metaphors, providing an overview of the most recent #AI #metaphor studies. There will be gaps and if you find any, please let me know. #linguistics #education
makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/21/a...
makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/21/a...
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Upcoming online support for #AcWri from Linguaverse.
✍️ 🚀 Structured writing retreat, 4-5 December. Booking open: www.linguaverse.net/4-5-dec
✂️ 🎯 Effective self-revision mini-course, 5-16 January. Learn self-revision strategies and tools from a professional manuscript editor. Booking opens soon.
✍️ 🚀 Structured writing retreat, 4-5 December. Booking open: www.linguaverse.net/4-5-dec
✂️ 🎯 Effective self-revision mini-course, 5-16 January. Learn self-revision strategies and tools from a professional manuscript editor. Booking opens soon.
Wendy Baldwin | 4-5 December, online writing retreat
Looking to inject some new life into your writing project? Join my 1.5-day online structured writing retreat (4-5 December, 2025), where the writer is as important as the writing. Space is limited.
www.linguaverse.net
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Upcoming online support for #AcWri from Linguaverse.
✍️ 🚀 Structured writing retreat, 4-5 December. Booking open: www.linguaverse.net/4-5-dec
✂️ 🎯 Effective self-revision mini-course, 5-16 January. Learn self-revision strategies and tools from a professional manuscript editor. Booking opens soon.
✍️ 🚀 Structured writing retreat, 4-5 December. Booking open: www.linguaverse.net/4-5-dec
✂️ 🎯 Effective self-revision mini-course, 5-16 January. Learn self-revision strategies and tools from a professional manuscript editor. Booking opens soon.
Whether used as a complement or alternative to structured writing retreats, weekly 'A Meeting With Your Writing' sessions with the Academic Writing Studio offer protected writing time and support to keep you in close touch with your WIPs.
The host of A Meeting With Your Writing is always available to help you if you get stuck. Sometimes just 10 minutes of coaching is enough to get you back on track. Join us!
academicwritingstudio.co.uk/a-meeting-wi...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Whether used as a complement or alternative to structured writing retreats, weekly 'A Meeting With Your Writing' sessions with the Academic Writing Studio offer protected writing time and support to keep you in close touch with your WIPs.
A word audit of your WIP is a good idea outside a retreat too. Knowing how much is written + having an idea of what’s left lets you look at the WIP through an objective lens, helps you plan+prioritize writing tasks/steps and can be a great motivator, esp. if you’re feeling anxious or lacking focus.
I'm facilitating a writing retreat at the moment. It's a good idea to do a word audit at the start and at the end. Then you can see how much you've done during the retreat.
Download our free template here: buff.ly/2MW5qvC
Download our free template here: buff.ly/2MW5qvC
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
A word audit of your WIP is a good idea outside a retreat too. Knowing how much is written + having an idea of what’s left lets you look at the WIP through an objective lens, helps you plan+prioritize writing tasks/steps and can be a great motivator, esp. if you’re feeling anxious or lacking focus.
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Had 1st encounter with Ai-generated work from Ss - in what was otherwise beautiful & inspiring work from class overall, these were clearly not their words on lone writing part of 3 part midterm (tiny essay/letter) - so upsetting, a violation. Talked in class of how it robs them of learning. A loss…
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Had 1st encounter with Ai-generated work from Ss - in what was otherwise beautiful & inspiring work from class overall, these were clearly not their words on lone writing part of 3 part midterm (tiny essay/letter) - so upsetting, a violation. Talked in class of how it robs them of learning. A loss…
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Honestly getting sick to the back teeth of explaining why I don't think it's a good idea to let a machine that can't actually think do things that humans can do perfectly well just so that a few companies can save some money and some fascistic tech bros can gain even more power and doom the planet
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Honestly getting sick to the back teeth of explaining why I don't think it's a good idea to let a machine that can't actually think do things that humans can do perfectly well just so that a few companies can save some money and some fascistic tech bros can gain even more power and doom the planet
Upcoming online support for #AcWri from Linguaverse.
✍️ 🚀 Structured writing retreat, 4-5 December. Booking open: www.linguaverse.net/4-5-dec
✂️ 🎯 Effective self-revision mini-course, 5-16 January. Learn self-revision strategies and tools from a professional manuscript editor. Booking opens soon.
✍️ 🚀 Structured writing retreat, 4-5 December. Booking open: www.linguaverse.net/4-5-dec
✂️ 🎯 Effective self-revision mini-course, 5-16 January. Learn self-revision strategies and tools from a professional manuscript editor. Booking opens soon.
Wendy Baldwin | 4-5 December, online writing retreat
Looking to inject some new life into your writing project? Join my 1.5-day online structured writing retreat (4-5 December, 2025), where the writer is as important as the writing. Space is limited.
www.linguaverse.net
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Upcoming online support for #AcWri from Linguaverse.
✍️ 🚀 Structured writing retreat, 4-5 December. Booking open: www.linguaverse.net/4-5-dec
✂️ 🎯 Effective self-revision mini-course, 5-16 January. Learn self-revision strategies and tools from a professional manuscript editor. Booking opens soon.
✍️ 🚀 Structured writing retreat, 4-5 December. Booking open: www.linguaverse.net/4-5-dec
✂️ 🎯 Effective self-revision mini-course, 5-16 January. Learn self-revision strategies and tools from a professional manuscript editor. Booking opens soon.
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Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.
Academic authors, I have 2 slots for editing/translation (Spanish to English)
– last 2 weeks of November
– first 2 weeks of December
Areas: linguistics & language; cognitive psych & cog sci; pedagogy/education; anthropology; applied engineering
Get in touch/more detail:
www.linguaverse.net/edit
– last 2 weeks of November
– first 2 weeks of December
Areas: linguistics & language; cognitive psych & cog sci; pedagogy/education; anthropology; applied engineering
Get in touch/more detail:
www.linguaverse.net/edit
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Academic authors, I have 2 slots for editing/translation (Spanish to English)
– last 2 weeks of November
– first 2 weeks of December
Areas: linguistics & language; cognitive psych & cog sci; pedagogy/education; anthropology; applied engineering
Get in touch/more detail:
www.linguaverse.net/edit
– last 2 weeks of November
– first 2 weeks of December
Areas: linguistics & language; cognitive psych & cog sci; pedagogy/education; anthropology; applied engineering
Get in touch/more detail:
www.linguaverse.net/edit
As an experienced structured #WritingRetreat facilitator-participant, I can (and often do!) give you a long list of writerly benefits.
But it can be just as useful—and sometimes more impactful—to hear what my writer-participants say about the experience.
linguaverse.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...
But it can be just as useful—and sometimes more impactful—to hear what my writer-participants say about the experience.
linguaverse.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...
What do writers get out of my online writing retreats?
I have a collection of posts on the blog called Snapshots, where I write about the structured retreat experience, usually from my perspective as facilitator–participant. I do this to give people le…
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November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
As an experienced structured #WritingRetreat facilitator-participant, I can (and often do!) give you a long list of writerly benefits.
But it can be just as useful—and sometimes more impactful—to hear what my writer-participants say about the experience.
linguaverse.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...
But it can be just as useful—and sometimes more impactful—to hear what my writer-participants say about the experience.
linguaverse.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...
I love myNoise—it's my top site for focus (I'm easily distracted).
It has a variety of stunning soundscapes and the listening experience can be customized in loads of ways.
Stéphane is a master of sound; his site is a labor of love—no enshittifying is afoot here. I'm a happy patron. 😊
mynoise.net
It has a variety of stunning soundscapes and the listening experience can be customized in loads of ways.
Stéphane is a master of sound; his site is a labor of love—no enshittifying is afoot here. I'm a happy patron. 😊
mynoise.net
Background Noises • Ambient Sounds • Relaxing Music | myNoise ®
myNoise sets the standard for online background noise machines and interactive soundscapes.
mynoise.net
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I love myNoise—it's my top site for focus (I'm easily distracted).
It has a variety of stunning soundscapes and the listening experience can be customized in loads of ways.
Stéphane is a master of sound; his site is a labor of love—no enshittifying is afoot here. I'm a happy patron. 😊
mynoise.net
It has a variety of stunning soundscapes and the listening experience can be customized in loads of ways.
Stéphane is a master of sound; his site is a labor of love—no enshittifying is afoot here. I'm a happy patron. 😊
mynoise.net
Oh wow, as someone who dwells on the opposite side of the peninsula (and clearly doesn't travel much to points south), I had no idea these mergers where happening in various parts of Andalusia.
More reason to head south and visit friends in Málaga ASAP.
#LanguageChangeIsCool
More reason to head south and visit friends in Málaga ASAP.
#LanguageChangeIsCool
Maintenance of the /s/ - /θ/ contrast, merɡer into /θ/ (ceceo) or merɡer into /s/ (seseo) in Andalusia, 1950s vs 2020s. Preliminary map of the Interactive Linguistic Atlas of Andalusian Accents. #Linguistics #Phonetics #Langskylinguistics #Langsky #Lingüística
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Oh wow, as someone who dwells on the opposite side of the peninsula (and clearly doesn't travel much to points south), I had no idea these mergers where happening in various parts of Andalusia.
More reason to head south and visit friends in Málaga ASAP.
#LanguageChangeIsCool
More reason to head south and visit friends in Málaga ASAP.
#LanguageChangeIsCool
Now it's @superlinguo.bsky.social's turn to be featured at the awesome language and linguistics library (@habeliburutegia.bsky.social) here in Donostia-San Sebastián. 😍
For now in English, but one day perhaps in Spanish or Basque? 🙏🤞
For now in English, but one day perhaps in Spanish or Basque? 🙏🤞
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Now it's @superlinguo.bsky.social's turn to be featured at the awesome language and linguistics library (@habeliburutegia.bsky.social) here in Donostia-San Sebastián. 😍
For now in English, but one day perhaps in Spanish or Basque? 🙏🤞
For now in English, but one day perhaps in Spanish or Basque? 🙏🤞
Saddened to hear the news of David Bellos’ passing. He was one of our keynotes last year at #METM24. Glad I had the opportunity to meet him.
RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Saddened to hear the news of David Bellos’ passing. He was one of our keynotes last year at #METM24. Glad I had the opportunity to meet him.