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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 1h

A very interesting and much needed PhD project at Loughborough with @marcopino.bsky.social

ISCA @iscaupdates.bsky.social · 4h

Loughborough-PhD-Bereavement-Support-2025

Fully funded #EMCA and mixed-methods PhD based in the UK Midlands investigating the communication challenges of delivering culturally sensitive bereavement support. Deadline: 30th Nov 2025,https://collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk/inclusive-bereavement-support/

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 7d

People working on #Italian and focusing on #multimodality #digitalcommunication #intercultural pragmatics, Language in professional contexts, this position at our faculty may interest you!

Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 9d

📣My faculty hires for a tenure-track position in #Discourse and language practices in #Italian!

Deadline 12 Nov.

jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

An academic in Discourse and Language Practices in Italian

jobs.uclouvain.be

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 7d

Wonderful! I had a beautiful misty morning today, thought I should share a picture of it, and then forgot it :-(

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 8d

Funding opportunity: PhD at Sussex
- Open to applicants on PhD Linguistics
- Scholarships cover tuition fees, a stipend at UK Research Council rates plus some research & training costs
- 5 interdisciplinary themes addressing major social sciences challenges
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

SEDarc (ESRC) PhD scholarships for research in the Social Sciences : University of Sussex

www.sussex.ac.uk

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 9d

📣My faculty hires for a tenure-track position in #Discourse and language practices in #Italian!

Deadline 12 Nov.

jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

An academic in Discourse and Language Practices in Italian

jobs.uclouvain.be

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 11d

Han sido dos días muy enriquecedores que han mostrado otra vez que cruzar fronteras disciplinares puede aportar tanto. Gracias @grupomediaflows.bsky.social @guillermolpd.bsky.social, Germán Llorca y equipo por brindarme esta oportunidad. Tendremos más oportunidades de seguir conversando.

Grupo Mediaflows @grupomediaflows.bsky.social · 12d

Última mesa redonda del II Seminario Interdisciplinar de Teoría de la Comunicación: "La transformación del sector de la comunicación: retos y oportunidades" con @barbaradecock.bsky.social, Andreu Casero, @vsalojarvi.bsky.social y @guillermolpd.bsky.social (moderador) 🔝
#MediaFlows #SphereFlows

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 13d

Cerrando poquito a poco una mañana muy densa y diversa en este seminario sobre un tema sumamente actual. Mañana contribuyo a la mesa redonda sobre la transformación del sector de la comunicación, con una contribución sobre los cambios del género periodístico en interacción con las redes sociales.

Grupo Mediaflows @grupomediaflows.bsky.social · 13d

Iniciamos el II Seminario Interdisciplinar de Teoría de la Comunicación en el Campus de Gandia de la @upv.es 🙌

Hoy y mañana abordaremos "la crisis del periodismo en la esfera pública postmediática" desde diferentes perspectivas 🗣️

Programa 👉 mediaflows.es/wp-content/u...

#MediaFlows #SphereFlows

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 20d

📢 Mis colegas de traducción e #interpretación en la UCLouvain tienen una vacante para un puesto académico (profesor(a)) en el ámbito de la interpretación. Tenéis todas las informaciones aquí (fecha límite 12/11/2025).
A ver si serás nuestro/a colega ;-)
jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

Un·e académique en Interprétation

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Robert Rosendal @robertrosendal.bsky.social · 20d

"Moeten we het laten gebeuren dat grote bedrijven als Microsoft, Google en Amazon zoveel van onze energie en drinkwater opeisen voor hun eigen winst? Of moeten we in tijden van een klimaatcrisis en groeiende sociale ongelijkheid keuzes maken wat we wel en niet toestaan?"
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Techmiljarden bedreiging voor de lokale democratie: waarom de Google-lobby in de Eemshaven zeer onwenselijk is

Google in de Eemshaven. De techgigant wil de vestiging hier uitbouwen tot een gigantisch datacenter. <cutline_credit>foto: archief dvhn/anp</cutline_credit>

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · Sep 3

Bueno, hacer punto nunca me ha salido muy bien, pero a lo mejor tengo que volver a intentarlo...

Mujeres con ciencia @mujeresconciencia.com · Sep 3

Las espías que tejen mensajes secretos: dos al derecho, tres al revés

Las espías que tejen mensajes secretos: dos al derecho, tres al revés - Mujeres con ciencia

Espías que tejen mensajes secretos. Esteganografía. Códigos. Señales. Código morse. Tricotar. Espionaje. Servicios de inteligencia.

mujeresconciencia.com

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · Aug 14

This evening's sunset at Baie de Somme. #holiday #hike

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · Aug 13

Don't speak English at home so don't qualify, but am very interested in the results, in case this helps motivate potential participants 😀

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Aug 12

Oh come on… it’s not the private emails and holiday photos that is the problem here.

Address the real problem. Make big tech and AI companies pay for the exorbitant use.

System level solutions please.

www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...

UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought

As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.

www.404media.co

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Matteo Di Cristofaro @matteodic.bsky.social · Aug 8

I love this!

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · Aug 3

Anyone here going to Interspeech and wants to do a student a big favor? He was accepted & paid, but ultimately cannot leave the U.S. due to ongoing fascism (he’s on a visa). They will pull his paper if he can’t find anyone to present it for him. DM if you’re attending & may be able to help!

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · Jul 24

Don’t forget to send in your application before the summer hols! Deadline August 18

tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Open rank professorship in Tampere, English linguistics. We will be working side by side

go.bsky.app

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · Jul 22

Seizing the (rare dry) moment with a
Holiday #hike near my hometown #Geraardsbergen at #DeGavers

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · Jul 22

Seizing the (rare dry) moment with a
Holiday #hike near my hometown #Geraardsbergen at #DeGavers

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · Jul 10

With Stéphanie Pécher, Laetitia Aulit and @cristiangonzalez.bsky.social we also looked into how/why the press is called populist during the 2019 Chilean protests.

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · Jul 10

On the way home after @discoursenet.bsky.social conference! Thanks to the ULB colleagues for organising and to the UCLouvain colleagues for copresenting our work on a complexified discursive analysis of the use of the term #populism @anaisauge.bsky.social, Coline Rondiat & Laetitia Aulit.

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · Jul 4

Lettre ouverte importante et intéressante des doyen.ne.s des facultés formant aux #humanités en Belgique francophone. A relayer sans modération....

www.lesoir.be/684437/artic...

Former les humanistes de demain : un impératif pour une société éclairée

Le mois de juin rime avec examens. Année après année, nous constatons qu’ils sont toujours moins nombreux, les étudiants et étudiantes qui s’orientent vers les filières consacrées à l’étude de l’histo...

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · Jun 26

If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.

A screencap of Academia.edu's Account Settings under the header "AI Settings" showing their AI-enhanced Outputs feature is automatically turned on with a green switch unless you turn it off and do your part to de-enshittify the internet.

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · Jun 12

LA razón por la cual no las quiero utilizar.

Lorena Fernández Álvarez @loretahur.bsky.social · Jun 12

Según un informe de la Universidad de Cambridge, las apps de seguimiento menstrual convierten datos íntimos en un negocio millonario y ponen en riesgo la privacidad www.telecinco.es/noticias/sal...

#privacy

Las Apps de seguimiento menstrual convierten datos íntimos en un negocio millonario y ponen en riesgo la privacidad

Las aplicaciones para teléfonos inteligentes que rastrean los ciclos menstruales son una

www.telecinco.es

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Lorena Pérez Hernández @lorenaph.bsky.social · Apr 7

Are you interested in #Ecolinguistics? Here is a starter pack for you. Do you know other ecolinguists in @bsky.app ? Please, let me know to add them to this starter pack. @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/GvUpjj9

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Politics and Health @politicshealth.bsky.social · Jun 6

The reason undocumented immigrants deserve #healthcare is because that protects all of us.

When people--all people--can't afford to go to the doctor or the hospital, they will become seriously ill rather than seek early help; they won't get vaccinated; they will be unable to work.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 6

WATCH: @katmabu.bsky.social blows Jennings’ mind by saying “everyone deserves health care”

Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll

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