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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 2d

“No information of how this will look like for non-STEM subjects” 🤔one could hazard a guess

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 6d

We're hosting Lavender Languages from 2-4 September 2026. Save the date! Plenaries and a formal announcement to be follow shortly...

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 7d

#BæFoLa is back!
We're ready for Season 9 featuring delicious talks on:
🍆 food porn (Jonatan Leer)
🥕 veggie words (Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza)
🧁 baking videos (Carolin Schneider-Ward)
🍳 cooking videos (Stefan Hauser)

More info at tinyurl.com/baefola

#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

BaeFoLa Poster with a donut for each talk

October 31, 12:30-13:30 CET: Jonatan Leer (Örebro University)

Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age

November 28, 12:30-13:30 CET: Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza (University of Alicante)

VeggieWords: Lexical Innovation in Vegan and Vegetarian Product Naming

December 19, 12:30-13:30 CET: Carolin Schneider Ward (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Bake, Tic, Repeat: Multimodal Self-Reactions in the Digital Kitchen

January 30, 12:30-13:30 CET: Stefan Hauser (University of Teacher Education Zug)

Dynamisation Processes in Cooking Videos on TikTok: A Media Linguistic Approach

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

The LLM that never hallucinates

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

Nor “very”

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

There was something similar in the Doctor who Christmas special

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

I mean come one, do normal people care about your particles and whatnot? And you need a 40 million euro machine for this research. It seems to me that gender studies is a MUCH better value for money

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

Oddly enough I think we need natural sciences 😁 but yes, I thought about suggesting a thought experiment where people substitute natural sciences for humanities in this text, and every argument about non-quantifiability with an argument about not being socially relevant.

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

It already is. I’m sure they looked at what the States’ been doing and thought oh yeah, we want the same thing please.

Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

correction: only useful research to be funded (BlueSky, where is that edit button)

Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

false dichotomies all around in this opinion piece

Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

"the lesson of the story is clear: tax-funded science must serve the common good" (trans from Finnish)
Yes, and clearly, the author excludes research on women and minorities from the 'common' that should be served. Hopefully one does not need a PhD in hUmAnItIeS to see the ideology behind this view.

Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

he'd be willing to listen to the people who actually think about this stuff explain it to him.
On another note, if someone wants to study Finnish populist discourse, this doc is a treasure trove. All the absolute classic arguments are in there.

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

he'd be willing to listen to the people who actually think about this stuff explain it to him.
On another note, if someone wants to study Finnish populist discourse, this doc is a treasure trove. All the absolute classic arguments are in there.

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

it's written by a white male Finnish mechanical engineer.
One can't help but think that this document in itself is the best illustration of why we need humanities research - clearly this person cannot imagine the harm his populist, borderline fascist arguments are doing. And that's ok as long as 🧵

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 7d

So, a right-wing Finnish thinktank just published a populist pamphlet that criticises the funding choices of the Research Council of Finland when they concern humanities and social sciences research, and calls for "useful" research only to be published and for us to 'thin the herd' ourselves 🧵

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 8d

Enjoy! You know your way around already :)

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 10d

Nobel prize would do instead of an Oscar

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 12d

Drop by my office for a coffee or lunch when you’re around!

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations! I guess we’re kind of colleagues now :)

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 14d

Synthetic text has ushered in a new era in academia where I am at a loss to understand people’s motivations. Another case in point: someone submitted an LLM-generated paper _under my name_ to a high-profile journal (one among several such submissions they received). Why?!

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 14d

I get this from prospective PhD students all the time. “I’ve read your XXX paper (which doesn’t exist) and I was impressed by its insight and scope, which also overlaps with my proposed project”

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 14d

Impostor professor

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.

She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with
the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully
with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman-
der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be-
havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable,
fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many
political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect.

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 15d

headline that introduces the false dichotomy of reading in English = “snubbing” one’s mothertongue? God forbid people could enjoy reading in more than one language

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