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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Department of English at the University of Liverpool @livunienglish.bsky.social · 3h

📖 Professor Deryn Rees-Jones (@notjustdancing.bsky.social) is giving the Matt Simpson Memorial lecture and reading at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool on October 30th, 6-8pm @serenbooks.bsky.social

Find out more here:
Https://www.creativetourist.com/event/deryn-rees-jones/

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 1d

As apparently hosting websites for more than a couple of days is too much to ask, here's a new link to the #BæFoLa program:
sites.google.com/view/sofia-r...
#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

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Adrian Leemann @adrianleemann.bsky.social · 1d

In a new @unibe.ch mini podcast series (video & audio), students interview linguistics lecturers about what fascinates them in language. Trailer below 🙂

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #scicom @germanistikunibe.bsky.social

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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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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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 8d

Mostly just reposting stuff these days, because my reaction to almost everything that's going on is rarely more articulate than 'WTF?!'

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 8d

Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees
https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO

British Academy responds to government announcement on university maintenance grants

The British Academy has issued a response to the government's announcement on using a proposed levy on international students to fund maintenance grants.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 9d

I love this.

Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 10d

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.

If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.

They welcome donations too.

The Boring Fund - Open Collective

We support small non-profit organisations (UK) by only funding the really boring (but essential) stuff like insurance, accountancy or admin

opencollective.com

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 10d

101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics

In honor of their 100th episodiversary earlier this year, the Lingthusiasm podcast put together an excellent list of 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics:

lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...

Lingthusiasm - 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics

lingthusiasm: 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics In honour of Lingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary, we’ve compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguistics…

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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 13d

Since today is the #EuropeanDayOfLanguages, let's not forget that you are not required to keep your languages separate, pure, intact or in any way feel inadequate about your way of using your own language/s.
And don't let anyone take away your co-ownership of the languages you have.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14d

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

Infographic titled "AI Isn't a Ticket To an A," explaining how chatbots work, what the data show about the prevalence of these technologies and how they're used, what we know about the quality of their output, and what we know about the impact that frequent use of these technologies has on their users and on content creators, low-wage workers, and the environment.

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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 13d

The deadline to apply to present at the Queer Food Conference has been extended to October 15!!!

www.queerfoodconference.com/p/cfp-2026.h...

text: The deadline to apply to present at the Queer Food Conference has been extended to October 15!!!
and the link
with a bunch of fruit images

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 14d

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

www.oxfordbibliographies.com

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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 14d

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about.

cambridgeblog.org

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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CADAAD 2026 @cadaad2026.bsky.social · 16d

Hi! Welcome to the Bluesky account of #cadaad2026!
Here you will find all the updates about the conference 🙂
For more information, check our official page: shorturl.at/EVIhO

CADAAD 2026

Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...

shorturl.at

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 17d

It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17d

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 17d

That's awful 🙁

Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 18d

🤫Don't give the senior management team any ideas!

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 20d

The first of the three corpora of German-English bilingual children's early speech that we've been working on for the last few years is finally publicly available! 🥳 🎉 talkbank.org/childes/acce...

CHILDES English-German MPI-EVA-Leipzig Corpus

talkbank.org

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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve been putting together overviews for Humanities PhD students and graduates about fellowships available in the UK and Europe that students with UK PhDs are eligible for. It’s work in progress but drop me a line with your email address and I’ll send them over next week.

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The Bibliography @thebibliopod.bsky.social · 20d

New episode alert! 🚨 Host Natalie spoke to the English Department's 'Decolonising the Curriculum' group about what it means to decolonise a curriculum and the process of decolonising some of the department modules.
@livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2ZLU...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 21d

🙋‍♀️ yep!

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