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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 1d

This symposium looks amazing and if I were anywhere near Sydney on December 8 I would make a priority to attend. It sounds like a wonderful opportunity for anyone interested in all these issues. Really, Wow!

Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 1d

If you are in Sydney on Dec 8, join us for a 1-day research symposium to explore new technologies in intercultural communication: how do migrants and international students use AI to manage life in a new country? how do language learners use social media?
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Event: New Technologies in Intercultural Communication

You are invited to join us on Monday, December 08, at Macquarie University for a workshop to explore New Technologies in Intercultural Communication. Description: Digital technologies are in the pr…

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 1d

If you are in Sydney on Dec 8, join us for a 1-day research symposium to explore new technologies in intercultural communication: how do migrants and international students use AI to manage life in a new country? how do language learners use social media?
www.languageonthemove.com/event-new-te...

Event: New Technologies in Intercultural Communication

You are invited to join us on Monday, December 08, at Macquarie University for a workshop to explore New Technologies in Intercultural Communication. Description: Digital technologies are in the pr…

www.languageonthemove.com

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Sean @shocktigan.bsky.social · 7d

I keep saying this but in all of the professional circles I am involved AI (like all awful things imposed on us) is presented as a foregone conclusion and the discussions are limited to *how we can implement it effectively* rather than *whether we should implement it at all*

Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 8d

New on Language-on-the-Move: everyone talks about using AI in education "critically" - that should mean NOT using it, argues Ana Bruzon

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Why “critical” use of AI in education might mean refusal

UNESCO’s ‘Digital Learning Week’, which focused on AI and the future of education, was held earlier this month, and debates about the role of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in the classro…

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 8d

New on Language-on-the-Move: everyone talks about using AI in education "critically" - that should mean NOT using it, argues Ana Bruzon

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Why “critical” use of AI in education might mean refusal

UNESCO’s ‘Digital Learning Week’, which focused on AI and the future of education, was held earlier this month, and debates about the role of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in the classro…

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Brynn Quick @brynnquick.bsky.social · 21d

I am so fortunate to have been able to interview Shaun Tan about his beautiful book “The Arrival” for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. www.languageonthemove.com/migration-is...

Migration is about every human challenge

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with writer, illustrator, filmmaker and Academy Award winner Shaun Tan. Shaun is best known for illustrated books that deal w…

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28d

For true innovacioun, we neede poetrye, philosophye, ethics, and the studye of historye and literature and language. We neede to fynde newe wayes of wearinge our heartes, new dreames of the future. Technologye alone will onlye make bettir tooles for makinge olde injustices happen faster.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 28d

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 29d

In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, we explore the tension between two colliding forces - rapidly progressing climate change and global economic extraction as they play out in the Cold Rush in the heating Arctic
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Cold Rush

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Sari Pietikainen about her new book Cold Rush (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). This book is an original study of “Cold Rush…

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Wir alle leben in einer diversen Gesellschaft und müssen Wege finden, miteinander auszukommen. Das ist ein Überlebensimperativ für die Welt geworden. Da kann man sich eine Scheibe von mehrsprachigen Paaren abschneiden."
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Wir müssen reden, mi amor: So wirkt sich Sprache auf die Liebe aus

Ihre Beziehungen basieren auf Liebe, Vertrauen und Google Translate. 4 multilinguale Paare und eine Linguistin erklären, wie Sprache den gemeinsamen Alltag prägt.

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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · Sep 4

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Sep 4

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

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Iker Erdocia @ikererdocia.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢 Do you use AI tools in research + academia?

Survey for scholars working on language in society - please also consider participating if you do NOT use AI technologies.

Complete (15 min) & share by Sept 14 🙏https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/FW27T97

Iker Erdocia, Britta Schneider & Bettina Migge

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Sep 2

In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Dr @htorsh.bsky.social speaks with Vaughan Rapatahana about his new book on sexual exploitation in the TESOL industry

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Sexual predation and English language teaching

In this episode Hanna Torsh talks to Vaughan Rapatahana about sexual predation in the English language teaching industry. Dr Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa) is an author, poet and editor who lives i…

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Few books leave a lasting impact, but Life in a New Language will leave a significant one long after you engage with it."

Davida Asante about our 20-year research with 130 migrants to Australia, Australasian Review of African Studies

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Hanna Torsh @htorsh.bsky.social · Aug 18

Participants needed for research on innovative grammar in Australian English.
It will involve an anonymous online questionnaire that will take approximately 5-15 minutes to complete.

Acceptability and use of grammatical innovation in Australian English

limesurvey.mq.edu.au

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Aug 26

In the latest edition of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Loy Lising chats with Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her popular textbook "Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction" @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Intercultural Communication – Now in the 3rd edition

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Loy Lising speaks with Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her best-selling textbook Intercultural Communication (…

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lauraskh.bsky.social · Aug 23

This was wonderful listening! Highly recommend.

Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Aug 19

What does it feel like to grow up with a "mixed" heritage in a culture that continues to favor single-identity narratives?

Find out from Dr Zozan Balci (@routledgebooks.bsky.social) in the latest Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

www.languageonthemove.com/erased-voice...

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Aug 22

"AI didn't kill translation, it didn't kill my job, it killed everyone's capacity to care about anything but the bottom line."

Great docu by @bcmerchant.bsky.social about machine translation; it's still bad no matter how much lipstick they put on that pig
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AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · Aug 22

It might not look like it, but translation is often a safety-critical industry. Problem is, you can't tell where the danger is unless you're an expert, and AI is stripping expertise out at a rate of knots.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 21

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Aug 20

Langdon Winner (1977)

the AI field has never been short of visionaries that saw straight through much of the industry’s destructive model yet here we are witnessing the destruction time and time again

It is at this point that a pervasive ignorance and refusal to know, irre
sponsibility, and blind faith characterize society's orientation toward
the technical. Here it happens that men release powerful changes into
the world with cavalier disregard for consequences; that they begin to
"use" apparatus, technique, and organization with no attention to the
ways in which these "tools" unexpectedly rearrange their lives; that
they willingly submit the governance of their affairs to the expertise
of others. It is here also that they begin to participate without second
thought in megatechnical systems far beyond their comprehension or
control; that they endlessly proliferate technological forms of life that
isolate people from each other and cripple rather than enrich the
human potential; that they stand idly by while vast technical systems
reverse the reasonable relationship between means and ends. It is here
above all that modern men come to accept an over.whelmingly passive
response to everything technological. The maxim "What man has made
he can also change" becomes increasingly scandalous.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 19

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 19

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

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Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ...
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The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5
successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting
with in 2023.
Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output."
The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can
give incorrect responses."
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Aug 19

What does it feel like to grow up with a "mixed" heritage in a culture that continues to favor single-identity narratives?

Find out from Dr Zozan Balci (@routledgebooks.bsky.social) in the latest Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

www.languageonthemove.com/erased-voice...

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Brynn Quick @brynnquick.bsky.social · Aug 11

I wrote a guide on how to manage your supervisor (and yourself!) during your PhD 😀

Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you find doing a PhD is daunting, the new Language-on-the-Move guide to managing your supervisor is here to help!
@brynnquick.bsky.social provides a look behind the scenes of our research team
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How to manage your supervisor

You know that feeling you get in your stomach when you’ve climbed to the top of a rollercoaster, and you look down to see that first huge drop that’s rapidly approaching? That’s exactly what it can…

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