Lisa Gaufman
@lisares.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ University of Groningen.
📚"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" https://rb.gy/493gts
📚 "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" https://rb.gy/8yyzy4
📚"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" https://rb.gy/493gts
📚 "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" https://rb.gy/8yyzy4
Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., & Slater, J. (2024). ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology, 26(2), 1-10.
Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021, March). On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?🦜.
Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021, March). On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?🦜.
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., & Slater, J. (2024). ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology, 26(2), 1-10.
Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021, March). On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?🦜.
Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021, March). On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?🦜.
Ancient Greeks loved bright colors! But unless they use a Dune color palette no one will think it’s “olden times” 🤦🏻♀️
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Ancient Greeks loved bright colors! But unless they use a Dune color palette no one will think it’s “olden times” 🤦🏻♀️
He actually thought it was funny when I told him that prof x expressed interest in my research. Then told me how x is famous for liking young female grad students.
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
He actually thought it was funny when I told him that prof x expressed interest in my research. Then told me how x is famous for liking young female grad students.
At some point during my PhD, a senior male colleague told me that the only reason another senior male colleague was interested in my research was to get into my pants. Double whammy: apart from harassment fears, that made me think that my research was garbage.
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
At some point during my PhD, a senior male colleague told me that the only reason another senior male colleague was interested in my research was to get into my pants. Double whammy: apart from harassment fears, that made me think that my research was garbage.
I can finally rub it in to every single copy-editor who tired to break my half a page long sentences :)
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I can finally rub it in to every single copy-editor who tired to break my half a page long sentences :)
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume is the first book-length collection of research on language, gender and sexuality in the societies of Central and Eastern Europe.
link.springer.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
There used to be a great course on comparative children’s literature in our program at RUG, but it was cut because of the budget cuts… I can try asking the colleague who used to teach it!
September 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
There used to be a great course on comparative children’s literature in our program at RUG, but it was cut because of the budget cuts… I can try asking the colleague who used to teach it!
Don’t know about different languages, but here is a fun article about foxes in Russian folkloric tales www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Chasing foxes in Russian folk tales
This paper examines the representation of foxes in Russian folk tales (narodnye skazki). It explores the frequency of the word “fox” (lisa) in the titles of folk tales, the number of single occurre...
www.tandfonline.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Don’t know about different languages, but here is a fun article about foxes in Russian folkloric tales www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fox is also a she, so she gets to be this stereotypical “female” cunning character who uses her “feminine” wiles. Some researchers even argued a fox in eastern Slavic mythologies can even be representative of a “vagina dentata” myths
September 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fox is also a she, so she gets to be this stereotypical “female” cunning character who uses her “feminine” wiles. Some researchers even argued a fox in eastern Slavic mythologies can even be representative of a “vagina dentata” myths
Oh big time! For the most part because the languages are gendered so the animal gets a gender (like dog is a she, bear is a he). Translations are funny: for instance Owl in Winnie the Pooh is a female character in Russian because owl and birds in general are “female”
September 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Oh big time! For the most part because the languages are gendered so the animal gets a gender (like dog is a she, bear is a he). Translations are funny: for instance Owl in Winnie the Pooh is a female character in Russian because owl and birds in general are “female”
Slavic languages will have a totally different diagram!
September 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Slavic languages will have a totally different diagram!
oh, gotta read this!!!
July 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
oh, gotta read this!!!