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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · 6h

Sometimes being social scientist makes you very sincerely say things like "I have at least one more paragraph on rurality marinading in my brain"

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, I want to take this course!

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 8d

New piece.

The data presented by @thejcpa.bsky.social and @counterhate.com about antisemitism on X is stark: it is being spread to hundreds of millions of people.

Not just antisemitism, but OVERT antisemitism. And that shift means far more than people realize. It won't be long before it leaves X.

Overt Anti-Jewish Hate is On the Verge of Going Mainstream

The combination of mainstreamed conspiracy theories and overt hate on X is close to transforming America's relationship with Jews.

open.substack.com

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · 9d

I stand by it

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · 13d

A weird immigrant thing is the acute joy in realising that four of the top five people you have most recently texted are actually local. Making friends in Germany can be so hard, but after three years, I seem to have cracked it

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · 18d

Excellent commute, so speedy!

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Dr. Hannah M. King @hmking-linguist.bsky.social · 20d

For #parents: "fostering #bilingualism doesn’t require fancy programs but consistency & genuine value"

#Educators: can "change how #multilingualism is treated in schools. . . [by honoring] the full range of #languages students bring, they tell children that every part of their identity matters." 🗣💬

UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social · 20d

Bilingual Brains, Better Outcomes?: The Benefits of Multilingual Upbringing; Raising kids multilingual can boost brain development and future success.

Bilingual Brains, Better Outcomes?: The Benefits of Multilingual Upbringing

Bilingualism shapes minds, identities, and relationships. Research shows it’s more than a “brain boost”—it’s about connection and resilience.

www.psychologytoday.com

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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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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · 20d

I have the monthly ticket because I use the train to commute to work, but my husband can drive and refuses to spend the money on a second. Between cost and the unreliability of DB, we don't take the train casually anymore, even within NRW (which then adds to the horribile traffic conditions!)

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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 22d

I have had the great privilege of authoring this report on barriers for ISL interpreters and I’ll be presenting at its launch next week in Dublin. Attendance is free and the event has ISL and English interpretation You can register attendance at the link www.eventbrite.ie/e/report-lau...

Report Launch: Barriers to studying and working as an ISL Interpreter

Launch of a research report funded by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Grant Scheme 24-25

www.eventbrite.ie

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨

The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism)

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline: 15 October 2025

PhD student in Linguistics, sign language

The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph

su.varbi.com

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · 28d

Oooh, Rave would have set a very different tone for the volume!
I'm certainly sent (or nearly sent) emails as "MaGGIE", so I definitely understand

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · 28d

After the fastest Ausländerbehörde Termin of my life, I promptly sent @davesayers.bsky.social an email signed as "Mage" 🤦‍♀️

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 29d

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.

I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Sep 9

Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
www.mpi.nl/publications...

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · 29d

I don't need gadgets to be thin as much as I need them to be less wide!! My hands are small!

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Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great to see this new edition of the Mercator dossier on Gaelic education in Scotland, brought right up to date by @dringebirnie.bsky.social An authoritative overview of provision for Gaelic at all levels
research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/portalfil...

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · Sep 5

This conference was so incredible that I have completely lost my voice

Dr 〽️elody Ann Ross @melodyannross.bsky.social · Sep 3

I almost always love conferences anyway, but DANG this one has already been SO FUN!!!! #LL16

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · Sep 5

I spent the afternoon chatting with Nick, and it was an absolute highlight

It was also really lovely to meet you again!

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anteangaeile.bsky.social @anteangaeile.bsky.social · Sep 3

The place to buy a used car @ #Ll16 @mglass.bsky.social

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 3

Something I didn't get to say yesterday:

We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 3

It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here:

www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V...

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · Sep 2

Here is a useless fact, in the lead up to #LL16: just over .5% of the total Dodge-make vehicles in Germany are currently in one of five used car dealerships which are within about 20km of each other

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you’re struggling with how someone can be both an atheist & a Jew in good standing, it’s prob bc you’re assuming “Jew” and “Christian” are parallel terms.

A Christian is, broadly, an adherent of the Christian religion.

A Jew is a member of a people whose distinctive practices include Judaism.

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Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social · Aug 27

Congratulations!!!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are.

Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

softwarecrisis.dev

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · Aug 10

I think this is correct. A PhD is not a signal of innate intelligence, but rather of perseverance and grit in the pursuit of knowledge. Conflating LLMs with PhDs is a category error.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · Aug 9

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

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