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Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà @mariarosagarrido.bsky.social · Jun 26

📖
@mpmilans.bsky.social
& I will be presenting our new edited volume "Reimagining language and communication in collaborative projects" at VII EDiSo Symposium on 2 July 3-5 pm
🗣️ Daniel Silva, @vpajaro.bsky.social &
@peterbrowning.bsky.social
will present their chapters there
🌐 shorturl.at/5yo58

Re-imagining Language and Communication in Collaborative Projects: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Future

This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, ...

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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · Apr 23

It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...

WIRED article screenshot:

Is generative Al introducing new stereotypes to different languages and cultures?

That is part of what we're finding. The idea of blondes being stupid is not something that's found all over the world, but is found in a lot of the languages that we looked at.

When you have all of the data in one shared latent space, then semantic concepts can get transferred across languages. You're risking propagating harmful stereotypes that other people hadn't even thought of.

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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · Apr 23

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

www.science.org

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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Apr 19

One of my favorite podcasts, In bed with the Right, has started a new series following the events of 1933 and Hitler’s takeover month by month. An enlightening and sobering account. Highly recommended!

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Apr 17

The next episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social's Project 1933 is up! We decided to release it early, because the resonances are ... considerable. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode 70 -- Project 1933, Part II: March 15 to April 15

Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 04/17/2025 · 1h 18m

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Dr. Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · Apr 1

So, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social added an AI question and answer to my article in Computer & Education.

The answers are wrong!
They did not ask permission!
The answers are WRONG!

How is this science?!

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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Jan 9

I don’t have an emotional support dead famous White guy, but choose a dead famous queer black feminist as a spiritual ally.

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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Jan 8

Gratulerer!! 🥳

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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Dec 25

I’m late to this party, but I’m losing my mind with Malala’s cameo at ‘We are lady parts’ 😍

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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · Dec 15

"Granola Nazis: Fascism in the World of Health, Fitness, and Nature" by @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Granola Nazis: Fascism in the World of Health, Fitness, and Nature - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism

Granola Nazis are a part of the contemporary 'dissident right', with a particular interest in health, wellness, and nature. Though a fringe ideology, it is critically placed to exploit the ongoing cli...

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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · Dec 16

New review of my book "Postcolonial People. The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal" by Sofie De Baere. It comes with some well-deserved criticism and much praise, e.g.: "Kalter possesses the invaluable skill of making complex processes comprehensible." brill.com/view/journal...

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Iker Erdocia @ikererdocia.bsky.social · Nov 11

New publication out in JSLX: Language isn't just a data set. We explore why and suggest new directions for sociolinguistic research in the AI era #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Check out the full issue.

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Luis Pérez-González @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hace un par de días encontré este artículo (en noruego). Habla sobre el próximo cierre de una empresa de #traducción que ha dejado de ser viable porque sus clientes han decidido ahorrar mediante el uso de IA.

www.kode24.no/artikkel/ai-...

AI tok jobben deres: Legger ned selskap med 10 ansatte

AI ble kroken på døra for oversetterfirmaet Allegro. – Halve omsetningen vår forsvant nærmest over natta.

www.kode24.no

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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Nov 20

What an amazing thread. Thank you!!

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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Nov 19

In our new chapter “Discourse: A map in constant redrawing” (coming out in Flubacher & Del Percio’s “Critical Sociolinguistics. Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments”), @ellabarakos.bsky.social Juan E Bonnin and myself map the development of discourse studies in Critical Sociolinguistics. DM for copy

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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Nov 19

Yeah, I’ve been ghosting twitter for quite a while. Missing the peak years of academic twitter though

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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Nov 18

Back at it. How did this thing work again?
Very happy to see familiar names from sociolinguistic twitter :)
If you don’t know me, I’m a critical sociolinguist interested in language, multilingualism & migration in education and work. My research is based in Norway and Argentina. Let’s chat!

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · Nov 12

In case you're interested in working on language & food with me at FU Berlin, check out this job ad for a (full-time) postdoc position: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
(the ad is in German only but I guess auto translation is your friend) #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

PG- Postdoc_Vollzeitbeschäftigung

www.fu-berlin.de

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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Oct 22

I'm so pleased that this article is now out in the world! It's the first publication from my most recent project exploring intersectionality and marginalised identity construction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens

In this article, I build upon calls for an intersectional approach in sociocultural linguistic research – particularly in the context of language, gender and sexuality – which attends robustly to the...

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Luis Pérez-González @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social · Nov 16

Ønsker du å få/utvikle kompetanse innen spesialisert #oversettelse?

Ved #UniversitetetAgder kan du søke inntil fire enkeltfag, inkludert:

OF-411 Language Technologies and Generative AI
OF-412 Translating #Multimodal Texts

Informasjon om hvordan du søker finner du her:
www.uia.no/studier/sokn...

Opptak til enkeltemner - UiA

Informasjon om hvordan du søker og hvilke enkeltemner som er tilgjengelig finner du her.

www.uia.no

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Unni Eikeseth @unnieikeseth.bsky.social · Feb 16

Norway is working hard to defossiliate!🦕We started with the most important issues, renaming government agencies working with oil and gas: "Ministry of oil and energy" = "Ministry of energy". "Norwegian Petroleum Directorate" = "Norwegian Offshore Directorate". Fixed it! ✅ www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/re...

Ble advart mot grønnvasking: Fjernet likevel «olje» fra alle navn

75 prosent av de ansatte jobber med olje og gass. Likevel fjernet regjeringen «olje» fra navnet på direktoratet.

www.nrk.no

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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Dec 15

Avsløringene i NTNU saken fremstår som veldig alvorlige. Det er ikke overraskende at rektoren går av etter å ha lest meldingene hun utvekslet med NHO ledelse. Det er interessant hvordan «sunn ytringskultur» brukes for å diskvalifisere faglig kritikk.

www.vg.no/nyheter/inne...

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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Dec 7

Question about #TESOL research, ideally adult education: can you point me towards research on multilingual Tesol and / or multilingualism and Tesol scholarship? Thanks 🙏

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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Oct 31

The bunny paper!!!

Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · Oct 31

It took MANY people from many places to track it down finally!

The trenchcoat bunny paper (which is hands down EXCELLENT):

betsysneller.github.io/pdfs/Labov19...

betsysneller.github.io

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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.bsky.social · Oct 9

OH MY GOD WE'RE TWO AWAY

Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.bsky.social · Oct 8

Okay people who are fans of round numbers, we're close enough to an extremely satisfying round number of followers on here that I'm going to be stuck refreshing it until it ticks over

Could you share us with anyone you think might want to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics?

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