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Ingrid Piller is an Australian linguist, who specializes in intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and bilingual education. Piller is Distinguished… more

Ingrid Piller
H-index: 35
Communication & Media Studies 41%
Psychology 16%
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by Ingrid Piller — Reposted by Ingrid Piller

languageonthemove.bsky.social
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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by Ingrid Piller — Reposted by Ingrid Piller

languageonthemove.bsky.social
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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brynnquick.bsky.social
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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ncecire.bsky.social
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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levostregc.bsky.social
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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by Ingrid Piller

languageonthemove.bsky.social
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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by Ingrid Piller

languageonthemove.bsky.social
"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."
@perspective-daily.bsky.social
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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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Reposted by Ingrid Piller, Peter Thorne, Ana Delicado , and 7 more

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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.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Sep 4
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
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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ikererdocia.bsky.social
📢 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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by Ingrid Piller

languageonthemove.bsky.social
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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by Ingrid Piller

languageonthemove.bsky.social
"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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@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
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Reposted by Ingrid Piller, Johan P. Olsen, Tom Stoppard

egallagher.bsky.social
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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by Ingrid Piller

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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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levostregc.bsky.social
"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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by Ingrid Piller

languageonthemove.bsky.social
"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
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...
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.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
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.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
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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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by Jacob T. Levy — Reposted by Ingrid Piller, Lisa W. Fazio, Jennifer Bussell , and 19 more

jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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.
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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 ... theverge.com 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." Copy Share Select all Web search Dictionary ...
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by Ingrid Piller — Reposted by Ingrid Piller

languageonthemove.bsky.social
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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htorsh.bsky.social
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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hannahshelley.bsky.social
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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by Ingrid Piller — Reposted by Ingrid Piller

languageonthemove.bsky.social
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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by Ingrid Piller

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That's hilarious! And so sweet 😍 @brynnquick.bsky.social!
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by Ingrid Piller

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You've just made our team's day 😍
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Reposted by Ingrid Piller, Steve Peers, Adrian Vickers

tazinabdullah.bsky.social
Are there social impacts of relying on AI for translations? Are AI translations neutral and inclusive? I discuss these and more in this very insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...
The Social Impact of Automating Translation
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Catalun…
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by Ingrid Piller — Reposted by Esther Monzó-Nebot

languageonthemove.bsky.social
Just out on the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: instead of asking how to improve machine translation, we need to ask who are these improvements for ... @tazinabdullah.bsky.social in conversation with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot
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The Social Impact of Automating Translation
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Catalun…
www.languageonthemove.com
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lauraskh.bsky.social
A final post in our series showcasing the #LLIRN on @languageonthemove.bsky.social
Who’s New in Law and Language?
This is the fifth and final blog in our “LLIRN About Us” series, which Laura Smith-Khan and I commenced in 2024 in celebration of 5 years of the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Research Netwo…
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by Ingrid Piller

languageonthemove.bsky.social
Want to check out exciting new Law-and-Language work? The latest Language-on-the-Move post spotlights some new members of the e Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Research Network (LLIRN)
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Who’s New in Law and Language?
This is the fifth and final blog in our “LLIRN About Us” series, which Laura Smith-Khan and I commenced in 2024 in celebration of 5 years of the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Research Netwo…
www.languageonthemove.com

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marygillis.bsky.social
Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study
Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.
www.ctvnews.ca
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Ich finde euch übrigens alle exzellent, egal was die DFG sagt 🫶
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