I think I prefer the term "vibe coding" to "prompt engineering", it's much better matched to the complexity of what you are doing

I never thought I would find academic writing enjoyable, but I kind of do, now that I don't have the pressure of a producing a 100,000 word thesis

First time that I've seen this on a university job advert: "It is desirable to have enthusiasm for developing teaching materials or curricula by utilizing generative AI." Looks like using gen-AI is becoming a necessary skill for educators.

www.iastatedigitalpress.com/plugins/book... Comparing Human Raters’ and ChatGPT-4’s Scores in Measuring Content in CLIL Presentation Rie Koizumi, Saki Suemori, Yusuke Kubo

youtu.be/LneiTaz2QoM?... Brian Eno: "I can see from the little acquaintance I have with using AI programs to make music that what you spend nearly all your time doing is trying to stop the system becoming mind numbingly mediocre" Is the same true with AI in language education?

Pattern, Construction, System: A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis. Susan Hunston's latest book. It's Open Access, so the PDF is available online already... www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

Missed out on #CL2025? Four of our wonderful plenary talks are now available to watch on demand! YouTube links on conference website and in replies: www.cl2025.co.uk/home

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

My article 'Predicting the CEFR level of English listening texts with machine learning methods' is free access in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics for a couple more days (until 20 Aug) with this link www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting article by Cannon-Jones and Wiegand (2025) To what extent can a comedy drama provide a classroom model for natural conversation? A multi-dimensional register analysis of the British series Cold Feet www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

So many learner corpora in this list from UCLouvain www.uclouvain.be/en/research-...

I seem to have noticed a lot of students "diving into topics" or "taking a deep dive" in their final presentations this semester. Is this an AI-ism?

The ICAME call for papers is out. Hopefully I can make it to Koblenz in May next year wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/cfp/

I sat in the interviewing chair for Lost in Citations again this week, interviewing Dr. John Gayed about his AI assessment tool AIAWE, check it out here www.podbean.com/ew/pb-bbamc-... John was a bit ahead of the curve on AI in applied linguistics, so it was great to talk to him about this

This year's Sinclair Lecture is now available to watch on YouTube. #ccrss25 #SinclairLecture www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXAk...

Excited to have delivered a plenary at @cl2025.co.uk @astonuniversity.bsky.social Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025. In this plenary I discussed how #corpuslinguistics & #AI may collaborate in the reconfiguration of #languagelearning ecologies. My references perezparedes.es/corpus-lingu...

My slides from #cl2025 The Creation and Validation of ConPlex (the Construction Complexity Calculator) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Ozzy is everywhere in Birmingham...

Final day of #cl2025. AI is a big topic today...

Birmingham cuisine, excellent balti at Shababs

Delighted to share that my article 'Predicting the CEFR level of English listening texts with machine learning methods' was just published in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Free access for 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thank you to the editor and reviewers.

Why are there so many seagulls in Birmingham? There's no sea!

Birmingham bound, not the best airport beer. Paper cup @ Haneda

"Morris's book provides the most comprehensive theoretical and empirical treatment of language teacher emotion regulation currently available [...] Anyone with a stake in language teacher emotions needs to read this book." buff.ly/3YSeHYC

Accepted!!! Woohoo! 😆😃😁🫠

These look good, manga-based Japanese study textbooks. Only out for JLPT N4 and N5 now, but looks like higher levels are planned www.hituzi.co.jp/meguriai/meg...

Only two weeks to go! We're working away to finalise the conference programme, featuring: • 200+ paper presentations • 50+ poster presentations • 7 thematic panels • 5 plenary talks • 5 pre-conference workshops (29th June) See you all soon! #CL2025 www.cl2025.co.uk/home

When I see 'prompt engineering', I always think it sounds far more complex than it is. Why is it not prompt composition, prompt construction or something like that?

Finally, a Replacement for BERT (Blog about ModernBert) huggingface.co/blog/modernb...

UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment (Imperial et al., 2025) arxiv.org/abs/2506.01419

Madabushi et al. (2025) arxiv.org/abs/2505.23323 "Overall, we argue and provide evidence that LLM reasoning is limited to what is termed Understanding in Bloom’s framework" not the higher levels (apply, analyze, evaluate, create)

2nd round revisions done 🤞🫣🙏

One package is not supported in Python 3.13, so I have to go back, download Python 3.12, and install everything again...😱🤬

Always good to listen to Emily Bender to keep the feet on the ground about gen-AI [Lingthusiasm podcast] 98: Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender podcastaddict.com/lingthusiasm...

Semantic alignment: A measure to quantify the degree of semantic equivalence for English–Chinese translation equivalents based on distributional semantics (Liu et al., 2025) link.springer.com/article/10.3...

'it may tend to demonstrate, also, how little we are helped by what are called "objective quantitative statistics" when such statistics refer only to isolated words' (Palmer, 1933, Second Interim Report on English Collocations) - still a problem with wordlists in 2025?

Second round of revisions, here I come 💪🔥🦾

Provisional programme is out for Corpus Linguistics 2025,　can't wait to go. I'm scheduled in the final presentation slot of the conference 😮 www.cl2025.co.uk/programme

wordfreq pypi.org/project/word... outputs the Zipf frequency of words based on several large datasets - Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web. Maybe no option to choose a domain. wordlist: which set of word frequencies to use. Current options are 'small', 'large', and 'best'.

Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types (Egbert, Biber, Gray & Larsson, 2025) www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

erm, I never said that I thought I was crazy, but thanks...? 😬

Another excellent looking talk @ Rikkyo University on 21 June. Shaofeng Li 「What is the Ideal Time to Provide Corrective Feedback?」 www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/2025/...

For my Japanese learning: github.com/Machine-Lear... English-Japanese lexicon for Machine Learning and Deep Learning terminology

Major revisions done and uploaded 🤞🤞🤞

Looks useful and like it could be used in the classroom quite easily too: How do I fact-check AI search results? craft.stanford.edu/resource/how...

Major revisions is an excellent chance to improve the quality of my paper 🤗 Major revisions is an excellent chance to improve the quality of my paper 🤗 Major revisions is an excellent chance to improve the quality of my paper 🤗

My open access paper 'The Construction Complexity Calculator (ConPlex): A tool for calculating Nelson’s (2024) construction-based complexity measure' was just published in Research in Corpus Linguistics (ricl.aelinco.es/first-view/R...). (1/3)

It's alive! My GPU is working with Python.