Is today World Linguistics Day? I'm not Saussure. 🤔

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

The joke I've usually heard is that foxes are cat software running on dog hardware.

A reminder that gas-powered leafblowers are nightmare devices that are bad for you, bad for your lawn, and very bad for the environment. They fume and scream and kill the world all so you can messily and ineffectively move leaves around, leaves which are generally supposed to stay where they fell.

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

too real lol

AGI any day now

Every ad now

It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

Next up in the @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social English seminar series! Yating Yu (University of Macau), 'Media representations of the ‘little fresh meat’ phenomenon in China: a feminist critical discourse analysis of the masculine nonconformity discourse' Abstract/register!👇 r.jyu.fi/engseminars2...

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Scientist James Watson has died. As per his final requests, he will be buried in such a position that he can still look over the shoulder of the grave of Dr. Franklin, just in case zombie Rosalind discovers something else worth swiping.

In case you're organising a conference, please feel free to adapt our code of conduct (shared under @creativecommons.bsky.social). It was inspired by reports of harassment at conferences during MeToo. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

since all of this is fresh on my mind i'm also trying ecosia as my default search but realistically will still use google for many things, so i've made this no-ai version my homepage udm14.com

Not now, carnivorous death ball

Shout out to people coming up with clever acronyms for conferences, projects, research centres... 🙃

lol

I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.

“The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income” - Peter Greenberg #academicsky #academictalk #highered

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

"Wait, Andrew might get stripped of the chance to attend the annual Order of the Garter lunch? OH NO NOT A DELUNCHING?!" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There go all my excuses.🙃 interestingengineering.com/culture/math...

this is such a good idea and looks really well executed (AND OPEN SOURCE 😁)

The Louvre jewel heist is a crime I can get behind. Old fashioned fun, sexy, audacious, victimless caper we can enjoy guilt-free. I hope they get caught after a long international chase, but instead of jail they get a parade. "Thank you for this fun crime! I hope nobody else tries it again (wink)"

🤖 New Early View! In “Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work”, Alfonso Del Percio examines technofuturist registers, showing how AI is made desirable & shapes social imaginations of the future, reconfiguring visions of labor, personhood, and modernity. 🔗 Read here: buff.ly/3Bmxbgv

Oh yeah I hadn’t thought of that

It’s crazy that we invented the internet and then it completely tore us apart. Like imagine if we invented the mass produced assembly line automobile and then it caused 40,000 deaths per wait

If it feels like Reviewer 2 didn't read your paper properly, guess what? Nobody else will either! Your readers are overworked, busy, skimming. Be clearer. Be so clear you start to feel you're being patronising. Even if you are patronising, you're at least addressing your reader rather than yourself.

Protip: "Pilvi" on edelleen vaan jonkun muun tietokone, ja huomattavan monessa tapauksessa se joku on Jeff Bezos... 😬 Kaiken pilveen tunkeminen oli alun alkaenkin virhe, eikä se sittemmin ole muuttunut yhtään vähemmän virheeksi, eikä näin paha keskittyminen tosiaankaan helpota asiaa.

The daring jewel heist at the Louvre was a masterclass in efficient planning, skill and organisation. It's imperative that the culprits are now apprehended and asked to form a government.

If you didn’t already know, Salesforce owns Slack.

Just popping out to LIDL, or 50-1-500-50 as the Romans called it.

This Halloween I was invited to a movie night with mostly researchers. When I thought about costumes, there was only one that came to mind... the infamous Reviewer 2! Using what I already had (and a Google for some real life examples of feedback) I put together my spookiest costume yet.

In the spirit of the season

Timeline cleanse! Autumn in central Finland. 🍂🇫🇮😊

For all those who celebrate. 🥳🍌

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Halloween is on the way! Do you like the International Phonetic Alphabet but wish it was... spooOOOoookier? I present... The INTERRED⚰️national FANG🧛etic AlphaBEAST 👹 r.jyu.fi/IPAspooky Free to use/adapt! (@creativecommons.bsky.social) Repost or I will send zombies to eat your braaaaains. 🧟‍‍ 🧠🍽️

vertical diagona/ horizonta__ no further questions

[19th Century Social Entrepreneur voice]: "I've created an app called Light in the Dark so that child laborers can connect with each other and share resources about mining techniques."

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got - scam machine - psychosis inducing machine - weapons of mass destruction - button you push that makes the planet hotter - markets that intentionally starve people - clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time - medicine you can’t afford

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

📢📢Next up in the @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social English seminar series!📢📢 Mon 3 Nov 2025 at 16:00 EET. Emily Harmer, @harm365.bsky.social: 'What is online abuse anyway? The case of women politicians in the UK' See the abstract & register here. 👇 Go go go! r.jyu.fi/engseminars2...

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Save the date! 📣 First International DeafTech conference, May 26-27, 2026, Vienna. www.deaftech26.eu

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Stock reply to anyone complaining about singular "they" and pretending it's just about standards and not transphobia. If that's really their jam, they should get back into using "thou". books.google.co.uk/books?id=YKQ...