Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

For decades the tech industry has insulated itself from criticism by leveraging the rhetoric of progressivism & benignity towards the disenfranchised & disabled, w promises of “access” & “democratization” that their products afford. We can’t stop them using this lang but we can stop falling for it.

See the recording of the #UiBAI seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8H6.... @uibai.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

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Lyst til å jobbe med og styrke norsk fagspråk? Ledig stilling som terminolog ved Termportalen / UiB Universitetsbiblioteket, med søknadsfrist 3. mars!

"Telling Histories: Black Women Historans in the Ivory Tower" Editor Deborah Gray White By comparing the experiences of older and younger generations, the book examines the benefits and drawbacks of the institutionalization of African American and African American women’s history. #BHM #History

«Jeg har likevel ikke tro på å blokkere tjenester fordi de potensielt kan misbrukes, sier hun til Altinget.» Potensielt? POTENSIELT?! Herregud det er ikke snakk om *potensiell* misbruk her, Grok brukes til å generere og distribuere tusenvis av deepfake seksuelle bilder. Av BARN. Kom igjen, da.

Do you want to contribute to figuring out what “AI” should be in schools and education, or what effects implementation of “AI” tools and platforms will have on the practice of learning and/or the practice of teaching? Come do a PhD with us! (!deadline is March 9th!) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

When Bad Bunny was announced as performing the Super Bowl half time show I wrote a blog post talking about how the world we are fighting for sounds like Bad Bunny singing at the Super Bowl. Having seen the performance I am doubling down on that claim educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/w...

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption

How do language models affect human communication, narratives and identity? Join our researchers live at or streamed #UiBAI #18 on Friday February 13th at 10.00 (CET): www.uib.no/en/ai/181273... @jilltxt.bsky.social @hannaroine.bsky.social @srettberg.bsky.social

Og 1-2 stipendiatstillinger ved Universitetet i Innlandet i flerspråklighet i utdanning og opplæring, også med søknadsfrist 9. mars. Prosjektet skal være knyttet til språklæring/språkdidatikk i anvendt språkvitenskap, pedagogikk eller utdanningsvitenskap.

One to two available Ph.D. positions in applied English linguistics at the University of Inland Norway! The project focus should be on the educational context and combine (1) emerging digital technologies (AI) for English language learning and (2) corpus linguistics. Application deadline March 9.

Does ChatGPT-5 reach claimed 'PhD-level expertise' when asked to perform the routine human task of assessing a PhD student's work? We asked this and tested Claude and Gemini while we were at it. Here are the peer-reviewed results. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💜 this as a living of Toni Cade Bambara's "the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"

This whole thread is absolutely worth reading!

Sat down last night and wrote a bit about red hats, resistance, and Norwegian identity. paper-tiger.net/2026/02/06/o...

the new ratboys record is out today. i’m so thrilled everyone finally gets to hear it. enjoy it, soak it in. you’re not alone

Nope nope nope nope nope I hate it @bookshop.org

A few years back, my brain mixed up 'hold your horses!' and 'cool your jets!' and what came out of my mouth was, 'COOL YOUR HORSES' and now this is just an integral part of my idiolect.

Gratulerer til @aasew.bsky.social som ny nasjonalbibliotekar! www.forskerforum.no/ny-nasjonalb...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

16 days later and this is still the top pattern on Ravelry's Hot Right Now. It was published on January 16 and there are over 6,000 project pages linked to the pattern. I've been on Ravelry since 2008 and I've never seen anything like this.

We’re thrilled to launch our Reframing Impact: AI Summit 2026 series today! In partnership with @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and Aapti Institute, we set out to interrogate the narratives shaping AI discourse, and the truth about its real impact.

If you're interested in AI and in Bergen you should come to the UiB AI seminar on Friday, Feb 13th from 10-12, featuring @hannaroine.bsky.social, Zahra Rizvi, Scott Rettberg and me from @cdn-bergen.bsky.social! If you're not in Bergen, you can sign up to watch it online. www.uib.no/en/ai/181273...

Ledig stilling som høyskolelektor i kunst og håndverk ved Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole for barnehagelærerutdanning i Trondheim: www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

New article on AI and fascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I started reading the book Teaching with AI for my job and I DNF it because it was so awful and so willing to gloss over/ignore any of the larger problems with genAI. Glad to see this review in Critical AI which calls it out for that. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

1/3 of detainees at the Dilley concentration camp are children. 400 of 1200. And now a measles outbreak.

As far as we know, the primary cause of death in ICE custody is a refusal to provide medical care. It’s a form of structural violence and extremely common component of eugenics and ethnic cleansings.

Repeating my plea for a historian of late C19th/early C20th spiritualism to write something about the chatbot industry, because from where I sit it looks a lot like the same predatory grifting with more expensive ectoplasm.

Today, on Fred Korematsu Day, we honor the man whose refusal to comply with the mass removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II became one of the most significant challenges to government authority in U.S. history.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Wow, weird, if only we could have seen this coming in some way

Kjære journalister: ikke vær mikrofonstativer for tekselskapene som vil selge oss mer KI for å tjene mer penger. Her er noen av de mange norske forskerne med kompetanse på KI og etikk og arbeidsliv - og jeg har nok glemt mange, for vi er mange og dette er en kjapp liste. jilltxt.net/norske-forsk...

The Nordic Journal of Linguistics is curating a special issue dedicated to the past, present, and future of the Saami languages. We invite contributions on Saami languages and Saami linguistics. We also welcome studies with varied linguistic methodologies, topics and more. 📚 https://cup.org/45wzW7l

it is impossible to miss the difference between the names you see in newspaper headlines and the names you don't see in newspaper headlines

Exciting news! 🗣💬 New publication for forthcoming SI on #multilingual #picturebooks - virtual launch event coming soon! Developing a multilingual #library of picturebooks doi.org/10.1080/0143... Let me know if you need access :) #storytime #representation #visibility #Kidlit #booksky #langsky

TIL that the University of Glasgow has a book collecting prize for students, which is kind of cool? But I also can't help but think that the students who already have the "best collection" of printed books are probably not the students who need £500 the most...

Also. As someone who's gone through trauma-counselling: play Tetris or similar for twenty minutes. Do the 5 senses grounding technique: 1 thing you can touch, two things you can smell etc.

If you think ICE - or frankly any 'law enforcement' - should have the right to execute anyone, you are the fucking problem. There is no excuse. None. Nothing justifies this. Abolish is step 1. Trials are step 2. That is the only path to a surviving democracy in the U.S.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

This thread is great, and there are two things that jump out at me as key: first, the prep beforehand (e.g. reading Vallor's work) and the agency and responsibility given to the students.

The @nordicmuseum.org's annual Sámi Film Festival is coming up February 6-7! There will be in-person screenings in Seattle and NYC, but it looks like virtual passes will also be available. Elle Márjá Eira is curating this year's festival. nordicmuseum.org/events/2026-...

Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #multimodality #digitalhumanities

Two open PhD fellowships in English Historical Linguistics at the University of Stavanger! Ideal for candidates familiar with Middle English. These are salaried positions with benefits, and knowledge of Norwegian is not necessary. Application deadline March 4th! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

sneaking out 'every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (confidence rating HIGH)' makes me think about al gore and his movie from, like 18 years ago, what was it called. anyway

Does anyone have any favorite #dataviz examples of the timeline of AI booms and winters since the 1950s? Looking for something that emphasizes that there have been previous cycles of hype and loss of interest.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...