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...

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.

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

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 www.languageonthemove.com/cold-rush/

"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 perspective-daily.de/article/3876...

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.

📢 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

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 www.languageonthemove.com/sexual-preda...

"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 afsaap.org.au/wp-content/u... @oxfordacademic.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.

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

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

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 www.languageonthemove.com/intercultura...

"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.

This was wonderful listening! Highly recommend.

"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-...

It might not look like it, but translation is often a safety-critical industry. Problem is, you can't tell where the danger is unless you're an expert, and AI is stripping expertise out at a rate of knots.

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

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.

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...

I wrote a guide on how to manage your supervisor (and yourself!) during your PhD 😀

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 www.languageonthemove.com/how-to-manag...

OH I was just discussing this with a student and a work colleague the other day and said I would look into the research (which I hadn't yet done). The timing could not be more perfect.

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...

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 www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...

A final post in our series showcasing the #LLIRN on @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) www.languageonthemove.com/whos-new-in-...

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."

Since 2019 the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Research Network (LLIRN) has been facilitating interdisciplinary scholars, language professionals and legal professionals around the world to connect and share their work; they just celebrated in style!🎉👏 www.languageonthemove.com/llirn-6th-an...

The new definition of insanity is training a chatbot on the whole of the Internet and expecting it not to repeat the Web's ugly biases.

"Politicians downplay or avoid their own agency and responsibility ... They are blaming Nature for things that they have part responsibility for." (@lesleyhead.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social) humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

Dr. Cho is one of my favourite interviewees (and colleagues!) and her newest book is a must-read for anyone interested in the world of interpreting! @languageonthemove.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Everyone needs to understand that the defunding of public broadcasting this week is part of a broader effort to dismantle the free press and control the means of reality production itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, @brynnquick.bsky.social speaks with Dr Jinhyun Cho about her new book @routledgebooks.bsky.social devoted to healthcare interpreting www.languageonthemove.com/multilingual...

New on Language-on-the-Move: the joys of international research collaboration at the Literacy-in-Diversity-Settings (LiDS) Research Centre @uni-hamburg.de www.languageonthemove.com/dr-loy-lisin...

Australia can’t withstand further humanities cuts. Civil society depends on it. While universities have the right to determine their education & research priorities, no one in Australia has a handle on the effects of cuts & their impact on our national skills & knowledge capabilities. bit.ly/3TqI4jn

"German in Australia" - guest lecture by Dr Jaime Hunt in Hamburg this Thursday - if you are in the vicinity stop by :) www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/fa...

Language-on-the-Move team member Dr Yixi Qiu has won an award under the Shanghai Magnolia Pujiang Talent Program for her project about “AI Empowerment for Enhancing Academic Writing Skills” - testament to the power of global networking! Congratulations! 恭喜! www.languageonthemove.com/shanghai-mag...

Dr Alex Grey from @utsintlaw.bsky.social has new research out on Indigenous language use in Australia's parliaments. Full text is open access (DOI 10.1080/07268602.2025.2503862) & enjoy this blog with bonus content! www.languageonthemove.com/making-lingu... (Thanks @languageonthemove.bsky.social)

My fabulous #LLIRN co-covenor has just published a new paper from this ground-breaking study. Read more on @languageonthemove.bsky.social 👇🏽

Indigenous languages are rarely use in Australia's parliaments. Alex Grey explores their use as an important form of representation in our latest Language-on-the-Move article www.languageonthemove.com/making-lingu...

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

Right at the moment where regulators are trying to address the harms of social media, chatbots are bringing a whole new range of issues that must be tackled before the escalate. It was great to get @nitasha.bsky.social’s insights on all the red flags we’re seeing with generative AI.

Prof Leah Karliner @ucsfhealth.bsky.social is doing such important work, and I was so lucky to talk with her for this @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast episode with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!

Or here's a thought--maybe we could hire more actual human teachers, pay them better, make class sizes smaller, build in more paid prep time, and generally just invest in education instead of investing in AI.

How can we improve quality of care for patients with limited English language proficiency? Find out in the latest Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social where @brynnquick.bsky.social chats with Prof Leah Karliner @ucsfhealth.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/improving-qu...

In this episode of the @languageonthemove.bsky.social #podcast, Dr. @mixedlinguist.bsky.social breaks down how linguistic identity is performed on the political stage, focusing on Kamala Harris. 🔗 www.languageonthemove.com/accents-comp... #langsky #linguistics

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

It was great to be part of one of my favorite podcasts, Language on the Move! Have a listen! (Please ignore my slip of the tongue when talking about education in the early 2000s—I meant to say Qatar was really promoting English then, not Arabic!)