“”I will not leave Gaza even if I am killed. I know I am on the assassination list, but I will continue to expose the crimes of the Israeli army against my people and show the world, and everyone who stands by them, the truth.”” - Anas Al-Sharif www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"The most important lesson emerging from this awful episode is not about Glastonbury or the BBC. It is about the moral test that our society faces." The Chief Rabbi is right. His endorsement of Israel's ongoing atrocities shows he's already failed that test. Up to the rest of us. archive.ph/Oz7ME

Every single day. on.ft.com/409SaZx

(Israeli here): but surely this should be extended to the chief war criminal B Netanyahu and his sancho panza I Katz

Written by an Uyghur based in Naarm (apparently the original toponym in Woiwurrung, dubbed `Melbourne' by the Anglo colonizers) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today's demo in Paris by Israelis against the war and supporting EU sanctions against Israel and a military embargo www.france24.com/fr/moyen-ori...

Happy to announce new title in the series Elements in Semantics (CUP): Types and the Structure of Meaning Issues in Compositional and Lexical Semantics. By: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, @robincooper1.bsky.social , Eleni Gregoromichelaki Peter Sutton Open access! tinyurl.com/37bn4hkf

Wow, all semanticists can now claim unemployment benefit: AI captures the semantics of language... www.the-tls.co.uk/science-tech...

The use of AI in peer review could undermine science: “Clear, enforceable guidelines must define AI’s role in peer review, to ensure that human expertise — not algorithmic convenience — remains at its core.” @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Linguistics 101: No Pierre, not all adjectives are subsective. Fake socialists are not socialists and wannabe prime ministers do not necessarily become prime ministers

This kind of smug know-nothing politics is distressingly popular because actually, nobody does the reading. Furthermore, they want to punish the people who do for being nerds.

"The Supreme Court’s decision regarding trans women has made me ashamed of my profession – and ashamed of what our law has become." www.independent.co.uk/voices/trans...

UCU stands with trans people, today and every day. The Supreme Court ruling is not just wrong, it’s dangerous. We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity

Israeli soldiers murdered these medical workers, buried them in a mass grave, libelled them as terrorists and then lied about it. One of the ambulance crews' last words were: "I only chose this path because I wanted to help people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Cowardly capitulation in NYC www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

War crimes? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Thrilled to be invited at the European Literature Night! debalie.nl/programma/eu...

At the Arlequin yesterday J. Loktev's striking 324' docu My Undesirable Friends, brave oppo journalists' last days in Moscow b4 the invasion of Ukraine. Parallels w/ Israel (a Russia in the WB/Gaza for a while,now within the greenline). At this rate @haaretzcom.bsky.social will not exist in 6 months

Among those killed in Israeli air strikes last night: 174 children 89 women 32 elderly

Sick at heart to see the resumption of the genocidal war www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

A minute's silence for each of the children murdered by Israel in Gaza would extend to over 300 hours. Powerful speech to the UN from Daniel Levy, a former Israeli government adviser.

This is genocide. 📖 Read the full report here: amn.st/6017QR1gz #EndGazaGenocide

Elements in Semantics tinyurl.com/4hb8yssw (editors: DanLassiter, @yonatanginzburg.bsky.social ) 1. emphasizes interdisc. work in semantics. , 2. classical topics in semantics... 3. innovative ways for conveying content: in-line A/V, simulations, data analysis via runnable code snippets (3/3)

Forthcoming titles in Elements in Semantics: 1. Abzianidze, @bylinina.bsky.social, Paperno Deep Learning and Semantics. 2.K. Davidson Semantics of Depiction, 3. Chatzikyriakidis Cooper, Gregoromichelaki, Sutton Types and the structure of meaning: Issues in compositional and lexical semantics (2/3)

First 2 titles in the series Elements in Semantics (CUP), both by Kristina Liefke! 1. Natural Language Ontology and Semantic Theory tinyurl.com/3kv5wcdj 2. Reduction and Unification in Natural Language Ontology tinyurl.com/bdk5ufat available for free until early Jan (1/3)