New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access: My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture

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Our first issue is coming along 🙌 We're actively looking for submissions

Calls: Lexique - "Special Issue: Language, End of Life, Death, and Bereavement" (Jrnl)

Calls: Parameters of Language Staging

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Confs: World Englishes on the Stage and Screen

Neat graph crime in the flyer about the referendum on Munich's candidacy to host the Olympics 🙃

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Here's a site that searches scientific publications for phrases that indicate that the text was created by ChatGPT and pasted into the manuscript without checking (e.g. "Certainly, here are some recommendations..."). There are HUNDREDS of them, often without disclosure of AI. 1/2 www.academ-ai.info

Glad I get to stay a little longer and enjoy the sunshine 🌞 Ačiū #ICAME46 and Vilnius for the great week 💚

Lukas Sönning's beautiful #ICAME46 slides can be found at: osf.io/fr476/ lots of important take-aways for effective (and aesthetic) data visualization!

Checking in on Bluesky from #ICAME46 👋 Having an excellent time so far in beautiful Vilnius

What a treat to teach a class on language and sci-fi in my pop culture class today 🚀👨‍🚀🌌🖖 we read @catlaliberte.bsky.social @dianawengl.bsky.social and Melanie Keller's fantastic article on the sociolinguistics of Firefly and I got to show a lot of clips demonstrating code-switching in the series 🤓

Dans le cadre du projet en linguistique LUDOCORP, Alice Ray de l'Université d'Orléans recherche des équipes de joueurs et joueuses de jeu vidéo pour enregistrer des sessions de jeu multijoueur, pour cerner les spécificités du "ludolecte" francophone. Infos framaforms.org/appel-a-volo...

If anyone at #RC21symposium would like an A4 poster to advertise @studentresearch.bsky.social at their institution, let me know 😉

The mix of clapping and knocking at #RC21symposium brings me joy ☺ (I'm a clapper for some reason)

Walton Goggins has a sunglasses brand called Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses

Now seems an appropriate time to recommend some books to know more about Caribbean people at the Panama Canal and beyond: 1/ "Dying to better themselves" (2014) by Olive Senior. I cherish that one because the focus in not solely on racism, death and disease, but on how people built community.

Teensy extension for our Expanding Circles of English workshop at #ISLE8. (In case you were kicking yourself to have missed this). In Santiago de Compostela, early career travel bursaries available (separate application with the conference), and with fun people! 😃

Nie vergessen, dass der Panamakanal von Menschen aus der Karibik gebaut wurde! Hunderttausende aus Jamaika, Barbados, Trinidad und Tobago, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia usw, von denen Tausende dafür gestorben sind. taz.de/Blackrock-gr...

Das Ende meiner Zeit in der Wissenschaft ist absehbar: Ich bin nach wie vor befristet, ohne Entfristungs-Perspektive. Was das mit mir macht? Trauer & Frust sind inzwischen was anderem gewichen: Erleichterung. Denn ich hab es satt, dieses Leben unter Vorbehalt. Heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss! #IchBinHanna

French TV has spoken on whether cheeseburgers and hot dogs are sandwiches 🙌🍔🌭

I have some vague memory of reading something about how ChatGPT overuses one of the genitive variants ('s I think?), does someone know something about that? 🙏

Since the winter semester is coming to an end in Germany, think of us when your students write great term papers and theses 🙏😇 We're hoping to publish our first issue this year.

You're not imagining things, Bridgerton massively underuses contractions -- we counted! 😋 doi.org/10.33675/ANG...

That's interesting! I just hope the technology doesn't become an excuse to not hire actors who speak minoritized languages/varieties (or to erase their accents when they're "inconvenient" 🙃)

LMU wann?

The way people are reacting indicates that it was 100% the right choice 😏

How many of is walk taller, unashamed of our vernaculars, directly or indirectly because of him?

On my way to teach about department stores in NYC, today of all days 🥴

Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

THE AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want (by yours truly & @alexhanna.bsky.social) is now available for pre-order! All the details here: thecon.ai

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Is Linguist List on here yet?

I've very recently seen someone's post congratulating their PhD student on the successful defense of a PhD that has to do with describing linguistic differences between human and LLM-written texts. Anyone can tell me who that was?.. Or recommend other work that exists on the topic? #linguistics

My colleagues and I have created a journal for student work in English linguistics 🤓 Peer reviewed and open access!

In case you're interested in working on language & food with me at FU Berlin, check out this job ad for a (full-time) postdoc position: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet... (the ad is in German only but I guess auto translation is your friend) #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

That's how (academic) writing is like for me too, but I realized recently that this is not at all universal -- some people really do start typing with a very clear picture of what the end product will be and so barely need to edit anything 🤯

You guys, I just found the best location for your next linguistics conference 🤓

This is really important. Academic editors don’t have to let cruelty go through to authors. Which doesn’t mean limiting genuine informed criticism. But most of the stories you hear about horrible peer reviews should have been stopped.

"Experienced speakers", Randall just gets it 🥰

Fluid Speech xkcd.com/2942

Ever wondered how to ask inclusive, clear and accurate gender questions in survey research? But not had any data support your best guesses? Very excited to announce we have a new paper out in Linguistics Vanguard investigating exactly that! (Out now! Open Access!) www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

So many of my students call writing emails "texting" 🙉

The deadline for the English linguistics professorship (tenure track or full) in Tampere is 11 March 11: tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_... We especially welcome applications from people who offer novel methodological approaches to language data! Tell us how you see the future of linguistics

A student of mine is looking for McLennan (2004) "Guy, guys, and gender neutrality" -- does anybody have it? 🙏