Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

Attending the #BondSolon #ExpertWitness Conference online while waiting for my flight.

Introducing LexTime, a dataset designed to evaluate LLMs’ event ordering capabilities in legal language. Findings show that legal linguistic complexities and nested clauses remain a challenge for LLMs.

Truce violations by Israel continue. The mass killings may have stopped but the killing and starvation of Palestinians continue. #PhoneyCeasefire #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

'The independently commissioned review, authored by Dr Shereen Daniels, surveyed 40 years of evidence of how racism had affected black communities, as well as black officers and staff.'

Return the #ParthenonMarbles

Researchers previously tallied the extent of Roman roads as covering around 117,163 miles (188,555 kilometers). The new work shows nearly 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) of roads across the extent of the Roman Empire, allowing travel from Spain to Syria. #Archaeology #RomanRoads

All I want for Xmas 🖖

Hidden corners of London. Gorgeous #architecture.

'Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at an archaeological site called Namorotukunan used stone tools continuously for 300,000 years.' 1/2

Morning fellow plebs and assorted rascals xx

UK government ministers lied about Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. Dutch police told British police that over 200 Maccabi fans who wreaked havoc in Amsterdam in Nov 2024 were “linked to the IDF” and that hundreds more were ”experienced fighters”, “highly organised" and ”intent on causing serious violence”.

Israel’s war on Gaza has now killed at least 68,875 Palestinians and wounded 170,679 since October 2023. 💔 In spite of the ceasefire, #Israel military and settlers have carried out 2,350 attacks across the occupied West Bank last month. #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

"Basic research is easily mocked because it can seem impractical, but, in fact, it is a major driver of economic growth. “The return on investment in basic research — the return to society — is very high, typically multiple dollars back per dollar invested”" #Research

A failure of peer review. #academia

The language you use to describe mistakes matters. Saying ‘I made a mistake’ describes an event, but saying ‘I am a failure’ turns it into an identity. People who use neutral event-focused language bounce back more effectively than those who internalise errors. #linguistics #psychology #mindfulness

Libraries matter. Access matters. After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember. @arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

And here we go again….😩

she released a video last year of IDF soldiers gang raping Palestinian hostages she's been fired and arrested.. the soldiers are now celebrities on Israeli game show and TV.. the military rioted when she suggested they be prosecuted our most moral allies www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Wikipedia responded coolly to the launch of Grokipedia, saying it was still trying to understand how Grokipedia worked." Please donate if you can to #Wikipedia.

"models given low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process — or don’t use reasoning at all...In data sets with a mix of junk and high-quality data, the negative effect on reasoning increased as the proportion of junk data increased." No surprises there. Caution - study not peer reviewed.

Or more intelligibly: Michigan lawyer says the Halloween plot described by FBI Director Kash Patel does not exist.

"A French data scientist and lawyer, Damien Charlotin, has catalogued at least 490 court filings in the past six months that contained “hallucinations,” which are AI responses that contain false or misleading information." #AIhallucinations #Law

"It’s comfortable to think the possibility of verballing died with mandatory electronic recording. But it lives on for those convicted under pre-1995 rules. It also survives in legal procedures that still allow juries to be misled by inaccurately transcribed confessions." #ForensicLinguistics

Happy Halloween, my friends! #CaffeinatedHamster

Getting ready for Dia de los Difuntos. Tomb cleaned, flowers in place, and 3-day candles lit to welcome the family spirits. ❤️ #DiaDeLosDifuntos #DayOfTheDead

Flowers are in place for Day of the Dead. ❤️💔

Watched this last night. One of the best films I've watched this year. Good commentary* on it by @davidallengreen.bsky.social 👇 *Warning: spoliers

The joy of forming a political view, but not expressing it on social media. The exhilaration of realising you can change that view as you wish, rather than it freezing it in time as your eternal ‘take’. A thought kept alive in one’s mind, rather than one which dies as soon as it hits the screen.

The #linguistics of #Halloween. An interesting read 👇

The arts and culture is the best of us. It's what makes us human. ❤️

Silence is part of communication too. Giving yourself space to pause before responding helps you process emotions and choose words that reflect your best intentions.  #Linguistics #selfcare #mindfulness #language #psychology #selfawareness

The deadline for Evolang 2026, the International Conference on the Evolution of Language, has been extended to November 3rd. Do consider submitting, it's my favourite conference and will take place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the age-old "city of the seven hills"! #language #linguistics

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 68,527 people and wounded 170,395 since it began in October 2023. Last night, 28 October, Israel killed another 90 people including 24 children, in further air strikes in Gaza. #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. #OnThisDay

"EU data protection authorities have already repeatedly held that Clearview AI, which processed the data of millions of Europeans, clearly violated the GDPR...Instead, Clearview AI is simply ignoring the EU authorities."

Just arrived! ❤️ #PhilipPullman #TheBookOfDust

This sounds interesting. #Linguistics #Persuasion

Continuing #IsraelWarCrimes is an obstacle to peace in the Middle East. 💔

“We believe that genocide must be named and documented and that impunity feeds continuing violence throughout the globe,” the jurors explained. “Genocide in Gaza is the concern of all humanity. When states are silent civil society can and must speak out.” #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

Israel has killed at least 68,527 people and wounded 170,395 since October 2033. Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza are facing danger from unexploded ordnance. At least 53 people have been killed and 100s injured by explosives left behind by the Israeli military. #GazaGenocide #NotOverYet

Minimisation of the day: OH: I spilled some water in the bathroom. I've mopped it up but the floor is still damp. vs Reality: I've flooded the bathroom. I've mopped most of it up but there's still standing water in places. 🤦 #Linguistics

Maria Bueno Picornell (my great aunt). Her mother and youngest brother killed by Republican bombardment in the Spanish Civil War. Maria's husband was executed by the Falangists. She was imprisoned; her elder brother was her jailer. Justice for #GuerraCivil civilian victims 💔

Finally, it seems that the Govern Balear will be recognising civilians killed in bombardments during the Spanish Civil War in Mallorca as victims of war. Justice for civilians of both sides 💔 #GuerraCivil #Mallorca

#Linguistics question Is the plural of 'lowlife' as a noun "lowlifes" (as 👇) or 'lowlives'? I would not use use either, keeping it 'lowlife'.

Countries can’t “abuse” their right to withdraw from the Rome Statute “by shielding persons from justice in relation to alleged crimes that are already under consideration,” the 32-page decision says. #Duterte #Genocide #ICC

Morning all 👋☕ I'm having mine dark this morning. ##CaffeinatedLinguist

'New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.' 1/2

The semantics of junk journalism. #Linguistics