“Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.” — Carl Sagan

Israel Defense Force May your conscience never find peace. May your sleep be filled with nightmares. May you one day experience the despair, fear, and terror you instil on the innocent. If there is any justice in this World, may you feel its heavy hand. #IsraelWarCriminal

Can't wait to welcome Andrew Lownie back to Alderney! This is going to be very interesting And he is such a nice person.

"One paper’s acknowledgements thank “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise”. My sort of hallucination 🖖

My mother repeatedly told me that her revenge for my challenging childhood and teen behaviour would come when I had kids of my own. Mom, I have news for you 👇

Crisis Communication 101. How not to do it. 😂

After years in preprint, our paper is finally out! We introduce LambdaG, a simple new authorship verification method that matches complex neural approaches. This supports the theory of grammar as a behavioural biometric (like a signature or gait). www.nature.com/articles/s41... #nlp #llm #forensic

Orban is Putin's whore. This week, EU-hater Vance visited Hungary to support Orban in the run-up to the general election on Sunday, 12 April. Orban coördinates his anti-EU strategy with Putin and vetoed a €90 billion loan to Ukraine. A crushing victory for Magyar could put an end to Orban's rule.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Such a heart warming article. Something so simple can bring joy and satisfaction to so many people. #Lego

"The US provided the military capacity. Israel provided the strategic rationale. Neither provided a United Nations Security Council mandate...This was a war of choice. "

South Korea’s Cultural Heritage Administration said Thursday that it has made some remarkable discoveries, including a hieroglyph bearing the name of Ramesses II, at the Ramesseum in Luxor, Egypt. www.koreaherald.com/article/1071...

This way. 👇

Meanwhile, the international press is using Israel’s fake language & euphemisms. These are all headlines from the international media. It’s not a ground operation’ or a ‘security buffer zone’. It’s an INVASION. These are war crimes. 2/

Wit, unker, git: The lost #medieval pronouns of English intimacy www.bbc.com/future/artic... via @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social #language #history #langsky

'In the Oumi analysis, Gemini 2 provided answers that were “ungrounded” 37 percent of the time, meaning the AI Overviews cited websites that didn’t support the information they provided. But with Gemini 3, this jumped to 56 percent.' Yikes.

The #ForensicLinguistics evidence isn't convincing. The similarities are jargon which may be shared by others in the industry. Many people confuse it's and its also. Without knowing how unique these features are among the community of bitcoin/crypto speakers, they cannot be considered authorial.

"five trillion. That’s roughly the number of search queries that Google processes every year, translating to tens of millions of wrong answers that the AI Overviews are providing every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute, the analysis calculated."

Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:

“The American Dream asks what you can achieve, the French Dream asks what you can contribute". A good news story with which to begin your day. #Philippines #France

I'm ill. A nasty cold bug running around the island. It floored me yesterday. Totally bunged up and no medication seems to help. I'm feeling like death warmed up and run over today. I suspect my aches and pains have more to do with a lack of caffeine though. #CaffeinatedHamster

Very interesting. 👇

A rather important debunking of some shoddy Guardian research on crime statistics.

Interesting case apparently resting on a single consistent misspelling and the misconceived theory of the "linguistic fingerprint". #ForensicLinguistics

Cartoon by François Caumartin

Cherry blossoms in Japan.

#HappyEaster from my 7 Venus Fly Traps (split from just 2 plants - Medea and Medusa). Now I have to name them. I'm thinking of the 7 Pleiads.

I personally do not find the phrasal similarities distinctive of a shared linguistic style. Without finding out how unique these features are among the community of judges writing such orders, these phrases could be characteristic of a genre rather than idiosyncratic style. #ForensicLinguistics

Troupis’s legal team questioned whether Judge Hyland had even written the order. The claim was substantiated by a forensic linguist who concluded that “large parts” of the August 22 order were written by the father of a county clerk who works for Hyland––not Hyland himself. #ForensicLinguistics

Absolutely, and if one would like some inspiration one could buy a book written by a human called Eleanor Baker.

Catching up on my reading. I definitely recommend Stefaan de Rynck's "Inside the Deal: how the EU got Brexit done". An eye opener!Next will be a reread of Javier Cerca's "Anatomia de Un Instante", a forensic examination of the military coup on Spain's fledgling democracy on 23 Feb 1981. 📚 #Booksky

I had my second shingles vaccine yesterday. 💉It has wiped me out. Strange as I had no reaction (other than a sore arm) to the first vaccine. I will just have to spend the rest of the day reading and drinking coffee in front of the fire on this wet, foggy, and windy day. 📚😊

The first 2 recorded seminars this year from Aston Institute for #ForensicLinguistics Dr David Griffin - Magical Legal Pragmatics Dr Mashael Alamr - Discourse in the Amber Heard Trial Fascinating insights into the intersection of #Language, #Law & real-world cases. 👇

This month, Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen joins hosts Dr @drniccimacleod.bsky.social & @timgrant123.bsky.social to unpack a Danish investigation involving 192 chat messages exchanged between two men in 2015. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3cehcmtk 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #extremismstudies

A great resource for anyone interested in #ForensicLinguistics and #Language & #Law 👇

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social

"And all bear traces of the linguistic signature of their ancient ancestor. One of them is the strangeness of the verb that English has inherited as to be." #Language

Cartoon by @paulnoth.bsky.social

The Gaza Genocide continues. The death toll of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza has reached 72,285, with another 172,028 wounded in attacks since 7 October 2023. #IsraelWarCrimes

This was supposed to be an avocado plant bonsai. I've lost control of it.

The Civil Justice Council is currently consulting on the Use of AI in preparing court documents – the details of the consultation can be found on the Use of AI in preparing court documents web page. The consultation will run until Tuesday 14 April 2026 at 11.59pm.

A #Picasso Owl. ♥️ Ludwig Museum, Cologne

Marco Rubio: "Imagine an Iranian regime who instead of spending billions.. building up all these weapons had invested that money into Iran for the people of Iran" The US defence budget is currently around $900 billion/year and the US doesn't have universal healthcare

German here. I remember our history. Does he? "Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic & saying, 'Soon we will count them one by one'." 1/2

Registration is open! SALC10 - the 10th International Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition will take place in Umeå, Sweden, on June 23-25, 2026. See you there, with the midnight sun and all the brilliant talks on language and cognition! #linguistics #SALC10

It is good to be in Kyiv today with European Foreign Ministers. Each visit is a powerful reminder of Ukraine’s courage and resilience. (1/2)

👏👏👏 Spain.