My first-ever food publication is out! All thanks to the lead author @sofiaruediger.bsky.social who was absolutely the brains behind this operation www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Expectations about being a professor: sitting in a leather armchair and reading medieval manuscripts (and maybe smoking a pipe) The reality of being a professor: Urgently cycling to a research event with 25 apple corners from Lidl in my bicycle basket & a decent shirt in my backpack

"Infinite patience" is not a quality ingredient for a good education, nor is it something we should continue to extend to the education "revolutions" of Sal Khan. biblioracle.substack.com/publish/post...

I am conflicted about that 60 minutes interview with Clavicular. I feel like by having the hot interviewer wipe his feet on the poor boi they went and validated the whole manosphere worldview of “genetically disadvantaged victim” for those who were on the fence about it

Starting in 20 min! 🐦🐦

the right way to finish the day that started by watching that Clavicular 60minutes interview is to have your own press chat about pick-up artists and all things manosphere. Thanks for the tag @veronikakoller.bsky.social!

I hope all the authors sending me hate mail because we take too long to process their manuscripts will find some joy in the fact that my own submission has been languishing at New Media & Society without being assigned to an editor for a month now

Next talk in the OSSO + DDI online talk series is on April 17, 14 - 15 EEST. Join us for Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen's lecture "My bad: the metapragmatics of accountability on social media" Join the Zoom room: tinyurl.com/talkosso 🐦🐦 @ylvabiri.bsky.social @lulind.bsky.social

Our results show that conversational agents can covertly redirect consumer choices at scale, most users cannot tell when it is happening, and existing transparency mechanisms are insufficient. We call for further regulatory scrutiny and structural safeguards.

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

That’s terrible. I wish there was something that Tolkien estate could do about this

INVISIBLE NETWORKS 2026 April 1st to 14th Writing challenge: invent a speculative social network every day. Draw inspiration from our delicious prompts, guaranteed safe for human consumption! invisible dot social tag posts with #InvisibleNetworks

PhD and teaching job in English anyone? 🐦🐦 In Namur, with ME 🥹🥹 and wonderful colleagues 😊 (Working knowledge of French 🥖 is required, though.) Six-year contract (2 x 3). Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/417075 or in French here: jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2026-...

Manipulation, Influence and Deception (co-edited with @coocho.bsky.social) spotted by a friend at AAAL Chicago last week 🤩 (and even sporting a little 'reserved' sign) still can't get enough of the octopus cover 🐙 doi.org/10.1017/9781...

there are so many things to be angry about but at the moment I really fucking hate the fact that I’m expected to be able to recognize AI generated slop text

Starting the weekend by opening some hate mail in my editorial account (from authors who are angry for very obvious reasons - I took a long time to desk-reject their paper; but who decided to vent their anger by accusing me of "clinging to fame" instead of quitting) 🫠

5 years i live in Finland. The list of things that can be asked at the border control are very limited. I still have no clue what the guard's first question is. Ootko mumble mumble what? Clearly it's not where you are coming from, not whether i speak finnish, not whether i live in finland. You

The sad truth about learning Finnish is that whatever you learn in class is completely useless in normal life, and that's what demotivates me so much. I think standard Finnish shouldn't be taught to people at all, or at least not without the heavy parallel spoken Finnish instruction

I do not post or even open Twitter anymore for non-research purposes, but I kept my account so that no one can take my username and pretend to be me

An idea understood by the Greeks: the *agon* of learning. Difficulty & struggle are intrinsic to learning, echoed in our modern recognition that (eg) ‘a problem is a task for the completion of which *there exists no obvious procedure*’

This new world has revealed to me how much I’ve relied on confusion to drive student learning. And it’s forced me to highlight productive confusion, and reframe it as an important kind of agency. You, the student, have to decide how you are going to bridge the gap from my question to the answer.

Controversial but - students *perceive* they have been failed when what has happened is they have failed to understand information retrieval is a skill requiring effort. I don't believe a zero friction experience is realistic or desirable in learning, actually.

Voice notes - love or hate?

The 2nd International Conference on Field Research on Translation and Interpreting (FIRE-TI 2) will be organised by Tampere University, in Tampere, Finland, 3–5 March 2027. events.tuni.fi/fireti2027/c...

"Fundamentally, my client wants not authenticity but innocence, the ability to get away with something."

Current citizenship application processing times: 34 months

I love how the universe sometimes tells me to stop working by making my keyboard and my mouse run out of battery at the same time

Just as my papers about how BlueSky is a less toxic alternative to Twitter struggle through the publishing system and are about to finally come out, BlueSky does this techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/b...

Today is the official publication day for the hardback version of "Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora" (ebook was published earlier). Many thanks to series editors @michamahlberg.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social for your support 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring...

Anyone wants to step on a sexual harassment podium? 👀

Happy Minna Canth day! What a legend

The application period for the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026 (#DHH26) is now open (until 14 April). Apply now & spread the word: heldig.fi/dhh26

By the way, if your submission has been languishing in editorial manager for a long time, I am so, so very sorry and I kmow how much you must hate slow processing times - so do it. But we are DYING under the avalanche

So many ways in which LLMs generate work for me as an academic. The journal editor hours skyrocketed because of tons of bullshit submissions and because of checking not-so-obviously-bullshit ones Reviewing and marking now involves checking every single doi All the negotiations around LLM 🧵

I and many of my university colleagues have expressed the wish that we could bill OpenAI for the extra work hours their product has saddled us with.

Jobs: Phonetics: Full Professorship (W3) of Phonetics and Speech Processing (Chair), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Confs: Online Discourse of Gender-Based Violence International Conference

I often have to criticise self-report as a methodology in linguistics and psychology papers, but this is a whole new universe of self-report absurdity

**CALL FOR PAPERS: Online Discourse of Gender-Based Violence** Dates: Jan 13-15, 2027 Location: University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens The conference will bring together linguists working on the interplay between online discourse & gender-based violence odgbv27.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

Registration for the next #ISLE summer school in Uppsala is still open until April 30: Theme: "English in transition - Socio-cultural encounters across time and space" Dates: 7–13 June 2026 Organized by Merja Kytö & Eric Lander www.uu.se/en/departmen... #EnglishLinguistics #HistoricalLinguistics

If you're not good at something and you rely on Al to do it for you, you won't be able to discern what's right or wrong.

My #RStats package for forensic authorship analysis, 'idiolect', now has an associated paper published in the Journal of Open Source Software: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07575. New release of idiolect, 1.2.0, also available from #CRAN. #forensic #linguistics

Writing is great, actually

you know what's great about writing? writing. follow me for more insights.

Manosphere dudes took skincare routine and added “bone smashing” to it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

By making Codewords multilingual (add to this prompts given in English), we access x 3 the layers of connotations to play 🙃

Two days ago, a Georgian restaurant delivered a wrong dish (kvari instead of khinkali) and we were very upset. Turns out, kvari had been sent by fate. ⏬️

We are starting in 45 min!

This week, Rachelle Vessey @rachellevessey.bsky.social will talk about "Gender ideologies in workplace surveys: The case of the Canadian military" Join us on March 13 at 16 EET (check the time zone!): tinyurl.com/talkosso @lulind.bsky.social @ylvabiri.bsky.social