Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention. Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them. Who do you think Reform are? This. This is who they are.

@brymes.bsky.social are you still using your account? The post content seems to have changed a bit lately...

Currently listening to the rain pour down. I live in Wales, you say, what do I expect? The thing is I’m in Amsterdam 🤣

Student led General Competition for the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences is open now. Have a look/register for webinar if you're interested in applying for a PhD (or MA + PhD) in sociolinguistics at Cardiff (other subfields, pathways & unis available too) wgsss.ac.uk/student-led-...

After 15 min talks with 5 min for questions at #UKLVC15 last week, next week I get 30 min with 15 min for questions at #LiCLA1 next week. *adds more cool left/right dislocation and fronting examples to slides* lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/events/li...

German speaking friends, please help me out. How would you translate Marilyn Frye's "double bind" into German? I found "Doppelbindung", "Zwickmühle", but that both sounds profoundly wrong to me. Any ideas?

Le regard de notre caricaturiste Chloé sur l'actualité du 8 septembre 2025 👉http://bit.ly/47taykH

If there were ever a time for white Americans to learn a language besides English and speak it loudly in public, it's now.

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... is now out, @betsysneller.bsky.social 's beautiful tribute to Bill Labov

First plenaryof #UKLVC15 definitely needs a post @christianilbury.bsky.social on social media and sociolinguistic change

My cat decided his favourite snuggle spot was my carry on suitcase when we got back from holiday in early August so we’ve left it out for him. Suspect he’s not going to be impressed when I reclaim it to go to #UKLVC15 tomorrow 🤣

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Cardiff buddies, Green Squirrel are calling on steeper parking charges for super-sized vehicles. You can read more and sign the petition here www.petitions.cleancitiescampaign.org/cardiff/?fbc...

"I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life."

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Can anyone help my friend Stephanie? She's always been really active on fb and runs pages there to help diabetic cats, but suddenly her account was suspended.

The (baked potato) sights of Chepstow.

Yay, I finally submitted a review that was a week late! Now onto the many other things that are a bit less late or are due soon...

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

Experimental philosophy

Someone please find a way to do something linguistic with this #linguistics (requires knowledge of current US events and of sandwiches)

One author looked up the Welsh for "Big Bad" for his Red Riding Hood retelling. And just assumed it used English word order, having the character say "Drwg Mawr. I was named Drwg because I am so large, and Mawr is my title, the Evil One."

I don't understand why people are making fun of the PhD-like thinking of ChatGPT. It's only been around a few days and already it has discovered letters in the word 'blueberry' that professional linguists never found.

I'm going to finish this manuscript by the end of the week, I told myself

This is a good visualization of when people say that AI saves them time.

This is what happens if you don’t recognise (reverse) right dislocations 🤣 #linguistics

Anyone here going to Interspeech and wants to do a student a big favor? He was accepted & paid, but ultimately cannot leave the U.S. due to ongoing fascism (he’s on a visa). They will pull his paper if he can’t find anyone to present it for him. DM if you’re attending & may be able to help!

These airdrops land on people and kill them, and in the current stage of mass starvation it's a drop in the ocean. Impose a ceasefire. Flood Gaza with food and medical aid. We're about to see hundreds dying of famine.

Slightly unexpected linguistic landscape in Switzerland - Welsh! (It’s in the French speaking part of Valais, so German not required) #linguistics

“LLMs are a mathematical model of language tokens. You give a LLM text, and it will give you a mathematically plausible response to that text.” softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

WeTransfer, the file sharing platform used by lots of creatives, updated its Ts&Cs this week to include a license for reusing uploaded content for a bunch of purposes, including machine learning - and then promptly issued a clarification wetransfer.com/blog/story/w...

Future me is not going to be impressed I just put off a task I meant to do this week until August, but present me is feeling like this means I might actually manage all the other things I need to do in July.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Subject of spam email I just received: "Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15% including references..." Just screams dodgy journal... 😬

There is something so fundamentally telling with people who think that “reading a book” and “knowing what the plot is” is the same experience.

If you're reading this, whoever you are & whatever you're doing to try to make this world better, whether it's calling, protesting, providing mutual aid, making art, raising awareness, training & teaching people new concepts & skills, journalism, surviving through it all, or whatever else: thank you

After the sound check on campus this afternoon, it turns out that I can listen to the Alanis Morissette concert from my house this evening. Thanks Cardiff!

So either someone is randomly playing bits of Alanis Morisette songs on campus, or my office window is pointed in the right direction to hear them practicing in Bute Park/Blackweir before tonight's concert. #Cardiff

#flyingantday reporting for Cardiff (30 June 2025)

Academia dot edu just informed me that it'd converted my PhD thesis into a podcast. I foolishly listened ...

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Usually I think it's because I watched War Games as a child that I'm so GenAI skeptic now, but yes, Terminator probably contributed too.

probably a long shot, but does anyone have experience getting a work permit/visa for China, from the US? or know someone who does? official channels are...not being super helpful

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

At the diner, listening to a couple of 40-something dudes talking about the daily tasks that chatGPT makes easier, and one of them mentions that he uploads his daughter's report cards so he doesn't have to read the whole thing, and I. Just. Can't. Even.

A clear message in support of Ancient History at Cardiff from colleagues across the UK. The university Council decides on Ancient History's fate in 6 days' time, along with the provision of Religion & Theology, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

My attempt to condense the vast research on language and gender into a sound bite, while also sticking to the focus of the piece on a specific word ... uk.style.yahoo.com/hannah-waddi... #FamousPeopleWhoseLanguageIveCommentedOn