Marián Sloboda
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Marián Sloboda
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Sociolinguist / linguistic anthropologist at Charles University, Prague | language(s) and social interaction, ethnomethodology, language management, linguistic landscape, multilingualism, minorities, Slavic languages, Vietnamese
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While reviewing for #CHI2026, I've noticed four new writing issues in #HCI papers, likely due to an increased use of #LLMs / #AI. I describe them here - and how to fix them: dbuschek.medium.com/when-llms-wr...
When LLMs Write Our Papers
Four writing issues I notice as a reviewer — and how to fix them
dbuschek.medium.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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#12ICOM highlight: Our keynote live stream!

We are happy to bring some conference vibes to you at home:
bit.ly/12ICOMLive

Join us online to be part of the experience - and share this opportunity with others!
12ICOM Groningen
12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen
bit.ly
October 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.
Saturn Ion commercial
YouTube video by Eliyahu Biton
youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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NEW FROM 54(3)

'Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media" by Xiaowei May Li
#NikkiLilly #Embodiment #Multimodality #PresentationalMedia #Disability #Ordinariness #Normativity
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media - Volume 54 Issue 3
doi.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
www.change.org
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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For fun, I asked an LLM to grade an undergrad dissertation (thesis). LLM gave a very high score and wrote 140 words of feedback about the excellent discussion of New Labour managerial reforms. Which is great, except the dissertation was about polarized content on social media.
May 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The MSCA Post-doctoral Fellowship competition is open for internal review at Cardiff University. Please do get in touch with me if you have an idea for a project involving #ethnography, #ethnomethodology, and/or #membershipcategorisation

#EMCA
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
We invite expressions of interest from researchers interested in submitting a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship application with Cardiff University as the host organisation.
www.cardiff.ac.uk
May 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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May 5 is Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.
May 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I saw firsthand the impact of stop-work-orders/terminations at USAID & now Harvard. My new @NewYorker piece is on the serious implications for the lives of millions across the world and the US – including for my own family and very possibly your own. 🧵
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Cost of Defunding Harvard
If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and tre...
www.newyorker.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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More than 150 presidents of US colleges and universities have signed a statement denouncing the Trump administration’s “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” with higher education.
Over 150 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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⬇️ Foreign Minister @radek-sikorski.bsky.social on the Russian attack on Sumy 🇺🇦
April 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
@rhiannagarrett.bsky.social Hello, I would like to read your thesis - is it accessible anywhere?
March 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Another thing that struck me about yesterday’s Oval Office disaster is the place of language.
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March 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM