Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@ninamarkl.bsky.social
perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power and bikes & cats | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
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i've written a blog post about why I think we should reject generative AI in the university: languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai
happy to report that my office aeropress makes very nice coffee if i bring in very nice coffee beans
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
happy to report that my office aeropress makes very nice coffee if i bring in very nice coffee beans
the correct number is n+1, where n is the number of bikes you think you need
Bicycles - Why you might need more than one
Artist: Dave Walker
Artist: Dave Walker
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
the correct number is n+1, where n is the number of bikes you think you need
writing breakthrough! on the train
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
writing breakthrough! on the train
in honour of the bleak november weather vibes, may i suggest to you listening to ‘high violet’ (2010)
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
in honour of the bleak november weather vibes, may i suggest to you listening to ‘high violet’ (2010)
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New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access:
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
Presentism as a digital language ideology in generative AI discourse
This paper gives a critical discourse-analytical account of presentism as a digital language ideology. It outlines how this ahistorical understanding of sociotechnical change centering the here-and-no...
benjamins.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access:
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
today’s tactical move in the war on cars: having a couple of tons of topsoil delivered with one of those big vehicles with a remote controlled crane on my road used seemingly only for school runs
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
today’s tactical move in the war on cars: having a couple of tons of topsoil delivered with one of those big vehicles with a remote controlled crane on my road used seemingly only for school runs
real ‘we respect student opinion but only if we already agree’ vibes across the sector
Did @uniofnottingham.bsky.social consult any students before announcing the proposed course closures? @uonucu.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
real ‘we respect student opinion but only if we already agree’ vibes across the sector
this piece is as good as everyone is saying and i’d argue it applies even if the Times contacting you about your reading list is of the london variety
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
this piece is as good as everyone is saying and i’d argue it applies even if the Times contacting you about your reading list is of the london variety
Reposted by Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
power cut! at the coffee stop earlier today
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
power cut! at the coffee stop earlier today
with all my problematic love for pogačar and mohorič, next season we have to kick the rest of the state sponsors out of the world tour
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
with all my problematic love for pogačar and mohorič, next season we have to kick the rest of the state sponsors out of the world tour
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Hey look, protesting and boycotting a billionaire's attempt to sportswash a genocidal regime works
Premier Tech stops sponsorship of Israel-Premier Tech immediately, saying “the core reason for Premier Tech to sponsor the team has been overshadowed to a point where it has become untenable for us to continue as a sponsor.”
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Hey look, protesting and boycotting a billionaire's attempt to sportswash a genocidal regime works
on the one hand, analysing corporate BS is very important. on the other, reading corporate BS is driving me insane.
back on my agentive ai/customer service beat and it's as depressing as you would expect
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
on the one hand, analysing corporate BS is very important. on the other, reading corporate BS is driving me insane.
beautiful
Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
beautiful
back on my agentive ai/customer service beat and it's as depressing as you would expect
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
back on my agentive ai/customer service beat and it's as depressing as you would expect
i am a strong, independent, technically skilled woman but yesterday i successfully talked my partner into adjusting my bike's headset for me and i could not be more pleased with myself
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
i am a strong, independent, technically skilled woman but yesterday i successfully talked my partner into adjusting my bike's headset for me and i could not be more pleased with myself
my official verdict is that Octopus Energy’s app-based systems are flawed but they have outstanding customer service 🐙
controlling your heat pump with an app is all fun and games until there’s a glitch that prevents your app from connecting to the heat pump 🙃
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
my official verdict is that Octopus Energy’s app-based systems are flawed but they have outstanding customer service 🐙
update, i’ve now had an engineer here for an hour and a half to try and sort this IT issue
controlling your heat pump with an app is all fun and games until there’s a glitch that prevents your app from connecting to the heat pump 🙃
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
update, i’ve now had an engineer here for an hour and a half to try and sort this IT issue
somehow ended up with the exact same plan again, today with behind the bastards and the wonderful sarah marshall
starting my day listening to a podcast about peter thiel and his antichrist obsession while painting in an enclosed space, nothing can go wrong
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
somehow ended up with the exact same plan again, today with behind the bastards and the wonderful sarah marshall
me: okay, nina, let's focus on the teaching prep, that's at least a distraction from the bin fire that is UK HE
the textbook* i'm using to prep the lecture:
*Meyerhoff & Strycharz (2013) in the Wiley Handbook of Language Variation and Change
the textbook* i'm using to prep the lecture:
*Meyerhoff & Strycharz (2013) in the Wiley Handbook of Language Variation and Change
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
me: okay, nina, let's focus on the teaching prep, that's at least a distraction from the bin fire that is UK HE
the textbook* i'm using to prep the lecture:
*Meyerhoff & Strycharz (2013) in the Wiley Handbook of Language Variation and Change
the textbook* i'm using to prep the lecture:
*Meyerhoff & Strycharz (2013) in the Wiley Handbook of Language Variation and Change
love how we regularly have discussions about "cold spots" in provision and approximately 5 minutes later more provision is closed. what a terrible situation for everyone involved
'Music and modern foreign languages degrees are among courses being suspended at the University of Nottingham, with the institution saying it “cannot rely on additional income” from the coming tuition fee rises.' 1/3
Nottingham suspends music, language and nursing courses
University says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
love how we regularly have discussions about "cold spots" in provision and approximately 5 minutes later more provision is closed. what a terrible situation for everyone involved
i promise, i will never again ask myself how a typo has ended up undetected in a published paper. it was probably detected 3 times but the typesetting software refused to acknowledge any changes.
November 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
i promise, i will never again ask myself how a typo has ended up undetected in a published paper. it was probably detected 3 times but the typesetting software refused to acknowledge any changes.
important (and perhaps obvious) sidenote to the recent Sheffield Hallam case — foreign governments are not the only groups who may want to discourage critical research conducted at universities
Yep. The self-censoring and anticipatory compliance by universities, citing ‘commercial interest’ and risk, is part of the curtailing of academic freedom.
It might not be as visible as gag orders or leave a paper trail like law suits, but the effect is the same.
We need a secure funding system.
It might not be as visible as gag orders or leave a paper trail like law suits, but the effect is the same.
We need a secure funding system.
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
important (and perhaps obvious) sidenote to the recent Sheffield Hallam case — foreign governments are not the only groups who may want to discourage critical research conducted at universities
made an embarrassing typo, shoutout to the WILEY BLACKWELL handbook of language variation and change
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
made an embarrassing typo, shoutout to the WILEY BLACKWELL handbook of language variation and change
one thing that is odd about variationist sociolinguistics is that we have established a certain canon of core studies but some of them are actually tricky to get a hold of??
on the other hand, this desire is clearly there in a lot of sociolinguistics as evidenced by the fact that one of the most-cited papers is an analysis of the history of the field: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... (2385 citations on google scholar!!)
Three Waves of Variation Study: The Emergence of Meaning in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation
The treatment of social meaning in sociolinguistic variation has come in three waves of analytic practice. The first wave of variation studies established broad correlations between linguistic variabl...
www.annualreviews.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
one thing that is odd about variationist sociolinguistics is that we have established a certain canon of core studies but some of them are actually tricky to get a hold of??