Rosarita Bizzarita
@rbizzario.bsky.social
Applied linguistics; Teaching & Learning. Senior Lecturer. Forest dweller 🌳🌱
Love: languages, learning, people, the environment, & #MuayThai 🥊
Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿🇵🇭
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Views are mine & other disclaimers apply.
Love: languages, learning, people, the environment, & #MuayThai 🥊
Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿🇵🇭
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Views are mine & other disclaimers apply.
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Views are my own lol 😆
I’m trying to cheer myself up with the state of this world. I do have neighbours so I stop myself from screaming out my frustrations!!
I’m trying to cheer myself up with the state of this world. I do have neighbours so I stop myself from screaming out my frustrations!!
Billie catching the morning rays ☀️
February 5, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Billie catching the morning rays ☀️
I did a session today, and this beautiful doggo was in attendance! So cute, & so chill! I would love a doggo but my lifestyle doesn’t suit having one yet.
February 3, 2026 at 6:48 AM
I did a session today, and this beautiful doggo was in attendance! So cute, & so chill! I would love a doggo but my lifestyle doesn’t suit having one yet.
Post a pic you took to bring some zen to the timeline
February 1, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Post a pic you took to bring some zen to the timeline
Aww, Catherine O’Hara, RIP. I have loved so many of your characters! Damn.
a woman from schitt 's creek is holding a cup of coffee
ALT: a woman from schitt 's creek is holding a cup of coffee
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Aww, Catherine O’Hara, RIP. I have loved so many of your characters! Damn.
Eeeeeeeewwwww 🤮🤮🤮
January 28, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Eeeeeeeewwwww 🤮🤮🤮
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This article traces the rapid rise of Amelia, a purple-haired, AI-generated character who circulates widely on social media.
In memes & videos, Amelia walks through London or the House of Commons, voicing nationalist & anti-Muslim rhetoric.
🔗 tinyurl.com/ys4nx2zj
🧵👇
#farright #extremismstudies
In memes & videos, Amelia walks through London or the House of Commons, voicing nationalist & anti-Muslim rhetoric.
🔗 tinyurl.com/ys4nx2zj
🧵👇
#farright #extremismstudies
Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star
The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos
tinyurl.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:11 PM
This article traces the rapid rise of Amelia, a purple-haired, AI-generated character who circulates widely on social media.
In memes & videos, Amelia walks through London or the House of Commons, voicing nationalist & anti-Muslim rhetoric.
🔗 tinyurl.com/ys4nx2zj
🧵👇
#farright #extremismstudies
In memes & videos, Amelia walks through London or the House of Commons, voicing nationalist & anti-Muslim rhetoric.
🔗 tinyurl.com/ys4nx2zj
🧵👇
#farright #extremismstudies
That was great! Funny and soothing. No notes indeed!
January 27, 2026 at 7:14 AM
That was great! Funny and soothing. No notes indeed!
Kia kaha. Laban. Sending hugs from down under ✊🏽
January 27, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Kia kaha. Laban. Sending hugs from down under ✊🏽
This too shall pass
Five phrases about the transitory nature of all things...
1. Nothing is eternal (Farsi)
2. No one’s candle is lit till dawn (Serbian)
3. No evil shall last a hundred years (Spanish)
4. All snowstorms eventually subside (Icelandic)
5. Everything has an end, except the sausage, which has two (German)
1. Nothing is eternal (Farsi)
2. No one’s candle is lit till dawn (Serbian)
3. No evil shall last a hundred years (Spanish)
4. All snowstorms eventually subside (Icelandic)
5. Everything has an end, except the sausage, which has two (German)
January 26, 2026 at 7:13 PM
This too shall pass
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 this is amazing! Well done to you! 🤩
January 26, 2026 at 8:53 AM
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 this is amazing! Well done to you! 🤩
Reposted by Rosarita Bizzarita
AI systems are trained on data that is socially informed not just cold "facts" (ie all of attitudes & stereotypes that support ongoing inequalities based on gender, race, sexuality etc) unsurprising AI chatbots are advising women & minorities to ask for less pay #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
AI’s role in paying women less
It appears even AI chatbots are contributing towards the gender pay gap. A study last year found that the bots often advise women and other minorities to ask for significantly lower salaries than men....
www.rnz.co.nz
January 26, 2026 at 12:06 AM
AI systems are trained on data that is socially informed not just cold "facts" (ie all of attitudes & stereotypes that support ongoing inequalities based on gender, race, sexuality etc) unsurprising AI chatbots are advising women & minorities to ask for less pay #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Reposted by Rosarita Bizzarita
"We should be demanding a government-wide commitment to climate risk reduction, incl. binding emissions cuts, adaptation plans, and a national programme to stabilise vulnerable landscapes using science-informed, Indigenous-led land stewardship." manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi... #nzpol
January 25, 2026 at 1:12 AM
"We should be demanding a government-wide commitment to climate risk reduction, incl. binding emissions cuts, adaptation plans, and a national programme to stabilise vulnerable landscapes using science-informed, Indigenous-led land stewardship." manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi... #nzpol
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 21, 2026 at 10:12 PM
The Havel essay that Carney quoted at Davos.
Having grown up during the Communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia, I appreciated the reference to Václav Havel in Mark Carney's Davos speech - here's the essay, the Power of the Powerless www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/the...
The Power of the Powerless (essay) | ICNC
Full text of the iconic 1979 essay 'The Power of the Powerless,' by Vaclav Havel—future President of a democratic Czechoslovakia. Download available.
www.nonviolent-conflict.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:35 PM
The Havel essay that Carney quoted at Davos.
I fell for Sydney too, especially landing at dusk. I love the bigness of the city centre & equally love the diversity & weirdness of its suburbia. I could live there but the whanau would never lol
January 21, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I fell for Sydney too, especially landing at dusk. I love the bigness of the city centre & equally love the diversity & weirdness of its suburbia. I could live there but the whanau would never lol
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Aotearoa academia, as we as a nation creep towards a more bicultural future that includes academic representation and partnership, I would expect people to have thoughts on this informed by the past 30 years of this nation. So I am sharing this.
The reason I asked this question is that colleagues I respect and trust in CL, for whom English is L2, apparently experience pressure not to cite papers written in their L1.
My actual opinions follow >>
My actual opinions follow >>
Question for #AcademicSky about citational practice (please include your field in your answer):
Assuming you are writing in English, under what conditions do you cite work written in another language? Under what conditions do you avoid doing so?
Assuming you are writing in English, under what conditions do you cite work written in another language? Under what conditions do you avoid doing so?
January 21, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Aotearoa academia, as we as a nation creep towards a more bicultural future that includes academic representation and partnership, I would expect people to have thoughts on this informed by the past 30 years of this nation. So I am sharing this.
Reposted by Rosarita Bizzarita
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI”
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...
docs.google.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:28 PM
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 21, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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First thought about the election date: November 7 is right when a lot of university students (mostly first time voters) will be finishing up and heading home for the summer. It’s really important to make sure your young people know what to do if they are out of their electorate on election day.
January 21, 2026 at 1:05 AM
First thought about the election date: November 7 is right when a lot of university students (mostly first time voters) will be finishing up and heading home for the summer. It’s really important to make sure your young people know what to do if they are out of their electorate on election day.
Yes it feels like a long way away. But the first 3 weeks of 2026 has already felt like a year for me. So my sense of time is already broken!
January 21, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Yes it feels like a long way away. But the first 3 weeks of 2026 has already felt like a year for me. So my sense of time is already broken!
290 days to go. | General Election to be held on 7 November www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gene... #nzpol
January 21, 2026 at 2:36 AM
“You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”
WHEN INTEGRATION BECOMES THE SOURCE OF YOUR SUBORDINATION
WHEN INTEGRATION BECOMES THE SOURCE OF YOUR SUBORDINATION
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
globalnews.ca
January 20, 2026 at 7:29 PM
“You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”
WHEN INTEGRATION BECOMES THE SOURCE OF YOUR SUBORDINATION
WHEN INTEGRATION BECOMES THE SOURCE OF YOUR SUBORDINATION