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Thomas Pellard
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CNRS Research scientist 🇫🇷 historical-comparative linguistics, archaeolinguistics, phylolinguistics, geolinguistics, endangered languages, languages of Japan
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laserhedvig.bsky.social
I will be vary of reviewing for or submitting to @natureportfolio.nature.com @nature.com in future.
dingemansemark.bsky.social Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 4d
Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do.

Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess

I have a few predictions...

1/n
AI slop published on your watch: very bad look for HSSComms and Springer/Nature  Dear editors, I have failed to locate contact information for most of the academic editors for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; I trust that you will forward this message to them. I want to note that AI slop is being published on your watch in the journal you edit. This paper, out last week (Al-Jarrah 2026), is full of inaccurate claims and includes countless hallucinated references. Even a cursory look at the bibliography shows that at least 10 and probably many more references are bullshit pure and simple; the simplest explanation is that they are confabulated by generative AI, which sheds doubt on the quality of the manuscript as a whole and on the review and editorial processes at your journal. It is a great lapse of editorial judgement to let this kind of obvious drivel pass and I am warning my colleagues at MPI and Radboud to avoid your journal until clear and unambiguous action is taken. You may also want to take note that many people are finding out about this and the online discussion of this paper and of the journal's failing standards is something I hope that Springer Nature cares about. In my opinion the paper does not pass even the most minimal quality assurance checks and is fully against the COPE guidelines on publication ethics. You may want to hold the author accountable for this; I think the only reasonable course is retraction. But the scholarly community also holds the journal accountable. By letting AI slop through, your journal is polluting the information ecology of scientific publishing. Amidst a rising tide of synthetic text, scholarly publishing, with its tradition of human oversight and strong peer revidew, should be one of the last stalwarts to defend the integrity of our research. I look forward to your response and to find out what decisive action you are taking.
January 12, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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ethankutlu.bsky.social
Thank you for sharing this! Recently, I decided to not submit our final manuscript which was accepted. We didn’t receive any feedback on our science and the only review we received was AI generated wording changes. It is the same journal. I emailed the editorial team too and I received no answer.
January 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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laserhedvig.bsky.social
#ichl28 update! The next International Conference on Historical Linguistics will take place in August 2027 at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. This hasn't been advertised yet, but #ichl27 organiser Dr Gvozdanović was kind enough to inform me.
#histling
January 12, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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patrickesavage.bsky.social
NA->0 strikes again!
@rmcelreath.bsky.social
jackfitzgerald.bsky.social Jack Fitzgerald @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social · 4d
The paper is effectively simulating full data coverage without telling anyone. Over 57% of the pre-2021 country-years in its data contain average sentence durations of 0, when really the raw data sources contain no data on sentences in these country-years. 18/x
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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kilinguistics.bsky.social
@nature.com doesn't mind publishing "thoughts some dude had in the bathtub" as long as they're on language, apparently.
dmncschmtz.bsky.social Dominic @dmncschmtz.bsky.social · 4d
I'd love to know who reviewed this.
thomaspellard.bsky.social Thomas Pellard @thomaspellard.bsky.social · 4d
WTF?! 🫣 Is this a joke?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A religious quote, "primitive languages", and nonsense everywhere. Is Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications a scam journal?
January 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do.

Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess

I have a few predictions...

1/n
AI slop published on your watch: very bad look for HSSComms and Springer/Nature  Dear editors, I have failed to locate contact information for most of the academic editors for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; I trust that you will forward this message to them. I want to note that AI slop is being published on your watch in the journal you edit. This paper, out last week (Al-Jarrah 2026), is full of inaccurate claims and includes countless hallucinated references. Even a cursory look at the bibliography shows that at least 10 and probably many more references are bullshit pure and simple; the simplest explanation is that they are confabulated by generative AI, which sheds doubt on the quality of the manuscript as a whole and on the review and editorial processes at your journal. It is a great lapse of editorial judgement to let this kind of obvious drivel pass and I am warning my colleagues at MPI and Radboud to avoid your journal until clear and unambiguous action is taken. You may also want to take note that many people are finding out about this and the online discussion of this paper and of the journal's failing standards is something I hope that Springer Nature cares about. In my opinion the paper does not pass even the most minimal quality assurance checks and is fully against the COPE guidelines on publication ethics. You may want to hold the author accountable for this; I think the only reasonable course is retraction. But the scholarly community also holds the journal accountable. By letting AI slop through, your journal is polluting the information ecology of scientific publishing. Amidst a rising tide of synthetic text, scholarly publishing, with its tradition of human oversight and strong peer revidew, should be one of the last stalwarts to defend the integrity of our research. I look forward to your response and to find out what decisive action you are taking.
January 8, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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laserhedvig.bsky.social
Okay, I see. Is there an #ICHL- equivalent anywhere to #lingtyp 's webpage that lists conferences ?
linguistic-typology.org/conferences/
Conferences – Association for Linguistic Typology
linguistic-typology.org
January 8, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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pdevillemereuil.bsky.social
Il reste encore des places pour vous inscrireà notre formation "Apprentissage au Logiciel R", mais il faut nous contacter rapidement ! ⌛
pdevillemereuil.bsky.social Pierre de Villemereuil @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · Sep 22
Marre de passer vos journées à Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V vos données dans un tableur et devoir tout refaire à cause d'un soucis de formatage imprévu ? 😡

Suivez la formation @ephe-psl.bsky.social (27 janvier au 5 février) pour apprendre à utiliser R pour traiter vos données :👇
www.ephe.psl.eu/formations-q...
Apprentissage du logiciel R | École Pratique des Hautes Études
L’EPHE − PSL propose une formation pratique à l’utilisation du logiciel libre R pour la gestion et la manipulation des données avant l’analyse statistique (non traitée dans cette formation).Le contenu...
www.ephe.psl.eu
January 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
This paper is batshit insane. It also (of course) has A TON of bullshit references that do not exist. Hey @springernature.com retract this AI slop and fire the editor that let it pass. There is evidently no review or quality assurance process in place at this journal.
January 8, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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lameensouag.bsky.social
Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen.

This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?
January 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
thomaspellard.bsky.social
WTF?! 🫣 Is this a joke?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A religious quote, "primitive languages", and nonsense everywhere. Is Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications a scam journal?
A cross-linguistic investigation of /h/ symbolism: the case of H2O - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - A cross-linguistic investigation of /h/ symbolism: the case of H2O
www.nature.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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efl-upcite.bsky.social
🏆 Qumin remporte le Prix du logiciel libre de recherche 2025 !

Développé par Sacha Beniamine et Jules Bouton, du LLF @upcite.bsky.social, cet outil open source modélise la morphologie flexionnelle de toutes les langues du monde.

Bravo à eux pour cette distinction du MESR 👏

➕👉 tinyurl.com/3t7vxxmb
Prix Science Ouverte 2025 : Qumin récompensé pour la linguistique computationnelle | EFL
Qumin (QUantitative Modelling of INflection) est un paquet Python libre qui modélise automatiquement la morphologie flexionnelle des langues — comment les mots se conjuguent et se déclinent.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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#ESR bilan 2025 : l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche en France décrochent sévèrement du peloton de tête, y compris en Europe. Dans de nombreux domaines nous sommes désormais derrière l'Espagne, l'Italie et surtout les Pays-Bas. A lire universites2024.fr/esr-la-franc...
ESR : la France accentue son décrochage en 2025 - Universités 2024
Au-delà des péripéties politiques (changements de gouvernement, budgets en attente), que retenir de cette année 2025 ? S’il ne fallait retenir qu’une chose, c’est l’absence quasi totale dans les débat...
universites2024.fr
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
Samuel Robert Ramsey 2025 The Japanese and Their Language: How the Japanese Made Their Language and It Made Them (Sino-Platonic Papers 372) @ sino-platonic.org/complete/spp...
sino-platonic.org
December 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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monniauxd.bsky.social
blogs.mediapart.fr/david-monnia...

Se passer de Microsoft, Google et compagnie : pourquoi, comment ?
Se passer de Microsoft, Google et compagnie : pourquoi, comment ?
En octobre dernier, j’ai publié dans le Monde une tribune posant la question de ce que arriverait si le président Trump décidait qu’il voulait sanctionner la France parce que celle-ci ne se soumettai…
blogs.mediapart.fr
December 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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spouyllau.bsky.social
« Une expertise juridique commandée par le ministère allemand de l'Intérieur confirme ce que beaucoup redoutaient : les autorités américaines peuvent accéder aux données stockées sur des serveurs européens. » #veilleESR #Données #RGPD www.mac4ever.com/web/193689-c...
C'est officiel : stocker vos données en Europe ne sert à rien face aux USA
Une expertise juridique commandée par le ministère allemand de l'Intérieur confirme ce que beaucoup redoutaient : les autorités américaines peuvent…
www.mac4ever.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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arc-art.bsky.social
自国が「植民地」であることは本当に知らない、ないしは知って知らぬふりをし、その事実には抵抗のしようがないからあきらめ、その中でいかに快適な生活をおくるかということに注意を向けている感。ネットに接続するだけでも年貢を吸い上げられていくようなものだから、ここでどれだけ騒いだって掌の上なんだけど。　president.jp/articles/-/1...
｢Gmailにメールが届かなくなる｣だけの問題ではない…グーグルが"他社メールの受信廃止"を急ぐ本当の理由
Googleが2026年1月でPOP受信を終了する。このニュースを聞いて、大慌てでGmailの設定を変更している人も多いだろう。一方で「POP？　なんだそれ」「Gmailは使っているけど、POPなんて意識したことない」とスルーし…
president.jp
December 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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petravaiglova.bsky.social
Very excited that our new guidelines for reporting the results of statistical analyses in the Journal of Archaeological Science have now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
🦴📊 @ercrema.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social
Reporting statistical analyses at JAS - Journal of Archaeological Science | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Journal of Archaeological Science at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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linguisticdiscovery.com
The latest bonus episode of the @Lingthusiasm podcast interviews linguist Claire Bowern @chirila.bsky.social about the mysterious Voynich manuscript from the early 1400s, which contains an undeciphered (and perhaps undecipherable) script.

www.patreon.com/posts/144558...
December 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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profgerhard.bsky.social
📢 Postdoc positions (2×)

Global Basic Lexicon (GloBasLex) project (Heidelberg Academy), based at the University of Tübingen.
⏳ until end of 2029

Details: uni-tuebingen.de/en/291885

#linguistics #typology #postdoc #academicjobs
GloBasLex
uni-tuebingen.de
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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crlao-ling.bsky.social
13th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-13)
Paris-Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet
September 2-4, 2026
→ Deadline for submission of abstracts: Febr. 28, 2026
Jointly organized by the EACL, the #CRLAO, the EHESS, the CNRS and the Inalco
eacl-13.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
The 13th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics - Sciencesconf.org
Welcome to EACL-13
eacl-13.sciencesconf.org
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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ercrema.bsky.social
⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa
Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...
rdcu.be
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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knsizm.bsky.social
「奈良田方言の韻律語におけるアクセント実現規則」という題目で、1月20日 (火) 15:10～17:10、NINJALコロキウムで発表します。国語研とオンラインでのハイブリッド開催です。
www.ninjal.ac.jp/events_jp/20...
第158回 NINJALコロキウム「奈良田方言の韻律語におけるアクセント実現規則」 | 国立国語研究所
国立国語研究所の催し物情報です。研究者から一般の方，児童・生徒まで様々な方を対象としたイベントを実施しています。
www.ninjal.ac.jp
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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juliendhuy.bsky.social
Dans le dernier Nouvel Obs, pour quinze jours dans les kiosques: www.nouvelobs.com/idees/202512...
Les fascinantes origines du dragon, cette chimère effrayante qui accompagne l’humanité depuis des millénaires
L’historien Julien d’Huy a remonté la piste de cette chimère ailée, à la fois insaisissable et puissamment évocatrice, présente dans toutes les cultures du monde. Une enquête poétique et lumineuse.
www.nouvelobs.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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chrisbuckley.bsky.social
Preview of an upcoming book chapter, discussing (amongst other things) transmission and innovation in Tibetan Buddhist sects. This is a phylogeny of the main sects
A phylogeny of Tibetan Buddhists sects
December 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM