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Timofei Protasov
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PhD-alike
TESOL, studying linguistics, sci-fi & deixis
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linguisticdiscovery.com
@Lingthusiasm recently aired a great episode interviewing @dannybate.bsky.social, linguist and author of “Why Q needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them”, about the Indo-European language family:

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7rYy...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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lrb.co.uk
Issue 48.03 is now online, featuring:

Seamus Perry on pluralism and poetry
James Wolcott on John Updike
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the Romanian right
Claire Hall on Archimedes
John Gallagher on early modern news
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the US Special Forces

Read online at lrb.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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greatlikecheese.bsky.social
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We’re hosting the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in Edinburgh this year!

If you work on queer linguistics topics, please submit an abstract, we’d love to see you there!

Conference dates: 2nd-4th September

Submission deadline: 28th March

CfP: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
February 8, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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marthajbailey.bsky.social
I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - February 1, 2026 - July 31, 2026
www.aeaweb.org
February 3, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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averyedison.com
sigh
Post from Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
February 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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heatherfro.bsky.social
Just adding that four people have separately told me I cannot change the title from "What is AI and why is it happening to me?" to anything else
heatherfro.bsky.social Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 2d
We are starting an AI literacy effort at UA libraries and yours truly, who has been doing this for a long time, is working on some foundational basics. I revived the old blog to share this snippet from a larger training I'm putting together: hfroehli.ch/2026/02/11/w...
What’s the difference between machine learning and generative AI?
Artificial intelligence a metaphor for a lot of computational processing. It’s not just one specific thing, but a lot of different things. Often we hear about “AI” as a blanket term for all sorts o…
hfroehli.ch
February 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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heatherfro.bsky.social
We are starting an AI literacy effort at UA libraries and yours truly, who has been doing this for a long time, is working on some foundational basics. I revived the old blog to share this snippet from a larger training I'm putting together: hfroehli.ch/2026/02/11/w...
What’s the difference between machine learning and generative AI?
Artificial intelligence a metaphor for a lot of computational processing. It’s not just one specific thing, but a lot of different things. Often we hear about “AI” as a blanket term for all sorts o…
hfroehli.ch
February 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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astrokatie.com
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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ryancbriggs.net
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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katemckean.bsky.social
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org
Applications of Corpus Linguistics by Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry and Robbie Love
With case studies from diverse contexts, this book shows and critically reflects on applications of corpus linguistics research and methods.
📚 https://cup.org/3NZeaTI
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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kevintmorris.bsky.social
I've been thinking about this a lot. There's a major tension here between "get my data cleaned quickly, efficiently, and as a responsible steward of my research resources" and "teach the next generation how to conduct research." Anyone who tells you the answer is easy is kidding themselves
guygrossman.bsky.social Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 5d
Claude code will inevitably reduce dramatically the hiring of undergraduate RAs which will further increase the gap between what students are taught and how we conduct research.
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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guygrossman.bsky.social
Claude code will inevitably reduce dramatically the hiring of undergraduate RAs which will further increase the gap between what students are taught and how we conduct research.
February 8, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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adamconover.net
Check out the new Factually! episode with @add-hawk.bsky.social where we chat about games and philosophy and his words make me cry. Available wherever you get podcasts!

» Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

» Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/65qq...

» YouTube: youtu.be/yd24EuQeJtI
How to Beat the Gamification of Our Lives with C. Thi Nguyen
Podcast Episode · Factually! with Adam Conover · 02/11/2026 · 1h 32m
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February 12, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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englangblog.bsky.social
New abbreviation just dropped.
bsky.app/profile/kate...
katemckean.bsky.social Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 2d
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 12, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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lexispodcast.bsky.social
We talk about voice pitch and how it's perceived in different situations with Dr Matthew Hunt in the latest episode of Lexis which is out now: open.spotify.com/episode/7qTb...
#linguistics
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February 12, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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englangblog.bsky.social
New episode - number 80!
lexispodcast.bsky.social Lexis Podcast @lexispodcast.bsky.social · 1d
We talk about voice pitch and how it's perceived in different situations with Dr Matthew Hunt in the latest episode of Lexis which is out now: open.spotify.com/episode/7qTb...
#linguistics
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February 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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englangblog.bsky.social
So, we can all agree that reading, interacting and *languaging* together are very important, but we should also be cautious about how we respond to the screen time vs reading books discourse we see a lot of now. As I said, she may well be right and I agree with a lot of her points.
February 12, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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indebtedness2026.bsky.social
🚨 The Call for Papers for the Indebtedness in Linguistics Conference is now online! Deadline is April 15, 2026. Submit your abstracts here: indebtedness.sciencesconf.org and please share widely! 

#indebt2026
The Expression of Indebtedness in Linguistics: Cross-Perspectives between European and Asian Languages - Sciencesconf.org
The Expression of Indebtedness in Linguistics - Cross-Perspectives Between European and Asian Languages
indebtedness.sciencesconf.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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jensrydgren.bsky.social
Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right"

www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...
Social Semiotics
Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right. Volume 36, Issue 1 of Social Semiotics
www.tandfonline.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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languageonthemove.bsky.social
Are you an early career researcher interested in communicating linguistics to broader audiences?

Consider applying for a @lingcomm.org grant!
Deadline April 30, via @lingthusiasm.com

lingcomm.org/grants/
Grants
2026 LingComm Grants – Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences We want to see more linguistics in the world!  The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 (USD) to support lin…
lingcomm.org
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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curtisfrye.com
Of possible interest to @lpcprof.bsky.social, Gaming the Witch: History and Witchcraft in Fantasy Video Games. Forthcoming from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Gaming the Witch
The witch has always been an object of fantasy; an adaptable symbol for the expression of society’s deepest anxieties and dreams. In the magical worlds of medieval-inspired fantasy role-play games, st...
www.degruyterbrill.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:21 AM
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gmiras.bsky.social
🟢The latest issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics (Vol. 14, Issue 1) - De Gruyter Brill is out, and it brings together contributions from junior European applied linguists to reflect on the future of applied linguistics in Europe.

@dgb-linguistics.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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dgb-linguistics.bsky.social
👏🔓 Now available in Open Access: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/eujal/14/1/html
gmiras.bsky.social Pr. Dr. Grégory Miras @gmiras.bsky.social · 4d
🟢The latest issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics (Vol. 14, Issue 1) - De Gruyter Brill is out, and it brings together contributions from junior European applied linguists to reflect on the future of applied linguistics in Europe.

@dgb-linguistics.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me

apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

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About the PhD: Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
January 15, 2026 at 11:55 AM