Timofei Protasov
@timprotasov.bsky.social
PhD-alike
TESOL, studying linguistics, sci-fi & deixis
TESOL, studying linguistics, sci-fi & deixis
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📢 We are now accepting manuscripts for our Fall 2025 issue! Check out the guidelines & make your submission here: tesolal.columbia.edu
August 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
📢 We are now accepting manuscripts for our Fall 2025 issue! Check out the guidelines & make your submission here: tesolal.columbia.edu
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CFC: We’re excited to invite chapter proposals for our upcoming edited volume, “Imagination in Different Words: A Stylistic Atlas of Global Speculative Fiction”! 🖖🏻
🔗 forms.gle/DAdBycECR8En...
@ademarjunior @LivroArcano
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@ademarjunior @LivroArcano
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June 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
CFC: We’re excited to invite chapter proposals for our upcoming edited volume, “Imagination in Different Words: A Stylistic Atlas of Global Speculative Fiction”! 🖖🏻
🔗 forms.gle/DAdBycECR8En...
@ademarjunior @LivroArcano
🔗 forms.gle/DAdBycECR8En...
@ademarjunior @LivroArcano
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worse yet, the AI is probably using your texts to train itself, which you are also not being compensated for
May 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
worse yet, the AI is probably using your texts to train itself, which you are also not being compensated for
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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
May 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
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The publisher has cut their costs by outsourcing to this company, the company has cut their costs by using AI/low-paid staff instead of paying for a proper job, while I’ve spent hours & hours fixing the manuscript, so all the extra labour from cost-costing has fallen on me, the unremunerated author
May 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The publisher has cut their costs by outsourcing to this company, the company has cut their costs by using AI/low-paid staff instead of paying for a proper job, while I’ve spent hours & hours fixing the manuscript, so all the extra labour from cost-costing has fallen on me, the unremunerated author
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Hey academics, do you have recommendations for books that assist with dissertation advising? I found ones for doctoral students but I want to improve my skills in guiding them through it. Thank you! #academicsky #phdchat
May 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hey academics, do you have recommendations for books that assist with dissertation advising? I found ones for doctoral students but I want to improve my skills in guiding them through it. Thank you! #academicsky #phdchat
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Reading with children changes their lives forever, and EVERY SINGLE CHILD is entitled to this right! That's why I support the #ReadingRights campaign. The full report is out today from @booktrust.org.uk & @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social: please read & share!
www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/rea...
www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/rea...
May 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reading with children changes their lives forever, and EVERY SINGLE CHILD is entitled to this right! That's why I support the #ReadingRights campaign. The full report is out today from @booktrust.org.uk & @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social: please read & share!
www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/rea...
www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/rea...
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🗓️ New #DigitalHumanities Summer School in September!
Pre-register now for #DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety
👩💻 Free for incoming MA students in #DH at @fau.de!
Pre-register now for #DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety
👩💻 Free for incoming MA students in #DH at @fau.de!
‼️📣Come enjoy Erlangen in September while learning new research skills at our #DigitalHumanities summer school!
#DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety
More about the summer school and pre-registration link below:
www.dhss.phil.fau.de/digital-huma...
#DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety
More about the summer school and pre-registration link below:
www.dhss.phil.fau.de/digital-huma...
Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, gender and society
Mo 22 – Fri 26 September 2025 The DHSS2025 summer school offers expert-led training in DH tools and methods. It will also offer opportunities to critically discuss the type of research questions that…
www.dhss.phil.fau.de
May 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
🗓️ New #DigitalHumanities Summer School in September!
Pre-register now for #DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety
👩💻 Free for incoming MA students in #DH at @fau.de!
Pre-register now for #DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety
👩💻 Free for incoming MA students in #DH at @fau.de!
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In early writings on phonetics, voiceless consonants (like k) are called sharps and voiced consonants (like b) are called flats. This works on miltiple levels but especially because the most common form of tonogenesis is voiced consonants becoming low tones.
omg I just read someone describing sharps/flats as kiki/bouba and it's like someone opened a door right in front of me that I didn't know was there but it was there the whole time
May 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In early writings on phonetics, voiceless consonants (like k) are called sharps and voiced consonants (like b) are called flats. This works on miltiple levels but especially because the most common form of tonogenesis is voiced consonants becoming low tones.
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The 12th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop will be held 14 Nov 2025 at Monash Uni, Melbourne.
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do (quoc-anh.do@monash.edu) & Laura Panza (lpanza@unimelb.edu.au)
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged
📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do (quoc-anh.do@monash.edu) & Laura Panza (lpanza@unimelb.edu.au)
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged
📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky
May 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The 12th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop will be held 14 Nov 2025 at Monash Uni, Melbourne.
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do (quoc-anh.do@monash.edu) & Laura Panza (lpanza@unimelb.edu.au)
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged
📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do (quoc-anh.do@monash.edu) & Laura Panza (lpanza@unimelb.edu.au)
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged
📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky
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Here's an interesting new paper proposing computational methods for assessing emotion in comic panels: "A novel multimodal framework for emotion recognition in comics: Integrating background color, facial expressions, and text sentiment using fuzzy logic" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A novel multimodal framework for emotion recognition in comics: Integrating background color, facial expressions, and text sentiment using fuzzy logic
With comics being a multimodal composition of content, their characters typically display stylized appearance, do not make use of verbal communication…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Here's an interesting new paper proposing computational methods for assessing emotion in comic panels: "A novel multimodal framework for emotion recognition in comics: Integrating background color, facial expressions, and text sentiment using fuzzy logic" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Learning a second language as an adult can be hard — but it's not impossible #NPR www.npr.org/2025/05/...
May 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Learning a second language as an adult can be hard — but it's not impossible #NPR www.npr.org/2025/05/...
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So...this community gifting feature now exists and we're interested in hearing from people
Is a gift membership something that would help you?
Should we do a drive to try to get people to contribute them?
www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm...
Is a gift membership something that would help you?
Should we do a drive to try to get people to contribute them?
www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm...
Gift a membership for Lingthusiasm on Patreon
Bring the world of Lingthusiasm to your friends and family.
www.patreon.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
So...this community gifting feature now exists and we're interested in hearing from people
Is a gift membership something that would help you?
Should we do a drive to try to get people to contribute them?
www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm...
Is a gift membership something that would help you?
Should we do a drive to try to get people to contribute them?
www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm...
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Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.
arstechnica.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."
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New ep: @eurovision.tv has a lot to teach us about language.
So much that there's a unit at
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social about it!
And we're talking to coordinators Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig.
Wherever you get podcasts.
#Eurovision2025
www.patreon.com/posts/129228...
So much that there's a unit at
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social about it!
And we're talking to coordinators Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig.
Wherever you get podcasts.
#Eurovision2025
www.patreon.com/posts/129228...
119: Eurovision Goes to Uni (with Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig) | Because Language
Get more from Because Language on Patreon
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May 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
New ep: @eurovision.tv has a lot to teach us about language.
So much that there's a unit at
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social about it!
And we're talking to coordinators Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig.
Wherever you get podcasts.
#Eurovision2025
www.patreon.com/posts/129228...
So much that there's a unit at
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social about it!
And we're talking to coordinators Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig.
Wherever you get podcasts.
#Eurovision2025
www.patreon.com/posts/129228...
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for the record, when I (and fellow colleagues) talk about human-machine collaboration or creativity, it doesn’t mean this. fuck off that’s our term first.
May 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
for the record, when I (and fellow colleagues) talk about human-machine collaboration or creativity, it doesn’t mean this. fuck off that’s our term first.
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You asked chatGPT, I asked Anubis the Jackal Headed Goddess to weigh your heart against a feather, we are not the same.
Also, I have bad news, I hope you’re not a fan of fields of reeds.
Also, I have bad news, I hope you’re not a fan of fields of reeds.
May 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
You asked chatGPT, I asked Anubis the Jackal Headed Goddess to weigh your heart against a feather, we are not the same.
Also, I have bad news, I hope you’re not a fan of fields of reeds.
Also, I have bad news, I hope you’re not a fan of fields of reeds.
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How many times do you kiss on the cheek when greeting a friend in France? Check out this map from Buzzarena's guide (and get ready for up to 5 smooches in Corsica!)
For more on the linguistics of kissing, check out our latest bonus ep: www.patreon.com/posts/127782...
buzzarena.com/comment-bien...
For more on the linguistics of kissing, check out our latest bonus ep: www.patreon.com/posts/127782...
buzzarena.com/comment-bien...
May 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
How many times do you kiss on the cheek when greeting a friend in France? Check out this map from Buzzarena's guide (and get ready for up to 5 smooches in Corsica!)
For more on the linguistics of kissing, check out our latest bonus ep: www.patreon.com/posts/127782...
buzzarena.com/comment-bien...
For more on the linguistics of kissing, check out our latest bonus ep: www.patreon.com/posts/127782...
buzzarena.com/comment-bien...
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Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showing the disease
AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots
Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showing the disease
www.newscientist.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showing the disease
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Call for Papers 📢 ”Materiality Matters: Figurations of Comic Bodies and Things” – The Network “Comic Literacies” asks for abstracts and a short bio for its annual conference from 13-15 November. Organized a.o. by @ancaleth.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 15 June 2025. More info: tinyurl.com/53jw3z7d
May 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Call for Papers 📢 ”Materiality Matters: Figurations of Comic Bodies and Things” – The Network “Comic Literacies” asks for abstracts and a short bio for its annual conference from 13-15 November. Organized a.o. by @ancaleth.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 15 June 2025. More info: tinyurl.com/53jw3z7d
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Fun linguistic fact of the day. We used to speak of 'messagers' and 'passagers' before they became 'messengers' and 'passengers', since they were borrowings from French. Speakers in the Middle Ages decided to throw in what linguists call an 'intrusive n' to make them easier to say.
May 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Fun linguistic fact of the day. We used to speak of 'messagers' and 'passagers' before they became 'messengers' and 'passengers', since they were borrowings from French. Speakers in the Middle Ages decided to throw in what linguists call an 'intrusive n' to make them easier to say.
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Exciting new CFP for a Special Issue of the OA journal, 'Neurodiversity' thinking through the critical turn(s) in #neurodiversity studies across the arts, humanities & social sciences.
Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social
Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social
I’m so excited to share that our call for papers for a special issue of ‘ #Neurodiversity’ is now live!
We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩
@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social
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We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩
@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
journals.sagepub.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Exciting new CFP for a Special Issue of the OA journal, 'Neurodiversity' thinking through the critical turn(s) in #neurodiversity studies across the arts, humanities & social sciences.
Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social
Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social
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New post!
I collaborated with Danny at Linguistic Discovery to make a huge image about English words related to the word "one".
Danny wrote a detailed article on the topic that you can read here:
linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/one/
I collaborated with Danny at Linguistic Discovery to make a huge image about English words related to the word "one".
Danny wrote a detailed article on the topic that you can read here:
linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/one/
May 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
New post!
I collaborated with Danny at Linguistic Discovery to make a huge image about English words related to the word "one".
Danny wrote a detailed article on the topic that you can read here:
linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/one/
I collaborated with Danny at Linguistic Discovery to make a huge image about English words related to the word "one".
Danny wrote a detailed article on the topic that you can read here:
linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/one/
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Join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de
2 full professorships in #DigitalHumanities
‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #HCI
‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #Place&Space
⏰ Deadline: 2 June 2025
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@fauphil.bsky.social
2 full professorships in #DigitalHumanities
‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #HCI
‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #Place&Space
⏰ Deadline: 2 June 2025
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
@fauphil.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de
2 full professorships in #DigitalHumanities
‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #HCI
‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #Place&Space
⏰ Deadline: 2 June 2025
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
@fauphil.bsky.social
2 full professorships in #DigitalHumanities
‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #HCI
‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #Place&Space
⏰ Deadline: 2 June 2025
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
@fauphil.bsky.social