@exolinguist.bsky.social
Linguist by trade, flâneur by choice, sarcasm appreciator, amateur cookie baker, aspiring traveller, occasional haver of a good idea, friend of desoto slightly embarrassed to know entirely too much about trek 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🖖(he/him)
Movie that takes place where you’re from
(Ok, cheating, this is just filmed there)
(Ok, cheating, this is just filmed there)
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Movie that takes place where you’re from
(Ok, cheating, this is just filmed there)
(Ok, cheating, this is just filmed there)
A reason to keep the Humanities around
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A reason to keep the Humanities around
Not sure whether to be proud or alarmed at the fact that in a talk just now, where a slide showed only the inventory of screws, dowels, etc… from an IKEA manual, within a few seconds of counting, I clocked it as BILLY
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Not sure whether to be proud or alarmed at the fact that in a talk just now, where a slide showed only the inventory of screws, dowels, etc… from an IKEA manual, within a few seconds of counting, I clocked it as BILLY
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Yes, Microsoft Word, when I type “open text”, I would love you to change it to “opentex t”. Every time. #enshittification
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Yes, Microsoft Word, when I type “open text”, I would love you to change it to “opentex t”. Every time. #enshittification
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Remember November 12th!!
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Remember November 12th!!
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November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
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It ys the seasoun of decoratif gourdes you knaves
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It ys the seasoun of decoratif gourdes you knaves
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Our NEW event, the Linguistics Brownbag Series, starts this Friday! 👏
Friday, Oct 17 | 3pm | CHE 212
During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics!
This week, we will discuss Marketing with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from Haskayne School of Business.
Friday, Oct 17 | 3pm | CHE 212
During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics!
This week, we will discuss Marketing with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from Haskayne School of Business.
October 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our NEW event, the Linguistics Brownbag Series, starts this Friday! 👏
Friday, Oct 17 | 3pm | CHE 212
During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics!
This week, we will discuss Marketing with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from Haskayne School of Business.
Friday, Oct 17 | 3pm | CHE 212
During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics!
This week, we will discuss Marketing with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from Haskayne School of Business.
October 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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October 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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This is a savage takedown of AI writing by showing just how bland and predictive it really is
ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is a savage takedown of AI writing by showing just how bland and predictive it really is
This amused my way more than it should, but I am also very sleep deprived
September 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This amused my way more than it should, but I am also very sleep deprived
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Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar Nakhaei who just received his PhD in Linguistics after a great virtual defence of his thesis, “A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian”
September 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar Nakhaei who just received his PhD in Linguistics after a great virtual defence of his thesis, “A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian”
Oh hey, I’m on three journal articles in here. Happy to contribute to the machine 🙄. No, not really.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Oh hey, I’m on three journal articles in here. Happy to contribute to the machine 🙄. No, not really.
The triumph of going through old papers and actually finding that almost 20 year old handout you were sure was somewhere, and would be useful someday
September 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The triumph of going through old papers and actually finding that almost 20 year old handout you were sure was somewhere, and would be useful someday
Children of a Lesser Gorn
Children of the Gorn
Gorn Free
September 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Children of a Lesser Gorn
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Well that’s a garden path headline if ever I saw one
August 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Well that’s a garden path headline if ever I saw one
Congratulations to Calgary Linguistics student Francisco Ongay González for his winning presentation at the Canadian Linguistic Association! news.ucalgary.ca/news/linguis...
Linguistics Program Takes The National Stage
University of Calgary PhD student, Francisco Ongay González takes the prize for best student poster presentation at this year's Canadian Linguistic Association Conference
news.ucalgary.ca
August 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Congratulations to Calgary Linguistics student Francisco Ongay González for his winning presentation at the Canadian Linguistic Association! news.ucalgary.ca/news/linguis...
So help me, I agreed to do a radio spot on new words tomorrow. They’ll ask about skibidi, I just know it
August 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
So help me, I agreed to do a radio spot on new words tomorrow. They’ll ask about skibidi, I just know it
Ok, this is just going to be my “y’all, don’t actually use this stuff, but here, learn how to make it better” slide
August 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Ok, this is just going to be my “y’all, don’t actually use this stuff, but here, learn how to make it better” slide
Is a film too predictable when, in the first ten minutes, you correctly think to yourself “Ah, Chekhov’s reciprocating saw”
July 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Is a film too predictable when, in the first ten minutes, you correctly think to yourself “Ah, Chekhov’s reciprocating saw”
The whiplash of a single Spotify ad block having one about selling blood plasma, and another about how easy it is to become a landlord
July 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The whiplash of a single Spotify ad block having one about selling blood plasma, and another about how easy it is to become a landlord