freya w
@freyawatkins.bsky.social
researcher of #TDoR murders, eternal PhD student in sign language linguistics, #dataviz & #Rstats keen bean, #LongCOVID & disability justice, chronically ill sports gay. gibt's auch auf deutsch. she/her
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The “retired engineer” has absolutely no business making a dataset of autistic faces, but what on God’s green earth are researchers thinking when they *use* a dataset like this? Come on. Use a single brain cell.
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The “retired engineer” has absolutely no business making a dataset of autistic faces, but what on God’s green earth are researchers thinking when they *use* a dataset like this? Come on. Use a single brain cell.
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Enjoy this photo from today's #transrights march in London I wasn't going to post pics, but this made me giggle.
April 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Enjoy this photo from today's #transrights march in London I wasn't going to post pics, but this made me giggle.
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Our new study challenges the long-held belief that language is arbitrary; there is no link between how words sound and what they mean. In ASL, many signs visually resemble their meaning. We find that this iconicity plays a key role in how signs are organized in the mind. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Iconicity as an organizing principle of the lexicon | PNAS
The view that words are arbitrary is a foundational assumption about language, used
to set human languages apart from nonhuman communication. We pr...
www.pnas.org
April 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Our new study challenges the long-held belief that language is arbitrary; there is no link between how words sound and what they mean. In ASL, many signs visually resemble their meaning. We find that this iconicity plays a key role in how signs are organized in the mind. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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they use Theft-AI to write essays, we use it to mark them. Either that’s the end of human learning or we collectively speak up, demonstrate skills, actually give a shit about teaching as a form of expertise & uni as more than just a career boost tick box exercise.
I know what I expect to happen
I know what I expect to happen
Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?
April 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
they use Theft-AI to write essays, we use it to mark them. Either that’s the end of human learning or we collectively speak up, demonstrate skills, actually give a shit about teaching as a form of expertise & uni as more than just a career boost tick box exercise.
I know what I expect to happen
I know what I expect to happen
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if you’re on here reporting palestinians just know you’re filth and i hate you.
I hate every fuckin smarmy liberal on here who thinks they’re being so smart by just assuming all the Palestinians crowdfunding to survive on Gaza are just scammers. If you spent two minutes actually talking to even one of these people your heart would break. I know because mine did.
April 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
if you’re on here reporting palestinians just know you’re filth and i hate you.
ok I tried using the sky follower bridge thing from both my old twitter accounts. now time to find out how many of yous are actually posting on here (still) ...
April 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
ok I tried using the sky follower bridge thing from both my old twitter accounts. now time to find out how many of yous are actually posting on here (still) ...
yes midnight on a saturday night is a great time to set up a new sm account but i'm on day 10 of being in bed with the flu sooo
April 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
yes midnight on a saturday night is a great time to set up a new sm account but i'm on day 10 of being in bed with the flu sooo
hello wolrd, finally having a look round here
April 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
hello wolrd, finally having a look round here