Martina Pugliese
@martinapugliese.bsky.social
Data scientist since it was uncool, Physics PhD (complex systems). AI & Tech (4good). Language and culture tidbits. I like to doodle data. 🇮🇹 in 🏴 (Edinburgh). Posts in ITA/EN.
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https://martinapugliese.github.io
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https://martinapugliese.github.io
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Listen with horror as Gone Medieval, one of the foremost English-language podcasts about medieval history, of which I've been a loyal listener for years, is now invaded by linguistics, thanks to yours truly.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/kh/podcast/m...
Podlink: pod.link/1564113746/e...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/kh/podcast/m...
Podlink: pod.link/1564113746/e...
Medieval Roots of The Modern Alphabet
Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 05/12/2025 · 49m
podcasts.apple.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Listen with horror as Gone Medieval, one of the foremost English-language podcasts about medieval history, of which I've been a loyal listener for years, is now invaded by linguistics, thanks to yours truly.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/kh/podcast/m...
Podlink: pod.link/1564113746/e...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/kh/podcast/m...
Podlink: pod.link/1564113746/e...
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Just a thought: how about substantial investment and subsidy for mass transportation instead?
I agree: there’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles, which will save many lives. More than 39,000 Americans died in motor vehicle crashes yearly. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Just a thought: how about substantial investment and subsidy for mass transportation instead?
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This sign raises more questions than it answers
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This sign raises more questions than it answers
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I just heard an ad for an AI service that will monitor your other AI services and fix any errors created by them
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I just heard an ad for an AI service that will monitor your other AI services and fix any errors created by them
I've heard from @willdalrymple.bsky.social of @empirepoduk.bsky.social fame that Britain, in all its history, invaded all but 22 countries in the world??
November 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I've heard from @willdalrymple.bsky.social of @empirepoduk.bsky.social fame that Britain, in all its history, invaded all but 22 countries in the world??
There's many children who, Xmas or not, go hungry or can enjoy no happiness. A good way to help this is to donate for them - this is a fundraiser for Ukrainian children of the fallen, please donate
Nel #giardino dei bimbi morti è pieno di giocattoli che gli ucraini lasciano sui luoghi delle stragi russe.
Tiriamo fuori qualche decina di euro e facciamo un regalo ai bimbi ucraini vivi e orfani di guerra con una donazione qui
#RussiaIsATerroristState
www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
Tiriamo fuori qualche decina di euro e facciamo un regalo ai bimbi ucraini vivi e orfani di guerra con una donazione qui
#RussiaIsATerroristState
www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
There's many children who, Xmas or not, go hungry or can enjoy no happiness. A good way to help this is to donate for them - this is a fundraiser for Ukrainian children of the fallen, please donate
"morbido" in Italian means soft and it's a very "positive" word (used e.g. for pillows, fabric...) - the root is Latin, the same of the English "morbid" (macabre, obsessed with sickness and death). Morbidus meant affected by disease, weakened and soft because of that. Funny evolution of the word.
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
"morbido" in Italian means soft and it's a very "positive" word (used e.g. for pillows, fabric...) - the root is Latin, the same of the English "morbid" (macabre, obsessed with sickness and death). Morbidus meant affected by disease, weakened and soft because of that. Funny evolution of the word.
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Nel #giardino dei bimbi morti è pieno di giocattoli che gli ucraini lasciano sui luoghi delle stragi russe.
Tiriamo fuori qualche decina di euro e facciamo un regalo ai bimbi ucraini vivi e orfani di guerra con una donazione qui
#RussiaIsATerroristState
www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
Tiriamo fuori qualche decina di euro e facciamo un regalo ai bimbi ucraini vivi e orfani di guerra con una donazione qui
#RussiaIsATerroristState
www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Nel #giardino dei bimbi morti è pieno di giocattoli che gli ucraini lasciano sui luoghi delle stragi russe.
Tiriamo fuori qualche decina di euro e facciamo un regalo ai bimbi ucraini vivi e orfani di guerra con una donazione qui
#RussiaIsATerroristState
www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
Tiriamo fuori qualche decina di euro e facciamo un regalo ai bimbi ucraini vivi e orfani di guerra con una donazione qui
#RussiaIsATerroristState
www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
Well, hi from Edinburgh, but also special mention from Italy as my heart is there too
Happy World Linguistics Day! Celebratory days take off when groups of people decide to make them happen so... let's see how many different locations we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Well, hi from Edinburgh, but also special mention from Italy as my heart is there too
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Oxford is having a vote on its #WotY2025
You've got 2 days to let your feelings be known!
Myself, I don't think I have a favo(u)rite out of this lot
corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...
You've got 2 days to let your feelings be known!
Myself, I don't think I have a favo(u)rite out of this lot
corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...
Oxford Word of the Year 2025 - Oxford University Press
Voting is now open for Oxford Word of the Year 2025! Discover our shortlist and have your say by Thursday 27 November.
corp.oup.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Oxford is having a vote on its #WotY2025
You've got 2 days to let your feelings be known!
Myself, I don't think I have a favo(u)rite out of this lot
corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...
You've got 2 days to let your feelings be known!
Myself, I don't think I have a favo(u)rite out of this lot
corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...
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unflinching earnestness
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
unflinching earnestness
The Etruscan language was not a Indo-European one, it dates from before the arrival of those people. Tuscany, as a name, comes from them via Latin, which called the Etruscan people "Tusci" #language
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Etruscan language was not a Indo-European one, it dates from before the arrival of those people. Tuscany, as a name, comes from them via Latin, which called the Etruscan people "Tusci" #language
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A new hand-drawn dataviz on #overtourism for my newest project, we've been looking at big Airbnb hosts to see how widespread they are, geographically.
English post here bernomone.github.io/citybreaking...
English post here bernomone.github.io/citybreaking...
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A new hand-drawn dataviz on #overtourism for my newest project, we've been looking at big Airbnb hosts to see how widespread they are, geographically.
English post here bernomone.github.io/citybreaking...
English post here bernomone.github.io/citybreaking...
A new hand-drawn dataviz on #overtourism for my newest project, we've been looking at big Airbnb hosts to see how widespread they are, geographically.
English post here bernomone.github.io/citybreaking...
English post here bernomone.github.io/citybreaking...
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A new hand-drawn dataviz on #overtourism for my newest project, we've been looking at big Airbnb hosts to see how widespread they are, geographically.
English post here bernomone.github.io/citybreaking...
English post here bernomone.github.io/citybreaking...
Un'altra #dataviz disegnata! Stavolta si guarda (per il progetto sull' #iperturismo che sto facendo) a quegli host Airbnb che sono grossi in una città (hanno tante case) per vedere se sono pure estesi fuori dalla città stessa. Alcune sorprese, il post si legge qui bernomone.github.io/citybreaking...
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Un'altra #dataviz disegnata! Stavolta si guarda (per il progetto sull' #iperturismo che sto facendo) a quegli host Airbnb che sono grossi in una città (hanno tante case) per vedere se sono pure estesi fuori dalla città stessa. Alcune sorprese, il post si legge qui bernomone.github.io/citybreaking...
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A prisoner in the Arizona State Prison system decided to reconnect with his Welsh heritage by studying the Welsh language. Now he leads a group of inmates who are independently studying endangered, ancient, and vulnerable languages—Welsh, Brittonic, Assyrian, Old Norse, Taíno, Nahuatl, and Guosa.
'I've never been so excited': Inmate-led program preserves endangered languages behind Az bars
Thomas Steres, an inmate in Arizona, founded the Linguistic Legacies Initiative to teach endangered languages such as Welsh, Nahuatl and Guosa while incarcerated in a state prison in Buckeye, Ariz.
www.tucsonsentinel.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A prisoner in the Arizona State Prison system decided to reconnect with his Welsh heritage by studying the Welsh language. Now he leads a group of inmates who are independently studying endangered, ancient, and vulnerable languages—Welsh, Brittonic, Assyrian, Old Norse, Taíno, Nahuatl, and Guosa.
The Ablaut, the vowel shift from the present tense to the past, is a thing of proto-Indoeuropean. It remains in German/English (not sure if in all Germanics) - e.g. drink-drank-drunk/trink-trank-getrunken; romance languages abandoned it for suffixation - e.g. Italian dormo-dormii-dormito
#language
#language
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The Ablaut, the vowel shift from the present tense to the past, is a thing of proto-Indoeuropean. It remains in German/English (not sure if in all Germanics) - e.g. drink-drank-drunk/trink-trank-getrunken; romance languages abandoned it for suffixation - e.g. Italian dormo-dormii-dormito
#language
#language
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A week today, I'll be shining a light on local shops and makers.
I hope you'll join me for a virtual Bluesky party/shopping night/blether.
#EdinburghHour
I hope you'll join me for a virtual Bluesky party/shopping night/blether.
#EdinburghHour
PLEASE SHARE:
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
A week today, I'll be shining a light on local shops and makers.
I hope you'll join me for a virtual Bluesky party/shopping night/blether.
#EdinburghHour
I hope you'll join me for a virtual Bluesky party/shopping night/blether.
#EdinburghHour
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November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Yet another example of self-declared do-gooders that are really just profiting while oppressing others
This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Yet another example of self-declared do-gooders that are really just profiting while oppressing others
Wow that's great, didn't know such a thing existed in the US - more of this everywhere please
New Mexico's free universal child care program is a model for the nation.
www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Wow that's great, didn't know such a thing existed in the US - more of this everywhere please
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
🧵
![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Bonnington based charity the Compass Therapy Centre are having an open afternoon this Thursday, particularly for people with neurological conditions.
1 in 6 people in the UK have a neurological condition, so really pleased to see such a proactive response in our community.
1 in 6 people in the UK have a neurological condition, so really pleased to see such a proactive response in our community.
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Bonnington based charity the Compass Therapy Centre are having an open afternoon this Thursday, particularly for people with neurological conditions.
1 in 6 people in the UK have a neurological condition, so really pleased to see such a proactive response in our community.
1 in 6 people in the UK have a neurological condition, so really pleased to see such a proactive response in our community.
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Bad news in from South Georgia - the population of breeding female elephant seals has nearly halved following a bird flu outbreak on the sub-Antarctic island.
Here's what we know so far...
📸 Connor Bamford
Here's what we know so far...
📸 Connor Bamford
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Bad news in from South Georgia - the population of breeding female elephant seals has nearly halved following a bird flu outbreak on the sub-Antarctic island.
Here's what we know so far...
📸 Connor Bamford
Here's what we know so far...
📸 Connor Bamford