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Paweł Szudarski
@pawelszudarski.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham
Expertise: vocabulary, corpus linguistics, TESOL, replication research, distance learning, international education

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/pawel.szudarski
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Michael Lynas, the UK country director for the Duolingo language app, who argues there is no good substitute for the hard graft of learning a language as a way of seeing another country’s culture from the inside.' 1/3
Universities blame ‘societal shift’ for axing foreign language degrees
Numbers taking languages at A-level and beyond has been falling for decades, although Duolingo says its app is most popular with young people
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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coopersensei.bsky.social
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Delighted to share this podcast that I recorded with Prof. Susan Hunston, expert in #corpuslinguistics, English grammar, and former senior grammarian. We talked about the paper “Coming to Terms with Success” (1/3)
#191 - Hunston, S. (2024). Coming to terms with success. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 7, 63–76. https://doi.org/10.18573/jcads.114
Chris Cooper speaks with Susan Hunston from Birmingham University lostincitations@gmail.com
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November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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tonymcenery.bsky.social
Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...
lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX
In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...
www.edx.org
August 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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cl2025.co.uk
Missed out on #CL2025? Four of our wonderful plenary talks are now available to watch on demand!

YouTube links on conference website and in replies:

www.cl2025.co.uk/home
August 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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jrkasstan.bsky.social
@jslx.bsky.social are proud to publish an obituary for William Labov, written by three of Bill’s students @betsysneller.bsky.social, @laurelmack.bsky.social & M Tamminga. We are grateful to Bill’s colleagues and family for the OA costs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lhlew.bsky.social
Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word...
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August 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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superlinguo.bsky.social
The Linguistics Discipline at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific position statement on the role of generative AI in our classrooms.

www.superlinguo.com/post/7908973...
Position Statement on Generative AI in teaching...
Position Statement on Generative AI in teaching and research   The Linguistics Discipline in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific posi...
www.superlinguo.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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michamahlberg.bsky.social
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
We are hiring 2 full professors in DH
May 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'The evidence suggests a degree does still pay off over time, but that the path into well-paid work may be longer and bumpier than in the past.' Low number of graduate jobs, influx of AI cvs and online recruitment processes and shrinking graduate premium (esp. for young women) at issue.
Is the UK failing its graduates?
Young people are bearing the brunt of a long-term slowdown in the labour market, data shows
www.ft.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
pawelszudarski.bsky.social
Benjamin Moorhouse and Hassan Nejadghanbar have just published a great response to my review of 'Vocabulary, corpus and language teaching, an AI-based book.

Thank you both for this response and for all the nice words.

academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...
A response to Szudarski’s (2025) book review of ‘Vocabulary, corpus and language teaching. A machine-generated literature overview’
It is probably unusual to see a ‘readers response’ to a book review in the ELT Journal. However, this was a rather unusual book review, reviewing a rather
academic.oup.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
Now approaching half of all Britain's universities in deficit. Still nothing is done. Every day without a plan will make the eventual reset even more expensive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Record number of universities in deficit
Worsening cash crisis presents a ‘grave risk’ to the future of some institutions and courses, say MPs
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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eurocall2025.bsky.social
🎉 Registration for #EUROCALL2025 is now OPEN!
We’re heading to Milan this August—join colleagues from around the world for four days of talks, networking, and great Italian vibes 🇮🇹
📅 27–30 August 2025
🔗 Register now: eurocall2025.com
#ELT #appliedlinguistics #Edlang #CALL
EUROCALL 2025 - Milano
Università Cattolica | 27-30 August 2025
eurocall2025.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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harryanderson.bsky.social
“To govern is to choose: my policy recommendation is that the government does not make the UK poorer by curtailing international student migration.”

Excellent piece from @timleunig.bsky.social & Public First colleagues here 👇

timleunig.substack.com/p/internatio...
International university students
Let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot again.
timleunig.substack.com
May 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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jaspstats.bsky.social
Thinking of switching from teaching with SPSS to JASP in your stats course? We made a guide just for you. Same theory, simpler software, better teaching.

Discovering Statistics Using JASP
Blog: jasp-stats.org/blog/discove...

#statistics #teaching #JASP #openscience #edu
"Discovering Statistics Using JASP": A Teaching Guide - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software
As the title suggests, the shiny new textbook “Discovering Statistics Using JASP” differs from “Discovering Statistics Using SPSS” mainly in the software that is being used. While the theory sections ...
jasp-stats.org
April 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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nature.com
A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct

https://go.nature.com/4h78aSw
‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research
A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.
go.nature.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
pawelszudarski.bsky.social
Baker & Brookes (2025) 'Masculinities and Language' in #openaccess
gavinbrookes.bsky.social Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Apr 14
'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a
April 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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paulkirschner.bsky.social
How do we manage to process and retain complex or lengthy information—such as sentences, problem-solving steps, or visual configurations—when our WM capacity is so limited?
Simple: We use cognitive schemas and chunking!
#EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/04/11/s...
Schemas, Chunking and Working Memory - kirschner-ED
How do we manage to process and retain complex or lengthy information—such as sentences, problem-solving steps, or visual configurations—when our WM capacity is so limited?
www.kirschnered.nl
April 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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profastreete.bsky.social
I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising an open ended lectureship in Early Modern English Literature at Glasgow. Details here, and please share:

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T)
College of Arts & HumanitiesSchool of Critical Studies Lecturer in Early Modern English LiteratureVacancy Ref: 170953Salary, Grade 7 / 8, £40,497 - £45,413 / £49,559 - £57,422 per annum The...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
A year ago our faculty commissioned & adopted guidance on GenAI and research integrity. Preamble below, pdf at osf.io/preprints/os..., text also at ideophone.org/generative-a...

Key to these guidelines is a values-first rather than a technology-first approach, based on NL code of research conduct
Preamble All research at our institution, from ideation and execution to analysis and reporting, is bound by the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. This code specifies five core values that organise and inform research conduct: Honesty, Scrupulousness, Transparency, Independence and Responsibility. One way to summarise the guidelines in this document is to say they are about taking these core values seriously. When it comes to using Generative AI in or for research, the question is if and how this can be done honestly, scrupulously, transparently, independently, and responsibly. A key ethical challenge is that most current Generative AI undermines these values by design [3–5; details below]. Input data is legally questionable; output reproduces biases and erases authorship; fine-tuning involves exploitation; access is gated; versioning is opaque; and use taxes the environment. While most of these issues apply across societal spheres, there is something especially pernicious about text generators in academia, where writing is not merely an output format but a means of thinking, crediting, arguing, and structuring thoughts. Hollowing out these skills carries foundational risks. A common argument for Generative AI is a promise of higher productivity [5]. Yet productivity does not equal insight, and when kept unchecked it may hinder innovation and creativity [6, 7]. We do not need more papers, faster; we rather need more thoughtful, deep work, also known as slow science [8–10]. For these reasons, the first principle when it comes to Generative AI is to not use it unless you can do so honestly, scrupulously, transparently, independently and responsibly. The ubiquity of tools like ChatGPT is no reason to skimp on standards of research integrity; if anything, it requires more vigilance.
April 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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languageonthemove.bsky.social
New on Language-on-the-Move: for international students, bilingualism is an optional benefits that comes with the real risk of being seen as less competent

@lauraskh.bsky.social shares her latest research with aspiring migration agents
www.languageonthemove.com/learning-to-...
Learning to speak like a lawyer
In her 2007 ethnographic study of eight US law schools, Elizabeth Mertz traces the process through which law students learn to “think like a lawyer” in order to become one. She shows how this proce…
www.languageonthemove.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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simongreenhill.bsky.social
Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni!

Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity.

#linguistics #evolution #academia #phd

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
An AI generated colorful image, trying to catch the eye of potential PhD students.
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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englishgrammar.bsky.social
When did human language emerge? www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
When did human language emerge?
Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.
www.sciencedaily.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
From the good news department: Thanks to the support of thousands of Poles, Slawek Sierakowski and I have reached the goal of funding one armored ambulance for Ukrainian medics — in one day. Today starting the drive for a second. Please help.
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Timothy Snyder and Sławomir Sierakowski Are Raising Funds Towards an Armored Evacuation Vehicle | UNITED24 (Ukraine House DC Foundation) (Powered by Donorbox)
Timothy Snyder, Sławomir Sierakowski, and UNITED24 Are Raising Funds Towards an Armored Evacuation Vehicle for UkraineAmerican historian Timothy Snyder, Polish journalist Sławomir Sierakowski, and UNI...
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March 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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umasslinguistics.bsky.social
Do you speak other languages at home? This will not hold your child back at school theconversation.com/...
Do you speak other languages at home? This will not hold your child back at school
It is common for parents to worry about raising a child to be multilingual. They may wonder, am I harming my child’s English if I speak another language at home?
theconversation.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
Very good on The Great University Disaster. Note it's *not* attacking administrators: indeed unis may be *under*-managed. The point is that extreme, inappropriate corporatization and bureaucratization has destroyed their very purpose, like a virus from within. (1/2)
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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March 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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lucianaforti.bsky.social
Ever wondered what it’s like to hear researchers and students discuss corpora and language analysis/teaching in a language other than English? Here’s your chance!

Friday, 14th March, 4pm, in Perugia and online. No registration required.

Full program here:

www.unistrapg.it/it/node/12202
March 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM