@sofiaruediger.bsky.social it's been a while since I had something to contribute but I believe I have a strong contender today

Listening to this great #EnglishGrammarDay presentation by @zarashah.bsky.social and @hwimbushenglish.bsky.social on the power that comes from understanding how language works - may all our children encounter such enlightened teachers!

Now at #EnglishGrammarDay @bethmalory.bsky.social on stigma and agency in media discourse around mpox and monkeypox

How have I missed this amazing bathroom decor at #ICAME46 until now?!

Kicking off a long afternoon of talks at #ICAME46 with Tanja Säily on the rise of big data in historical corpus linguistics, focusing on how LLMs can help with corpus metadata

Chairing this morning so no #ICAME46 updates from me. Lots of great papers though!

A more modern, but still elegant, room hosts a talk by @anteangaeile.bsky.social and Gerold Schneider on the language of the political right (what joy) at #ICAME46

It's all happening at #ICAME46! A whole day dedicated to speech acts in a beautiful venue, doesn't get much better than that 😊

Yes, for example -

Asked Gemini to make up some Star Wars jokes. I think humans are still winning this one.

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It's my last talk at #ICAME45 and wow am I going out on a high with the amazing demo from Gerold Schneider of chatbot for language learning for children. Gerold is really getting into the spirit of the inquisitive 11 year old 👏👏

Nele Poldvere presenting her work at #ICAME45 🔥 a partnership with computer scientists and fact checking organisations 📰