Wilfred Gabriel Gapas
@senseigab.bsky.social
Applied linguistics lecturer at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, the Philippines • multimedia creator • drummer and dancer | he/they OK
So what's up with me lately?
Teaching in two unis AND completing a PhD app dossier for a Thai university soon. I've been heavily involved in teaching English to non-Filipinos lately, too! 😂
Teaching in two unis AND completing a PhD app dossier for a Thai university soon. I've been heavily involved in teaching English to non-Filipinos lately, too! 😂
April 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
So what's up with me lately?
Teaching in two unis AND completing a PhD app dossier for a Thai university soon. I've been heavily involved in teaching English to non-Filipinos lately, too! 😂
Teaching in two unis AND completing a PhD app dossier for a Thai university soon. I've been heavily involved in teaching English to non-Filipinos lately, too! 😂
I'm breaking my bsky silence here just to invite you to the Free Linguistics Conference the UST Department of English is hosting this October.
Hope to see you in Manila! 🇵🇭
#Linguistics
#AppliedLinguistics
Hope to see you in Manila! 🇵🇭
#Linguistics
#AppliedLinguistics
April 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm breaking my bsky silence here just to invite you to the Free Linguistics Conference the UST Department of English is hosting this October.
Hope to see you in Manila! 🇵🇭
#Linguistics
#AppliedLinguistics
Hope to see you in Manila! 🇵🇭
#Linguistics
#AppliedLinguistics
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What is something about graduate school or life in academia that you think undergraduate you would have benefited from knowing?
I am putting together some content for a seminar class next week and would appreciate your suggestions!
Also would appreciate a re-post! 😁🙏
I am putting together some content for a seminar class next week and would appreciate your suggestions!
Also would appreciate a re-post! 😁🙏
March 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What is something about graduate school or life in academia that you think undergraduate you would have benefited from knowing?
I am putting together some content for a seminar class next week and would appreciate your suggestions!
Also would appreciate a re-post! 😁🙏
I am putting together some content for a seminar class next week and would appreciate your suggestions!
Also would appreciate a re-post! 😁🙏
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📢 *Open Access*
Thrilled to announce that my book "Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use" has just been flipped open access!
Thanks to @helenbarton2004.bsky.social from @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social.
The book & individual chapters can be downloaded here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Thrilled to announce that my book "Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use" has just been flipped open access!
Thanks to @helenbarton2004.bsky.social from @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social.
The book & individual chapters can be downloaded here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
February 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
📢 *Open Access*
Thrilled to announce that my book "Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use" has just been flipped open access!
Thanks to @helenbarton2004.bsky.social from @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social.
The book & individual chapters can be downloaded here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Thrilled to announce that my book "Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use" has just been flipped open access!
Thanks to @helenbarton2004.bsky.social from @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social.
The book & individual chapters can be downloaded here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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📣 News of Social Corpus Scraper (my tool for collecting corpora of posts from social networks):
- a Discord module is nearly ready;
- a Truth Social module is in the works.
If you'd like to do some beta-testing, do not hesitate!
#linguistics #corpus 🐦🐦
- a Discord module is nearly ready;
- a Truth Social module is in the works.
If you'd like to do some beta-testing, do not hesitate!
#linguistics #corpus 🐦🐦
SocialCorpusScraper
fmoncomble.github.io
February 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
📣 News of Social Corpus Scraper (my tool for collecting corpora of posts from social networks):
- a Discord module is nearly ready;
- a Truth Social module is in the works.
If you'd like to do some beta-testing, do not hesitate!
#linguistics #corpus 🐦🐦
- a Discord module is nearly ready;
- a Truth Social module is in the works.
If you'd like to do some beta-testing, do not hesitate!
#linguistics #corpus 🐦🐦
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"We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing."
~ Hermann Hesse
~ Hermann Hesse
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing."
~ Hermann Hesse
~ Hermann Hesse
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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
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We should all be pushing our local & municipal government agencies and elected officials to establish @bsky.app accounts.
Making Bluesky more of a hub of civic information will encourage many, many users to migrate away from Twitter/X.
Is there a Bluesky HOWTO for govt departments and officials?
Making Bluesky more of a hub of civic information will encourage many, many users to migrate away from Twitter/X.
Is there a Bluesky HOWTO for govt departments and officials?
February 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We should all be pushing our local & municipal government agencies and elected officials to establish @bsky.app accounts.
Making Bluesky more of a hub of civic information will encourage many, many users to migrate away from Twitter/X.
Is there a Bluesky HOWTO for govt departments and officials?
Making Bluesky more of a hub of civic information will encourage many, many users to migrate away from Twitter/X.
Is there a Bluesky HOWTO for govt departments and officials?
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Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪
February 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪
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FYI if you only support diversity, equity and inclusion when you don’t have any pushback then you do not actually support it.
Google has abandoned employee diversity targets, saying on Wednesday that as a federal contractor, the company needed to comply with President Trump’s executive orders opposing diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Google Unwinds Diversity Goals, Citing Trump’s DEI Orders
The Silicon Valley giant also said it was reviewing other diversity programs and initiatives and would update them if they seemed risky or ineffective.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
FYI if you only support diversity, equity and inclusion when you don’t have any pushback then you do not actually support it.
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There's a word for people who prefer judging others to thinking critically about their own bitter natures: arseholes.
Counterpoint: No, there isn't
But sure, let's randomly assign incredibly loaded clinical diagnoses onto individuals who may have many valid reasons for not wanting to engage in-person with people, particularly ones who make damning evidence-free judgements of others and share them in a newspaper
But sure, let's randomly assign incredibly loaded clinical diagnoses onto individuals who may have many valid reasons for not wanting to engage in-person with people, particularly ones who make damning evidence-free judgements of others and share them in a newspaper
January 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
There's a word for people who prefer judging others to thinking critically about their own bitter natures: arseholes.
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I’m not saying it’s Thomas Becket and Henry II energy but it is very much Thomas Becket and Henry II energy.
Also: talk to medieval and late antique historians.
Also: talk to medieval and late antique historians.
January 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I’m not saying it’s Thomas Becket and Henry II energy but it is very much Thomas Becket and Henry II energy.
Also: talk to medieval and late antique historians.
Also: talk to medieval and late antique historians.
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By now I’m waiting for Trump to attempt to call a universal synod, establish his own definition of the nature of Christ, and reserve for himself the right to appoint bishops in and outside of his empire.
January 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
By now I’m waiting for Trump to attempt to call a universal synod, establish his own definition of the nature of Christ, and reserve for himself the right to appoint bishops in and outside of his empire.
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Stop letting unfunny men tell you there’s something wrong with you for not getting their “jokes”. Stop fake laughing. Let their reality reflect the truth of how fundamentally they misunderstand humor. Neuter their ability to use “it was a joke” for emotional cover. Make them see nobody laugh.
January 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Stop letting unfunny men tell you there’s something wrong with you for not getting their “jokes”. Stop fake laughing. Let their reality reflect the truth of how fundamentally they misunderstand humor. Neuter their ability to use “it was a joke” for emotional cover. Make them see nobody laugh.
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October 18, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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A straightforward call for ethnic cleansing from the US president
On Air Force One from Las Vegas to Miami, President Trump says Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated.
“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” he tells reporters.”We just clean out that whole thing.”
“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” he tells reporters.”We just clean out that whole thing.”
January 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
A straightforward call for ethnic cleansing from the US president
I really wish there was a day of reckoning for all of these right wing people who gradually and very carefully took out people's rights and pursued a vicious culture war where empathy is "a sin."
I for one do not want to wait for God to end the world. We need to play the long game, I suppose.
I for one do not want to wait for God to end the world. We need to play the long game, I suppose.
January 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I really wish there was a day of reckoning for all of these right wing people who gradually and very carefully took out people's rights and pursued a vicious culture war where empathy is "a sin."
I for one do not want to wait for God to end the world. We need to play the long game, I suppose.
I for one do not want to wait for God to end the world. We need to play the long game, I suppose.
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This is the same guy who tried saying on here a couple days ago that it was good that Trump was nuking DEI hires because they prevented a multiracial working class movement
Ryan grim feeling happy about US saber rattling over Greenland, bc it's smol bean imperialism
January 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This is the same guy who tried saying on here a couple days ago that it was good that Trump was nuking DEI hires because they prevented a multiracial working class movement
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Indiana isn't as big as Texas or Florida, but for those of us in higher education, it's worth paying attention to what is (and has been) going on. Take the Governor's new budget, which cut all of the $10M previously allocated to Martin University, the only predominantly Black school in the state.
January 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Indiana isn't as big as Texas or Florida, but for those of us in higher education, it's worth paying attention to what is (and has been) going on. Take the Governor's new budget, which cut all of the $10M previously allocated to Martin University, the only predominantly Black school in the state.