Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026Join us in 50 minutes 👇🏽 02912
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Anna Marchi 🌈 "silence is a myth" one of my favourites from @manymindspod.bsky.social: Karen Bekker going beyond our naked ears manyminds.libsyn.com/a-hidden-wor...manyminds.libsyn.comMany Minds: A hidden world of soundConsider the peacock. Its plumage is legendary—those shimmering, iridescent colors, and those eerie, enchanting eyespots. But what often goes less appreciated (at least by us humans) is that this chro... 021
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Semester has started, if you are bookmarking podcasts for your commutes here is an excellent episode 011
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The question for the Luddites was never simply whether to accept or reject a new machine, but rather who controlled it, how it was deployed, and whose interests it served. Technological change, in their view, was not some inevitable force of nature but the result of human choices about power... 020
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/09/2026I am so tired of how we have been saying this for more than a decade by this point 813340
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“The whole ‘Oh no, our [AI] models went rogue’ thing ... When a bridge collapses, you don't analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?” @timnitgebru.blacksky.app 321474
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"I think, sometimes, I miss the present more than I miss the past. And perhaps that is a form of time travel" declinations of #nostalgia @proftaylor.bsky.social 041
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Algorithms are opinions embedded in code // Algorithms automate the status quo 142
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Amazon has created a system where the most sales go to the companies that pay the highest bribes... The first item on a typical Amazon search results page is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search..." pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c... #enshittocene thread by @doctorow.pluralistic.net 0189
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026suggested follow: @criticalai-journal.bsky.social 020
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026New article just out on @jcads.bsky.social issue 10 021
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If you're in Belgium on 17 September, join us for the closing event of our project on discourse on populism. Registration is free but compulsory. Deadline 10 September: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...forms.cloud.microsoftMicrosoft Forms 042
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · 01/09/2026New post by Helen Caple on corpus-based discourse analysis of newspaper data: sydneycorpuslab.com/how-seed-ter...sydneycorpuslab.comHow seed term visualisation and metadata analysis offer a better understanding of newspaper corpora in large-scale corpus-based discourse analysisWritten by Helen Caple In large-scale corpus-based discourse analysis, newspaper corpora are typically constructed from databases like Factiva or Nexis using ‘seed terms’ related to the topic of in… 064
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026New Origin Story on Section 28: the law which halted progress on gay rights and drove it into reverse. Nearly every moment in this story - the moral panic, the press hysteria, the bad actors, the political cowardice - resembles what is happening now to trans people. 13321107
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comSeven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti 13534491490
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026OK summer mood is gone, gloom mood is back 😅 Excellent listen anyway: Empire: World History | 382. Empire of AI: Karen Hao On Today’s Hidden Colonialism (Ep 2) on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/dir-6rbca...podbean.com382. Empire of AI: Karen Hao On Today’s Hidden Colonialism (Ep 2)Are modern AI companies the new empires? What is the hidden human cost behind chatbots like ChatGPT? How does Silicon Valley’s rhetoric echo the East India Company? In this episode, Anita is joined b... 000
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Best film in a long time and high up in the list of my favourites ever youtu.be/U2v3_jHrvBQ?...youtu.beWoman At War - Official TrailerYouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing 000
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Looking forward to @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social "End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World" coming out on September 15th. While you wait: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HAe...youtube.comNaomi Klein & Astra Taylor: Are We Entering “End Times Fascism”?YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends 000
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026'That $1 trillion could have been used for anything... Instead, it has been channeled into constructing energy-draining, water-absorbing data centers that power large language models (LLMs) built on the theft of millions of people’s creative work, which consistently produce incorrect responses...' 062
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Jacobin Italia @jacobinitalia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026L’omicidio di Abderrahim Fakir a Bologna non evidenzia solo il clima repressivo e autoritario del governo Meloni e la razzializzazione dei soggetti colpiti, ma anche il mancato processo di democratizzazione delle forze dell’ordine che riguarda anche la sinistra jacobinitalia.it/la-forza-del...jacobinitalia.itLa Forza della polizia - Jacobin ItaliaL’omicidio di Abderrahim Fakir a Bologna non evidenzia solo il clima repressivo e autoritario del governo Meloni e la razzializzazione dei soggetti colpiti, ma anche il mancato processo di democratizz... 023
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I have been a @theguardian.com reader for decades; my PhD was on the Guardian; in the @arusbridger.bsky.social years it was the best newspaper in the world. Recently international coverage has been in steady downfall, but the way it misreported what happened in Bologna this week just broke my heart 340
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026"more outputs less understanding" HELL YEAH! A very insightful read. You may want to have a look at @lmesseri.bsky.social and @mjcrockett.bsky.social previous article as well: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comArtificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research - NatureThe proliferation of artificial intelligence tools in scientific research risks creating illusions of understanding, where scientists believe they understand more about the world than they actual... 093
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 08/07/2026#nostalgia ain's so bad after all www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...theguardian.comMadonna was always anti-nostalgia. But looking back on Confessions II has revitalised her musicThe veteran pop diva has pressed rewind to move forward on her new record – and beneath the bangers fizz a host of emotionally charged memories 000
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Tonight's watch: "Arundhati Roy - A rebel writer" www.arte.tv/en/videos/12... and an inspiring, breathtaking, resplendent humanarte.tvArundhati Roy - A Rebel Writer - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in EnglishWith "The God of Small Things", Arundhati Roy won international acclaim as well as the Booker Prize in 1997. She became India's best-known author and an uncompromising voice against injustice and in s... 030
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Chomsky, Epstein, linguistics, climate: an excellent piece by Annabelle Lukin featuring "Two extremely privileged white males, musing over an abstract notion of power..." open.substack.com/pub/annabell...open.substack.comChomsky, Epstein, linguistics, climateIn the Chomsky-versus-language grand challenge, language won 031
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Be Giant @be-giant.bsky.social · 30/06/2026“Enshittification” author @doctorow.pluralistic.net explains the title of his new book: “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence – Before It's Too Late.” Read more: www.begiant.ca/stories/peop... 0104
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026New publication: My contribution in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics on "Corpus Linguistics and Journalism" has just been published. It is not OA but feel free to DM me if you'd like to read it 3197
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Today JCaDs published its last book review ever. From next issue we will inaugurate a NEW FORMAT: A YEAR IN REVIEW. Every year we will invite a prominent scholar in our area to "digest" the most relevant/interesting recent contributions 161
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Had a fab time at #CADS2026 presenting my work with the wonderful @niallrcurry.bsky.social about actors' self-narration on Desert Island Discs. Play here with the 12M words (8 decades) corpus - open access and richly annotated (Marchi & Ferraresi 2027): bellatrix.sslmit.unibo.it/noske/public... 0184
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Federica Formato (she/her) @genderedform.bsky.social · 26/06/2026On my way home after #cads2026. I have thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of it! the community is going stronger and stronger making it a place where we all blossom. Looking forward to the next one in Vienna! 0233
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 26/06/2026On a vanishingly small chance you haven’t heard about it from me during CADS (sorry not sorry), we’re @sofiaruediger.bsky.social @domini.bsky.social doing a conf about persuasive language in Tampere this November and the CFP ends on July 1 and you should all come! events.tuni.fi/persuasion20... 02313
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 26/06/2026And so #CADS2026 comes to an end. We had 4 plenaries, 99 papers, 18 posters and 150 delegates. Thank you from all of us to everyone who came and made it so special ❤️🩶 1476
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 25/06/2026A Brucie Bonus (Scotty Supplement?) for those travelling home from @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Here's the full live stream of '30 Years of Keyness – in honour of Mike Scott' held at @livunienglish.bsky.social earlier this week ▶️ drive.google.com/file/d/1PivK... Please enjoy & share! #CADS2026 21814
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026and #CADS2028 is going to 🥁 Vienna July 5-7 1165
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Thanks @gavinbrookes.bsky.social for a wonderful #CADS2026; having been to all 8 editions I can authoritatively say that it was simply perfect 2211
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Final plenary at #CADS2026: Brian King takes us on a delightful journey through our history of analysing interaction in online corpora, with a look towards the future (also I learnt a new word: "vicennial") 0235
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Day 2 at #CADS2026 closes with a blast: @elenasemino.bsky.social amazing as ever on pushing boundaries and corpus methods making a difference 0214
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Chaired an excellent panel on migration discourses at #CADS2026 this morning. Really inspiring work by Tony Berber Sardinha, @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social , @xinmeisun.bsky.social , @proftaylor.bsky.social 2153
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Brilliant second plenary at #CADS2026: lots of methodological food for thought with @matteofuoli.bsky.social problematising CADS' deterministic assumptions + showing the added value of testing discourse effects empirically 1285
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026At #CADS2026, Michaela Mahlberg describes corpora as “evidence of human experience”. That’s a wonderful way of looking at corpora. 0339
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Entirely engrossing plenary by the wonderful @michamahlberg.bsky.social on trandisciplinarity, wicked problems, narrative and so much more #CADS2026 1235
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026@gavinbrookes.bsky.social kicking off #CADS2026 in a beautiful room of corpus-basted linguists (Nick Groom's coniage). Brilliant programme for three days of academic treats 0151
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Started my journey towards Lancaster, while listening to @tonymcenery.bsky.social talk about Keywords. Perfect mood #cads2026 1131
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16/06/2026U.S. government claiming Musk has the right to poison Memphis because xAI is "vital" to national security, because the Pentagon signed a contract with them. Elite immunity is a cancer that causes cancer, among countless other ills. www.wired.com/story/doj-la...wired.comDOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP LawsuitIn a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War. 211011345
Reposted by Anna Marchi 🌈Eugeニア Diegoli @diegolieugenia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026📚 A linguistic analysis of SHAME and GUILT in English and Japanese – with a focus on emotion co-occurrence, out now in the Journal of Language and Cognition! Available OA here doi.org/10.1017/lang..., and more details below 👇 152