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Anna Marchi 🌈

@journolinguist.bsky.social
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Associate professor of linguistics at University of Bologna, editor-in-chief JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social, research in #corpuslinguistics, #discourse, #journalism, #nostalgia. Website: www.unibo.it/sitoweb/anna.marchi/en

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Join us in 50 minutes 👇🏽
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anna 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...
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Many Minds: A hidden world of sound
Consider 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...
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Semester has started, if you are bookmarking podcasts for your commutes here is an excellent episode
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dada perfection
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 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...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/09/2026
I am so tired of how we have been saying this for more than a decade by this point
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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
In my book I write, "Can a bridge decide to collapse?" The whole "Oh no, our 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? There are permits you have to acquire. There are supposed to be tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you've lost the thread.
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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
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Algorithms are opinions embedded in code // Algorithms automate the status quo
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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
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
suggested follow: @criticalai-journal.bsky.social
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New article just out on @jcads.bsky.social issue 10
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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If 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...
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Microsoft Forms
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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New post by Helen Caple on corpus-based discourse analysis of newspaper data: sydneycorpuslab.com/how-seed-ter...
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How seed term visualisation and metadata analysis offer a better understanding of newspaper corpora in large-scale corpus-based discourse analysis
Written 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…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New 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.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I 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...
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Seven 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
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What she says 👇
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
OK 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...
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382. 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...
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Best film in a long time and high up in the list of my favourites ever youtu.be/U2v3_jHrvBQ?...
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Woman At War - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Looking 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...
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Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor: Are We Entering “End Times Fascism”?
YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends
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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...'
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Jacobin Italia @jacobinitalia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
L’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...
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La Forza della polizia - Jacobin Italia
L’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...
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I 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
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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...
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Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research - Nature
The 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...
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#nostalgia ain's so bad after all www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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Madonna was always anti-nostalgia. But looking back on Confessions II has revitalised her music
The veteran pop diva has pressed rewind to move forward on her new record – and beneath the bangers fizz a host of emotionally charged memories
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Tonight's watch: "Arundhati Roy - A rebel writer" www.arte.tv/en/videos/12... and an inspiring, breathtaking, resplendent human
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Arundhati Roy - A Rebel Writer - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
With "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...
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
in praise of friction and slowness
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Chomsky, 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...
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Chomsky, Epstein, linguistics, climate
In the Chomsky-versus-language grand challenge, language won
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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...
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New 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
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JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Today 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
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Had 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...
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Federica Formato (she/her) @genderedform.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
On 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!
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
On 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...
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And 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 ❤️🩶
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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 25/06/2026
A 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
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
and #CADS2028 is going to 🥁 Vienna July 5-7
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thanks @gavinbrookes.bsky.social for a wonderful #CADS2026; having been to all 8 editions I can authoritatively say that it was simply perfect
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Final 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")
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Day 2 at #CADS2026 closes with a blast: @elenasemino.bsky.social amazing as ever on pushing boundaries and corpus methods making a difference
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Chaired 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
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Brilliant 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
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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
At #CADS2026, Michaela Mahlberg describes corpora as “evidence of human experience”. That’s a wonderful way of looking at corpora.
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Entirely engrossing plenary by the wonderful @michamahlberg.bsky.social on trandisciplinarity, wicked problems, narrative and so much more #CADS2026
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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
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Started my journey towards Lancaster, while listening to @tonymcenery.bsky.social talk about Keywords. Perfect mood #cads2026
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
what she says! 👇
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
U.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...
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DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
In 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.
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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 👇
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
back in Bertinoro
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