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Jack Grieve

@jwgrieve.bsky.social
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Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Can we infer deceptive intent from fact-checker labels? And what if what fact-checkers consider “false” today turns out to be “true” tomorrow? We explore these and other methodological questions in our new paper with Bashayer Baissa & @jwgrieve.bsky.social: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Veracity and register in fake news analysis
This article addresses two fundamental methodological challenges in linguistic fake news research: how to reliably classify news texts as real versus fake and how to control for register variation whe...
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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Very excited to announce what @DrNicciMacLeod.bsky.social and I have been working on for the past few months (with a brilliant production team behind us). You can subscribe now and listen to our trailer wherever you get your podcasts. #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #truecrime #academicsky
Show flyer for new podcast called Writing Wrongs which is now available to subscribe to with a trailer on podcast platforms. 

Logo is a blood spattered typewriter. 

The first episodes will be released 7th March with other others to follow 1st Friday of each month. 

Episodes advertised are
- Timothy Evans a Case for Forensic Linguistics 
- An interview with Kate Summerscale author of The Peepshow
- Impostors Tending to the Wild with Dr Isobelle Clarke
- Foreyginsic Lingeyguistic A murder In Eggs Latin
- Romance Fraud The linguistic Crime Scene with Dr Elisabeth Carter
- The Disputed Confessions of Darnell Rusan with Dr Marlon Hurt
- They Said She Said The Ayia Napa Rape Case with Dr Andrea Nini
-  a Questions and Answers episode

Podcast email address is WritingWrongs@aston.ac.uk
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Meow Factor @meow-factor.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I have made a screenshot of the image in my book (ebook format), I have also included a map of "meow"
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Dana Roemling @danaroemling.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
My paper with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @jwgrieve.bsky.social was published in the Journal of Linguistic Geography today. 🎉 It’s a tutorial on how to use R & ggplot2 to visualise linguistic map data. doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
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Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology | Journal of Linguistic Geography | Cambridge Core
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology doi.org/10.1017/jlg.... I hope people find it useful!
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Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology | Journal of Linguistic Geography | Cambridge Core
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Seems like important lessons could be learned here. Whether they will be, or treated as woke collateral in the culture wars, is another matter.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Excited to share that our new paper has been published in Frontiers in AI!
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
New paper out today in Frontiers in AI! The sociolinguistic foundations of language modelling We argue sociolinguistics provides a foundation for understanding LLMs and addressing many challenges www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... doi.org/10.3389/frai... techxplore.com/news/2025-01...
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Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Two new Assistant Professorships in our department Language and New Media: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Intercultural Communication: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications (Language and New Media) (Research and Education) - School of English, Drama and Creative Studies - 104941 - Grade 8
The post holder will contribute high quality teaching to our suite of successful programmes which includes the BA in Digital Media and Communications launched on the University’s Edgbaston campus in S...
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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Snark-less post: The workshop on online abuse and harms (woahworkshop.bsky.social) is now here! Follow along for online abuse related notifications and announcements!
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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (@woahworkshop.bsky.social)
Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) to be held at ACL 2025 in Vienna. This account is managed by @florplaza.bsky.social https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/
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Robbie Love @robbielove.org · 17/11/2024
Call for papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 #CL2025 Birmingham, UK First week of July 2025 Submissions welcome for papers, posters, thematic panels and pre-conference workshops! www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...
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CL2025 - Call for papers
Abstract submission is now open here
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Department of Linguistics and Communication @UoB @lcuob.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hi Bluesky: the department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham is now on Bluesky! Who else from our department is here? @jeannettel.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social @adamcschembri.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @gregwoodin.bsky.social
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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 16/11/2024
Did one! Not listed and should be? Let me know 🙂 go.bsky.app/AT6KX6X
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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello fellow forensic linguists, I thought I'd create a little space for us all. I'm new here so let me know if I've not seen you and need adding ❤️ go.bsky.app/Jtyb67V
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Full house for @bodowinter.bsky.social’s department talk tonight!
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
New paper on the language of fake news with Bashayer Baissa and Matteo Fuoli doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
FTA: @stancarey.bsky.social uses @jwgrieve.bsky.social's map to see who swears how where across the USA stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/m...
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Mapping the United Swears of America
Swearing varies a lot from place to place, even within the same country, in the same language. But how do we know who swears what, where, in the big picture? We turn to data – damn big data. With g…
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Full house for Harald Baayen at University of Birmingham!
Harald Baayen presenting
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
New interview I did with Robbie Love on Computational Sociolinguistics! youtu.be/0RV1XDGgzZQ?...
Screen cap of Robbie Love interviewing me
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
First post, new paper on the way!
Draft of ‘The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modelling’
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