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Petar Milin

@petarmilin.bsky.social
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Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning @artsatbham / @unibirmingham. #OOOMinder with @ooominds. Quantophiliac and worryingly OCD.

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NAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Our SLCN specialist teacher network is on Monday. We have @ashleyrblake.bsky.social from OxEd, @iomslt.bsky.social talking DLD friendly audits and Sarah Earl talking SEND White paper. Don't miss it! www.naplic.org.uk/events/ #DevLangDis
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UoB Advanced Research Computing delivering BEAR services @uob-bear.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A rare moment when the whole ARC team are in the same room 📸 Proud to support research across @unibirmingham through HPC, research software and training. ^YZ #HPC #Research #SoftwareEngineer
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Warning for anyone considering @sunoai.bsky.social: I signed up out of curiosity and was unexpectedly charged for a full-year subscription. I immediately requested cancellation and a refund but received no response. Disappointing handling of customers. Engage at your own risk. ☠️ ⚠️
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/10/2025
"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." 1/n www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
“As true believers are playing at their game of appearing serious, the real harms of generative AI continue to grow.” disconnect.blog/generative-a... Thanks to @garymarcus.bsky.social
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Generative AI is a societal disaster
Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society
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Daniel Kostic @danielkostic.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
My paper, with Kareem Khalifa, "Does Functional Connectivity Explain?" is accepted for publication in Synthese! @philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @natneuro.nature.com @nunetsi.bsky.social @danisbassett.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social @ishpssb.bsky.social
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 30/08/2025
PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
And now the plenary I have been really looking forward to: @dagmardivjak.bsky.social and @petarmilin.bsky.social on "Top-down wisdom vs. bottom-up noise: Can data (ever) replace linguistic expertise?" A collaborative keynote from the heads of outofourminds.bham.ac.uk/about/ #SLE2025
Dagmar and Petar being introduced while standing in front of their title slide
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Daniel Kostic @danielkostic.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This Friday (02 May), 5-7 PM (Hong Kong time), I'll be giving a talk 'Do Functional Connectivity Models Explain?' in the Philosophy of Science Lecture Series at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This is a joint work with Kareem Khalifa: www.shanyafeng.com/hkust-psl#ga...
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HKUST PSL - Yafeng Shan
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Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Despite all opinions to the contrary and disagreements with his views, his lucidity is something I dearly miss in today's neuro/cognitive scientists.
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Good news @dagmardivjak.bsky.social! Our article received enough citations to be a Top Cited Article in #LanguageLearning @wiley.com :https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lang.12569 #TopCitedArticle
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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🎓 Want to level up? Join Mike Croucher from MathWorks for an in-person workshop: - When: Tuesday 11 February (13:00-16:00) - Where: Murray Learning Centre, UoB - What: Master MATLAB's parallel superpowers, CPU & GPU optimization - Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/high-perfo...
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High Performance Computing with MATLAB
Learn how to supercharge your computing skills with MATLAB at our in-person event on high performance computing!
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Between a rock and a hard place
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Fellow academics, share your thoughts — I’d love to hear how you'd navigate an odd editorial saga. #PeerReview
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
www.inquirer.com/obituaries/w...
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William Labov, ‘father of sociolinguistics’ who studied the Philadelphia accent, dies at 97
William Labov's work changed whose dialects linguists saw worthy of study and dove into the socioeconomic politics of language. He is considered the father of sociolinguistics.
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Dagmar Divjak @dagmardivjak.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Work with @petarmilin.bsky.social and @huisunsh.bsky.social, funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social, carried out @lcuob.bsky.social @artsatbham.bsky.social with OA provided by the UoB library
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
@danielkostic.bsky.social
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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
If you’re looking for a great linguistics read I recommend Communicative Efficiency by Natalia Levshina (CUP 2022). Seriously folks this is so good. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Communicative Efficiency
Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Communicative Efficiency
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Calbear @calbeargirl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social
Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. 

If you use your library, please share. 

Picture of library aisle filled with books.
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Busy PG Open Day @unibirmingham.bsky.social, @artsatbham.bsky.social
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
The past few days have been heavy. Following the tragic events in Spain, I learned yesterday that a roof collapse at the train station in Novi Sad, Serbia, claimed 14 lives. Heartbreaking news for so many communities. 💔 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Serbian railway station roof collapse in Novi Sad leaves 14 dead
Rescue workers scoured piles of concrete and twisted metal for survivors on Friday after a roof collapsed at the entrance of a railway station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, killing 14 people.
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Vera Kempe @vkempe.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Special Issue of Language Teaching Research Quarterly in Honour of Brian MacWhinney now out. Tribute to Brian's profoundly inspiring influence not just on lang dev research in general but on so many of us personally. Thanks to Ed Wen & Hassan Mohebbi for editorial effort. eurokd.com/journal/jdwo...
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
I like this one so much. Not sure what cheers me up more, the title (The Cow With The Subtle Nose) or the painting itself, by Jean Dubuffet www.wikiart.org/en/jean-dubu...
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
The Economist: “[…] many Britons are woefully ignorant of statistics”, and “for some, it is almost “a badge of honour’.” apple.news/AOGiOKTRuSVS...
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The trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticians
And shown that many Britons are woefully ignorant of statistics
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Ready to demystify the magic behind GenAI? 🌟 Let me break down what LLMs are and how they power up your favourite AI tool in simple, snackable bits! #AIexplained #Simple
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Baltazar Idea Zagreb Film GIF
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Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
We are running out of theorists and science poetry. 😢 www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
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Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised Higgs boson, dies aged 94
The renowned scientist won the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013.
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Petar Milin @petarmilin.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Congrats
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