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Isabel Picornell Garcia

@picornell.eurosky.social
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Caffeinated forensic linguist researching deception in authorship style and faked (con)texts.Visiting Research Fellow, AIFL. 🇪🇺 🖖 Ex-archaeologist #Humanist #ForensicLinguistics

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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 17h
The document was not a letter written directly by Napoleon. It originated at the headquarters of Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy, and was an encrypted troop briefing passed to Marmont on Napoleon's orders. #AI #History
euronews.com
AI decodes 217-year-old Napoleonic letter in 6 hours
An engineer used artificial intelligence to decode a military cypher from the Napoleonic era that had gone unsolved for more than two centuries.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The First Female Pharaoh? An Old Photo of Ancient Hieroglyphics Highlights the Status of One of Egypt’s Earliest Queens, Researchers Say www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
smithsonianmag.com
The First Female Pharaoh? An Old Photo of Ancient Hieroglyphics Highlights the Status of One of Egypt’s Earliest Queens, Researchers Say
The black-and-white photograph of a long-lost artifact depicts four serekhs, symbols of Egyptian rulers, and two of them, a recent study suggests, are hers
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Lia Belle @liabelle.me · 02/10/2026
The wait is over! @mu.social (Early Access) powered by @eurosky.social is now available on Google Play (screenshot) 🥳 Reminder to log into @mu.social on Android using your Bsky, Eurosky or any ATProto account 🙂 #eurosky #mu.social #android
@mu.social (Early Access) by @Eurosky.social is available on Google Play
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I find myself getting quite frustrated with this 'well it's a contested definition'. It's only contested if you think the views of ignorant people are as valid as those who know what they're talking about.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Hydrated and ☕...that's me off to the 🏋️ now. Hasta luego.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
An excellent gift article from NYT. Stop humanising AI. It is neither human nor intelligent.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Scholars using SRT examine how society turns complex, unfamiliar, or abstract phenomena (like science, technology or disease) into familiar, everyday ideas that people can discuss and use to make sense of reality. #Linguistics
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Also the greatest relative clause of all time. 😂 #Linguistics
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Olivier Roth @olivierroth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mais qu'ils ne l'aient pas mis le même jour, c'est parfaitement incompréhensible.
Cartoon d'un traducteur devant son ordi avec une perfusion de café.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New discovery: Tableware found in 2,100-year-old shipwreck located off coats of Adrasan, Türkiye It's believed that the cargo contained luxury tableware produced in Rhosus, modern-day Arsuz, and was intended for markets such as Rome. www.dailysabah.com/life/history...
Underwater photo of numerous pottery vessels across the sandy seabed, including bowlss and plate. A measuring scale is visible in the background.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small and ancient figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The museum lighting makes the amber glow translucent orange against a dark display case background. The bear is displayed on a small metal stand viewed in profile facing right. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The neck has a polished groove suggesting it was once suspended on a cord. The characteristic shoulder hump of a brown bear is clearly defined. There are some finely incised horizontal lines along the belly. The legs are incomplete. Length 6.5cm. Amber has many properties which may have been associated with 'magic' for ancient peoples. For example, when rubbed against fur, amber produces static electricity which can give off sparks in the dark, make hair stand on end, and attract small things towards it.
The bear was found in 1991 on a west coast beach of the Danish North Sea island of Fanø. It is one of a small number of amber animal figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach and /or other contextual information.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
"[E]ach time we bring a memory out of long-term storage, it goes through a process called reconsolidation, which allows new information to seep in and alter the memory."
scientificamerican.com
What science reveals about the reliability of eyewitness memory
The malleability of memory once cast doubt on eyewitness identification in criminal cases, but new research reveals how eyewitness memory can be used accurately
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
The Aston Institute of #ForensicLiguistics online Thursday (free) seminars are back! Starting 1st October. See the October lineup 👇
aston.ac.uk
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics Events
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Using fraudulent technology to catch liars. "Just the latest in a long line of failed attempts to use technology to detect lies. “It’s a misguided effort to reduce the complex to something that is tangible”." #Polygraph
technologyreview.com
The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
Polygraph+ will use new sensor technologies and AI to vet staff and hunt leakers. Experts say AI-enabled lie detection is “the worst of both worlds.”
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guardian announces global release plans for documentary feature film NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...
theguardian.com
Guardian announces global release plans for documentary feature film NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Guardian and mk2 Films today announce that NAZA, the new Guardian- produced documentary awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, will be released theatrically...
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
"[Huckabee] cited disinformation and foreign propaganda, a hatred of those who believe “there is a God and that he’s made up the rules for life”, and not knowing the Bible." His words identify where the true "illiteracy" lies.
aje.news
Huckabee blames ‘biblical illiteracy’ for waning support for Israel in US
A Pew Research poll in April indicated 60 percent of the US adult population held an unfavourable view of Israel.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
"The goal for these kinds of organization, says Fan Xiudi, an educational-policy specialist at Tongji University in Shanghai, China, seems to be to build a facade of legitimacy, and then use that to sell memberships and awards to early-career researchers, particularly in China." #AcademicScams
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A #Roman glass bowl, in a beautiful cobalt blue with an irregular swirling white pattern. It looks amazing - especislly given that it is nearly 2000 years old! #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky
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~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I read somewhere that — “Self-care” is also choosing not to argue with people committed to misunderstanding you. ~ Jay Jay Douglas
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NAZA Filmmakers to Make Film Available for Free Online Amid Israel's Smear Campaign www.commondreams.org/news/documen...
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NAZA Filmmakers to Make Film Available for Free Online Amid Israel's Smear Campaign | Common Dreams
Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor face backlash from the government for their documentary NAZA, exposing the IDF's mass killing of civilians.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
All nationalities are, to some extent, invented. The idea of ethnic purity of a nation is an insane one based on historic ignorance, biological pseudo-science and usually resulting in catastrophy.
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Tony Thorne @tonythorne007.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us
The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit Call for Papers is now open, through the end of October. Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. To submit, see the Call for Papers tab at: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...
The 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit Call for Papers is now open, through the end of October.

Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns.

The Summit is interested in compelling research that examines who deploys malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns, why they deploy them, what power structures they create or utilize to maximize their potential impact, how to measure actors’ perceived salience of incentives, how to measure the impact of supportive power infrastructures, and what policies or practice might intervene on incentives or power infrastructures.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
The discovery of the new agora, together with the uncovering of a paved road leading to the southern gate and Iron Age ceramics, challenges the accepted historical narrative of a long phase in which the city stood empty. #Troy #Archaeology
euronews.com
Archaeology at Troy: 2,800-year-old agora found, city was not abandoned after war
Excavations on Hisarlik hill in Turkey have uncovered the site’s oldest agora, proving Troy was resettled 80–90 years after the war, not deserted for centuries before the Aeolians arrived.
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Maija Tervola @maijatervola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is huge. I see a lot of problems in the psychology and psychiatry that apparently stem from ignoring this bipartite brain. And even on the broader scale: We tend to think of humans as rational beings, thus ignore the more primitive part of the brain. Connecting these two is a major challenge.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Amid its genocide in Gaza, Israel is facing a crisis not simply of public opinion, but of narrative control. #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes
aje.news
The pro-Israel censors are starting to lose
The Macklemore controversy demonstrates that the cost of speaking up for Palestine is diminishing.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
AI models show overconfidence, value different factors and oversimplify complex decisions when deciding which patient should receive a transplant. #ArtificialIntelligence
euronews.com
Who deserves a transplant? AI disagrees with human doctors
AI chatbots make faster, more confident, but less nuanced decisions than human doctors when choosing who gets a life-saving kidney transplant.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
A report by Claire Hardaker on how her funding application to study the risk of misplaced confidence in fluent-sounding AI systems was rejected by AI-based review. #ForensicLinguistics #AI
lnkd.in
I've had some pretty special rejections over the years, but this one, received at 16:51 on a Friday (today) has shot to the top of my all time Hall of Fame. For context, Georgina Brown and I put a...
I've had some pretty special rejections over the years, but this one, received at 16:51 on a Friday (today) has shot to the top of my all time Hall of Fame. For context, Georgina Brown and I put a pro...
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
In St Peter Port (Guernsey) harbour, the replica of Magellan's Nao Victoria. To have circumnavigated the globe on that tiny ship, with 17 crew on the last leg, was incredible.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
UN Inquiry Finds US Strike on Minab, Iran That Killed 123 Children Was War Crime truthout.org/articles/un-...
truthout.org
UN Inquiry Finds US Strike on Minab, Iran That Killed 123 Children Was War Crime
The US targeted “clearly identifiable” civilian sites in Minab and Lamerd, killing over 100 children, the UN found.
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Meh Pluribus Unum (Alli) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pluribus-unum.co · 17/09/2026
As an aside, if you have an android phone, this free app can tell you if there are glasses near you. Article here: techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/n... play.google.com/store/apps/d...
techcrunch.com
A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
5-day (19-23 October) online intensive course in #ForensicLinguistics with Dr Robert Leonard and Dr Tanya Christensen. I'm teaching the module on deception analysis.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
The Aston Institute of #ForensicLinguistics (#AIFL) invites applications for a fully funded PhD studentship starting in January 2027. The studentship provides a full tuition fee waiver and a stipend at the standard UKRI rate for three years. Details here: www.aston.ac.uk/study/course...
aston.ac.uk
Fully-funded PhD position at the Aston Institute of Forensic Linguistics
Programme length: Three years The Aston Institute of Forensic Linguistics invites applications for a fully funded PhD studentship starting in January 2027. The studentship provides a full tuition fee ...
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
Reading is especially beneficial among older adults, the authors noted. Leisure activities that stimulate the brain are linked to slower cognitive decline and a reduced risk of dementia in this age group. #Books #Readng
euronews.com
From bedtime stories to book clubs: Reading protects your brain for life
Reading for pleasure isn't just enjoyable, new research suggests it could also boost brain health and lower dementia risk.
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666 @numberofthebeast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the way🇨🇦🇪🇺
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Interesting 👇 More people leaving the UK than coming in. Or maybe not interesting; they're just better informed?
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk
Net migration to the UK - Migration Observatory
An overview of net migration in the UK – defined as the difference between immigration and emigration of people moving for at least a year.
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Lia Belle @liabelle.me · 16/09/2026
For those interested in the State of the European Union 2026 address & debate, watch it LIVE here ⬇️ Priorities include: Safety (ReArm Europe Plan), Support for Ukraine, Competitiveness (InvestAI), Trade & Partnerships (RESourceEU), Social Media & Online Safety (EU Kids Act): #SOTEU #SOTEU2026 #EU
youtube.com
State of the European Union debate 2026
YouTube video by European Parliament
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
If you are interested in #ForensicLinguistics, especially the analysis of meaning, listen to this AIFL podcast featuring one of my cases. I had fun recording it.
youtube.com
Writing Wrongs - YouTube
Every sentence tells a story, every word leaves a trace. Writing Wrongs, from Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, explores historic and contemporary fo...
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
#ForensicLinguistics is not just about catching criminals, it’s also about finding ways to better support vulnerable groups who find themselves, in whatever capacity, having to interact with legal systems. This is an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through language analysis.
policeprofessional.com
Police Professional | Forensic linguistics Forensic linguistics – Police Professional
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The preliminary program for Influence, Manipulation, Seduction 3 is now available! events.tuni.fi/persuasion20... Make sure to register by September 15 to take advantage of the early bird fee
events.tuni.fi
Programme | Influence, Manipulation, Seduction 3 | Tampere Universities
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Simply beautiful: clasped hands from group statue of Akhenaton and Nefertiti. Made of quartzite, 18th dynasty, ca. 1350 BC, from Amarna, #Egypt On display at Neues Museum, Berlin 📸 me
A close-up of clasped hands, both are broken off at the wrist. Made of a yellow brown stone.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 12/09/2026
There are people behind every crisis. Wherever they may come from, show your solidarity with all who are displaced.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I just got the latest Deutsche Post stamps featuring the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, issued to celebrate Star Trek’s 60th anniversary! Love it! 🖖
A sheet of ten German postage stamps featuring the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, with the text “Wo noch nie ein Mensch gewesen ist” (“Where no human has gone before”) and "60 Jahre Star Trek" ("60 years of Star Trek") a 95-cent denomination, QR codes, and colorful Star Trek-themed borders.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'Evidence from the site indicates that Denisovans crafted bone tools similar to those made by their relatives, the Neanderthals...items also suggest that Denisovans, who lived at the site for at least 30,000 years, and possibly as long as 120,000 years, were skilled hunters of animals such as deer.'
nature.com
Who were the Denisovans? Rich trove of fossils and tools paints new picture
Objects found in a cave in southwestern China suggest that these enigmatic ancient humans were accomplished hunters.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
100% 😊 Thank goodness.
euronews.com
Are you smarter than a 15-year-old? Try these OECD Pisa tests
This week, the OECD's PISA report has revealed a global decline in 15-year-old's maths and reading skills — but how much better can the grown-up's fare?
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Simon Corston-Oliver @simonhco.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am (very slowly) reading "Como agua para chocolate" ("Like water for chocolate") by Laura Esquivel. Lots of new vocabulary then there are delightful discoveries like this: 𝘯𝘰 𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢 "don't do the dead mosquito" i.e. act innocent #linguistics #spanish #español
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
What followed was a series of US-led wars that reshaped Washington’s foreign policy for a generation, in which every year since 2001, US forces have bombed a country somewhere in the world, devastating the lives of millions and killing 4.5 million people. #WarCrimes
aje.news
‘Everything changed’: The human cost of 25 years of US wars
Successive wars launched after 9/11 have killed at least 4.5 million people and displaced more than 38 million others.
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