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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 #Wulferhampton

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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 19h
Update Aurigny has cancelled my flight "due to ongoing weather conditions". Bulls**it as the weather is flyable (700 ft ceiling with wind down the runway). I'm on another flight tomorrow because there are not enough planes/crew to catch up.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 23h
Update: So, the day after my cancelled flight (because 1 of the 2 pilots flying the 1 plane that services the Guernsey-Alderny route called in sick), this flight is indefinitely delayed because of adverse weather conditions. For once, #Aurigny is telling the truth.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
I knew #Aurigny cancelled my Guernsey-Alderney flight this afternoon the moment it was removed from their schedule. That's how they massage their performance figures. Just remove the flight w/o identifying it as cancelled. And they're lying as usual re the reasons behind its £15m loss. #ShitAirline
guernseypress.com
Aurigny on course to lose £15m. over this year and into 2027
Losses at Aurigny are expected to exceed £15m. across this year and next year.
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Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This piece by @celesterl.bsky.social asks us to think beyond whether AI can produce grammatically correct language & towards something much more human: how that language is actually experienced by listeners. 🔗 tinyurl.com/522m4xt3 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #language #artificialintelligence #AI
tinyurl.com
What happens to language when machines start talking back?
AI systems tend to focus on the person speaking – but the listener plays just as big a part in communication.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“21,000 others urgently require treatment outside the devastated Palestinian territory. Among those still awaiting evacuation are 5,600 children, 2,800 patients requiring cancer treatment and 194 people whose conditions are considered immediately life-threatening.”
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
This author is not a forensic linguist and the deception claims have no valid theoretical underpinning. #Deception
sciencefocus.com
The simple words that can expose any liar, according to a forensic linguist | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Lie detectors don’t work. Body language is unreliable. And no. Their pants aren't on fire
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Growth that kills its host isn’t growth. It’s cancer with good PR.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
94% of Gaza’s population are in urgent need of shelter and basic assistance; 65% of households were living in tents or makeshift shelters, having been forced from their homes by Israeli attacks or evacuation orders. More than 74,245 Palestinians have been killed, 1,462 since the "ceasefire". #Gaza
aje.news
How three years of Israel’s genocidal war have changed Gaza
War has devastated Gaza’s economy, education, healthcare, infrastructure and public services, transforming life.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
"Colourful" is a euphemism for"one-time jailbird whose résumé seesawed between achievement and disgrace, and who inspired abiding public fascination with headline-grabbing accounts, both fictional and personal, of ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal".
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A must read. ‘Had I resigned, I would have handed them that victory on a plate,’ says former UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini genevasolutions.news/peace-humani...
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‘Had I resigned, I would have handed them that victory on a plate,’ says former UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini - Geneva Solutions
Since stepping down from his role as head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency earlier this year, Philippe Lazzarini has published a candid account of his tenure, denouncing disinformation campaigns a...
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
And why not? It would have contrasted beautifully with their dark skin.
euronews.com
Video. Ancient Roman men wore pink - and this new exhibition explains why
Video. A new exhibition at Copenhagen’s Glyptotek museum is exploring the colourful world of ancient Roman fashion - and how clothes, jewellery, hairstyles and perfume were used to signal identity, we...
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Good afternoon, Guernsey. A glorious autumn day 🍂🍁
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'Court officials and craftspeople serving early Egyptian kings may have been sacrificed when their ruler died, according to research that found fractures in several ancient skulls.'
theguardian.com
Skull fractures suggest servants of Egypt’s ancient kings were sacrificed
Study of remains taken from royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa’ab appears to confirm early Egyptologist’s theory
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Question for bird enthusiasts... can I leave alone nestboxes with nests in them or should I clean the nests out? I'm trying to avoid making work for myself. #BirdBoxes
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Clearing out the greenhouse for this year. The last of my tomatoes, peppers, and aubergines. Aubergine fajitas for dinner tonight. #SundayDinner
Kitchen top with assortment of tomatoes, aubergines, and peppers on dishcloths.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good. Juries are important, not so much for the decisions they make, but for the decisions they prevent others form being able to make. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct...
theguardian.com
Ministers drop plans to cut jury trials in England and Wales after outcry
Critics say scrapping of plans, which aimed to increase judge-alone trials to deliver swifter justice, leaves court system and victims vulnerable
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Morning all! Enjoy your Sunday. With ❤️ from #Cafster the #CaffeinatedHamster
A smiling hamster sits in bed clutching a white ceramic cup of coffee. Two croissants and a glass of orange juice sit on a wooden tray on the bed. The duvet and pillow has a lavender flower pattern.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
#SundayScience
euronews.com
The solar system will fall apart far sooner than anyone thought, scientists say
Earth will be long gone by then, but new research shows the outer planets will be thrown out too, and a billion times earlier than expected, according to astrophysics research.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
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...
commondreams.org
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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