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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you're a resident of NSW Australia, please consider signing this petition to the NSW Parliament about a probable wrongful conviction: www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/parliamentar...

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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you're a resident of NSW Australia, please consider signing this petition to the NSW Parliament about a probable wrongful conviction: www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/parliamentar...

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Piers Kelly @pierskelly.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This makes so much sense now

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

The New York Times
When a Coat Becomes a Symbol of Conflict
How the choice of outerwear for Gregory Bovino, the president’s Border Patrol chief, turned into part of the deportation story.

Gregory Bovino
Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look
Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.
22.01.2026, 17.09 Uhr

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michael veale @michae.lv · 06/05/2025

As scholars, we know a bit about how to learn. We need to build relationships of trust, so that in the snatched moments after a lecture, during feedback, in an office hour, after a public event students hear: Don't take the shortcut. The long way around is so much richer in the end.

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

There's always this insistence that people need to "learn how to use AI so they aren't left behind" and as an artist and an author, I don't know what there is to *learn* from models that were.... trained on my work.

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Tiger Webb @tfswebb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

never thought i’d say this but please come work for me! the abc is hiring a researcher to assist in the task of providing timely and accurate language guidance to staff careers.abc.net.au/en/job/504660/…

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ABC Careers - Job Details - Researcher, Editorial Policies (Part-time)

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Piers Kelly @pierskelly.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I'm not going to use generative AI. I don't see any legitimate role for it in unis. It's OK if you like it! I won't let students use it, and I won't read synthetic text if I can knowingly avoid it. Here's my personal policy, drafted with help from colleagues. bravenewwords.info/my-policy-on...

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My policy on AI

What I will not do In the interests of transparency about my methods, it is important for you to know that I will never publish any text that was generated by AI, nor any text produced with assista…

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/03/2025

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review

Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

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Dagmar Fischer @dagmarfischer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

for every 100 words of text generated by ChatGPT, 3 l of water are consumed. The data centres that facilitate this technology are extraordinarily energy-intensive. The demands on the electrical grid, & the impact on the environment and the climate, are immense. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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Mark O'Connell: There is, in the end, nothing magical, nothing airy, about AI. It’s a machine of exploitation

Within this system, our country plays a crucial and disproportionate role: a dense network of data centres and server farms has been built around Dublin

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A must-read for anyone thinking about using LLMs in social science research. LLM annotations (especially from closed, proprietary models) change unpredictably over time. And we don't know why. This is a huge problem for scientific reproducibility.

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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Bill Labov made it possible for John Rickford and therefore Renee Blake and therefore me, to have a rich life in linguistics. He knew that Black students and speakers had so much to contribute. We will forever owe him a debt of gratitude for his contributions to the field, but also to all of us ❤️

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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Vale William Labov. Thank you for teaching me to see language and language users in all their creative complexity. And for your stewardship for a social-justice oriented linguistics.

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

There are quite a few posts on @therealrw.bsky.social that I've written in a rage. Thought I'd share them for the holiday season because why not? Every eggnog deserves some bile. 😄

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/12/2024

I just think the next step is for some linguists at another university to do their own lip synch or cover of this song, any takers?

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Australian academics: does anyone know *why* universities are pushing back on Honorary/Visiting Fellowships? You know, the type where friends of the department get an email address and library access, and their publications get credited to the university? It makes no sense to me - it costs nothing.

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Winner, Macquarie Dictionary (Australia) Word of the year 2024

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Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

No accountability, no experience or understanding of teaching and research, and absolutely no care for the staff and students forced to live with their decisions 😡 All power to the NTEU, Alison Barnes, and @caitlinecassidy.bsky.social for shining a light on this mess ✊🏽

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/11/2024

“Writing faculty have both the agency and the academic freedom to examine generative AI’s dishonest training origins and conclude: There is no path to ethically teach AI skills. Not only are we allowed to say no, we ought to think deeply about the why of that no.”

insidehighered.com

Burn it down: a license for AI resistance (opinion)

Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.

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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just discovered that René Magritte had some pretty interesting takes on lexical semantics.

A quote from french artist Rene Magritte: "An object is not so attached to its name that one cannot find for it another one which is more suitable" above a hand-drawn picture of a leave and the text "le canon" under it.

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