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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...

parliament.nsw.gov.au

Sign ePetition

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

You can read the memorandum here: forensictranscription.net.au/wp-content/u...

forensictranscription.net.au

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

This makes so much sense now

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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

From Australia, a while back, by Ayesha Kaak: doi.org/10.51681/1.232

doi.org

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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I guess this must be what people mean when they say children are our best teachers.

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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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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Oh Alex! I hope you're both on the mend and the trauma can give way to joy. Thinking of you & congratulations on the bub!

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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I haven't, but as an Australian (the natural habitat of hypocoristics), and secondly as a Linguist, I'd vote for 'extended hypocoristic'.

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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

My high school french teacher used to say teaching us was like trying to keep kittens in a basket. Would you and your canine/feline team mind testing this one out for me?

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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Is it by analogy to 'look it up'?

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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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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This book has Dharug (original language of Sydney) throughout. It would be worth contacting the publisher (Magabala Books) for recommendations too, as they publish lots of bilingual texts featuring Australian Indigenous languages and might be able to point to more of what you specifically want.

magabala.com.au

Open Your Heart to Country

WINNER, 2023 PRIME MINISTER’S LITERARY AWARDS, CHILDREN’S LITERATURE SHORTLISTED, 2023 KARAJIA AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE NOTABLE, 2023 CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD...

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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@lizhumphrys.bsky.social yep, i can do this for Armidale in New England. I'll email you. Sounds like a very interesting project.

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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/…

careers.abc.net.au

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...

bravenewwords.info

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...

nature.com

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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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

That is interesting! I haven't come across that, but probably will now you've mentioned it. You could just raise as a 'hey looks like there's semantic change happening!' then both you and the student have some useful info.

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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...

irishtimes.com

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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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

haha. My kids loved most things by Julia Donaldson. They're tweens now and I could probably still recite 'The Snail and the Whale' in my sleep. Little Blue Truck, & Pip and Posy books were also good for that age.

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Sally Dixon @sallybgally.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I flew into Sydney last week and it was spectacular seeing all the purple trees from the sky!

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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

I know! I finally figured out where all the cool kids were!

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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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