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Verónica Pájaro

@vpajaro.bsky.social
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Critical sociolinguist & discourse analyst. Associate Professor @UiA, Norway. Language, migration & power in education and work.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Given debates in the US on who truly represents the working class, I'll point out that in Brazil a movement to give workers a 5-day workweek - arguably the biggest worker gains in the 21st c - is led by a Black trans woman (Rep. Erika Hilton) & a Black gay man (City Council leader Rick Azevedo).
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Ingeborg Sophie 📎 @lingeborgsophie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Frp foreslår med ujevne mellomrom egenbetaling for tolketjenester hvis man har bodd mer enn 3 år I landet. @jessicapbh.bsky.social og jeg skriver om hvorfor dette er et MEGET dårlig forslag som truer pasientsikkerheten. Tolking er livsviktig! trondheim24.no/gjesteskribe...
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Frp vil kutte i tolketjenesten for innvandrere: – Dette utspillet hører ingen steder hjemme
God kommunikasjon i helsevesenet er ikke en luksus, det kan være livsnødvendig. Frps utspill om egenbetaling for tolking i helsevesenet er kunnskapsløst og løser ingen problemer, hevdes det i dette de...
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Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Starting now- @vpajaro.bsky.social Onbcosolay, crypto and the libertarian right… join us!
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Interesting framing from Clarin with “se equivo.” I was expecting even less from them
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
There is a very interesting dimension to this case that is not so easy to read from abroad, and it is that this woman and her family are from Santiago del Estero. A very impoverished, racialized province in the center-North periphery of the country. These people understand themselves as very White.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I started watching yesterday and could not stop before binging all 5 episodes. This is a mesmerizing account of journalism, activism and the rapid rise of fascism in Russia. Relevant for absolutely everyone in our current global landscape. Highly recommended.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
✨ Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming 📚 👉 For many more relevant resources for Critical AI literacy, check out this website maintained by @olivia.science with videos, news, opinion pieces, blogs, articles, posters, and more. 👇 olivia.science/ai 6/🧵
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Critical AI
On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.
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Blythe Terrell @blytheterrell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This book is going to be incredible + open up an entire new field of research/inquiry for the literary & cultural studies discipline (grad students take note!). It models an entire new form of cultural criticism that combines close reading + historicism + theory + platform studies. Read her thread!
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Åse @misstillit.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Vipps prisen av en kaffe til #525211 for å støtte transpersoners politiske arbeid for verdig helsehjelp❤️ (hater du rikshospitalet så er dette den beste måten å bekjempe de på)
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PKI Norge
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Åse @misstillit.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Gledelig transynlighetsdag til alle som markerer dagen!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️
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Alexander Katourgi @eliderad.se · 30/03/2026
The notion of "correct" and "incorrect" language stems from classism and racism (and is in many cases still fueled by it). 🐦🐦
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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
We do not know when language evolved
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Halfway through @mttpsq.bsky.social ‘s The eye of the master. What a great perspective to the history of AI in light of the knowledge theory of labor and the origins of industrialization. The book is also a good read, thoroughly enjoyable on a lazy Sunday. Highly recommended (so far :)
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
‘An abuser does not just have a network. An abuser is a network. Kate also said, “they have each other’s backs.” When they have each other’s backs, their backs become doors’. Powerful from Sara Ahmed. Warming; discussion of abuse and s*xual violence open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
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An Abuser is a Network
Some thoughts on how our complaint archives can help us in reading the Epstein files
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
No. Too high risk.
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Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
NEW FROM 55(1) "Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing" by @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social & Alfonso Del Percio #Far-RightSemiosis #Branding #PlatformCapitalism doi.org/10.1017/S004...
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Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing - Volume 55 Issue 1
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Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà @mariarosagarrido.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
📖 @mpmilans.bsky.social & I will be presenting our new edited volume "Reimagining language and communication in collaborative projects" at VII EDiSo Symposium on 2 July 3-5 pm 🗣️ Daniel Silva, @vpajaro.bsky.social & @peterbrowning.bsky.social will present their chapters there 🌐 shorturl.at/5yo58
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Re-imagining Language and Communication in Collaborative Projects: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Future
This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, ...
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
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Is generative Al introducing new stereotypes to different languages and cultures?

That is part of what we're finding. The idea of blondes being stupid is not something that's found all over the world, but is found in a lot of the languages that we looked at.

When you have all of the data in one shared latent space, then semantic concepts can get transferred across languages. You're risking propagating harmful stereotypes that other people hadn't even thought of.
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
One of my favorite podcasts, In bed with the Right, has started a new series following the events of 1933 and Hitler’s takeover month by month. An enlightening and sobering account. Highly recommended!
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Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
So, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social added an AI question and answer to my article in Computer & Education. The answers are wrong! They did not ask permission! The answers are WRONG! How is this science?!
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I don’t have an emotional support dead famous White guy, but choose a dead famous queer black feminist as a spiritual ally.
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Gratulerer!! 🥳
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I’m late to this party, but I’m losing my mind with Malala’s cameo at ‘We are lady parts’ 😍
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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
"Granola Nazis: Fascism in the World of Health, Fitness, and Nature" by @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
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Granola Nazis: Fascism in the World of Health, Fitness, and Nature - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
Granola Nazis are a part of the contemporary 'dissident right', with a particular interest in health, wellness, and nature. Though a fringe ideology, it is critically placed to exploit the ongoing cli...
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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
New review of my book "Postcolonial People. The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal" by Sofie De Baere. It comes with some well-deserved criticism and much praise, e.g.: "Kalter possesses the invaluable skill of making complex processes comprehensible." brill.com/view/journal...
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Iker Erdocia @ikererdocia.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
New publication out in JSLX: Language isn't just a data set. We explore why and suggest new directions for sociolinguistic research in the AI era #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Check out the full issue.
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Luis Pérez-González @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hace un par de días encontré este artículo (en noruego). Habla sobre el próximo cierre de una empresa de #traducción que ha dejado de ser viable porque sus clientes han decidido ahorrar mediante el uso de IA. www.kode24.no/artikkel/ai-...
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AI tok jobben deres: Legger ned selskap med 10 ansatte
AI ble kroken på døra for oversetterfirmaet Allegro. – Halve omsetningen vår forsvant nærmest over natta.
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
What an amazing thread. Thank you!!
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In our new chapter “Discourse: A map in constant redrawing” (coming out in Flubacher & Del Percio’s “Critical Sociolinguistics. Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments”), @ellabarakos.bsky.social Juan E Bonnin and myself map the development of discourse studies in Critical Sociolinguistics. DM for copy
Screenshot from the book chapter
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Yeah, I’ve been ghosting twitter for quite a while. Missing the peak years of academic twitter though
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Back at it. How did this thing work again? Very happy to see familiar names from sociolinguistic twitter :) If you don’t know me, I’m a critical sociolinguist interested in language, multilingualism & migration in education and work. My research is based in Norway and Argentina. Let’s chat!
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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
In case you're interested in working on language & food with me at FU Berlin, check out this job ad for a (full-time) postdoc position: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet... (the ad is in German only but I guess auto translation is your friend) #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
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PG- Postdoc_Vollzeitbeschäftigung
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
I'm so pleased that this article is now out in the world! It's the first publication from my most recent project exploring intersectionality and marginalised identity construction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens
In this article, I build upon calls for an intersectional approach in sociocultural linguistic research – particularly in the context of language, gender and sexuality – which attends robustly to the...
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Luis Pérez-González @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ønsker du å få/utvikle kompetanse innen spesialisert #oversettelse? Ved #UniversitetetAgder kan du søke inntil fire enkeltfag, inkludert: OF-411 Language Technologies and Generative AI OF-412 Translating #Multimodal Texts Informasjon om hvordan du søker finner du her: www.uia.no/studier/sokn...
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Opptak til enkeltemner - UiA
Informasjon om hvordan du søker og hvilke enkeltemner som er tilgjengelig finner du her.
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Unni Eikeseth @unnieikeseth.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Norway is working hard to defossiliate!🦕We started with the most important issues, renaming government agencies working with oil and gas: "Ministry of oil and energy" = "Ministry of energy". "Norwegian Petroleum Directorate" = "Norwegian Offshore Directorate". Fixed it! ✅ www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/re...
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Ble advart mot grønnvasking: Fjernet likevel «olje» fra alle navn
75 prosent av de ansatte jobber med olje og gass. Likevel fjernet regjeringen «olje» fra navnet på direktoratet.
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Avsløringene i NTNU saken fremstår som veldig alvorlige. Det er ikke overraskende at rektoren går av etter å ha lest meldingene hun utvekslet med NHO ledelse. Det er interessant hvordan «sunn ytringskultur» brukes for å diskvalifisere faglig kritikk. www.vg.no/nyheter/inne...
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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Question about #TESOL research, ideally adult education: can you point me towards research on multilingual Tesol and / or multilingualism and Tesol scholarship? Thanks 🙏
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
The bunny paper!!!
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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 09/10/2023
OH MY GOD WE'RE TWO AWAY
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Historians: why oh why do you refer to literature in a two-step process?? An endnote in the text leads to an incomplete reference at the end of the book/chapter that needs to be searched for in the Bibliography to get a proper title and publication year. You’re killing me!
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Finally got a copy.
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Vi har fått tilskudd for å opprette videreutdanningstilbud innen norsk som andrespråk for voksne på UiA! Studiet er samlingsbasert og starter i januar 2024. Søknadsperioden åpner 1. oktober og varer til 1. desember. Del gjerne med potensielle søkere 😀
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Norsk som andrespråk for voksenopplæring - Universitetet i Agder
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Lucky coincidence to be in Oslo in time for the yearly Einar Haugen Lecture. This year speaker is Marit Westergaard (UiT) and will talk about heritage languages, particularly “americanorsk”
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