Portuguese Sign Language Reference Corpus: An annotated signed corpus with diachronic foundation The lack of a structured linguistic data collection representing the natural use of sign language limits linguistic understanding, language preservation, educational opportunities, accessibility, and technological advancement while also threatening the cultural heritage of the deaf community. To have a well-documented Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) corpus to ensure that LGP thrives and continues to be recognized as a legitimate and fully developed language, we built the LGP Reference Corpus.In this article, we describe the construction of the first machine-readable digital reference corpus for LGP, with 112 hours 51 minutes of LGP recordings and associated metadata collected between 1992 and 2019, which we listed, digitalized, and archived. We also present the annotation structure and conventions we built to annotate this corpus at different linguistic levels (phonological, lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic). Its diachronic foundation and dialectal and social variety data allow future LGP studies on its grammar and variation. Furthermore, the LGP Reference Corpus is the foundation for developing various linguistic tools, such as calculating sign frequency indices, which supported the inclusion of signs in the Fundamental LGP Vocabulary dictionary, aiding in the analysis and extraction of grammatical rules implemented in the LGP Translator (M. Gonçalves et al., 2021).

New in the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics: "Portuguese Sign Language Reference Corpus: An annotated signed corpus with diachronic foundation" by Mara Moita et al.: doi.org/10.16995/jpl...

#PortugueseLinguistics #Linguistics

Congratulations to our Executive Director, Professor Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social), on her inaugural lecture next week! 🥳👏

The Comics Grid Webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship YouTube video by Open Library of Humanities

Recording of the Comics Grid / @comicsgrid.com webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship, with @labarren.cpesr.fr, @ernestopriego.com & @wilkinsp.bsky.social. Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oHv...

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The 2026 OIPA symposium will take place on Thursday 18th June at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Brighton.

Programme details to follow, but please mark it in your calendars and start making arrangements.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Can Contractualism Be an Account of What We Owe to Each Other? According to contractualism, very roughly, an action x of type X is wrong, at least in one unified and distinct way, iff and because any principle permitting actions of type X could be reasonably reje...

New in Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs / @freeandequal.bsky.social: "Can Contractualism Be an Account of What We Owe to Each Other?" by Niko Kolodny: doi.org/10.16995/fe....

Your body: you, or yours? Each of us ought to decide what others can do to our bodies. This is so obvious it does not cry out for explanation; and philosophers have not given it much. What few philosophical explanations there ...

In “Your body: you, or yours?” Sean Aas seeks to ground our rights in our bodies, by appeal to public-reason liberalism, without appealing to contentious metaphysical premises.

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New issue of @zygonjournal.bsky.social is out!

Featuring work on mystical naturalism, religious humanism, cosmic belonging, and poetic, cosmological languages of reverence beyond supernaturalism, and more.

Read the full issue here: www.zygonjournal.org/issue/1905/i...

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Check out the latest articles published in Glossa: a journal of general linguistics / @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social: www.glossa-journal.o...

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New issue of [in]Transition is out! Issue 13.1 features 7 peer-reviewed videographic works on mediation in video games, AI & philosophy, data centers & environmental studies, Joaquim Jordà, folk music in Coen brothers’ films, and early cinema aesthetics. Explore: intransition.openlib...

Measurement and mirage: The informal sector revisited Recent years have seen rapidly expanding scholarship and policy advice on the causes and consequences of informality, relying on the increasing availability of comparative measurements of informal sectors. This has created an impression of a consensus around a clearly conceptualized and quantified object of study – that when we talk about the informal sector, we know what we are talking about. In this article I argue that this impression is largely a mirage. I suggest that underneath increasingly accepted measurements, and actively masked by them, there remain both a fundamental conceptual confusion and substantial diversity in understandings of what the informal sector is. Questions of definition have been moved “downstream” into the specifications of statistical models and measurements, resulting in a lack of transparency and the emergence of feedback loops between common conceptions and methodological assumptions. This has led a large part of the current literature on informal sectors to generate potentially spurious insights that feed into substantive development policy discussions around taxation, registration and social protection. I review the causes and consequences of these issues, drawing on two measurement methods, recent policy reports and new survey data from Ghana, and suggests ways forward.

New in in the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social: "Measurement and mirage: The informal sector revisited" by Max Gallien: doi.org/10.16995/ilr...

Also available in French, in Revue internationale du Travail 165 (2), and Spanish, in Revista Internacional del Trabajo 145 (2).

From Muse to Machine: A Scoping Literature Review of AI in Cultural Production This paper is a scoping literature review of research on artificial intelligence (AI) in cultural production, a field that is being shaped by rapid technological change and unresolved debates. Results identified four areas of interest in the current literature on AI in cultural production: methodological challenges, creativity and aesthetics, copyright and policy, and ethics. AI appears in the reviewed papers both as collaborator and disruptor, challenging established notions of authorship, originality, and artistic integrity. While some studies emphasise increased efficiency and democratisation, others highlight risks of bias, opacity, and the extraction of cultural value through data colonialism and platformisation. A key finding is the dominance of conceptual and normative work over empirical evidence. With AI reshaping the cultural, ethical, and legal foundations of creativity, the field requires more empirically grounded research that remains attentive to the normative and ethical implications of AI in cultural production.

New in Genealogy+Critique: "From Muse to Machine: A Scoping Literature Review of AI in Cultural Production" by Yulia Belinskaya, Christian Holst and Olga Kolokytha:

We had lots of fun at the @comicsgrid.com @openlibhums.org webinar on graphic scholarship earlier today. Thanks once again to everyone who attended. Great questions and comments. Recording will be made available asap. Have now shared the slides: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... Meanwhile, happy Easter! 🐇🌼

Everyone is, of course, welcome to visit the new office. Bring a hat.

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"Openness at the level of the output does not translate into openness at the level of the system." Been thinking about what Openness means in academic libraries recently due to the theme for #ALN26 this year so this was excellent and thought provoking reading.

Countability and measured parts in mixed drink nouns Liquids (oil, wine) are considered to be canonical non-countable nouns. Yet nouns referring to cocktails and coffee drinks (margarita, cappuccino) display strongly countable behavior, which raises que...

Moon, Ellise. 2026. Countability and measured parts in mixed drink nouns. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–27. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics #DiamondOpenAccess

Not all coexpressions are syncretisms: Limiting Nanosyntax This paper revises the findings of Dekier (2021) concerning the syncretism and containment of indefinites in light of their semantic implausibility and empirical inadequacy, compared to the alternativ...

Bubnov, Gleb. 2026. Not all coexpressions are syncretisms: Limiting Nanosyntax. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–15. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics #DiamondOpenAccess

<em>Real maravilloso</em>, Simulakren und untote Körper. Zu Funktionen des Puppenspiels im erweiterten Kontext des hispanischen Diktatorenromans (Valle-Inclán, Asturias, Borges, Eloy Martínez) Im Kontext der hispanischen Variante der Gattung Diktatorenroman hat sich eine antirealistische Ästhetik herausgebildet, die in direkter Auseinandersetzung mit dem Figurentheater entsteht und sich auc...

"Real maravilloso, Simulakren und untote Körper. Zu Funktionen des Puppenspiels im erweiterten Kontext des hispanischen Diktatorenromans (Valle-Inclán, Asturias, Borges, Eloy Martínez)" by Michael Cuntz: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal SC: Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action

Measurement and mirage: The informal sector revisited Recent years have seen rapidly expanding scholarship and policy advice on the causes and consequences of informality, relying on the increasing availability of comparative measurements of informal sec...

New article: why a lot of #informality research has been broken by poor measurements and inappropriate modelling - and what we can do about it. Completely open access in @ilr-rit.bsky.social:
en.ilr-rit.org/article/pubi...

We’re sad, but not too sad, to share the news that we’ll be sunsetting the Open Library of Humanities & @janewayolh.bsky.social. After a decade of innovating & modernizing publishing with open-source technologies, we’ve decided to relocate to the Bahamas to focus on our new vibe coding business.

Couldn’t agree more with this point. Years ago @eve.gd and I made the decision at @openlibhums.org to hire software developers and build our own open infrastructure (the fantastic @janewayolh.bsky.social platform). Best decision we made! #UKSG2026

Ten Years of Glossa: A Decade of Diamond Open Access in Linguistics Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Glossa, one of our diamond open access linguistics journals. The history of Glossa is closely intertwined with that of the Open Library of …

10 years of 'Glossa: a journal of general linguistics'
www.glossa-journal.org
1151 articles published without charges for authors or readers, thanks to the generous support of @openlibhums.org and the work of our (guest-)editors, reviewers, authors, and readers.
www.openlibhums.org/news/930/

Ten Years of Glossa: A Decade of Diamond Open Access in Linguistics Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Glossa, one of our diamond open access linguistics journals. The history of Glossa is closely intertwined with that of the Open Library of …

Happy 10th anniversary to Glossa / @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social! 🎉

A decade of #diamondOA publishing in #linguistics, made possible by editors, reviewers, authors, and a global community of supporting institutions.

Here’s to the next 10 years!

Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/930/

Stop by the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand (67) and grab your free copy while they last.

Join the fight to make knowledge free! 🔥 #UKSG2026

The Comics Grid Webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship Date: Wednesday 01 April 2026 Time: 5-6:30 pm BST. Check your timezone here Registration: Free. Please register here Figure: Fragment from Farinella, M., (2018) “Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual A...

🚨Tomorrow 5pm BST: A free webinar on comics as scholarship: www.openlibhums.org/news/928/ hosted by @paulaclemente.bsky.social, feat @labarren.cpesr.fr, @wilkinsp.bsky.social & yours truly. Hope you can join us. #ComicsStudies

La Open Library of Humanities (OLH) lanza un nuevo cartel. Bajo el lema “Únete a la lucha para hacer libre el conocimiento”, la iniciativa reinterpreta la figura de Robin Hood como símbolo de redistribución en la comunicación científica.
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New OLH poster drop and accompanying piece by Dr Paula Clemente Vega: “If scholarly publishing is a site of struggle, the question is no longer whether change is needed, but whether we are prepared to redistribute power and resources to make knowledge truly free.”

Hey kids! Comics!

The Comics Grid Webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship Date: Wednesday 01 April 2026 Time: 5-6:30 pm BST. Check your timezone here Registration: Free. Please register here Figure: Fragment from Farinella, M., (2018) “Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual A...

This Wednesday! Join us for a @comicsgrid.com webinar on Graphic Scholarship, a conversation about comics as a form of thinking, researching, and communicating knowledge.

📅 Wednesday 01 April 2026 (5-6:30pm GMT)

More info and registration here: www.openlibhums.org/news/928/

#ComicsStudies

Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle Wanted. Not a person, but a principle: that knowledge should be free. Download JPG Download PDF A4 Download PDF A3 …

Louise Otting: TU Delft saves 60% of saved budget from cancelled big deals to invest in non-profit collections & infrastructures. Fantastic to see this kind of investment in action! (And appropriate to @openlibhums.org Robin Hood poster launched today): www.openlibhums.org/news/932/ #UKSG2026