A big issue is that not knowing their training data we can't exercise source-based epistemic vigilance with any of these LLMs, and people tend to take everything as true even when not hallucinated.
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Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
University of Waikato in Hamilton, NZ, are hiring in English and Writing Studies - pass it on! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Andrew Cohen has published an... interesting commentary in Language Teaching about the state of applied linguistics research, touching on publication and hiring practices. A couple bits I can agree with, but much that I don't.
#langsky
Found in the Wellington library! Combat linguistics and the power of morphemes against a totalitarian governor! :)
Academia is awesome - I'm number 241 on the waiting list to be able to park at the paid spots at my place of work ($9 NZD per day)!
Super happy to announce that our open access edited handbook for language educators has been published! opentextbooks.library.arizona.edu/handbookappl... Ten chapters from wonderful contributors, with exercises in a number of languages. Take a look!
Al-generated content has surpassed human-written articles Graph
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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After this and your previous post about (dis) fluency markers in academic presentations, I think you need a linguist friend to ponder together about the pragmatics of it all ;)
*please share widely*
My department (Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) is hiring a corpus linguist who conducts research on second languages. Great place to teach (2/2 load) and do research! See link for more details:
go.hawaii.edu/mGc
Where do you find affordable salmon? What I've seen at Woolworths and New World is pretty pricey. Thanks!
New Diamond OA journal: Racial Justice in Multilingual Education. Some innovative article types, fascinating inaugural issue.
rjme.org
Can we stop calling long meetings retreats, academia?
Shout out to everyone who can remember every word to some random 80s song but can't remember the password they created yesterday
📢 VUW is hiring an Ian Gordon Fellow (3 months, 2026) in linguistics/applied linguistics.
Propose your own project. Must have NZ work rights.
🗓️ Apply by 17 Oct 2025 🔗ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperienc...
#AcademicJobs #Linguistics #Postdoc
Congratulations, Dan. Richly deserved!
Antes de graduarse fue a un par de conferencias para aprender como reescribir su CV. Hay un grupo en facebook de gente que se ha pasado a la industria. Creo que lo encontró a través de Karen Kelsky/ the professor is in. Suerte!
Una de mis alumnas está trabajando para una empresa que hace estudios de mercado. Hace entrevistas y después tiene que analizar los resultados. Lo difícil fue traducir el entrenamiento en su CV.
Jobs: Portuguese, Spanish; Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition: Associate Professor of Practice, Spanish & Portuguese, University of Arizona: Description:
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona seeks to fill a career-track position…
sites.arizona.edu/hispanic-lin... Come join us in Tucson for the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (Tucson was the first US city to be named a Unesco City of Gastronomy; the weather is great in November and 2025 is the 250th anniversary of the city's founding too!)
Congratulations! 👏
I'm revamping my graduate level intro to pragmatics course and looking for recommendations. Besides foundational studies, what newer articles/chapters/books are your favorite? Feel free to promote your own work. Thank you!
Are you selling?! They look delicious 😋. Greetings from ML, this paper doesn't want to write itself for some reason ;-).
the sweater and the model are beautiful too! <3
Beautiful, powerful, new documentary by Ana Carvalho on the experiences of Uruguayan Portuguese speakers, "Vozes das Margens"
Trailer shown at #NWAV52
youtu.be/_uwgktEs_F8?...
Most Spanish-speaking Uruguayans don't even know there's Uruguayan Portuguese.
#Teaching #Linguistics #Multilingualism
