Recording a short clip for this was such fun - can't wait to listen to the whole episode :-)
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Recording a short clip for this was such fun - can't wait to listen to the whole episode :-)
This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.
In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.
When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.
Happy Birthday :-)
How to turn off Gemini in Gmail without turning off tabs & other innocuous "smart features." In the general setting tab you'll see a check box to turn on smart features. You don't want to uncheck that. You want to click on "manage workspace smart features" and toggle the features off in the popup.
Wonderful! 😍
What a beauty! 😍
It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*
Beautiful 😍
Beautiful 😍
Ooof, that's rough, I'm so sorry!
#academicsky heads up:
If your institution uses Canvas as its LMS, be aware that they are currently offering a bunch of AI features for free (drug dealer model) and they just announced this: community.instructure.com/en/discussio...
!Balloons bring joy!
Thanks for this - totally agree! It drives me bonkers that 'screen time' is essentially equated with 'not reading' - it's much more complicated than that!
One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles.
www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
oil painting La mujer barbuda/Magdalena Ventura con su marido; a bearded woman nursing her baby while standing up. Queer in/visibility in pink, plus a QR code to the conference website
Call for Papers, please circulate!
Ethics of queer in/visibility
Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026
queer-in-visibility.de
Keynote speakers:
J Calder
(Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder)
Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social
(History, University of Warwick)
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Ooof 😥
For UK people feeling gaslit by our government’s plans for “AI” “skills” “training”, here’s a series of videos by an actual expert that will tell you how it works and how to engage with it critically (if at all); see also @olivia.science's excellent papers.
If you are also horrified by ICE's actions in Minnesota, here's a great resource for finding organisations, communities and individuals who need donations. Everything from mutual aid to help people cover their rent and fund emergency food packages to organisations offering legal defence.
Please check your vaccination status - I was so sure I'd gotten both MMR shots but when I checked early last year I realized I actually hadn't. Quick call to the GP, all done within a couple of weeks. Free on the NHS.
Call for LavLang32 now on Linguist List. Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Yay - going to Lancaster for #CADS2026 as well, with 2 (co-authored) papers: 1. 'Representations of Chinese foodways in the UK press ‘post-COVID'' and 2. 'Multilingual parenting discussions on Reddit'. Looking forward to seeing lots of my brilliant colleagues and friends there!
Innsbruck was amazing - I took a very similar picture right before my presentation 😀
I've been thinking the same thing... 🫠😖
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Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Random factoid:
Reminder that the University of Victoria (@uvic.ca) host the world's largest Transgender Archives, and it's all digitized for your online use around the world.
Trans rights are human rights.
Learn more about my newly out book How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences. Here's a brief excerpt: microcosmpublishing.com/blog/2026/01...
@microcosm.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social