Barbara De Cock
@barbaradecock.bsky.social
Professor in Spanish linguistics at UCLouvain I'm interested in pragmatics and discourse analysis on politics, healthcare, and everyday life. Circle U. chair for democracy Avid reader who likes to go hiking (Views expressed on this profile are my own.)
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3w agoGiving myself a headache in the archives
A useful reminder of the work @darg-sessions.bsky.social have been doing over the years to curate a fascinating series of interviews.
ROLSI journal@rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 4w agoA reminder that Loughborough's excellent "DARGchive" features interviews with many influential figures in the EM/CA community www.youtube.com/@DARGchive/v...
Over the past 6 years, we analysed with an interdisciplinary team the #discourse on #populism. Our methodology and results are now available in this OA book! @anaisauge.bsky.social @enirdans.bsky.social www.routledge.com/An-Interdisc...
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Discourse on Populism: Tracking the Uses of 'Populism' in Media and Political Discourse
This collection examines the construction and circulation of discourses on populism, charting their role in shaping collective understandings of democracy. This volume advocates for an interdisciplina...
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La IA consumirá en 2030 tanta agua como 1.300 millones de personas elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
La IA consumirá en 2030 tanta agua como 1.300 millones de personas
Los científicos de la ONU alertan de que “se está minusvalorando” el coste medioambiental de una tecnología que exige cada vez más recursos naturales
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Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
arstechnica.com
Opinión | "Joan Manuel Serrat tiene 82 años. Donald Trump tiene 79. Por fortuna para nosotros, no hay en ellos asomo de parecido alguno, salvo que son viejos, Serrat un poco más". Por Elvira Lindo
El veranillo de la vida | Columna
Serrat y Trump muestran dos maneras muy diferentes de ser viejo
social.elpais.com
👋Welcome to our new account! 🤓 Here we will disseminate knowledge generated in the project #SEMVARCOP (PID2023-148324NB-10), funded by the Spanish Research Agency. 🔎In this project we study #affect & #identity in online Communities of practice by drawing on #CognitiveSociolinguistcs.
This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.
🎨🌋🌅A todos nos gusta un buen atardecer, pero en el siglo XIX durante algunos años fueron mucho más intensos y coloridos debido a erupciones volcánicas. Quedaron inmortalizados en la pintura de su tiempo. ¿Qué relación tiene con la dispersión atmosférica? Lo explicamos en este 🧵
On 22 May, we're hosting a @circleu.bsky.social Open Conversation on "Navigating power in international interactions: a view across languages and cultures". You can join us online. Register here before 21 May: www.circle-u.eu/events/open-...
Open Conversation: Navigating power in international interactions: a view across languages and cultures
This Open Conversation explores how power relations are shaped not just by politics and economics, but by the everyday ways we address and interact with each other — across languages, cultures, and in...
circle-u.eu
Si os habéis perdido nuestra charla para ADAL sobre críticas a la #prensa chilena durante el estallido, he aquí el vídeo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZw...
Segunda conferencia del segundo ciclo de conferencias ADAL
YouTube video by ADAL
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Barbara De Cock@barbaradecock.bsky.social · 5mo agoEl viernes 13 de marzo a las 16h (horario de Francia) pueden seguir en línea la conferencia ADAL que impartimos @idiogenes.bsky.social, Stéphanie Pécher, Laetitia Aulit y yo sobre "Críticas a la prensa chilena en redes sociales: el imaginario del estallido en disputa". #chile #prensa
Very interesting new Swiss/Swedish project now offering PhD and postdoc positions docs.google.com/document/d/1...
L2 grammar-body interface: Project description
Project description The grammar-body interface in second language interaction: a developmental perspective This project examines how bodily actions and grammar interact in L2 French and Swedish. Usi...
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"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
404media.co
El viernes 13 de marzo a las 16h (horario de Francia) pueden seguir en línea la conferencia ADAL que impartimos @idiogenes.bsky.social, Stéphanie Pécher, Laetitia Aulit y yo sobre "Críticas a la prensa chilena en redes sociales: el imaginario del estallido en disputa". #chile #prensa
Repetid conmigo: la IA no desnuda cuerpos. La IA no roba datos. La IA no quita empleos. Alguien la entrena, alguien la implementa, alguien la monetiza. Decir “la IA lo hizo” es una forma de diluir la responsabilidad.
Tampere Institute for Advanced Study is advertising paid postdoc and senior fellow positions (Society). You can be affiliated with Plural Research Centre if you work on a relevant topic - check out our website to find the research groups and projects! ⏱️2.03. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Society), 3 positions (Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, Tampere IAS) / Tutkijatohtori (Yhteiskunta), 3 tehtävää (Tampereen yliopiston tutkijakollegium)
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11defebrero.org/materiales-1... ✨ En la web del 11 de Febrero encontrarás una gran variedad de materiales gratuitos para visibilizar a las mujeres en la ciencia: pósteres, ilustraciones, presentaciones y propuestas educativas. Todo el material está disponible aquí. 💜 #11F2026 #STEAM
From 20 till 22 May, we're hosting a colloquium on #address forms at UCLouvain. We'll include and are interested in multiple perspectives ( #didactics, #translation studies, professional language, #pragmatics,...). You can send in an abstract till 16 February. www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts...
On 4 Feb, Laetitia Aulit and I will give a talk in the @circleu.bsky.social U.nited for hashtag #Sustainability series, hosted at @humboldtuni.bsky.social on #FashionRevolution between social and environmental sustainability, as a case of digital activism Sign up: www.circle-u.eu/open-campus/...
Colegas #fle en España: se ofrece esta posibilidad de becas para el curso de verano para profesorado de francés en mi universidad.
Consejería de Educación en Bélgica, Países Bajos y Luxemburgo@edubenelux.bsky.social · 6mo agoWallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) ofrece 6 becas para el verano de 2026 dirigidas a profesorado y futuro profesorado de francés: ✅3 becas para la UCLouvain ✅3 becas para la ULiège 📆Plazo solicitud: hasta el 01/03/2026 🔗 acortar.link/vGvt2B ¡No dejes escapar esta oportunidad de formación en FLE!
Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) ofrece una beca de verano FLE para el personal funcionario de carrera o en prácticas en España, cuya labor esté vinculada al ámbito de las relaciones internacionales. 📅Hasta el 01/03/2026 🔗https://acortar.link/PANWPL #AcciónEducativaExterior #becasfrancés
👇Exciting opportunity for a postdoc position at Queen Mary, University of London. This project is situated at the intersection of digital linguistics, visual studies, and critical autism studies.
Jessica Aiston@jessaiston.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe're hiring! Come join Nelya & I on the Autism in Affinity Spaces project - we're looking for a postdoc with expertise in working with multimodal datasets. Autistic researchers are highly encouraged to apply. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC919/p...
