The AI-generated podcast paper is out! I generaetd podcasts from four different source documents and an PDF using NotebookLM and found that in every case it translated cultural contexts to a standard, white, American language and context. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is a fascinating thread (and research) on the mechanism of how genAI generated podcasts come into being.

Jill Walker Rettberg@jilltxt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...

New publication! Our article on affective polarization on X and Reddit about the Jenni Hermoso-Luis Rubiales controversy has finally been published 🤩 Big thanks to my co-author @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social and the editors of the book Polarized Discourse www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access: My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture

The CfA for the @cadaad2026.bsky.social conference at @uva-es.bsky.social is now open! The conference theme is "Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies." Dates: 8-10 July For more details on the conference: www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...

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Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...

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Using AI is bad scholarship; passing it off as your own work is academic misconduct.

Critical Discourse Studies@critdiscstuds.bsky.social · last yr.

We have just rejected an(other) article for the use of AI. The AI had hallucinated a publication apparently written by a certain J.E. Richardson, and another (by G. Mautner) apparently published in CDS 16(2). Funnily enough, I recognised both were fictional. A reminder: AI generates slop.

Hello #history lovers! I’m the dev of the daily history game #PastPuzzle where u guess a year in 4 attempts by historical events. It’s popular in Germany and now available in English! Lot of love goes into this. I would be so glad if u check it out and invite others to play along. www.pastpuzzle.de

„Our duty as educators is the cultivation of critical thinking and intellectual honesty, and it is not our role either to police or promote cheating, nor to normalise our students' and mentees' avoidance of deep thought.“ openletter.earth/open-letter-...

So wichtig darauf hinzuweisen, dass für die Anwendung einer Fremdsprache die Kenntnis von Lexis und Syntax nicht ausreicht, sondern die Kompetenz, in welchen kommunikativen Situationen z.Bsp. bestimmte Wörter oder grammatikalische Varianten angewandt werden, essentiell ist #Pragmatik #pragmatics 💘

Bob Blume@netzlehrer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Die Rahmenbedingungen für den Englisch-Unterricht haben sich in den letzten 10 bis 20 Jahren komplett verändert. Wozu braucht es Fremdsprachenunterricht dann überhaupt noch? Und wie sollte er aussehen? Darüber spreche ich mit Emily "Emitheteachter" Horbach. www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/die-...

An absolute gem! 🤘💯

Dominic@dmncschmtz.bsky.social · 2y ago

My colleague at @hhu.bsky.social and go-to-phonologist Christian Uffmann just released a special music video to introduce himself. He truly puts the fun back in phonology, the antics in semantics, and makes you scream for more more more morphology 🎶🎵 #linguistics www.instagram.com/reel/DDHUNSB...

This is an excellent podcast for those interested in (finally? 😆) grasping the role and impact of social class on life in the UK.

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 2y ago

Thatcher, Blair and a brief history of class in British politics – podcast