Can we infer deceptive intent from fact-checker labels? And what if what fact-checkers consider “false” today turns out to be “true” tomorrow? We explore these and other methodological questions in our new paper with Bashayer Baissa & @jwgrieve.bsky.social: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Veracity and register in fake news analysis

This article addresses two fundamental methodological challenges in linguistic fake news research: how to reliably classify news texts as real versus fake and how to control for register variation whe...

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Very excited to announce what @DrNicciMacLeod.bsky.social and I have been working on for the past few months (with a brilliant production team behind us). You can subscribe now and listen to our trailer wherever you get your podcasts. #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #truecrime #academicsky

I have made a screenshot of the image in my book (ebook format), I have also included a map of "meow"

My paper with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @jwgrieve.bsky.social was published in the Journal of Linguistic Geography today. 🎉 It’s a tutorial on how to use R & ggplot2 to visualise linguistic map data. doi.org/10.1017/jlg....

New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology doi.org/10.1017/jlg.... I hope people find it useful!

Seems like important lessons could be learned here. Whether they will be, or treated as woke collateral in the culture wars, is another matter.

Jack Grieve@jwgrieve.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper out today in Frontiers in AI! The sociolinguistic foundations of language modelling We argue sociolinguistics provides a foundation for understanding LLMs and addressing many challenges www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... doi.org/10.3389/frai... techxplore.com/news/2025-01...

Excited to share that our new paper has been published in Frontiers in AI!

Jack Grieve@jwgrieve.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper out today in Frontiers in AI! The sociolinguistic foundations of language modelling We argue sociolinguistics provides a foundation for understanding LLMs and addressing many challenges www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... doi.org/10.3389/frai... techxplore.com/news/2025-01...

New paper out today in Frontiers in AI! The sociolinguistic foundations of language modelling We argue sociolinguistics provides a foundation for understanding LLMs and addressing many challenges www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... doi.org/10.3389/frai... techxplore.com/news/2025-01...

Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling

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Two new Assistant Professorships in our department Language and New Media: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Intercultural Communication: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications (Language and New Media) (Research and Education) - School of English, Drama and Creative Studies - 104941 - Grade 8

The post holder will contribute high quality teaching to our suite of successful programmes which includes the BA in Digital Media and Communications launched on the University’s Edgbaston campus in S...

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Snark-less post: The workshop on online abuse and harms (woahworkshop.bsky.social) is now here! Follow along for online abuse related notifications and announcements!

Call for papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 #CL2025 Birmingham, UK First week of July 2025 Submissions welcome for papers, posters, thematic panels and pre-conference workshops! www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...

CL2025 - Call for papers

Abstract submission is now open here

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Hi Bluesky: the department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham is now on Bluesky! Who else from our department is here? @jeannettel.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social @adamcschembri.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @gregwoodin.bsky.social

Did one! Not listed and should be? Let me know 🙂 go.bsky.app/AT6KX6X

Hello fellow forensic linguists, I thought I'd create a little space for us all. I'm new here so let me know if I've not seen you and need adding ❤️ go.bsky.app/Jtyb67V

Full house for @bodowinter.bsky.social’s department talk tonight!

New paper on the language of fake news with Bashayer Baissa and Matteo Fuoli doi.org/10.1177/1750...

FTA: @stancarey.bsky.social uses @jwgrieve.bsky.social's map to see who swears how where across the USA stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/m...

Mapping the United Swears of America

Swearing varies a lot from place to place, even within the same country, in the same language. But how do we know who swears what, where, in the big picture? We turn to data – damn big data. With g…

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Full house for Harald Baayen at University of Birmingham!

New interview I did with Robbie Love on Computational Sociolinguistics! youtu.be/0RV1XDGgzZQ?...

First post, new paper on the way!