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Lynne Murphy

@lynneguist.bsky.social

US linguist in UK. University of Sussex. Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lynneguist Blog: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lynneguist

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Lynne Murphy@lynneguist.bsky.social · 13h ago

"Students from lower SE bkgrds are more likely to experience AI as a production tool. Students from higher SE bkgrds are more likely to experience it as a learning tool. "1st-gen students are 2x as likely as continuing-gen students to say AI...doesn’t help them learn." wonkhe.com/blogs/disadv...

Disadvantage is a predictor of AI use. But not in the way you might think

Jim Dickinson finds that disadvantaged students use AI as a production shortcut while their better-off peers treat it as a learning tool – and that the hidden curriculum explains why

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Lynne Murphy@lynneguist.bsky.social · 13h ago

Just had an interaction with an online seller's chatbot, which says "I understand your frustration" with the fact that my package has not arrived. It asked me if I wanted to add more info to my support ticket: I added a comment about the bot lying about understanding emotional states...

Christian DiCanio@cdicanio.bsky.social · yesterday

Taking a linguistics course improved foreign language grades by about one entire grade (B > A). New publication by UB PhD Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon, along with Mandy Simons and Seth Weiner. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Take an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning Ability

Can general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Lynne Murphy@lynneguist.bsky.social · 4d ago

On my "I always look it up, even though I think I know it" list: foregoing v forgoing Not that you needed to know that, but hey it's dark out early now and I'm the only one still at the office.

Maite Taboada@mtaboada.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our paper now out with Findings of EMNLP 2026! Some of our conclusions about AI translation of literary texts: 🤖 AI translation into English is readable and often ‘fine’ ✍️ But human translation is valued more ‼️Both vary in quality BUT AI more, even within a single book arxiv.org/abs/2606.26040

SFU AI@sfu-cs-ai.bsky.social · 5d ago

EMNLP 2026 is coming up soon and we will be there! See you in Budapest 🇭🇺 Oct 24–29 #EMNLP2026 Check out our work!

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · last wk.

while the British Academy is using partial randomisation on its small grants -- and awarding more women/and POC researchers than ever before -- UKRI is feeding your painstakingly-developed proposal into an AI. But it's okay because they then get *two* AIs to debate whether you get the money.

John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 2w ago

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful. Review process As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it. Feedback on your application Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
Lynne Murphy@lynneguist.bsky.social · last wk.

Just had a look in my spam folder and found that I'm now getting an AI agent looking on my blog for questions it could find answers to, with a 'first one free, later they're $25' note. Spam folder it is, then.

Lynne Murphy@lynneguist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Am editing an article by a British writer, who says something is 'based around' something else a few times. Very unnatural to me, so I had to look. Yep, British. Note this data is 13 years old. British use of 'based off (of)' is quickly catching up to American IME

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Gareth Roberts@garicgymro.bsky.social · 2w ago

This, to be fair, is a special instance of a wider phenomenon, in which people from country A are videoed trying food from country B and expressing enjoyment. This nice, heartwarming genre then gets sullied by people from country B taking it as evidence for some sort of culinary superiority.

Gareth Roberts@garicgymro.bsky.social · 2w ago

Americans sadly misinterpreted a lot of what was going on with those social media videos Europeans posted about 🇺🇸 during the World Cup. Europeans are excited to try Taco Bell because it's something they've seen in movies. Their excitement in no way implies that it surpasses food in Europe!