Stephen Lucek
@stephenlucek.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Head of Linguistics at UCD. Main research interests include: Sociolinguistics, Language Regard, Irish English, Mediatised Representations, Multilingualism and many more! Brewer of "drinkable" beers.
This is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
These Professors Are Retiring Early. AI Was the Last Straw.
What is the point of teaching, they ask, if students are just pretending to learn?
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Hi there, an educator here. We don’t need training on AI. We know what it is. We’re holding on for dear life until private equity decides to move on to the next shiny thing. I just hope there are enough of us still around to pick up the pieces.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
If you're around Belfast tomorrow afternoon, why not join myself, @stephenbaker.bsky.social and Phil Ramsey in discussing what the media landscape may look like in a 'New Ireland'!
Blogs, I have a spare ticket for Arsenal v Betis in Dublin this Wednesday. Block 306 so basically half way line. Cost €105 but open to offers. DMs open!
Ceuta is in north Africa. Should we really be using terms like "third-country nationals"?
António Costa@eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu · 5d agoWhile third-country nationals in Ceuta do not enjoy free movement to mainland Spain or the rest of the Schengen area, Spain’s firm response, including ongoing accelerated returns,
Needs to be pointed out, because ya know: fash idiots imploding. 1️⃣ Txt via 'Occupy London'; "Ceuta is not in Europe. Ceuta is not Europe. So-called “autonomous” Ceuta is literally a spanish colony in North Africa. None of the people arriving in Ceuta have made it to Spain. Latest reports
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
The arguments against language reclamation haven't changed much in the nearly 20 years I've been working in this field: "It costs too much." "People are choosing to abandon their languages, so let them." "They have no practical use." "It's just sentimental nostalgia." Fuck All That, a thread:
Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die
When cultural preservation comes at the expense of speakers’ decisions, sometimes it's O.K. to let a language die.
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openletter.earth/refusal-of-v... Please consider signing this letter, asking for a reconsideration of refusing student visas for students on scholarships from Gaza.
Refusal of Visas to Students from Gaza
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Thanks to the Irish History Podcast for inviting me to be interviewed about Irish language policy since the Revival period. Agallamh liom faoi athbheochan na Gaeilge ó dheireadh an 19ú hAois go dtí an lá atá inniu ann. shows.acast.com/irishhistory...
Broken Promises: Why Irish Independence Failed the Irish Language | Irish History Podcast
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Palestinian students are having their study visas refused. Ministers Lawless and O’Callaghan must intervene. The Irish Universities Association (IUA) should speak publicly on behalf of the students and its member universities
Increasing numbers of Gazan students hoping to start college in Ireland in September are being refused study visas this year. Govt likes to insist it is standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Yet its actions say otherwise. @patriciastephenson.bsky.social @jencummins.bsky.social
Government departments must work together to remove visa barriers facing Gazan students - Social Democrats
The Social Democrats have urged the Department of Further and Higher Education and the Department of Justice to work together to remove barriers facing more than 20 Gazan students who have been refuse...
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If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w agoThe idea that we have a special duty to prevent the death of languages is instantly compelling to anyone who loves languages. But is it true? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
All worth it to hear Ian Wright say 'good to see Animal again' as if he's an old teammate of his
"I like a lot of them artists but I thought it was crap" -Wayne Rooney
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
On the show today: Gail Flanagan on ‘diaphanous’; Ahmet Arac on left/right handed; Sina Najafi on making books seem read; John Wilson on the box of wine; Zara Hedderman reviews ‘The Odyssey’ & ‘Heartstopper Forever’; Shannon Keenan with showbiz news; Michelle Lawlor won’t choose Argentinian wine
Happy Bastille Day to everyone, especially all my fellow guillotine enthusiasts!
How did My Secret Identity only run for three years?? Just look at that face!
Sitcom People@sitcompeople.bsky.social · 3w ago
It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.
Oh, I didn’t even have to wait years…except in how long it has felt
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started@gothamgirlblue.com · 5mo agoSitting here as a Black person, thinking about how I am not allowed to say “I told you so” in a few years when the guy with the SS tattoo turns out not to be a key ally for multiracial democracy
