#Language

Amy Pearson

DrAmyPearson

New paper with @DrSHodgetts on whether lateralisation can explain language and handedness diffs in autism.Short answer: we dont know.More important q: should we care? Very mixed feelings about this paper:

Todd N. Tucker

toddntucker

This by Susan Sell on TRIPS is great:"The private sector activists displayed impressive framing skills in presenting their case to the government and their foreign counterparts not merely by making

Im🍑

willie_agnew

Buried in the recent trillion parameter language model paper is how the dataset to train it was created. Any page that contained one of these words was excluded: https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Wor

The Tweedy Mutant ♿🌈

the_tweedy

Let's talk about "accessibility theatre"...Too often nondisabled people use "accessibility" to justify making themselves the protagonists in disability-related work. Y'know when nondisabled people will concern-tr

Horror-mone Replacement Therapy

biosexorcist

LRT: the "possessive S" is also known as the Saxon genitive and wholesale murdering it to resolve phonological incongruity in an Austronesian language like Te Reo Māori is, in my

Jonathan Rosa

DrJonathanRosa

A reminder for junior scholars: When engaging with media about your work, consider answering the questions you want to be asked regardless of what you’re actually asked—a central part of

Dora Gao

doraygao

why do we assume exams (of any sort) need to be combative to some degree? why can't the tone of assessment be, "we're so excited for you to show us

Michael P. Jeffries

M_P_Jeffries

1) I appreciate everyone's contributions today, especially journalists. I also learned a lot from the historians and activists who shared what they know about our country's long and recent history.

Allison Parrish | @[email protected]

aparrish

among the reasons I use large pre-trained language models sparingly in my computer-generated poetry practice is that being able to know whose voices I'm speaking with is... actually important, as

Iain Overton

iainoverton

I wrote this article for @BylineTimes I asked what do words tell us of the way the Conservative-led governments that have dominated British life since 2010, have moulded the narratives

Sarah Phillimore

SVPhillimore

Just had a horrifying realisation. It seems clear there is a window of opportunity for a human brain to learn to process language. Once that opportunity is lost, language cannot

Matt Emerson

M_Y_Emerson

This point has received some pushback, so let me very briefly clarify.1) partitive exegesis recognizes three “forms” of the Son, per Augustine - “form of God,” “form of a servant,”

Natalie Rachel

NatalieRachelR

Self-awareness is a slippery concept. Sometimes it means the autobiographical self, which keeps track of our experiences across time and assembles them into a story using language and reflection. Other

Joshua Lamel

jlamel

Many Republicans are calling for unity. If they want unity, let me suggest a few things they need to do first: 1) Stop using language about democrats that we are

Holiday Murshak

amurshak

I learned to code when I left college the 2nd time and was bedridden for a few months. Enough to get a low-level configuration job with a local software company.

Daniel Burke

_InContext_

Have you been studying #Japanese for years, and feel like you'll never seriously get anywhere? Like it's just too hard, and no matter how much you study it feels like

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