Linguistics Lecturer, Stirling University. Look at the blue sky.
Joined February 2012
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Re-sharing this since the ownership of Thames Water is in the news...
This 1985 letter to Margaret Thatcher, from the No.10 policy unit, arguing why water should be privatised, is really illuminating because ALL of the arguments are terrible. We can go through them: margaretthatcher.org/documen…
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🚨 Announcing:
The Nutmeg Ultimate Scottish Football Bucket List.
The must-sees and dos of our national game, voted for by you the fans to celebrate us reaching magazine Issue 30.
🪣 🏐 A thread. A thread with pictures. Pictures of pies and other lovely things.
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New preprint with David Peeters in which we showcase #VR as a tool to study language evolution that offers an unprecedented combination of experimental control and ecological validity (which used to be considered mutually exclusive).
📄🔓osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/b8…
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🚨 The Liz Truss-backed ‘Growth Commission’ is led by senior figures from US and UK think tanks who have been funded by fossil fuels, climate change deniers, Big Tobacco and more.
New 'dark money' exclusive on my Substack:
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We’re hiring at Linguistics and English Language @SchoolofPPLS Extra time for research in the first three years. Dream job! Especially interested in corpus/computational linguists or expertise in endangered languages, but honestly open to any area. Pls RT! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/… – at Edinburgh, Scotland
Lecturership in Linguistics at Stirling. Come and join us!
stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-sti…
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BoJo:
Not PM,
to not MP,
to no job.
#palindrome
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As @BodoWinter's term is coming to an end soon, Language & Cognition @LangCognition is looking for a new editor-in-chief #CognitiveLinguistics cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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How do we compare the scale of language learning input for large language models vs. humans? I've been trying to come to grips with recent progress in AI. Let me explain these two illustrations I made to help. 🧵
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Interdisciplinary, FUNDED PHDS are available on animal behaviour/cognition and human-animal interactions! If you would like to do a PhD within these research areas, please apply! Expression of interest deadline: 14 April. Please RT! findaphd.com/phds/project/na…
Andrew Smith retweeted
Here's a little look at German cost of living vs British cost of living, which goes a long way to explain why British people are suffering- despite the UK being ome of the richest countries in the world
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Just passed the university’s information security course. I do like the certificate.
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So today the BBC won't broadcast Attenborough on biodiversity loss for fear of a right wing backlash and Gary Lineker is not allowed to criticise the government on social media.
Can we now talk about the chilling effect of a BBC chairman who is a Tory donor?
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Worth watching again.
New Tory Party Deputy Chair 30p Lee Anderson, exposed as a deceitful charlatan in this video from @MichaelLCrick.