Nowy numer Magazyn Kontakt dotyczy problemów polskich uczelni. Koordynowałem prace nad nim. Piszemy o niedocenianej dydaktyce, strajkach pracowniczych, studiach z perspektywy osoby transpłciowej, złym stanie polskiej teologii, badacz(k)ach z klas ludowych. magazynkontakt.pl/zle-sie-dzieje…

Hundreds of thousands demand change in Poland protest bbc.in/45O1IdS

Stanford researchers find "AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers" "The numbers are grim... [detectors] classified more than half of TOEFL essays (61.22%) written by non-native English students as AI-generated..." hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-detect…

The deeper into the summer, the more unhinged these job ads get.. Five sections of FYW per semester? Seriously? Seriously?

Spoken Corpora of Slavic Languages: Spoken corpora are collections of transcribed and annotated audio and /or video recordings of languages or language varieties. The aim of this paper is to present an overview of 51 spoken corpora. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great presentation by Tatsuya Amano on "Language barriers in conservation science: consequences and solutions" from the Helsinki Initiative Webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication 31 May is now available: helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/hels…

Important study by @M_Simard_ et al presented at #ISSI2023 shows that #DiamondOA journal landscape is more multilingual than #GoldOA landscape, it is also more extensively covered in #OpenAlex

Academic friendships across center / semiperiphery in a screenshot:

Big decision ahead of President Duda. If exit polls are right, PiS is largest party (200 seats), but opposition coalition has majority (248). Who will Duda give first shot at forming government? If he sides with PiS, they could delay opposition taking power for many weeks. 1/

Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication aims to ensure the continued availability of research published #InAllLanguages needed for effective communication within and beyond academia. Read in Icelandic and 40 other languages: helsinki-initiative.org/is

I just checked the etymology of the word "genre" and it is related to "gender" which makes a lot of sense, theoretically.

1/3 Sto lat temu przyznano nagrody Nobla za odkrycie insuliny. Z tej okazji przykład mitu 'samoregulującego' się rynku. Niespełna sto lat po odkryciu insuliny, jej ceny w USA, jedynym w zestawieniu kraju, gdzie nie wprowadzono regulacji, są od 5 do 20(!) razy wyższe, niż w...

Just got my advance reviewer's copy of Jenny Croft's Extinction of Irena Rey, a novel about 8 translators looking for their author who went missing in Poland's primeval forest. So excited to see it's framed as a pseudotranslation (see the translator's warning signed in 2027).

Big news 📢 We're now only looking for conversations that include a speaker who is male and/or over 40 years old Even bigger news 📢 Participants who submit conversations by January 15 will earn double the payment fb.watch/o-pl0uiZVr/?mi…

🚩🚩We have two new book reviews Today! 📚📖

We’re excited to announce The Pudding’s 2024 Cohort, a 10-week summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers. 🧑‍🎓 Open to college/graduate-level students and recent grads 📅 June 18 – Sept 1 💰 $7,200 stipend 📝 More details at this link! pudding.cool/career/cohort/

We're restarting the Science and (semi)peripheries seminar with a fantastic event. Our colleague Lynne Bowker, with her collaborator Philips Ayeni will present the results of their project. Ola Swatek will be discussant! Come and join us: bit.ly/42lwycv

New #OER available in eCampusOntario Open Library eCampusOntario : "Garbage in, garbage out! Get better translations by writing translation friendly texts". Aimed at anyone preparing texts that are likely to be translated. #Translation #MachineTranslation #MTLiteracy ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/optimisezvostr…