coocho.bsky.social
Assoc/prof in linguistics in Tampere • interested in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, language on social media, manosphere discourse• owner of a malamute
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Have you seen “Mountainhead” yet?
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I do very low stakes online quizzes, open book with tons of time. Practice for the midterm and final, but points so they actually do it. I know they can cheat
SO MANY students getting 100s in 6 minutes on 16 questions. And then getting 30s on the midterm and the final
Saw a 400% increase in 100s
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Most students when asked to further explain their work would admit they used ChatGPT. A few (always male) got aggressive in pretty surprising ways. One student who I was trying to help not fail the class got very intense and started accusing me of unprofessionalism in my grading. That was fun
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I had students submit an annotated bibliography for their group projects. I provided guidelines on how they could use "AI"
A couple groups submitted cites that were completely made up, even with fake urls. Annotations were on ghost pubs - totally fabricated
I even warned them, they still did it
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I spent a lot of time discussing appropriate use of "AI" and also how it was developed on the theft of IP, uses tons of water, threatens our ability to meet climate goals, etc.
Some students were shocked and swore they would stop using it - and I saw that happen. Others doubled down
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Or smth like “we’re sure you won’t do…”
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It’s one of classic Finnish interlingual pragmatics things as well: you don’t say “please don’t”, you say “thank you for not doing” 😁
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The editor would love you for it, and also, in most editorial manager systems that’s an actual function (register as a user, enter keywords, tick “ready to review”). I personally look for reviewers this way first, but unfortunately many don’t enter good keywords
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Delftware tiles!
There were hundreds of fabulous examples to choose from in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s online catalogue, but I eventually settled on nine.
These 18th-century ships, shepherds, castles, figures, and flowers brought me joy. I hope they’ll do the same for you, too.
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One more bookish set for good measure.
These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.
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Almost done! I couldn’t leave out this edible assortment of medieval tiles from the British Museum.
The biscuit recipe was inspired by flavours from the same period: honey, ginger, and clove.
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Why do you have to get our hopes up like that just to dash them cruelly in the last sentence
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Same thoughts re intention.
Although something tells me the translation process (of the title at least) wasn’t that deep: they were simply going for something that sounds cool and foreign and menacing. “Killer” in Russian is limited to “assassin” meaning
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I haven’t thought of it - just parsed robot as another borrowing - but you’re absolutely right!
What a delightful #linguistics moment
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Киллербот
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😍
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From Finland for you
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Now that explains the glaring absence of ketchup
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this might be something? "The Journal of Languages Texts and Society is a postgraduate-run journal that aims to provide a platform for postgraduate and early career researchers to experience the publishing process [..] contributing a piece to one of our issues." www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...
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2/2 responsibility is potentially doing more harm than good…
#ADDA25 Very interesting work by @languaging-crises.bsky.social!
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Oh that sounds so exciting! So sorry to miss it 😥
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Work phone 😁
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The eternal problem of conferences with several tracks!
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I agree with you that this seems to be the way forward in the age of AI. What seems to happen is that students still use ChatGPT to handle such assignment, it just performs much worse (only hitting some of the rubrics). So they do manage to pass, just not with best grades