Alberto Bruzos
@abruzos.bsky.social
Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. https://abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu/
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@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us.
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Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading Group
Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading Group Hosts: David Gramling & Ervin Malakaj The “Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual Universi...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Britta Schneider (@viadrina.eu) is our next speaker!
In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute
to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation.
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute
to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation.
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
December 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Britta Schneider (@viadrina.eu) is our next speaker!
In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute
to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation.
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute
to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation.
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
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📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”
📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026
📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026
Please share widely!
❓Reach out if you have any questions!
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”
📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026
📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026
Please share widely!
❓Reach out if you have any questions!
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”
📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026
📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026
Please share widely!
❓Reach out if you have any questions!
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”
📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026
📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026
Please share widely!
❓Reach out if you have any questions!
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This book is so good and important.
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This book is so good and important.
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
Añoranza de los tiempos en que se podían escribir ensayos académicos con esta libertad.
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Añoranza de los tiempos en que se podían escribir ensayos académicos con esta libertad.
Do not miss this interview with @kamrank.bsky.social on the linguistic angle of the politics of citizenship and belonging.
newbooksnetwork.com/radio-reorie...
newbooksnetwork.com/radio-reorie...
Radio ReOrient 13.7: “Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran Khan, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Do not miss this interview with @kamrank.bsky.social on the linguistic angle of the politics of citizenship and belonging.
newbooksnetwork.com/radio-reorie...
newbooksnetwork.com/radio-reorie...
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"Modernism can best be understood as a cultural field of force triangulated by three coordinates: formalized academicism in the arts; technologies of telephone, radio, automobile, aircraft; and the imaginative proximity of social revolution."
Perry Anderson
(modernism debates contra blackfriday)
Perry Anderson
(modernism debates contra blackfriday)
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Modernism can best be understood as a cultural field of force triangulated by three coordinates: formalized academicism in the arts; technologies of telephone, radio, automobile, aircraft; and the imaginative proximity of social revolution."
Perry Anderson
(modernism debates contra blackfriday)
Perry Anderson
(modernism debates contra blackfriday)
Solidaridad con las compañeras y compañeros de las universidades públicas de Madrid.
www.elsaltodiario.com/comunidad-ma...
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La comunidad universitaria rechaza la ampliación de presupuesto de Ayuso por “trilerismo político”
Mientras continúa la huelga universitaria, los convocantes denuncian que la partida de 21’8 millones anunciada se correspondía en 2025 a 40 millones y que solo tratan de desmovilizar el paro que ha te...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Solidaridad con las compañeras y compañeros de las universidades públicas de Madrid.
www.elsaltodiario.com/comunidad-ma...
www.elsaltodiario.com/comunidad-ma...
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En este libro precioso Margit demuestra la ubicuidad de la lectura en voz alta en el Siglo de Oro. Si a un especialista le cuesta Calderón mientras que un trabajador analfabeto del XVII no perdía comba en un corral ruidoso es porque la literatura en voz alta había socializado determinadas destrezas
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
En este libro precioso Margit demuestra la ubicuidad de la lectura en voz alta en el Siglo de Oro. Si a un especialista le cuesta Calderón mientras que un trabajador analfabeto del XVII no perdía comba en un corral ruidoso es porque la literatura en voz alta había socializado determinadas destrezas
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El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado
Lo que dice Francisco Rodríguez Marín sobre la "relajación de las costumbres" en la sociedad sevillana del s. XVI me ha hecho pensar en los mensajes de Epstein.
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Lo que dice Francisco Rodríguez Marín sobre la "relajación de las costumbres" en la sociedad sevillana del s. XVI me ha hecho pensar en los mensajes de Epstein.
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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I’m increasingly convinced by the argument China’s decade-long investment to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, and particularly imports, is not only creating a new electrified model that other South countries can benefit from, but is leaving the West behind because it can’t ditch fossil fuels.
July 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I’m increasingly convinced by the argument China’s decade-long investment to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, and particularly imports, is not only creating a new electrified model that other South countries can benefit from, but is leaving the West behind because it can’t ditch fossil fuels.
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Cornell College, which was down the road from where I grew up, is now axing much of the "liberal arts" from its so-called "liberal arts college."
Languages offer lifelong benefits and teach us humility, how to grapple with difference, and the structures of culture and thought.
Shameful!!
Languages offer lifelong benefits and teach us humility, how to grapple with difference, and the structures of culture and thought.
Shameful!!
For my fellow Cornell College alumni, of which I know there are several here, they're killing numerous majors on campus and further diluting the purpose of being a liberal arts school.
No languages! No classics! No religion!
news.cornellcollege.edu/2025/11/2026...
No languages! No classics! No religion!
news.cornellcollege.edu/2025/11/2026...
news.cornellcollege.edu
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Cornell College, which was down the road from where I grew up, is now axing much of the "liberal arts" from its so-called "liberal arts college."
Languages offer lifelong benefits and teach us humility, how to grapple with difference, and the structures of culture and thought.
Shameful!!
Languages offer lifelong benefits and teach us humility, how to grapple with difference, and the structures of culture and thought.
Shameful!!
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“As it has for everything else, AI has now come for the accent.” Sheon Han experiments with whether an AI-powered “accent training” app can help him sound “less Korean” — and what that might mean. www.wired.com/story/ai-ame...
AI and the End of Accents
I sound Korean—because I am Korean. Can AI make me sound American?
www.wired.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“As it has for everything else, AI has now come for the accent.” Sheon Han experiments with whether an AI-powered “accent training” app can help him sound “less Korean” — and what that might mean. www.wired.com/story/ai-ame...
I could not agree more!
I keep saying, this ruling class has nothing at all to offer us. They have no vision, no ideas, no sense of responsibility, nothing. We need to take away these people's power to rule and structure the world
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I could not agree more!
Where what we all feel and know is put into numbers.
"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Where what we all feel and know is put into numbers.
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Nice write up here!
A spotlight on our author and series editor Professor Sinfree Makoni: Bridging Worlds through Applied Linguistics
Spotlight on Professor Sinfree Makoni: Bridging Worlds through Applied Linguistics - Applied Linguistics
In the dynamic field of Applied Linguistics, few names resonate as deeply as Professor Sinfree Makoni. Known for his pioneering work on decolonial sociolinguistics and Southern epistemologies,…
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November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Nice write up here!
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What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
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Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
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El lunes 24 @mark-bray.bsky.social inaugura junto a Ramón del Castillo y Vicente Ordóñez el ciclo sobre viejos y nuevos fascismos de La pecera y el taller de estudios culturales de la UNED.
Ojo, por cuestiones de espacio la sesión será en el @ateneomaliciosa.net
Ojo, por cuestiones de espacio la sesión será en el @ateneomaliciosa.net
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
El lunes 24 @mark-bray.bsky.social inaugura junto a Ramón del Castillo y Vicente Ordóñez el ciclo sobre viejos y nuevos fascismos de La pecera y el taller de estudios culturales de la UNED.
Ojo, por cuestiones de espacio la sesión será en el @ateneomaliciosa.net
Ojo, por cuestiones de espacio la sesión será en el @ateneomaliciosa.net
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Por el momento a IA ha generado despidos masivos, que los buscadores funcionen infinitamente peor, spam más o menos elaborado, una estética para el fascismo, una idea de lo que es la animación y la creatividad en general completamente rota... Y ahora cómo premio una burbuja financiera descomunal.
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Por el momento a IA ha generado despidos masivos, que los buscadores funcionen infinitamente peor, spam más o menos elaborado, una estética para el fascismo, una idea de lo que es la animación y la creatividad en general completamente rota... Y ahora cómo premio una burbuja financiera descomunal.
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In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.