Rue
@rue-burch.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Nanzan University
南山大学-国際教養学部
Conversation Analysis, TBLT, Motivation & Engagement,
Language Assessment, Music Enthusiast, Aging punk living in Mattersville
Personal Views.
Associate Professor at Nanzan University
南山大学-国際教養学部
Conversation Analysis, TBLT, Motivation & Engagement,
Language Assessment, Music Enthusiast, Aging punk living in Mattersville
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私は日本の会社知らないけど、大学の事務はよく大きいExcelのテーブルから小さいPDFに作成して字がすごく小さくて見づらい。大きいモニターにも拡大しても目がすごい疲れる。皆その小さい字どうやって読むの？年取ったらどうする？本当に見える？
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
私は日本の会社知らないけど、大学の事務はよく大きいExcelのテーブルから小さいPDFに作成して字がすごく小さくて見づらい。大きいモニターにも拡大しても目がすごい疲れる。皆その小さい字どうやって読むの？年取ったらどうする？本当に見える？
A nice look back at Labov's "Department Store" study (one of the foundational sociolinguistic studies) by one of his last students. If you're a linguist or have learned about the study in a linguistics class, this is worth a watch.
youtu.be/cK6g53lLgnw?...
youtu.be/cK6g53lLgnw?...
Are we WRONG about most FAMOUS LINGUISTICS experiment??
YouTube video by languagejones
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A nice look back at Labov's "Department Store" study (one of the foundational sociolinguistic studies) by one of his last students. If you're a linguist or have learned about the study in a linguistics class, this is worth a watch.
youtu.be/cK6g53lLgnw?...
youtu.be/cK6g53lLgnw?...
When research is largely written by AI, only to be read by AI, what "new knowledge" will actually mean anything? And will the effect that has on the publish or perish paradigm be a positive or negative thing?
November 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
When research is largely written by AI, only to be read by AI, what "new knowledge" will actually mean anything? And will the effect that has on the publish or perish paradigm be a positive or negative thing?
This looks like it will be good, and something I'll need to share with my students.
@saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social
Rein Ove Sikveland
☀️☀️☀️☀️
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Rein Ove Sikveland
☀️☀️☀️☀️
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The conversational action test: Detecting the artificial sociality of artificial intelligence - Saul Albert, William Housley, Rein Ove Sikveland, Elizabeth Stokoe, 2025
Drawing on the “Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test”—a science fiction version of Turing’s famous thought experiment—we propose the Conversational Action Test (CAT): a ne...
journals.sagepub.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This looks like it will be good, and something I'll need to share with my students.
#EMCA
One of my 2nd year students mentioned in her homework about how she tried out a breaching experiment (in this case speaking in honorifics with her sister) and the reaction, and started diving deeper into the ideas.
I'm such a bad influence sometimes, but I love it.
One of my 2nd year students mentioned in her homework about how she tried out a breaching experiment (in this case speaking in honorifics with her sister) and the reaction, and started diving deeper into the ideas.
I'm such a bad influence sometimes, but I love it.
October 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
#EMCA
One of my 2nd year students mentioned in her homework about how she tried out a breaching experiment (in this case speaking in honorifics with her sister) and the reaction, and started diving deeper into the ideas.
I'm such a bad influence sometimes, but I love it.
One of my 2nd year students mentioned in her homework about how she tried out a breaching experiment (in this case speaking in honorifics with her sister) and the reaction, and started diving deeper into the ideas.
I'm such a bad influence sometimes, but I love it.
This is not only a wonderful eulogy of one of the most important pioneers of science and conservation, but also a great explanation of the complexities of knowing and coming to know in science.
@hankgreen.bsky.social - you rock!
youtu.be/d_FzzLeA6pk?...
@hankgreen.bsky.social - you rock!
youtu.be/d_FzzLeA6pk?...
Dr. Jane Goodall
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is not only a wonderful eulogy of one of the most important pioneers of science and conservation, but also a great explanation of the complexities of knowing and coming to know in science.
@hankgreen.bsky.social - you rock!
youtu.be/d_FzzLeA6pk?...
@hankgreen.bsky.social - you rock!
youtu.be/d_FzzLeA6pk?...
Been listening to Fugazi's discography the last couple days, 1st time in a decade. Somehow it hits different than before. Amazing how things that either went over my head or didn't connect emotionally in a certain way back then is now. And of course discovering new things throughout.
1/2
1/2
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Been listening to Fugazi's discography the last couple days, 1st time in a decade. Somehow it hits different than before. Amazing how things that either went over my head or didn't connect emotionally in a certain way back then is now. And of course discovering new things throughout.
1/2
1/2
there was a lynching on a college campus in Mississippi, but as of yet no major news outlet has picked up on the story because they are so far up a celebrity's ass that they can't recognize America's worst type of political violence that has been happening throughout the nation's history.
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
there was a lynching on a college campus in Mississippi, but as of yet no major news outlet has picked up on the story because they are so far up a celebrity's ass that they can't recognize America's worst type of political violence that has been happening throughout the nation's history.
Another original - "Lambchop's Got Lead Poisoning".
Been working on it for a few weeks, but unfortunately, it keeps being timely.
Probably the heaviest thing I've ever recorded (full on with death metal growls)
youtu.be/uks8EKmnisk
Been working on it for a few weeks, but unfortunately, it keeps being timely.
Probably the heaviest thing I've ever recorded (full on with death metal growls)
youtu.be/uks8EKmnisk
Lambchop's Got Lead Poisoning
YouTube video by Rue Burch
youtu.be
September 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Another original - "Lambchop's Got Lead Poisoning".
Been working on it for a few weeks, but unfortunately, it keeps being timely.
Probably the heaviest thing I've ever recorded (full on with death metal growls)
youtu.be/uks8EKmnisk
Been working on it for a few weeks, but unfortunately, it keeps being timely.
Probably the heaviest thing I've ever recorded (full on with death metal growls)
youtu.be/uks8EKmnisk
A new original song I'm calling "Silly Cliches About Silly Cliches".
It came to me over the last couple of days, not as a reaction to what happened, but as a reaction to the cliches that inevitably get trotted out in the wakes of tragedies.
youtu.be/ffjFTmawDxg
It came to me over the last couple of days, not as a reaction to what happened, but as a reaction to the cliches that inevitably get trotted out in the wakes of tragedies.
youtu.be/ffjFTmawDxg
The Fabulous Soup Forks: Silly Cliches About Silly Cliches
YouTube video by Rue Burch
youtu.be
September 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A new original song I'm calling "Silly Cliches About Silly Cliches".
It came to me over the last couple of days, not as a reaction to what happened, but as a reaction to the cliches that inevitably get trotted out in the wakes of tragedies.
youtu.be/ffjFTmawDxg
It came to me over the last couple of days, not as a reaction to what happened, but as a reaction to the cliches that inevitably get trotted out in the wakes of tragedies.
youtu.be/ffjFTmawDxg
This dude's constantly hittin' 'em outta the park. Modern day protest folk at its finest.
youtu.be/PL0oB1gbZE4
youtu.be/PL0oB1gbZE4
The Ballad of Big Balls
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
youtu.be
August 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
This dude's constantly hittin' 'em outta the park. Modern day protest folk at its finest.
youtu.be/PL0oB1gbZE4
youtu.be/PL0oB1gbZE4
I wasn't aware that Robin Lakoff had passed away. She opened up the field of linguistics to looking at gender, and thus has had a huge impact on everyone who looks at language through a critical lens in any way.
ls.berkeley.edu/news/memoria...
ls.berkeley.edu/news/memoria...
In Memoriam of Linguistics Professor Emerita Robin Lakoff, a pioneer in gender and language | Letters & Science
ls.berkeley.edu
August 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I wasn't aware that Robin Lakoff had passed away. She opened up the field of linguistics to looking at gender, and thus has had a huge impact on everyone who looks at language through a critical lens in any way.
ls.berkeley.edu/news/memoria...
ls.berkeley.edu/news/memoria...
Eye-opening (in a not-so-pleasant "well, shit, what I thought my reasonably well educated self actually 'knew' isn't true" sort of way).
youtu.be/regpMUdl_QA
youtu.be/regpMUdl_QA
Who Has the Right to Vote in America? | Civics Made Easy
YouTube video by PBS
youtu.be
August 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Eye-opening (in a not-so-pleasant "well, shit, what I thought my reasonably well educated self actually 'knew' isn't true" sort of way).
youtu.be/regpMUdl_QA
youtu.be/regpMUdl_QA
Original instrumental song I've been working on for a few weeks. The drums were played with my Yamaha FGDP-50 finger drums, and I like how they help create a better groove than programmed drums.
youtu.be/Q6bUSdN9pZo
youtu.be/Q6bUSdN9pZo
And Then There Were
YouTube video by Rue Burch
youtu.be
August 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Original instrumental song I've been working on for a few weeks. The drums were played with my Yamaha FGDP-50 finger drums, and I like how they help create a better groove than programmed drums.
youtu.be/Q6bUSdN9pZo
youtu.be/Q6bUSdN9pZo
- it's a national holiday.
- i'm still recovering and rest would be a good thing.
... so why do i still feel like i have to justify taking a day off to myself? the mental gymnastics that i feel compelled to go through when it's completely ok to take a national holiday off.
- i'm still recovering and rest would be a good thing.
... so why do i still feel like i have to justify taking a day off to myself? the mental gymnastics that i feel compelled to go through when it's completely ok to take a national holiday off.
August 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
- it's a national holiday.
- i'm still recovering and rest would be a good thing.
... so why do i still feel like i have to justify taking a day off to myself? the mental gymnastics that i feel compelled to go through when it's completely ok to take a national holiday off.
- i'm still recovering and rest would be a good thing.
... so why do i still feel like i have to justify taking a day off to myself? the mental gymnastics that i feel compelled to go through when it's completely ok to take a national holiday off.
What the internet and social media has become:
August 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
What the internet and social media has become:
Using this rainy holiday Monday to catch up on some needed sleep. Just woke up from a dream in which I seemed to be an active participant in a M*A*S*H episode (Trapper and Col. Blake era).
Weird.
Weird.
August 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Using this rainy holiday Monday to catch up on some needed sleep. Just woke up from a dream in which I seemed to be an active participant in a M*A*S*H episode (Trapper and Col. Blake era).
Weird.
Weird.
One of the weirdest things I've had to teach myself while dealing with whooping cough is to be patient through those 10 - 30 seconds I can't breath, to remember that if I relax, I'll eventually get air back in. Not an easy thing to learn how to believe.
August 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
One of the weirdest things I've had to teach myself while dealing with whooping cough is to be patient through those 10 - 30 seconds I can't breath, to remember that if I relax, I'll eventually get air back in. Not an easy thing to learn how to believe.