Nicholas Allott is on Bluesky these days

Linguist, Oslo Uni. Migrant. Own views; politics plus pragmatics, linguistics and related philosophy. Now mostly at @nicholasallott.bluesky.social

[Nicholas Allott is on Bluesky these days @AllottNicholas]

Come and study/work with us. Fully funded doctoral fellowship at the University of Oslo for work on the human side of interaction with LLMs: how we interpret LLMs, do we trust what they seem to say + more. #pragmatics #linguistics #philosophy #psychology

https://t.co/j14aWSFGhf

[Nicholas Allott is on Bluesky these days @AllottNicholas]

I’m mainly on Bluesky these days. I encourage anyone hanging on here to consider whether you’re happy producing content that Musk can profit from by selling ads. Here’s one way he apparently spends money: https://t.co/km9w12pGlE

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Why is there not more outrage over these successive strikes on schools? The Israelis have now bombed 546 of them

[Ola Galal @olaglal]

“Ask any Arab what the most painful realization of the last year has been and it is this: that we have discovered the extent of our dehumanization to such a degree that it’s impossible to function in the world in the same way” ⁦⁦⁦by ⁦@warghetti https://t.co/kS01tQ83un

[Nicholas Allott is on Bluesky these days @AllottNicholas]

@michelleybliu Thank you! That application was actually for a bigger, related project that we would run together with this one. We'll be finding out soon whether we were successful with that one.

[Nicholas Allott is on Bluesky these days @AllottNicholas]

Come and study/work with us. Fully funded doctoral fellowship at the University of Oslo for work on the human side of interaction with LLMs: how we interpret LLMs, do we trust what they seem to say + more. #pragmatics #linguistics #philosophy #psychology

https://t.co/j14aWSFGhf

[Nicholas Allott is on Bluesky these days @AllottNicholas]

Project manager is Ingrid Lossius Falkum; I'm co-PI.

Other members: Joey Pollock, Mikhail Kissine, Pierre Lison, Helle Bollingmo.

Feel free to email with any questions about the project, the university, Oslo…

The project's webpage is here

https://t.co/t09DlAkwGv

[Nicholas Allott is on Bluesky these days @AllottNicholas]

Come and work with us. 3-yr postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oslo for experimental work on the human side of interaction with LLMs: how we interpret LLMs, do we trust what they seem to say + more #pragmatics #linguistics #philosophy #psychology
https://t.co/j5YDqv3ERN

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Yesterday it was confirmed an Israeli F-35 fighter jet – made in part in Britain – was instrumental in a recent attack on a "safe zone" in Gaza, killing 90 people.

Hours later the UK government refused to suspend licences pertaining to F-35s.

ALL arms sales to Israel must end.

[Crìsdean MacEanraig @NosrednehTemple]

For 10 months Israel has killed scores of Palestinian academics, writers, artists and intellectuals in their homes. Their families have been killed with them. Their murder is met with almost complete silence in the West

[Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social @LMGM]

A reminder to all colleagues to make sure that your documents are all backed up on your own private device(s) or on a cloud storage service separate from your uni.

That book proposal draft? That grant bid? Your teaching materials? All of that could disappear in a day.

[Nicholas Allott is on Bluesky these days @AllottNicholas]

New version of the Linda problem?

[YouGov @YouGov]

When it comes to the UK’s future relationship with the EU, what would Britons support?

A closer relationship but not rejoining EU/single market/customs union: 63% support (net +46)
Rejoining the EU: 53% (+17)
Rejoining the Customs Union: 49% (+29)
Rejoining the Single Market: 48% (+23)
Status quo: 29% (-21)
Further loosening ties: 22% (-37)

https://t.co/ZRn8w7X7ar

[Nicholas Allott is on Bluesky these days @AllottNicholas]

Useful on a likely contributory cause of the racist rioting in the uk

[The author, Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats]

Scientists think we could be just years away from finally discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

A society can have a degree of success in processes of migrant integration and acceptance of diversity among a structural majority of the public while also having a substantial minority of the population that's willing to embrace racism and xenophobia.

15-25% is not a "fringe"

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

The decimation of Gaza’s academia: "Many surviving faculty members saw the deaths of academics as the deliberate targeting of prominent intellectuals in Gaza —many declined to be interviewed for this article, for fear of being assassinated themselves" https://t.co/a6qixKcj3M

[NorwayUN @NorwayUN]

🇳🇴 in #UNSC: ICJ is crystal clear: Israeli policies and practices are to be considered annexation of large parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This is in violation of international law and must come to an end.
Statement: https://t.co/gmzGk1NBKN

[Jewish Currents @JewishCurrents]

"When Israel invokes international law to frame everything above ground in Gaza as a potential human shield, it operationalizes the law itself as a tool of genocide"

@PeruginiNic @nevegordon on Israel's unprecedented expansion of the "human shield" charge https://t.co/StUljXYYJw