PhD @UCL || Co-founder of @UCL_ALS || Political economies of language, discourse and culture|| Global Capitalism|| Migration || Labour || Decolonialism
Throwback to last week when we called 2024 literature laureate Han Kang just moments after she found out about the prize.
We spoke to her about growing up around books and being the first South Korean literature laureate.
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Just finished my first week at Max Planck Institute as Guest Researcher of Economic Experiment. Huge thanks to UK Government's Turing Grant and MPIโs invitation. Excited for the months aheadโI'm sure I'll thoroughly enjoy my time here! ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป๐๐ฉ๐ช
5 key takeaways from @McKinsey's "The state of AI in 2023" report.
1. Expected business disruption is significant.
"Respondents predict meaningful changes to their workforces. They anticipate workforce cuts in certain areas and large reskilling efforts to address shifting talent needs."
2. The most common use cases are in marketing and sales, product and service development, and service operations.
3. Industries relying most heavily on knowledge work are likely to experience the most disruption.
"Knowledge-based industries such as banking (up to 5 percent), pharmaceuticals and medical products (also up to 5 percent), and education (up to 4 percent) could experience significant effects"
4. Inaccuracy, cybersecurity and IP infringement are biggest risks
5. Machine Learning Operations is likely to play a large role in the future.
"AI high performers most often point to models and tools, such as monitoring model performance in production and retraining models as needed over time, as their top challenge."
Full report: https://t.co/8ZjjWxXqYI
Very happy to announce that our special issue, "On-site processes of sociolinguistic differentiation," is finally out in Multilingua! Thanks to the editors for the support. My SI co-editor, Gilles Merminod, and I are very grateful! https://t.co/F2GMBW1AMg
Iโve only skimmed through a small portion of her work. But itโs quite remarkable how she has identified that the gender pay gap within the same occupation predominantly emerges upon the birth of a first child.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin โfor having advanced our understanding of womenโs labour market outcomes.โ
#NobelPrize
Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being has died, aged 94.
In this clip from Arena in 1984, he speaks about the nature of existence and exploring these ideas through the characters of the novel.
The UCL Applied Linguistics Society invite you to an online conversation with the editors of "Feminisms with Chinese characteristics", Prof. Ping Zhu & Prof. Hui Faye Xiao. Tuesday 13 June, 4pm
Registrations and more info: https://t.co/kMrP7vSM8X
@MingdanW @UCL_ALS Yep! Letโs do it! I hate that I could not make it today at GC!๐ฅบ Super interested in how POP music contributes to decolonialism๐ค
Thrilled to see my first single-authored article published online in one of my favorite peer-reviewed journals today ๐ #Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication https://t.co/gVP9WiHAWJ