Mark Dingemanse

Revised! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

Proofs and coffee, my favourite combo. Coffee is a Blommers roast of Costa Rica Aquiares, soundtrack is Some day my prince will come (Davis/Coltrane), paper is 'Overlap in conversation' w/ first author Ada Lopez and Andreas Liesenfeld, soon in a journal near you

sometimes I feel like this should be my pinned post

Why do some colleagues from psych, cog neuro, etc., accept AI nonsense that all or almost all our science will be automated? I'm a bit flabbergasted. Yes, of course we'll need observations, always. But to say theory and modelling practice can be automated by AI is preposterous. Some basic points...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

one thing I'm gonna say is: more horn sections and drumlines at protests please.

AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to log into manuscript management system to submit peer review

Appreciate the sharing of this - a favorite page I always use in talks, and I appreciate the alt text, well done! And it gives me insights that this is read as a grid, which I see now, though I intended it as infinitely forking paths already chosen. Let’s keep towards “what might be…”

Never heard about these atrocities at school. Learnt of the Banda massacre much later, when I read Wallace and found that today, Bandanese is only spoken on the Kei islands 400km away from Banda, where some survivors fled Down with JP Coen statues!

The Anatomy of Iconicity, in @openmindjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/opmi... — we reconcile different operationalizations of iconicity and link them to an empirically grounded theory. Cumulative structural correspondences predict subjective and objective measures of #iconicity in 5 languages

How come Wikipedia is doing better than academic publishing? Btw love that icon: 🚫🤖 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmat...

Excellent review by Maria Flaksman of the 88 chapter Körtvélyessy & Štekauer volume on onomatopoeia Measured, generous, critical, on point, and with general lessons for ambitious descriptive & comparative projects #onomatopoeia #linguistics #typology OA: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Excellent review by Maria Flaksman of the 88 chapter Körtvélyessy & Štekauer volume on onomatopoeia Measured, generous, critical, on point, and with general lessons for ambitious descriptive & comparative projects #onomatopoeia #linguistics #typology OA: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

derived from generally attested Berber terms for body parts He also showed that the metaphors make sense in the landscape that is described. Put otherwise: the question to what extent the old language of the Canary Islands was a form of Berber is now settled: indeed it was! @phdnix.bsky.social

Today at NACAL there was a fantastic talk by Massinissa Garaoun on pre-Hispanic toponomy in the Canary Islands. Based on extensive fieldwork, checking pronuniations and the topographical features the terms are connected to, he showed that there are many toponyms that are clearly...

Interesting new work on the management of progressivity in chimpanzee grooming sessions by @kaylakolff.bsky.social and Simone Pika www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Also nice to see the term 'redoings' from our @heesenr.bsky.social et al. 2022 framework gain some currency!

Revisiting this in 2026: I decided to preprint my contribution doi.org/10.5281/zeno... It's like a time capsule except for the references (which have been updated in 2023): an early take on the language of perception in Siwu, eastern Ghana

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

As we conclude, > [LLM] users encounter a fundamental asymmetry: they must singlehandedly supply much of the sequential structure that is ordinarily co-constructed by multiple participants ... This hidden labour challenges accounts of LLM use that focus on performance and optimization

It's "advice to grad students" season! Here's a post I wrote several geological epochs ago, in 2019. My advice gets harder and harder to follow every year (even for me). But I think that means it gets better and better? kensycooperrider.com/blog/advice-...

How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.

As I wrote in 2020 about the same topic, all ingredients for an information heat death are on hand. ideophone.org/large-langua... I disagree with the quoted post's indiscriminate use & ascription of "intellect" and its conflation of textual products & cognitive processes; this is self-defeating

Neat review of collaborative wayfinding by Fernandez Velasco & Sutton (open access) wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Bringing together evidence from social ontology, distributed cognition, transactive memory, group problem-solving, and collaborative recall

"AI-praatkwadrant: praat over AI maar dan zonder ruzie" Helder en constructief stuk door @wiep.bsky.social 👏👏👏 📝 destaatvanhetweb.nl/2026/09/20/a...

It’s excellent getting to say to a group of students, We’re gonna read X & we’re gonna spend 75 minutes talking about it, & ideally the way you think about the world & yourself is gonna be a bit more nuanced, complex, & satisfying, & that’s today’s “product.” Or, as @cnygren.bsky.social & I said:

Tapping the sign

I remember wondering whether this would survive typesetting but CUP clearly understood the assignment and kept my unicode ッ intact

“There appears to have been a profound shift, beginning in the 1970s, from investment in technologies associated with the possibility of alternative futures to investment technologies that furthered labor discipline and social control” — David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules, 2015 #quote #technology

The new Chicago Social Sciences AI policy is really rather good. chicagomaroon.com/flipbook/202... > The strong consensus [] is that our sequences are best understood as a pedagogical setting without AI And INB4 🤡 "bUt tEChnoLogY is inEVItablE", this kicker of a closing paragraph:

For the morning crowd: new paper!

While much work in so-called 'prompt engineering' obsesses over the perfect prompt (Andreessen's monster prompt comes to mind), we find that real-life prompting practices are sequentially organized, feature repurposed patterns of human interaction, and result in users adjusting expectations & aims