Janet Davey is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. Including pronouns in introductions, your email signature or your social media bio may seem like a ...

As a linguist, I pay close attention to debates about language. But I won’t be telling you anything you don’t already know when I say that in recent years pronouns have become a subject of intense ...

It’s easy to see gender inequality as perpetuated by a few toxically masculine men, but gender bias is embedded in our social systems in many subtle ways too. One system that scientists have been ...

The use of phrases such as “pregnant people” or “penis owners” in cultural or political discourse is sometimes met with confusion, or even anger. Why use these terms when, as some people ask, “only ...

In social media, web searches and on posters: AI-generated images can now be found everywhere. Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are capable of converting simple input into deceptively ...