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Muriel Norde @nordemuriel.bsky.social · 2h

Happy to announce there will be a second workshop on evaluative morphology 🥳 Welcome to Alicante!

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 3h

Confs: Unlocking Evaluative Morphology II: Semantic Values and Pragmatic Motivations

Convenors: José A. Sánchez Fajardo (University of Alicante) Francesca Masini (University of Bologna) Muriel Norde (Humboldt University Berlin) Kristel Van Goethem (F.R.S.-FNRS & Université catholique de Louvain) Tijana Vesić Pavlović (University of Belgrade) Organizing Team: Andrés Muñoz García (University of Alicante) Julio Torres Soler (University of Alicante) Plenary speaker: Elisa Mattiello (University of Pisa) Call for Papers: This workshop is a follow-up to the first Eva

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FB Linguistik Universität Konstanz @konstanzling.bsky.social · 1h

👀 #konstanz #UniKonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 4h

Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Two Doctoral Research Positions in Computational Linguistics, University of Konstanz

Description: Applications are invited for the following: Two 4-year, part-time 75 % doctoral research positions as part of the project "In-equality Discourse Observatory" led by Miriam Butt and David Garcia. The project is part of the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/). The positions are available as of January 1, 2026 and involve the automatic identification, analysis and automatic extraction of linguistic cues for NLP appli

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Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social · 55m

Befristet 3 Jahre: Mittelniederdeutsche Grammatik Postdoc Stelle in Hamburg www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 37m

🇧🇪 Academics in Belgium: what is your perception of the current level of academic freedom in the country? The Federal Human Rights Institute needs your input - seize the opportunity and voice any concerns you may have. (I do have concerns, and I tried to make them very clear.)
Survey in NL, FR, EN.

Room for critical voices - Academics' survey

surveys.uclouvain.be

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 7h

Darf man klauen? 🥺

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 21h

It's all fun and games until you suddenly have like 300 people in your classes 😆😅 On the plus side: I've got a lot of cute panda pictures now!

Gru's plan meme. Panel 1: Hide a thing in the syllabus to test whether students read it. Panel 2: "Please send me a cute picture of a red panda". Panel 3: Everybody sends me an e-mail. Panel 4: Everybody sends me an e-mail.

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 1d

Ihr wollt #Syntagma selbst in euren Kursen einsetzen und in euer #ILIAS importieren? Auf @twillo.bsky.social gibt es jetzt sowohl das Gesamtpaket als auch alle einzelnen Komponenten zum Download & Import: www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/... Hier findet ihr auch eine Anleitung und Checkliste! ✅🐲

ILIAS-Kursteile – edu-sharing

Alle Kapitel von Syntagma als separater Export oder als zusammenhängender ILIAS-Kurs. Kann in ILIAS 7 so importiert werden.

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 1d

Speculative Grammarian, a long-running publication of satirical linguistics, is winding down specgram.com #linguistics

SpecGram—Speculative Grammarian

Speculative Grammarian: the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics.

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 1d

Bürotür ist auch dekoriert, das Semester kann kommen

Eine Postkarte von Pre Raphaelite Girls Explaining: Nein, Herr, die deutsche Sprache stirbt nicht, nur Ihr.

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 2d

Avond van de talen - de aftermovie!
Volgend jaar kan je weer allerlei talen tegenkomen op deze leuke avond 🤩
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TAc4...

Evening of Languages 2025 at Leiden University

YouTube video by Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities

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IDS Mannheim @idsmannheim.bsky.social · 2d

Jetzt noch bis Mittwoch, 15.10.25, Abstracts zur Methodenmesse auf unserer #IDSJT26 einreichen! ✍️

IDS Mannheim @idsmannheim.bsky.social · Aug 15

#CallforAbstracts: Wir laden zur Einreichung von Beiträgen zur Methodenmesse auf der IDS-Jahrestagung 2026 zu „Deutsch im europäischen Sprachraum: Stand und Perspektiven“ ein!
📆 11.3.26,
📍 Mannheim
Wir freuen uns über Ihre Einreichungen bis zum 15.10.25.
Zum vollständigen Call: 🔗 t1p.de/o4f1y

Einführender Text des Call for Abstracts. In Textform findet sich der Aufruf über den Link im Post.

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 2d

Habe erst Konfekt gelesen, aber so auch okay

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 2d

In diesem Sinne: Schönen Vorlesungsbeginn!

Schlüsselanhänger mit Zitat aus Doctor Who: We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one.

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 2d

Decision on your manuscript

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 3d

Biggest revelation so far has been how much fun I'm actually having with this

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 3d

When I re-took the Intro to Bayes in at #MILS2025 this year, @shravanvasishth.bsky.social said, that probably, our maths foundations are shaky. And of I'm honest to myself, yes, they are. So I've since challenged myself to review them. This train ride has e.g. been full of mathematical induction 😅

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 4d

Wortbildung in freier Wildbahn wieder wild

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 4d

Entschuldigen Sie, haben Sie Ketchunnaise? Nein, nur

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 5d

Wasn't there a calculator for academic grant writing where you put in amount of funds, chance of getting funded, and estimated hours of preparing the proposal to calculate whether it's worth applying at all?

Or a formula? Please, I need it.

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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

🔍 Im November veranstalten wir ein eintägiges Kolloquium zur Autorschaftsanalyse: https://staff.germanistik.rub.de/kolloquium-autorschaftsanalyse/
Die Anmeldung ist noch bis 30.10. möglich!
Boost erwünscht 🙏
#linguistik #variation #autorschaft #nlproc

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 5d

Höllische #Tristaben: hellleuchtend

Prospektangebot für Böller, Höllenlichter genannt

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 5d

Sich sorgen und für andere sorgen ist halt leider anstrengende Handarbeit, egal ob in der Schule oder an der Uni oder in der Carearbeit, aber statt dass der Aufwand und der Nutzen von solcher Arbeit anerkannt wird, bekommen wir Ratgeber für das gute Prompten, diese Bagatellisierung regt mich auf.

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Sascha Wolfer @sascha-wolfer.bsky.social · 5d

Out now in PNAS: Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of #polysynthetic #languages by Alex Koplenig and me: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

This is a comment on Bromham et al.'s doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#linguistics 🧶 coming up...

Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of polysynthetic languages | PNAS

Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of polysynthetic languages

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 6d

Semestervorbereitungen: #Syntagma von ILIAS 7 auf ILIAS 5 importieren, anpassen und gucken, ob alles soweit funktioniert 🐲

Screenshot einer E-Mail von ILIAS, dass ich das Badge für das Mensa-Gasthaus erhalten habe

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