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Mervi de Heer
@mervideheer.bsky.social
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I like Uralic linguistics, gaming, metal music and stories. Location: Szeged, Hungary

Lecturer of Finnish language & culture at University of Szeged, Hungary + PhD student at Uppsala University, Sweden
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mervideheer.bsky.social
Adventure time: I'm traveling from Szeged, Hungary to Cluj-Napoca, Romania to attend a celebration. They have emplyed lecturers for Finnish language and culture for 50 years. Yesterday I worked on my paper and prepped classes for next week. I'm planning to relax on the train and read books. #travel
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Szegedin fennougristiikan laitoksella kollegat eri puolelta Unkaria esittelevät tutkimustaan. Kielten ja aiheiden kirjo kertoo, monipuolisesta osaamisesta.
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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ksushagal.bsky.social
LMU Munich offers a funded PhD position for three years at the Graduate School of Language & Literature. The deadline for applications is 7 December 2025:
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...
Application - Class of Language - LMU Munich
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Perjantaina on kivaa työskennellä hiljaisella yliopistolla omassa rauhassa. Kirjallisuusluento on valmis. Pohdin artikkeliakin. Opiskelijat kiiruhtavat Halloween-bileisiin. Szegedissä lämpötila on +20 astetta, joten työhuoneella ei ainakaan taas palele. #lehtorihommat
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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finnougristiklmu.bsky.social
On Monday, 3 November, Daria Zhornik (LMU) will give a talk summarizing the results of her doctoral dissertation. The title of the talk is "Discourse organisation in Northern Mansi: new findings". 14:15–15:45 CET, A 016 in the main building:
www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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sampsaholopainen.bsky.social
Very interesting PhD defence in Tartu tomorrow: Patrick O'Rourke „Lounaisitämerensuomi: lounaisten itämerensuomalaisten kielten murteellinen kehitys“ („Southwest Finnic: the dialectal development of southwestern Finnic languages“)
Patrick O'Rourke kaitseb doktoritööd „Lounaisitämerensuomi: lounaisten itämerensuomalaisten kielten murteellinen kehitys“
30. oktoobril 2025 kell 14.15 kaitseb Patrick O'Rourke doktoritööd „Lounaisitämerensuomi: lounaisten itämerensuomalaisten kielten murteellinen kehitys“.
keel.ut.ee
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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turunsanomat.fi
Turun yliopistoon saatiin yksi huippuyksikkö ja kaksi akatemiaprofessoria.
Geenit ja kielet yhdistyvät uudessa turkulaisessa huippuyksikössä
www.ts.fi
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Opettajana on kiva huomata, että suomen tunnilla voidaan kommunikoida pääasiassa suomeksi. Ulkomailla opettaessa erityisesti, tämä on mukava hetki. #opettaminen
October 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
mervideheer.bsky.social
The Finno-Ugric department in Szeged is celebrating "The Night of the Reasearcher" with a Lennart Meri film marathon. Documentaries on Finno-Ugric peoples. Happy Friday! #lingsky
September 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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sksfinlit.bsky.social
Tietolipas-sarjassa on julkaistu ensimmäinen suomenkielinen perusteos aineettoman kulttuuriperinnön käsitteestä. Lue sähkökirjana (oa.finlit.fi) tai osta painettuna (kirjat.finlit.fi tai Tiedekirja, Snellmaninkatu 13). #aineetonkulttuuriperintö #kulttuuriperintö #kirjat
September 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Viimeiset päivät Suomessa. Paljon tuli tehtyä ja jäi tekemättä. Luin 3 viihdekirjaa ihan siitä ilosta, että suomenkielistä lukemista on helposti saatavilla.
August 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
mervideheer.bsky.social
The final day at #cifu14 is an excursion day. I visited the A. Le Coq beer museum. Thank you for a great week!
August 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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projektinel.bsky.social
The last minutes
August 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Congressus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum 15 will be held in Budapest in 2030! #cifu14 #langsky #finnougric #linguistics
August 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Shared substrate words and influences in proto-germanic and proto-finnic? J. Saarikivi discusses the prospects of historical sociolinguistics and loanword reserach. In discussion, the relationship with Baltic also needs deep attention #cifu14 #langsky #etymology
August 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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finnougristiklmu.bsky.social
A fantastic #cifu14 reception at the Estonian National Museum with greetings and songs by representatives of many Finno-Ugric peoples!
August 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Final plenary at #cifu14 is about Livonian and language revilatization. Don't forget to check out a good pages collecting info www.livones.net/en #langsky
August 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Final discussion in the "Building diachronic corpora for minority languages" workshop touched legal issues, version control, applications of AI among other topics. We had a productive and encouraging workshop #cifu14 #langsky
August 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Learned about a cool minority language resource in Sweden: www.polarbibblo.se/las-lyssna-o...
#cifu14 #langsky
Var är Noras pulka? - Polarbibblo
Här kan du läsa och lyssna på bilderboken Var är Noras pulka? på flera olika språk! OBS! Använd stor skärm när du spelar upp boken. Klicka på det språk du vi...
www.polarbibblo.se
August 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Many people have come to learn about the @projektinel.bsky.social and legacy data. There is so much to do with Samoyedic languages but others too #cifu14 #langsky
August 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Hi #cifu14! Welcome to my talk tomorrow friday at 9.00, room 106
"Steps and strategies
of developing the Uralic
basic vocabulary dataset
UraLex". I'm in the Diachronic Corpora workshop 📚👩‍💻😊🌞#langsky
August 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
mervideheer.bsky.social
The anticipated Diachronic Corpora For Minority Languages is starting at #cifu14
August 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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finn-ugr-wien.bsky.social
Today, Hungarians celebrate their national day, Estonians celebrate the 34th anniversary of the restoration of independence. Finno-Ugricists of all nations spend this day at the 14th Congressus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum in Tartu. #cifu14 (For more information, see cifu14.ut.ee .)
Photo of a big lecture hall where the opening is taking place.
August 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
mervideheer.bsky.social
A petition has been launched at #cifu14 "--recognize the South Estonian language in Estonia as an independent, indigenous regional language--" #langsky
August 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
mervideheer.bsky.social
Plenary speaker A. Lukács tells that the field language acquisition is dominated by a few languages. There is a huge research gap in regard of the Uralic family even though e.g. Hungarian and Finnish are well-studied. #cifu14 #langsky
August 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM