You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

Liebe Lehrende an deutschen Hochschulen, bitte erwägen Sie, diesen Open Letter gegen die unkritische Anwendung von KI im Hochschulkontext zu unterzeichnen. openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...

Curious what gender linguistics means to us? Our editorial statement outlines our understanding of the field and the place of our journal within it - check it out!

One highlight of LILG 2025: the official launch of the new open-access journal Gender Linguistics! Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender. Learn more: gender-linguistics.org #linguistics #journal #launch

Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

@terrorstein.bsky.social, Viktoria Schneider & I have just published our edited volume "Linguistic intersections of language and gender"! Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... Thanks to all contributors - we're proud of what we've created together! #linguistics #gender #openaccess

🚨 URGENT! Conversion practices aim to change or suppress who LGBTQ+ people are. They’re harmful, degrading, and condemned as torture by the UN. The EU must act! Sign the ECI to ban them across Europe and share the link! ✍🏻 eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

A year ago our faculty commissioned & adopted guidance on GenAI and research integrity. Preamble below, pdf at osf.io/preprints/os..., text also at ideophone.org/generative-a... Key to these guidelines is a values-first rather than a technology-first approach, based on NL code of research conduct

🗣️ Calling all linguists! The Call for Papers for LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender – is open until 31 March! 📅 Event date: 12-13 August 2025 📌 Hybrid: Düsseldorf @ @hhu.bsky.social + online Details and submission 👉 lilg.div-ling.org #linguistics #gender

FYI: Heinrich Heine in your Mother Tongue!: To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the University Heinrich Heine (Düsseldorf, Germany) and International Moher Language Day you can listen to the Poem "Die Loreley" by Heinrich Heine in more than 35 languages including some (very) endangered languages…

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

New business idea: a poop machine. Plan: 1. We steal everything and turn it into poop. 2. We convince everyone they need poop. 3. Somebody has to invent a new power source to keep up the poop production. 4. We need billions of investment to make it profitable. Flawless.

SOON

"But why won't you, academic, help improve the World Eating Plagiarism Death Sphere, that we built to destroy your field and our world and fund it through the theft of your work? Why are you so negative about it?"

They are extremely holdable.

📣 Exciting news! Join us for LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender, 12-13 Aug 2025 at @hhu.bsky.social. Hybrid format 🌐, in-person encouraged. Details and Call for Papers 👉 lilg.div-ling.org #linguistics #gender

A common mistake many new writers make is crafting a character and then, without story justification or world building to support it, making them heterosexual. This leaves readers confused & takes them out of the story.