Just had two days of great discussions at our first workshop "Sociocognitive Underpinnings of Language in Multilingual Settings" in the CRC 1760 "Silence, Noise and Signal in Language" in Konstanz. We heard amazing talks by our invited speakers about language attitudes, multilingualism, and gaming.

Ein wirklich toller Sammelband von tollen Autor:innen! (bin bisschen biased aber stimmt trotzdem)

Schmitz war ungefähr 5 Fußminuten von meiner Schule entfernt und ich habe damals dort regelmäßig mein Taschengeld gelassen. Gut zu wissen, dass eine meiner Lieblingsbuchhandlungen in Essen stabil bleibt.

Oh, look, the stupid plagiarism machine is now a stupid mass death machine.

Call for Papers, please circulate! Ethics of queer in/visibility Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026 queer-in-visibility.de Keynote speakers: J Calder (Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder) Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social (History, University of Warwick)

This is outrageous. Academics/universities consistently take the high horse and ask 'what are we going to do about students using AI?!' when there's literally universities teaching courses with AI generated slides... Like come on. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

HI. It's me. WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23. Keynote Speakers • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business) • Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

✨PUBLICATION DAY✨ Heute ist mein erster Aufsatz erschienen, der im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes „Queer Theory in Transit“ entstanden ist. In diesem Projekt untersuchen wir Prozesse der Rezeption, Adaption und Übersetzung von Queer Theory in deutsche Kontexte. 1/3

i have the transphobic author's name muted but i hope if you still somehow think it's okay to watch her shows or read her books or go to her theme parks you reckon with the fact that she is using your money to personally fund the groups that lobbied hard for the transphobic uk supreme court ruling

hey, who do I know who works on Irish in linguistics or who has a lot of Irish-speaking friends or email listservs or subreddits or whatever? I'm helping a student who wants to distribute a linguistics survey on/about Irish #linguistics! feel free to dm/email me!

funny, the email I got today called it financial ""challenges"" and "see some colleagues moving to new roles, or possibly leaving the University"

Es braucht jetzt keine „Wir bauen die Mauer wieder auf“-Witze, sondern Solidarität mit all den Menschen, die in Gegenden mit rechtsextremer Dominanz leben und trotzdem ihre Stimme erheben.

Wir möchten das ändern und sammeln dafür jetzt Daten zu den Versandzeiten. Diese Daten können dabei helfen, strukturelle Probleme zu identifizieren und den Verantwortlichen Druck zu machen: www.auslandswahl.de/umfrage

Habe mal eine patzige Mail an mein Wahlbüro geschrieben, dass meine Briefwahlunterlagen immer noch nicht da sind und was genau sie vorschlagen, dass ich jetzt mache. Wird zwar nichts bringen, aber sie sollen sich zumindest schämen.

They arrested people for speaking the “wrong language” during the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and Japanese Internment. Linguistic discrimination often precedes atrocities. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yepy1V/

Today, in the journal #LinguisticLandscape publishes online its first article of 2025, written by @theresaheyd.bsky.social & @janapithan.bsky.social, looking at the voices attributed, via signage, to artefacts in the public space. The authors look at 'talking' milk cartons, bins, trains, and more!

Publication day: Voices in the Linguistic Landscape, our study on anthropomorphic objects and their first person pronouns. If you are interested in theories of posthumanist sociolinguistics and/or pictures of talking trash cans, this is for you!

Hey, cis people with money: I just want to take this moment to point out that you, yes, you, right now, can directly help trans people get healthcare:

The money OpenAI is making when you use ChatGPT is funding the inauguration. On top of the catastrophic environmental cost, is it really worth it to save 2 minutes generating generic poorly-written text? (And don’t get me started on the others, especially Uber)

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

my favourite flavour of Edinburgh signs

🎉 Accepted for publication: "Voices in the Linguistic Landscape: Anthropomorphization of artifacts and the pronominal construction of speakerhood" Co-authored by @janapithan.bsky.social and myself, to appear in Linguistic Landscape. Everything you ever wanted to know about talking objects!

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Me: it is a matter of perspective Reviewer 1: that’s a good point Reviewer 2: you fucking idiot