It’s soon Valentine’s Day and I wonder how many #ELT classes will focus on the day. I also wonder how many will include #LGBTQIA relationships. My short resource, Love is love, aimed at B2 students is available to download for free! #TEFL #ESOL https://peterjfullagar.co.uk/eltshop/love-is-love/

My review of @sharonmcculloch.bsky.social's book is now published on @languageinsociety.bsky.social 📖💜 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S004...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "As I said in class, and you can also find this on Moodle, ..." 🫠

Pronouns in the news, 1930 ed: antedating and author identified. Richard Tingley, prolific crossword setter, put three common-gender pronoun clues in a puzzle that ran in late 1930; this one appeared in the Rockford (IL) Star, Dec. 28, p. 23. The puzzle ran the next day in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

🚨New article published in Gender Linguistics🚨 Ochs, S. (2026). Die morphosyntaktische Integration neuer Gendersuffixe: Eine korpusbasierte Analyse deutschsprachiger Pressetexte. Gender Linguistics, 2. doi.org/10.65020/061... #linguistics #Linguistik (1/9)

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)

heated rivalry but it’s between a field linguist deep in the amazon and a theoretical syntactician at MIT

Of course I love crying while on the phone with the Universitätsrechenzentrum 😩

Qué bendición existir al mismo tiempo que existe Rosalía 🛐✨ youtu.be/xPaSuWrBAQI?...

Books: World Englishes in the 21st Century: Rüdiger, Neumaier, Leuckert and Buschfeld (eds.) (2025)

Düsseldorf has a (very big and nice) public library right next to the train station and I think it's the best idea in Civil Engineering ever 😍.

Only 10 days left until the final abstract submission deadline – don't miss your chance to join us! #linguistics #Linguistik

I have sadly not taken any fotos, but this is basically me after two wonderful days of the second edition of Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender (organised by @div-ling.org and @hhu.de). I am extremely grateful to the organisers and the students assistants, who have done an amazing job 💜

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits at the University of Stuttgart (1-year extension possible). Research topic is open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching obligations until Summer 2027, some light teaching after […]

My legacy: being the one that all students and former classmates text even years after leaving a university to ask about admin stuff.

A big big thank you to all the students who participated in the workshop yesterday! 🤗✨

Last call: are you interested in the governance of emergent tech? Come & work w/me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social We are looking for 3 Post Docs in Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4 Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5 Deadline is June 15, 2025

Really excited to facilitate this workshop next week! 🤗

Qué lengua noble el alemán que nos da palabras tan buenas y necesarias como "Spaßgetränk" 🙏

I like languages and I like the way humans use them, I’m glad we have languages

Weils offensichtlich immer noch so viele nicht verstehen: das ist queer Pride.

CfP for the workshop “Queer Linguistics at the interface between grammatical and social structure”, which will take place as a part of the 49. Österreichische Linguistiktagung (Austrian Linguistics Conference, ÖLT) in Klagenfurt, Austria, from December 5 to 8, 2025. #linguistics

One chapter deserves special mention: it's based on the fantastic course work of my students in a class on gender linguistic methods @hhu.de. In "Form identity & gendered associations", we explore how similar forms influence gender associations across L1/L2. Huge thanks to my brilliant co-authors!

New chapter with @lvplo.bsky.social!! "Theoretical and empirical basis for gender-fair language use: The case of Spanish" doi.org/10.1515/9783...

🚨 Just published: "Linguistic intersections of language and gender" – an edited volume born from the very first edition of our conference of the same name! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #linguistics #gender #openaccess 1/3

"Linguistic intersections of language and gender. Of gender bias and gender fairness" is finally out! 🥰 Thanks to editors Dominic Schmitz, Simon David Stein and Viktoria Schneider 💜 @div-ling.org @dmncschmtz.bsky.social @hhu.de 🔗 My contribution: doi.org/10.1515/9783... #linguistics

Yes, we can all laugh at this, but it also demonstrates the entire point of the AI push: They want to make you dependent on it to inform you, and then control what it tells you. It’s why they buy newspapers and social media, too. Elon is showing the billionaire playbook in the dumbest way possible.

Myths of meritocracy infiltrate many aspects of language learning. For example, if you do not achieve "native-like" pronunciation, it was because you did not try hard enough (rather than the fact that few people can live up to such an unrealistic standard).

Dozent und TikTok-Star macht Video zum ESC https://www.europesays.com/de/103727/ Düsseldorf. Nach seinem erfolgreichen TikTok-Video bringt der Düsseldorfer Uni-Dozent „Phonobro“ am Montag ein neues Video zum ESC raus.…#de #deutschland

🎉 Registration now open! Join us at LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender. Date: 12-13 August 2025 Location: Düsseldorf @hhu.de & online Register here: lilg.div-ling.org/registration/ We look forward to seeing you there!

My very first book is available for pre-order! Workable Accents explores how international teaching assistants conceptualize accent in relation to academic labor. Please ask your (university) library to order a copy: shorturl.at/KUC4R @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburyling.bsky.social

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

yeah but Wikipedia is overwhelmingly made by humans trying their best and genai is machines designed to generate stuff that's plausible. not true: *plausible*

This is one of my favorite sets in my collection. Somewhere out there in the 1960s, a kitten and bird were pals. 💕

Ciencia y diversión! Si nos regalas 15 minutos, ayudarás a mis compañeros en la Uni Potsdam a entender cómo funciona el tiempo. Tendrás que valorar cómo de adecuadas al contexto son las frases propuestas. Pincha aquí! forms.gle/GnAtuAiLwLMv... @mamenhorno.bsky.social @gamabita.bsky.social

‘A Linguistics of the Oppressed’ Brilliant new open-access zine from Sol Tovar addressing a range of contemporary critical concerns heyzine.com/flip-book/eb... @soltovar.bsky.social

The final talk in our 2024/2025 talk series will be given by Annika Tjuka. The talk will be on the topic of "Body, Objects, and Animals: Investigating the Factors Behind Naming Strategies". Find more information here: div-ling.org/talks #linguistics #Linguistik

🦄‼️ABIERTO EL PLAZO DE ENVÍO DE PROPUESTAS PARA MARICORNERS 2026‼️🦄 📍Universidade de Vigo🐙, abril 2026 🗓️Comunicación, taller, performance: Plazo abierto hasta el 10 de septiembre 🗓️Panel: Plazo abierto hasta el 30 de junio ℹ️ Info y acceso al formulario👇🏻👇🏻 maricorners.es/maricorners2...

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

Really happy to hear that my contribution was accepted and I will be joining #LILG2 with a talk entitled ‘“Today I'm gonna show you how to use beep/boop pronouns”: viral TikToks, neopronouns and folk linguistic pedagogy’ in August! Also excited to see some familiar names in the programme!!! ☺️💜

✨ LILG2 News ✨ All notifications of acceptance have now been sent out - thank you to everyone who submitted! We're looking forward to an exciting programme at our upcoming conference. Find a list of all accepted contributions here: lilg.div-ling.org/programme/ More news soon! #linguistics #gender

We are welcoming wonderful guest speakers at the English Department of @uniheidelberg.bsky.social this semester: @davidbritain.bsky.social, The Phonological Construction of the English Countryside, May 14 @lhlew.bsky.social, Sociophonetics and Mental Health, June 3 Everybody welcome!

Burnout happens not because workers failed to practice enough self-care. Burnout happens because the working conditions that cause burnout were never addressed.

Really cool stuff at the second poster session at #LingComm25 I really loved to learn about Slängistik on Instagram who does not only share posts on slang in Estonian but also illustrates them!!! Just look at that beautiful cat from flow 🐈‍⬛💖 🔗 www.instagram.com/sl2ngistik/

Semana de la Ciencia 7 al 12 de abril Hoy nos vemos acá. Ciencia argentina en el mundo: el desafío de la internacionalización de la investigación FILO:UBA 16 hs

Today! 🐦🐦

Excited for #LingComm25 this week! I will be in booth 21 tomorrow for the poster sessions (right next to the snacks, my fave spot at a conference) to talk about the zine project my students and I carried out last year at the University of Regensburg 😊 🔗 lingcomm.org

I love living on the edge (having multiple deadlines on the same two-week period 😩)

Looking forward to this! I will talk about cringe in particular and the sociolinguistics of digital affect in general. Everybody welcome!

When your YouTube algorithm picks up on your impostor syndrome 🥲