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Corpus linguist at
@dhssfau.bsky.social
@fau.de
🏳️⚧️ he/him nfdykes.github.io
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After a few … extremely German delays over the last few days, I can now finally say for real that my dissertation has been submitted! 😊
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Oliver Scheiber 🇪🇺
1 day ago
Immer ein Gewinn, Ruth Wodak zu lesen: Ruth Wodak, prominente Sprachwissenschafterin und Wittgenstein-Preisträgerin im Interview zu den USA, zu Mehrsprachigkeit und zu ihrem Wohnbezirk Favoriten
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Wien: Linguistin Ruth Wodak fordert "reflektierte Entschleunigung"
Ruth Wodak, prominente Sprachwissenschafterin und Wittgenstein-Preisträgerin, lebt seit ihrer Emeritierung an der Universität Lancaster wieder in Wien. Die Veränderungen in Post-Brexit-England gefalle...
https://www.kleinezeitung.at/service/newsticker/kultur/20450473/linguistin-ruth-wodak-fordert-reflektierte-entschleunigung
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Yoïn van Spijk
15 days ago
Portuguese put the words it inherited from Latin through a lot of fascinating sound changes. This becomes extra clear when you compare them to later borrowings of the same Latin word: ‘chão’ and ‘plano’ both come from Latin ‘plānum’! Here’s episode 5 of my 10-part series. Tomorrow: Romanian.
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026
19 days ago
Today is the final day to send us your abstracts! You have until midnight (UK time)! 😁 Here is the submission link:
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Illi Anna Heger
about 1 month ago
Petition 183950 Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Quorum sind 30000, mehr als 10% sind schon erreicht (Petition direkt an den Bundestag, einmal registrieren und dann bei jeder Petition entscheiden ob anonym oder namentlich)
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
about 1 month ago
A lecture by
@mariannagracheva.bsky.social
at the Interdisciplinary Linguistic Colloquium Augsburg (ILKA). ILKA addresses current issues in language, communication, and language culture, bringing together Romance, English, German, and computational linguistics at the University of Augsburg.
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
about 2 months ago
📰DHSS Newsletter! We are excited to publish the first issue of the DHSS Newsletter tomorrow. If you would like to receive it, you can subscribe here:
www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/dhss-newslet...
Thank you for your interest in our work at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies at FAU.
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Daria Dayter
about 2 months ago
Last talk of the 2025 season on December 17 (maybe add it to your calendar?) This time, we are giving the floor to the DD&I co-chair
@ylvabiri.bsky.social
: "Expertise and Engagement in YouTube informational videos: the finance advice genre" Everyone is welcome! Feel free to share 🐦🐦🐦
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026
about 2 months ago
Call for Papers 💥DEADLINE EXTENSION!💥 Our Call for Papers will now close on 19th December 2025! We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you all next June! Submit your abstract here:
wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...
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Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/call-for-papers/
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
about 2 months ago
Join us for the next DH Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Uhrig (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) on Digital Linguistics & Big Data. His research spans cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar, collocation, corpus & computational linguistics, lexicography, and large multimodal datasets with data science & ML methods.
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2 months ago
Part of the Digital Humanities series of lectures, Digital Humanities in Focus: Methods, Applications, and Perspectives, held at the University of Rostock. A lecture today by Prof. Anastasia Glawion. The lecture will be held online via Zoom. More info:
www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/di...
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Hard to believe this was almost a month ago – it was great to meet so many talented and thoughtful people!
#DHSS2025
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Annalee Newitz
4 months ago
If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg
4 months ago
“The true value of
#corpuslinguistics
is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth”
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social
gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025
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The excursion to Germanisches Nationalmuseum (who very generously gave our group free admission) is in full swing, with
@sabinelang.bsky.social
leading the tour. First stop: 14th century sculptures from Nuremberg.
#DHSS2025
4 months ago
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg
4 months ago
Now
@nfdykes.bsky.social
is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading
#DHSS2025
@rc21project.bsky.social
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In today's extended network analysis session with
@anastasiaglawion.bsky.social
, we're covering topics from fanfiction to war discussions
#DHSS2025
4 months ago
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Anna Foka giving a brilliant keynote on "AI and Heritage: Critical perspectives on AI for the Archives, Libraries and Museum sector" – and of course, I was especially happy about the opportunity to quickly revive my Swedish reading skills on some of the slides showing ongoing projects ☺️
#DHSS2025
4 months ago
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Sabine Lang
4 months ago
Sneak peak into next week‘s tour at the
#GermanischeNationalmuseum
in
#Nürnberg
: the sculptures show Mary and the Archangel Gabriel in the Annunciation (stone, circa 1360)
@dhssfau.bsky.social
#digitalhumanities
The summer school starts tomorrow 🥳
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4 months ago
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
4 months ago
Explore the workshops and sessions offered by DHSS for next week’s Summer School! *Sessions are shown in the order of the official schedule which you can find it on our website.
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
4 months ago
Registration is closed, planes are booked, and preparations are in their final stage. Check out the full program and stay tuned!
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Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)
4 months ago
How can concordances help us study gender in 19th-century fiction? In just a couple of weeks,
@nfdykes.bsky.social
represents
#RC21
at
#DHSS2025
to explore with participants how FlexiConc contributes to
#DataGenderSociety
!
go.fau.de/1cadb
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Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, gender and society
If you are attending the FAU Innovation Days (view details), you have the opportunity to register for the keynote talks. Mo 22 – Fri 26 September 2025 The DHSS2025 summer school offers expert-led…
https://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/digital-humanities-summer-school-2025-data-gender-and-society/
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Great to the schedule for the
#DHSS2025
summer school out! An amazing programme is waiting for our participants ☺️
#DataGenderSociety
#DH
#DigitalHumanities
go.fau.de/1cadb
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Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, gender and society
If you are attending the FAU Innovation Days (view details), you have the opportunity to register for the keynote talks. Mo 22 – Fri 26 September 2025 The DHSS2025 summer school offers expert-led…
https://go.fau.de/1cadb
4 months ago
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K. Alexander 亞天恩
4 months ago
Me too, room, me too.
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg
4 months ago
I'm delighted to welcome Ismail Barakat to the Text & Language Lab
@dhssfau.bsky.social
Ismail joins us as Media & Research Communications Producer and we are looking forward to some exciting comms projects!
#digitalhumanities
#watchthisspace
www.dhss.phil.fau.de/person/dr-is...
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Dr. Ismail Barakat
Ismail holds a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Aleppo and a master’s degree in Advanced Optical Technologies from FAU, with a focus on the physics of light.
https://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/person/dr-ismail-barakat/
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Eugeニア Diegoli
4 months ago
📚 New paper with Alan Partington "Lexical Priming: Evolution, evaluation, extension" out in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
@ijcl.bsky.social
! You can find it here 👇
tinyurl.com/mjwmdvyd
I'm very grateful to the editors, reviewers and colleagues for their valuable feedback 🙏
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Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)
4 months ago
If you're currently at
#CMC2025
(listening to Stephanie's keynote), do check out the talk later this afternoon by Andreas Blombach, Stephanie Evert, Linda Havenstein & Philipp Heinrich: "Dimensions of Drivel in German Telegram Posts: Manual Annotation and Predictive Power"
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026
4 months ago
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here:
wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...
. Please share widely!
#CADS2026
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https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/call-for-papers/
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Katja Politt
4 months ago
If the full team can't come with you, you can still take them to your poster presentation 😄
#SLE2025
Poster is also here:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
INF Guidelines for research collaboration, CC BY 4.0:
crc1646.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/inf/website/...
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Are you interested in becoming several data analysts? Apparently, you're in luck! /j
5 months ago
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Claire Willett
5 months ago
it appears that
@bsky.app
have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
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Gender Census
5 months ago
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
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Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025
5 months ago
"What counts?" by
@proftaylor.bsky.social
and
@journolinguist.bsky.social
#CL2025
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What counts? | Charlotte Taylor and Anna Marchi | Corpus Linguistics 2025
YouTube video by Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025
https://youtu.be/dcHUftGaSQU?feature=shared
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Stephanie Evert
5 months ago
Wusstest Du, dass das Innenministerium ein Sonderregister für trans, inter und nicht-binäre Menschen plant? Wir sagen: Nie wieder! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen!
weact.campact.de/petitions/ke...
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Kein Sonderregister für trans* Personen – Nie wieder Listen gegen Minderheiten!
Hallo, ich bin Penelope Alva Frank, Transfrau, queerfeministische Aktivistin und Gründerin der queerfeministischen Bewegung Queermany. Ich weiß, wie es ist, jeden Tag Blicke, Sprüche und Angriffe ausz...
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/kein-sonderregister-fur-trans-personen-nie-wieder-listen-gegen-minderheiten?bucket=20250806-wae-hv-kein-sonderregister-fur-trans-personen&share=6ae4ef6e-7dff-49d9-a5d1-631b871c566c&source=bluesky-share-email-button&time=1754487422&utm_campaign=20250806-wae-hv-kein-sonderregister-fur-trans-personen&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=bluesky
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5 months ago
Very (very!) proud and happy that this book has now finally been published: Bubenhofer/Krasselt/Prinz/Kato (2025). Studienbuch Linguistik: Band 1: Gegenwartssprache.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783111516172
Happy reading (keep all typos for yourself!) - 672 pages of linguistics!
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Frazer Heritage
5 months ago
📣🎉 Genuinely so happy to share my new article in The Journal of Pragmatics 🎉 My paper is titled "Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames" and can be accessed here (Open Access!) 👇👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames
Despite being one of the most popular forms of media, videogames are an under-researched text type within linguistics. This paper examines the languag…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216625001729
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Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)
6 months ago
After the most recent
#RC21
talk at
#DH2025
, the next workshop is already coming up in a couple of weeks: "Reading Concordances: A Training Course in Key Corpus Linguistics Methodology" taught by
@schtepf.bsky.social
and
@michamahlberg.bsky.social
as part of
#ESSLLI2025
! 🔗
go.fau.de/1c-eh
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After a few … extremely German delays over the last few days, I can now finally say for real that my dissertation has been submitted! 😊
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
5 months ago
📢Meet our third
#DHSS25
keynote speaker: Gavin Brookes! Join us this September in Erlangen for his insightful talk, “Corpus Linguistics for Gender and Language Research: Key Concepts and Critical Reflections,” as part of the
#DataGenderSociety
Summer School. You won’t want to miss it!
#dhss
#fau
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
5 months ago
🎥 A glimpse from our Digital Humanities Training Day, where our upcoming Summer School keynote speaker
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social
delivered a thought-provoking talk on "Corpus Linguistics, Generative AI, and Discourses of Dementia." Join us this summer for more inspiring sessions like this!
#DHSS25
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
5 months ago
📢 Our second
#DHSS25
keynote is Mareike Schumacher! Don't miss her talk "Corpus Compilation and Gender-Sensitive Analysis" as part of our
#DataGenderSociety
summer school this September!
#DigitalHumanities
#DH
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After a few … extremely German delays over the last few days, I can now finally say for real that my dissertation has been submitted! 😊
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Probably my favourite stack of paper this year! 😊
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg
5 months ago
We are looking for an administrative assistant to join our team
@dhssfau.bsky.social
Working in an international context, we are looking for people who can operate in both German & English. Full-time, initially fixed-term, but with a long-term perspective!
www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/teamass...
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Teamassistenz am Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (m/w/d)
https://www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/teamassistenz-am-department-digital-humanities-and-social-studies-m-w-d-fau-1155/
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Peter T. Evans
6 months ago
Okay Bluesky, I need your help. I'm looking for some recommendations: What are your favourite tools/examples for
#TopicModeling
,
#Stylometry
, and
#NetworkAnalysis
? Please comment below or DM me. And feel free to repost.
#DigitalHumanities
#NLP
#NLProc
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I'm presenting the results of my PhD this afternoon – feel free to join us if you're interested in discourse analysis, research methodology, or wondering what I've been doing all these years 😅
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
6 months ago
📣 Upcoming Talk! Join us for a talk by
@nfdykes.bsky.social
: 🗓 Wednesday, 23 July 2025 🕓 16:15–17:45 📍 Bismarckstr. 12, Room 0.320 💻 or online via Zoom: 🔗
fau.zoom-x.de/j/9234348284...
🎙 Topic: A methodological framework for corpus-based discourse analysis
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Randall Munroe
6 months ago
Replication Crisis
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