I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once. And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

A reminder that if you're not able to fast on Yom Kippur for any reason -- and mental health is a health reason -- it's regarded as a MITZVAH to eat. Resources and more here:

When Éomer is screaming because he thinks Éowyn died on the Pelennor Fields is what my heart is doing every time I see even a single News. Someone please reforge the sword and give us all some dang hope.

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Girls will be like ‘I really really needed this’ and it’s literally just “ACCEPTED WITH MINOR REVISIONS” (It’s me, I’m girls)

The cleaning of the world’s largest #Roman floor mosaic, covering around 1050 sqm. It was discovered during the construction of a hotel in Antakya/Turkey. The shifting of the ground during an earthquake has caused a a ripple effect. Dating 4th c. AD. 🏺#mosaicmonday 📷 www.ntv.com.tr/galeri/sanat...

Before I sign off for a little while, a little view of my #Linguisticlandscape as I waited for a tram (yes, heading to work on my week off for more post #LL16 cleanup 😂) Middle sticker (überklebt) basically says ‘stickered over, MFer’ - a direct nod to the discursive nature of sticker graffiti.

A fabulous innovation at #LL16: Engaging with the work of artists Daniela Vasconcellos da Silva, Hülya Özkan, and Gregor Sailer and a roundtable discussion on Art and Transformation, "dedicated to an exploration of how various forms of art inform, capture and influence urban transformations"

"Not every unsolicited Facebook message is online stalking!" #LL16 programming chair Isabelle Buchstaller shares the humorous story of her first online contact with tattoo artist Daniela Vasconcellos da Silva, leading to a rich dialogue and exchange on Art & Transformation at this year's workshop

I almost always love conferences anyway, but DANG this one has already been SO FUN!!!! #LL16

Ok so my #LL16 problem of remembering people seems to be backwards. No one recognizes ME with short, straight hair!!

My bilingual child (5;3) has completely merged German ‘bis’ with English ‘when/until’, such that we get constructions like “look until I say ‘look’” (look when I say ‘look’) or “open your eyes until I say” (open your eyes when I say)

The hundreds of times I’ve seen this film and it only *just now* clicked that wookiees are good kissers 🕵🏻‍♀️

I have reached the stage of conference planning where I am both Lucas saying „superb“ AND Joe losing his absolute shit

Important reminder! #LL16 takes place at the University of Duisburg-Essen's *ESSEN CAMPUS* (in the city of Essen) (not Duisburg) Please please please carefully check your reservations and directions!

Leutiiii….. bittttttttttiiiiiii

Perfect score, calm down Rory Gilmore

Answering emails alone in my office with my one and only life

1/5 Hömma! Schön datte da bis! Ruhrdeutsch is the regional dialect spoken by the locals in the Ruhr Area (sometimes also referred to as the "Ruhrpott"), where #LL16 will be hosted.

While talking about what *spiders* eat 5yo: Boulders are not very tasty. Me: Boulders? 5yo: It’s a large kind of rock. Me: Oh, of course.

Reminded today of these lines from the late 90s Wear Sunscreen song (v important cultural moment for me): “Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's worth”

This blog post went up today in time to be cited in my Lingstitute talk, 101 ways to communicate linguistics with broader audiences, for which the slides are here 🐦🐦 bit.ly/LingComm-Lingstitute2025

Very much not what I needed today. Please share!

✅ Room planning ✅ Catering budget ✅ Student-staff hires ✅ Volunteer scheduling ✅ Seating charts (just kidding) Now that we have a good idea of the numbers, we can announce that we've re-opened registration for the general public. Please join us for #LL16 ! www.ll16-ude.de/registration/

I received 75% identical, auto-generated birthday posts on Facebook this year, the only push I truly needed to deactivate permanently, after two decades. Soulless, empty, no longer adding any value to my life. There were Canberra and Dili groups that I genuinely cherished, but they’re dead now too.

First #LL16 stress dream: it’s the night before the conference and I keep running in to people I definitely have meet before and I’m SO glad to see them and chat but I can’t remember anyone’s name because they’re not wearing name tags yet 🤣 It was a lot of “hello!… you! 😇”

So we have a US official **in Germany** saying they are “just following orders” in denying Harvard-bound scholars visas despite a federal judge’s restraining order www.masslive.com/news/2025/06...

Though AI helps, does it dull us over time? A study from MIT found that regular ChatGPT use weakens memory, focus, and brain activity. 83% couldn't quote their own text. Essays became repetitive. Researchers call it "cognitive debt"—a slow erosion of independent thinking. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Allow us to re-introduce ourselves... For the past couple of months, we have been working with the RealJobs Scheme in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading on a conference 're-brand' for our online presence. #LL16

It seems right that the same week my German-born child turned five, my spouse and I finally sat for the test component of our dual citizenship application process! Hope we passed!!!

Every time I check in on American news, it feels like an irretrievable part of me is being carved out. I don’t even miss it anymore because there’s so little left of what I ever loved.

I knew I shouldn’t have watched this but I did it anyway. I’m shaking all over. The anguish of a mother about to lose her children, possibly forever.The bravery of that baby. The nightmares that will haunt him forever. The screaming. I can’t stop crying. FUCK ICE. NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL.

I am pretty hard on myself wrt German, but yesterday a stranger rang my doorbell -at the end of a long day, while I was still unshoeing and dejewelrying- with an extremely specific borrowing request for an extremely unusual situation and I had zero problems understanding any of it!

I’m still so sad about Andor that I need like a week in a cave to process it. I knew we’d hear Nemik’s manifesto again but the specific context absolutely destroyed me- from already crying to full blown hysterics.

I keep running into the same colleague (someone in a dif dept who I’m working with a team on a grant application… on) at the same time of day when my German is at its absolute worst (just before lunch) and I just want one day off from having to accept that my German paints me as not very smart.

👀 Did you know? ONLY TEN DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER for #LL16 That's right, only 🔟 (ten) more days!! Don't forget! www.conftool.com/ll16-ude/

Time is running out to register for #LL16! The portal closes tomorrow evening! (but of course, get in touch if something is wrong). And watch this space for some exciting updates on Monday! We can't WAIT to start sharing some of the fun things in store for you in September.

UK shipping only, unfortunately, but that Rogue One poster has me with stars in my eyes 🥺🤩 UK friends please reskeet! Rebleesk! Rebloosk! Something!!!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Sipping my coffee ☕️ thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! So modern-looking it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters 3,800 years ago! Known as Kamares Ware, these luxury ceramics were made in palace workshops. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

I really need to know more about these waterfalls -Schlangen (snakes, ok, yeah, probably shape-related, not too many snakes in Germany) -Langer (long, ok normal) -Kleiner (short, yep makes sense) -Kuhflucht (cow… escape?? And its PLURAL??) Wtf are these cows getting up to in Bavaria??

Nobody is safe. He was a legal. permanent. resident.

Here's one example of how DOGE is hurting Americans (🧵) In 2022, I was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. We had developed a remote recording app for our MI Diaries project, and researchers from other fields expressed to me that they could use st similar. mi-diaries.org

Follow Friday! We recently spotted this excellent volume by #LL16 plenarist Jackie Jia Lou @loujiajackie.bsky.social in our university's collection. With only ~150 more sleeps until #LL16, it's a great time to brush up on memorable LL studies. What's your go-to favorite?

Every time I start to kinda miss shitposting like in the Before Times, I read a News and then settle back in to resigned vagueposting. Related, hab dat Wort “Petze” neuerdings gelernt. Ich will einfach endlos am Star Wars shitposten, abonöööö :(

Posting again for no reason whatsoever