I’m currently on leave but was given edits over the weekend that were DUE MONDAY. I did them because I’m a preciously employed immigrant and publishing is what I pretend will someday secure my career but good lord, editors! Slow Science would change my life, fr

Peer review is not there for you to tell experts in the field how you'd prefer the style of the paper to be, or what method or analysis you have a clear bias for. Your job is to check for correctness, spot errors or gaps, protect the integrity of the scientific method, not piss on others.

Chat, are linguists really using ‘decompose’ as a synonym for ‘parse’ these days or is this ChatGPT nonsense?

Can you help my student get participants for their survey? Any English-speakers are desirable! Please boost! www.soscisurvey.de/VGtypes_habi...

My spring/summer course is called “Language Ideologies in a Galaxy Far, Far Away”. There is so much good material, I am so very tired of my students’ media studies being done badly, and this is how I’m going to marry all my many academic loves into a single special interest polycule.

Today I learned that floppen is a stative verb

Isn’t this the ‘complicating action’ that started the Trojan war and sorta resulted in the founding of Rome?

Me: *does too many tasks with like, no food in tummy* 😡 Everything is AWFUL, I HATE this, I just wanna G- *eats one food* -RATEFULLY acknowledge the amazing people in my life 🥹

Float like a glass squid. What might it feel like to reach a state where your body’s density perfectly matches your surroundings? Their buoyant bodies are filled with ammonium chloride, which is lighter than seawater, helping them to conserve energy while traveling. 1,729 m #ArgentinianDeepSeeps

Weekend timeline cleanse! A #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #dog's head. 🐕🐶 Vessels such as this were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down Dating ca. 475 BC. 📷 Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺

I had to take a German test recently, the studying for which brought me to tears multiple times because I was unavoidably confronted with the fact that my German has largely been *acquired* and not *learned* As a linguist, this is my ideal approach to language. As an immigrant, it was damaging.

Paper accepted 🎉 and coming soon in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language: Heyd & Flehmer (2026): Ideologies of English, ideologies of gender: enregisterment of internal and external purism in German language ideologies.

Take a second and think before posting the easy Eeyore reply. You might have something substantive to say instead. Or, even better, you can say nothing at all.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

If you’re a person that celebrates Epiphany, remember that the magi engaged in righteous civil disobedience when they took another road home and didn’t snitch to Herod. The lesson is that the right thing is often the opposite of what elected leaders want you to do.

Someone told me that being my friend was ‘really postmodern’ (I have to choose to read this one as a compliment, which, res ipsa etc etc)

This year I saw someone brand themselves online as a ‘former Professor of English’ and it turns out they were a TESOL adjunct at a community college for one semester. I can’t exactly explain it, but this is the vibe I want to bring in 2026.

This volume provides cutting-edge research on a wide range of questions in linguistics research, centred on Australian Indigenous languages. Written by world-leading experts, the chapters take a fresh look at current questions in each topic, inspired by the work of Australian linguist Jane Simpson.

With alt-text. I laughed.

A bit of mid-week fun: Show us where your #LL16 travel cups have been! Here's one of ours at the Winter Market in Essen, keeping a hot apple cider warm for the evening 🍎♨️❄️

In case you missed it, the call for papers for #LL17 in Limerick is now live! We've updated our website to help spread the word, but please share! www.linguisticlandscape17.com

Today my 5yo asked me if there was such a thing as grape JUICE and I nearly fell out of my chair. Imagine an American 5yo not knowing that grape juice exists 😂

Anyone want to see my German vowel space (ish) instead of scrolling for a second? GOOSE fronting will not be denied in any language!!!

My cue to quit scrolling and do things that matter to me, thanks ❤️

Greifswalder*innen und alle, die es werden wollen: meine schöne Wohnung in 17489 ist ab 03 oder 04/2026 zu vermieten. 1,5 Zimmer mit Wohnküche, Garten mit altem Baumbestand, beste Lage in der Fleischervorstadt. Vollmöbliert: ankommen und loswohnen. Details per DM oder Email. Please share 🙏

Last year, I co-founded a non-profit organization in the US: the Linguistic Justice Foundation. Although I'm really proud of what we've been able to do in the last year, Trump has not made things easy for us. Please read below for more details, and lend a hand if you can. mailchi.mp/linguisticju...

It's out, IT'S OUT!!!!! dialogosuntl.com/index.php/re... I am so proud of this weird little paper. I have been collecting sources on the languages of Timor-Leste for over a decade, and this paper gave me a chance to compile them and give a general overview of the state of TL language documentation

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.